Low FPS Gtx 970

[arthurjoshua]

I was just wondering what could be the cause of me getting poor fps when playing Assassin's creed unity. At first the game ran smoothly, however when i got into the city, the fps drops were unbearable. My computer specs are as follows: CPU: Amd a8 6600k GPU: Zotac gtx 970 4gb ram
Also, I noticed that after I closed assassin's creed and played it again awhile later, it ran smoothly again for awhile, then later on dropped down again to about 30-40 fps I would say. Does anyone have an idea why this happens?

 

[Gingerbread]

Sounds like you have overheating issue. What is your cpu and gpu temp when the fps drops?

 

[Sh4d0w45p]

Assassin's creed unity wants 6Gb of RAM. If it isn't a heat issue, chances are it'll be the amount of RAM of you have.

When RAM is full the computer will use the disk drive - this really slows down the whole computer as it is now accessing the slower drive.

 

[arthurjoshua]

Sounds like you have overheating issue. What is your cpu and gpu temp when the fps drops?

my temps didnt got higher than 65 degrees celcius sir, are those okay?

 

[arthurjoshua]

Assassin's creed unity wants 6Gb of RAM. If it isn't a heat issue, chances are it'll be the amount of RAM of you have.

When RAM is full the computer will use the disk drive - this really slows down the whole computer as it is now accessing the slower drive.

i see. i have another question sir, could it be possible that my computer was also slowed down because i was downloading gta v while I was playing? I just got it off of steam, and started downloading it yesterday, since my internet is crap, it'll take 2 days to finish :| could this be a factor for my pc slowing down?

 

[arthurjoshua]

Sounds like you have overheating issue. What is your cpu and gpu temp when the fps drops?

Assassin's creed unity wants 6Gb of RAM. If it isn't a heat issue, chances are it'll be the amount of RAM of you have.

When RAM is full the computer will use the disk drive - this really slows down the whole computer as it is now accessing the slower drive.

go*

 

[Sh4d0w45p]

how much RAM does your computer have?
what power supply have you got?
When does the slow down happen? - Is there a lot of stuff happening (people/objects)
does the fps improve at any point?

Having another look at the 6600K and Unity requirements... It may be that the CPU isn't quite up the challenge. may be a bottle neck.

 

[jerdle]

if you have 4gb of ram, that's the problem. your ram fills up as you play.

 

[arthurjoshua]

how much RAM does your computer have?
what power supply have you got?
When does the slow down happen? - Is there a lot of stuff happening (people/objects)
does the fps improve at any point?

Having another look at the 6600K and Unity requirements... It may be that the CPU isn't quite up the challenge. may be a bottle neck.

my pc only has 4gb of ram, it has a 600 watt power supply annnnd the fps is kind of consistent at 30-40 fps sometimes having random dips into the 10 fps zone. also, my bad, it's assassin's creed syndicate, not unity lol

 

[jaquemate98]

how much RAM does your computer have?
what power supply have you got?
When does the slow down happen? - Is there a lot of stuff happening (people/objects)
does the fps improve at any point?

Having another look at the 6600K and Unity requirements... It may be that the CPU isn't quite up the challenge. may be a bottle neck.

my pc only has 4gb of ram, it has a 600 watt power supply annnnd the fps is kind of consistent at 30-40 fps sometimes having random dips into the 10 fps zone. also, my bad, it's assassin's creed syndicate, not unity lol

You might have a CPU bottleneck, changing your CPU should solve your issue, you'll have to change the motherboard too so you should go with Intel if you don't want to wait for Zen CPU's and get an AM4 board.

 

[Mousemonkey]

A 6600k is the "bottleneck", really?

 

[Sh4d0w45p]

Syndicate also minimum req's are:

CPU: Intel Core i5 2400s @ 2.5 GHz or AMD FX 6350 @ 3.9 GHz
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 6 GB
OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10(64bit versions)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon R9 270 (2GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0)
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 50 GB

That would be to have the game running at ~30fps with possible fluctuations. Your CPU is on the lower end of the scale but I believe that it's the 4Gb RAM that is really ruining things for you.

CPU bottleneck would see more fluctuation of fps and it'd make sense that once 'more game has loaded' you'll have capped the RAM. Seeing that you said it was when the city loaded it could potentially be either. Textures and what not filled the RAM or Processor can't keep up with all the calculations.

Increase the RAM (cheapest option). If that fails, it's the CPU and you need to possibly look at either upgrading the CPU or at a new system.

Lower all graphics and such to see how that responds too. Things like weather impact performance.

 

[jaquemate98]

A 6600k is the "bottleneck", really?

Syndicate also minimum req's are:

CPU: Intel Core i5 2400s @ 2.5 GHz or AMD FX 6350 @ 3.9 GHz
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 6 GB
OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10(64bit versions)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon R9 270 (2GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0)
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 50 GB

That would be to have the game running at ~30fps with possible fluctuations. Your CPU is on the lower end of the scale but I believe that it's the 4Gb RAM that is really ruining things for you.

CPU bottleneck would see more fluctuation of fps and it'd make sense that once 'more game has loaded' you'll have capped the RAM. Seeing that you said it was when the city loaded it could potentially be either. Textures and what not filled the RAM or Processor can't keep up with all the calculations.

Increase the RAM (cheapest option). If that fails, it's the CPU and you need to possibly look at either upgrading the CPU or at a new system.

Lower all graphics and such to see how that responds too. Things like weather impact performance.

It's not an i5 6600k, it's an AMD APU a8 6600k.

 

[Mousemonkey]

A 6600k is the "bottleneck", really?

Syndicate also minimum req's are:

CPU: Intel Core i5 2400s @ 2.5 GHz or AMD FX 6350 @ 3.9 GHz
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 6 GB
OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10(64bit versions)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon R9 270 (2GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0)
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 50 GB

That would be to have the game running at ~30fps with possible fluctuations. Your CPU is on the lower end of the scale but I believe that it's the 4Gb RAM that is really ruining things for you.

CPU bottleneck would see more fluctuation of fps and it'd make sense that once 'more game has loaded' you'll have capped the RAM. Seeing that you said it was when the city loaded it could potentially be either. Textures and what not filled the RAM or Processor can't keep up with all the calculations.

Increase the RAM (cheapest option). If that fails, it's the CPU and you need to possibly look at either upgrading the CPU or at a new system.

Lower all graphics and such to see how that responds too. Things like weather impact performance.

It's not an i5 6600k, it's an AMD APU a8 6600k.

My bad, I totally missed the "AMD" bit in the OP.

 

[Arronleeds]

deffo the cpu holding the gpu back quite a big chunk, upgrade your cpu or you will have constant bottleneck.

 

[arthurjoshua]

Syndicate also minimum req's are:

CPU: Intel Core i5 2400s @ 2.5 GHz or AMD FX 6350 @ 3.9 GHz
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 6 GB
OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10(64bit versions)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon R9 270 (2GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0)
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 50 GB

That would be to have the game running at ~30fps with possible fluctuations. Your CPU is on the lower end of the scale but I believe that it's the 4Gb RAM that is really ruining things for you.

CPU bottleneck would see more fluctuation of fps and it'd make sense that once 'more game has loaded' you'll have capped the RAM. Seeing that you said it was when the city loaded it could potentially be either. Textures and what not filled the RAM or Processor can't keep up with all the calculations.

Increase the RAM (cheapest option). If that fails, it's the CPU and you need to possibly look at either upgrading the CPU or at a new system.

Lower all graphics and such to see how that responds too. Things like weather impact performance.

alright, thanks a lot sir!