Increase the speed of the game - GTX1070

[Ozzie_SAP]

I used to play DB14 and DB17 on my 5 year old laptop and the speed of the game was always perfect but last week I got this new ASUS ROG laptop with Nvidia GTX 1070, 32 GB RAM DDR5 and i7 processor.

Although the visuals and feel has improved but sadly, the overall game has slowed down on the new laptop (ex. bowling is slower (especially after pitching))...fps initially was around 180- 190, I then switched-on the V-sync and its now around 75 but hasn't improved the overall game speed. I'm using the same Nvidia program and DB17 Gameplay settings as in my previous laptop but to no use.

Can anyone help with increasing the overall speed of the game? Thank you in advance!

 

[Plotinus]

Can't help directly on this but I'm on the verge of buying a GTX1070 laptop also...mainly to play DBC17 when traveling (which I do a lot)...so I'm interested to see how this gets sorted out. I do run a GTX1070 card on my PC at home and it gets extremely noisy after a few minutes of playing DBC17...to such an extent that it I can't play much more than a few T20's or one first class game before I have to shut it down to reduce the fan noise. Other games hardly get the fans turning but DBC17 seems to be thrashing the card for some reason. I can only assume that there is a lack of optimisation in the code for Nvidia 10 series card. I have no idea what BA are developing on or whether they test against these cards but there does appear to be an issue.

 

[asprin]

I do run a GTX1070 card on my PC at home and it gets extremely noisy after a few minutes of playing DBC17

On an unrelated topic, are you sure the noise is coming from the card's fan and not the CPU's cooler?

My AMD FX 4300 used to make a lot of noise too when run on the stock cooler. I purchased Coolmaster Hyper 101 and it has gone dead silent since then.

FWIW, I run the game on GTX 1050 on 90% full settings and I seem to not suffer from any noise.

 

[wasteyouryouth]

I have a GTX 1070 on my PC and it runs fine (now). PC does get a little noisy but I'm usually listening to music anyway so I don't notice it.

When I first got the PC I was having problems, it was crashing all the time when playing DBC17. I'd no problems with other games (GTA5, Doom), the tech support guy reasoned that it must be the game (DB). It was only solved when I took the PC plug out of a four-way adaptor and directly into the wall and changed the PC settings to a 'Performance' profile. I've not had a similar crash since. I'll occasionally get some stuttering graphics but nothing that concerns me. DB must, for some reason, really tax the system.

 

[Ozzie_SAP]

On an unrelated topic, are you sure the noise is coming from the card's fan and not the CPU's cooler?

Agree with you...I'm on the Asus ROG G752VS with GTX 1070 and have never experienced noise from dbc17, the coolers in my rog machine are of top quality hence the quite result.

However, may I please ask the original question to both of you (series 10 GPU players), do you feel the game is a tad slower ex running, ball after pitching, and the overall Gameplay itself?

 

[asprin]

However, may I please ask the original question to both of you (series 10 GPU players), do you feel the game is a tad slower ex running, ball after pitching, and the overall Gameplay itself?

There are sometimes minute frame stutters in between but I reckon it's HDD related (read/write) and not the game.

 

[Plotinus]

I'm pretty sure it's the graphics card that's getting noisy...I can see the fans on both CPU and the 1070 card. Of course the case fans will contribute as well but my machine is almost silent for everything else.

In terms of performance, I don't really have anything to compare it against. It does stutter at times which, like @wasteyouryouth, doesn't bother me for the most part...but it is slightly surprising that the game is hitting resources so hard. It can't be easy to develop games on PC because there are so many different configurations possible...but I would like to discover what I need to do to get DBC17 running smoothly and quietly. Anyone know any good tools for monitoring resource usage and fan speeds whilst running games?

Nice to hear that the ASUS RoG is quiet...sound (and heat distribution) are high on my list for evaluating laptop purchasing decisions.

 

[zuhayr92]

Just upgraded to an AMD 580, 8 GB model, and there is a constant issue of sluggish gameplay. Most other games I can easily get 60-100 fps on high or ultra settings at 1440p but DB17 gets really janky as soon as the bowler starts his run up. Hopefully, the new update will fix resolutions higher than 1080.

Definitely, not CPU throttled either because the CPU is not even at 50% load.