Better FPS in Windowed mode when CoX doesn't have Focus?
By
Eldrath,
Posted on: 2010-05-06 22:01 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
I don't have another computer capable of running CoX, no.
As to different setups, both the Test and the Retail have trusted access through my firewall (Comodo). NVIDIA settings seem to only track by EXE not location of the file, so there's only one setting for both. The only things that are changed from the driver defaults are "Single Display Performance" (I use multiple monitors) from the mixed GPU/Multi-mon menu item and Triple Buffering which goes along with VSync. I've attempted to run single monitor and with these settings disabled, all at defaults with no improvement. Disabling Single Display Performance degraded the Test to the same as Release.
So for the moment, to the best of my ability both Test and Release have identical configuration. Also, I didn't mention it, but moving the Release to the background, i.e. stealing its focus, still gives it the performance boost back up to the level of the Test.
Could those of you experiencing this issue try the build on PTS and see if you're still having trouble there? Please let me know.
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Ok, second week's patch and still "Test" works while "Release" continues to show the problem.
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Try turning off any logging of chats and chat channels?
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Originally Posted by Eldrath
Ok, second week's patch and still "Test" works while "Release" continues to show the problem.
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Will give it a shot when I get home tonight. Is there any special procedure to do it, or is it just an option I've never noticed in the settings list for chat?
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Originally Posted by PumBumbler
Try turning off any logging of chats and chat channels?
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Sorry, at work so I can't look in game. You can try using /logchat to toggle the chat logging I think.
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Originally Posted by Eldrath
Will give it a shot when I get home tonight. Is there any special procedure to do it, or is it just an option I've never noticed in the settings list for chat?
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Originally Posted by FitzSimmons
Because it has focus. Any applicaiton that's given focus has higher priority and takes more resources.
Granted I think i17 is taking up more CPU than before even with UM off but applications that have focus always have a higher priority and take up more resources. |
Fitz is absolutely right. I get better performance when I keep as many options on my GPU as possible, meaning higher settings. If I drop down to lower settings in an attempt to improve performance, the opposite happens. Dropping graphical options drops those operations onto the CPU, which is already working harder than it used to, and hence it slows the whole system down.
I'm not going down that road again. Fitz didn't read right, let's just leave it at that. The issue is that WITHOUT focus CoX is performing better than with focus, no matter the graphical setting.
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Didn't see it on the list of options and "/logchat" had no effect. I'll do some more digging, but I think I'm just out of luck for the time being.
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Originally Posted by PumBumbler
Sorry, at work so I can't look in game. You can try using /logchat to toggle the chat logging I think.
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Not directly related to the focus issue but still an interesting behavior. I will have to try moving up from minimum see if it improves performance on my computasaur.|
Originally Posted by Green_Eyed_Lady
Fitz is absolutely right. I get better performance when I keep as many options on my GPU as possible, meaning higher settings. If I drop down to lower settings in an attempt to improve performance, the opposite happens. Dropping graphical options drops those operations onto the CPU, which is already working harder than it used to, and hence it slows the whole system down.
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On the matter at hand, would it be safe to bump the other processes up a notch in priority if it is not possible to bump CoH down?
I would be almost certain that the versions on Test and on Live were identical.
You don't happen to have another computer nearby, that could verify the same experience?
Or could Test versus Live have different setups in your computer, like in the firewall or similar?!