Rottr on gtx 970 sli on very high setting

[kratosjak]

Hi,
Have anyone tried Rise of tomb raider at very high settings on gtx 970 sli?.I have tried with single 970, at very high setting I get severe framerate drops. I have bought 2 of them. But waiting to buy i7 6700k then only I will be able to use sli. Please suggest me

 

[Gnuffi]

a single 970 should floor ROTTR... sli should blast it away
im using the weak 960 and im getting 35-45fps on Very High presets
when you say severe frame rate drops how low are we talking? what resolution?
what driver are you on?

 

[kratosjak]

a single 970 should floor ROTTR... sli should blast it away
im using the weak 960 and im getting 35-45fps on Very High presets
when you say severe frame rate drops how low are we talking? what resolution?
what driver are you on?

 

[kratosjak]

1080p.
Amd phenom ii x4 965
8gb corsair vengence
Single gtx 970
Very high (ultra) settings I get around the 10 to 12 fps some times it goes to single digit. Can't play at all. But if I turn texture from very high to high I get 50 to 60 fps with rest of settings maxed out to very high except texture

 

[Gnuffi]

sorry to be teh one telling you, but that CPU is bottlenecking your card, 🙁
not only do you need to overclock it, but even that wont remove teh bottleneck entirely..
its time to start considering an upgrade,
but that huge a drop also indicate there might be some driver side issue besides that, what driver are you on too?
and are you using dx 11 or dx12?

 

[kratosjak]

sorry to be teh one telling you, but that CPU is bottlenecking your card, 🙁
not only do you need to overclock it, but even that wont remove teh bottleneck entirely..
its time to start considering an upgrade,

I am in saving money to buy i76700k with asus maximus viii hero mobo. But will take sometime I have to upgrade it as my other gtx 970 is sitting in my shelf . But if it's bottlenecked then why it says "You need more than 4gb Vram to run on very high settings. But first intro part was playing smoothly at very high preset. Problem started at bear confrontation level and got severe on geothermal valley

 

[kratosjak]

sorry to be teh one telling you, but that CPU is bottlenecking your card, 🙁
not only do you need to overclock it, but even that wont remove teh bottleneck entirely..
its time to start considering an upgrade,
but that huge a drop also indicate there might be some driver side issue besides that, what driver are you on too?
and are you using dx 11 or dx12?

Both dx 11 or dx 12 same performance I didn't find any difference. Only texture was reduced to high setting. Others r maxed out.I get 50 to 60 fps have latest driver installed on my windows 10 pro

 

[Gnuffi]

btw you dont "need" an i7 6700k and asus viii hero motherboard, there are much cheaper and viable options out there for gaming, just so you know,

Tomb raider is a resource intensive game, it "wants" to use more Vram, it doesnt have to,
most games wont use more than a couple of gb Vram, despite how many you have, which means the rest of teh Vram is just being wasted
ROTTR however the devs did some stuff here and there, making the game "hungry" so it can eat up to 9 gb of Vram i think it is
it doesnt mean it have to, you should be running it fine on Very High with some added tweaks for stability, specially AA, and Purehair shadows and such
dx11 and proper drivers should help too

 

[Gnuffi]

shouldnt be using the 364series driver, just a caution, they might cause issues.

 

[kratosjak]

btw you dont "need" an i7 6700k and asus viii hero motherboard, there are much cheaper and viable options out there for gaming, just so you know,

Tomb raider is a resource intensive game, it "wants" to use more Vram, it doesnt have to,
most games wont use more than a couple of gb Vram, despite how many you have, which means the rest of teh Vram is just being wasted
ROTTR however the devs did some stuff here and there, making the game "hungry" so it can eat up to 9 gb of Vram i think it is
it doesnt mean it have to, you should be running it fine on Very High with some added tweaks for stability, specially AA, and Purehair shadows and such
dx11 and proper drivers should help too

How about AMD FX 8350 WITH Asus M5A99fx pro r2.0 mobo

 

[Gnuffi]

it would be an upgrade for sure, and remove the bottleneck too,
but if you are considering that big an upgrade. you might as well make the jump to intel if you can afford it,
the 6600k would be more than enough for gaming, its quite superb, even a tiny bit over teh top,
but the easy overclocking makes it worth considering, and the fact its prob gonna last many years longer over teh amd fx in terms of "future proofing", should be a note too
even the i3 6100 could be considered better over the FX 8350 in some gaming situations and leave you an upgrading path later too

 

[Gnuffi]

if you were already planning to save up and buy the i7 6700k, i suggest you keep saving up for the intel platform but consider what you will use your computer for and buy a cpu accordingly, since a 6600k is perfect for pure gaming the i7 should prob only be considered if you have other workloads,

depending on how long it will take you to save, might even get to see if amd zen has anything going for it 😉

 

[Gnuffi]

so i did some testing today
it maxes out my GPU, no surprise there, but it also uses my i7 8threads beautifully, which is rare in games, and speaks to how intensice it can be
and not only is this game resource hungry, it is also one of the few games to be able to take advantage of what might be considered excess ram
im seeing it use up to and above 20gb of system memory, which is enormous, since most games barely take advantage of 8gb
combined with that and your CPU bottleneck, i do find it likely you would have high frame rate drops when using high texture packs then, despite your awesome gtx970,
for stable frame rate you definitely need to look into customizing your graphic settings for now

 

[Epicness937]

it would be an upgrade for sure, and remove the bottleneck too,
but if you are considering that big an upgrade. you might as well make the jump to intel if you can afford it,
the 6600k would be more than enough for gaming, its quite superb, even a tiny bit over teh top,
but the easy overclocking makes it worth considering, and the fact its prob gonna last many years longer over teh amd fx in terms of "future proofing", should be a note too
even the i3 6100 could be considered better over the FX 8350 in some gaming situations and leave you an upgrading path later too

i would go with the amd 8350 because it is cheap and with a good cooler can be highly overclocked to i5 performance
for gaming a 6600k is great but if you want to go overkill for some reason maybe waterproofing or something else get a 5820k is better than a 6700k for the mone

 

[Gnuffi]

it would be an upgrade for sure, and remove the bottleneck too,
but if you are considering that big an upgrade. you might as well make the jump to intel if you can afford it,
the 6600k would be more than enough for gaming, its quite superb, even a tiny bit over teh top,
but the easy overclocking makes it worth considering, and the fact its prob gonna last many years longer over teh amd fx in terms of "future proofing", should be a note too
even the i3 6100 could be considered better over the FX 8350 in some gaming situations and leave you an upgrading path later too

i would go with the amd 8350 because it is cheap and with a good cooler can be highly overclocked to i5 performance
for gaming a 6600k is great but if you want to go overkill for some reason maybe waterproofing or something else get a 5820k is better than a 6700k for the mone

first of would be pointless to "upgrade" to a 8350 because dead platform,
and the 5820 is in no way better than the 6700k for pure gaming, thats not just a terrible statement, its the opposite of fact, not to mention you need heavy cooling to even overclcok the 5820 to get decent gaming performance you could get easily with a 6600k even. and the 6700k, forget it, blows teh 5820 awau in gaming
a person should only ever consider 5820k for gaming IF the person does professional workloads on teh side, otherwise it has no point

a FX 8350 is decent if limited to a strict budget, but since its dead platform its effectively a permanently limited upgrade, which is bad, upgrading to skylake gives much greater future proofing not to mention gaming performance, if considering AMD one should atleast wait to see Zen
and since he was already saving up for Skylake, its makes it even more valid, the only consideration then should be what CPU, because depending on use it might be smarter to get a 6500, 6600k over teh i7 6700k, since the other 2 are cheaper and strong enough for a given purpose

 

[Gnuffi]

maybe waterproofing or something else get a 5820k is better than a 6700k for the mone

i7 6700k 350$+35$ solid air cooler
i7 5820k 390$+needed 110$ watercooling to get it to even decent OC levels =500$
115$ more and just to be out matched by the 6700k in 99.9999% of games, there is just no reason to do it for prue gaming, and thats not even factoring in the more expensive and sorta "limtied" x99 mobo's, with sorta lacking connectors compared to newer boards, despite teh PCI'e advantages
also, since Broadwell-E is right on the door step why would any1 even consider haswell-E since its gonna be a dead platform wit virtually no backwards compatibility, maybe a few, will get but its too uncertain
even thinking about a 5820k, for pure gaming, if not doing some serious hravy workloads on the side, there is no advantage of that platform, and only increased cost, for lesser gain
just straight up bad advice from a gaming PC standpoint