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Best FPS performance+layout config for 4?

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feclar

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Post Tue May 19, 2015 10:13 pm

Best FPS performance+layout config for 4?

So I have 1socket, 2core laptop with hyperthreading so isboxer shows 4 core...
Step 1 lowest ingame config possible
Step 2 ISBoxer config
I can run 2 games fine, I want to run 4 but running into lag

Is this the best setup?
Slot1
Core1+2
Max&Min FPS = 30
Resolution = 1440x900

Slot2,3,4
Core3+4
Max&Min FPS = 30
Resolution = 480x300

Saw a post on forum that says stacking and such is irrelevant for performance

Here is my window layout for 4
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Box xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <ObjectType>ISBoxer_Toolkit.Configs.WindowLayout</ObjectType>
  <SerializedObject>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
&lt;WindowLayout xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"&gt;
  &lt;UserScreenSet&gt;
    &lt;AllScreens&gt;
      &lt;UserScreen&gt;
        &lt;Bounds&gt;
          &lt;Left&gt;0&lt;/Left&gt;
          &lt;Top&gt;0&lt;/Top&gt;
          &lt;Width&gt;1920&lt;/Width&gt;
          &lt;Height&gt;1200&lt;/Height&gt;
        &lt;/Bounds&gt;
        &lt;WorkingArea&gt;
          &lt;Left&gt;62&lt;/Left&gt;
          &lt;Top&gt;0&lt;/Top&gt;
          &lt;Width&gt;1858&lt;/Width&gt;
          &lt;Height&gt;1200&lt;/Height&gt;
        &lt;/WorkingArea&gt;
        &lt;Primary&gt;true&lt;/Primary&gt;
        &lt;DeviceName&gt;\\.\DISPLAY1&lt;/DeviceName&gt;
      &lt;/UserScreen&gt;
    &lt;/AllScreens&gt;
    &lt;Name&gt;&amp;lt;Window Layout-specified&amp;gt;&lt;/Name&gt;
  &lt;/UserScreenSet&gt;
  &lt;Name&gt;four&lt;/Name&gt;
  &lt;Description&gt;This Window Layout features maximum usage of a single monitor. Main window size: 1440x900. Swapping enabled. Does not include a home for every window. Leaves space for the Windows taskbar.&lt;/Description&gt;
  &lt;FocusFollowsMouse&gt;false&lt;/FocusFollowsMouse&gt;
  &lt;InstantSwap&gt;true&lt;/InstantSwap&gt;
  &lt;SwapMode&gt;AlwaysForGames&lt;/SwapMode&gt;
  &lt;FocusClickMode&gt;ApplicationDefined&lt;/FocusClickMode&gt;
  &lt;RolloverStyle&gt;
    &lt;Enabled&gt;false&lt;/Enabled&gt;
    &lt;Scale&gt;1.5&lt;/Scale&gt;
    &lt;Rollup&gt;false&lt;/Rollup&gt;
    &lt;Frames&gt;10&lt;/Frames&gt;
  &lt;/RolloverStyle&gt;
  &lt;Regions&gt;
    &lt;Region&gt;
      &lt;CharacterSetSlot&gt;0&lt;/CharacterSetSlot&gt;
      &lt;SwapGroup&gt;0&lt;/SwapGroup&gt;
      &lt;Permanent&gt;false&lt;/Permanent&gt;
      &lt;AlwaysOnTopMode&gt;Normal&lt;/AlwaysOnTopMode&gt;
      &lt;Rect&gt;
        &lt;Left&gt;62&lt;/Left&gt;
        &lt;Top&gt;0&lt;/Top&gt;
        &lt;Width&gt;1440&lt;/Width&gt;
        &lt;Height&gt;900&lt;/Height&gt;
      &lt;/Rect&gt;
      &lt;BorderStyle&gt;None&lt;/BorderStyle&gt;
    &lt;/Region&gt;
    &lt;Region&gt;
      &lt;CharacterSetSlot&gt;2&lt;/CharacterSetSlot&gt;
      &lt;SwapGroup&gt;0&lt;/SwapGroup&gt;
      &lt;Permanent&gt;false&lt;/Permanent&gt;
      &lt;AlwaysOnTopMode&gt;SometimesOnTop&lt;/AlwaysOnTopMode&gt;
      &lt;Rect&gt;
        &lt;Left&gt;62&lt;/Left&gt;
        &lt;Top&gt;900&lt;/Top&gt;
        &lt;Width&gt;480&lt;/Width&gt;
        &lt;Height&gt;300&lt;/Height&gt;
      &lt;/Rect&gt;
      &lt;BorderStyle&gt;None&lt;/BorderStyle&gt;
    &lt;/Region&gt;
    &lt;Region&gt;
      &lt;CharacterSetSlot&gt;3&lt;/CharacterSetSlot&gt;
      &lt;SwapGroup&gt;0&lt;/SwapGroup&gt;
      &lt;Permanent&gt;false&lt;/Permanent&gt;
      &lt;AlwaysOnTopMode&gt;SometimesOnTop&lt;/AlwaysOnTopMode&gt;
      &lt;Rect&gt;
        &lt;Left&gt;542&lt;/Left&gt;
        &lt;Top&gt;900&lt;/Top&gt;
        &lt;Width&gt;480&lt;/Width&gt;
        &lt;Height&gt;300&lt;/Height&gt;
      &lt;/Rect&gt;
      &lt;BorderStyle&gt;None&lt;/BorderStyle&gt;
    &lt;/Region&gt;
    &lt;Region&gt;
      &lt;CharacterSetSlot&gt;4&lt;/CharacterSetSlot&gt;
      &lt;SwapGroup&gt;0&lt;/SwapGroup&gt;
      &lt;Permanent&gt;false&lt;/Permanent&gt;
      &lt;AlwaysOnTopMode&gt;SometimesOnTop&lt;/AlwaysOnTopMode&gt;
      &lt;Rect&gt;
        &lt;Left&gt;1022&lt;/Left&gt;
        &lt;Top&gt;900&lt;/Top&gt;
        &lt;Width&gt;480&lt;/Width&gt;
        &lt;Height&gt;300&lt;/Height&gt;
      &lt;/Rect&gt;
      &lt;BorderStyle&gt;None&lt;/BorderStyle&gt;
    &lt;/Region&gt;
  &lt;/Regions&gt;
  &lt;SwapGroups&gt;
    &lt;SwapGroup ResetRegion="0" ActiveRegion="0" PiPSqueakSlot="1" DeactivateSwapGroup="0" /&gt;
    &lt;SwapGroup ResetRegion="-1" ActiveRegion="-1" PiPSqueakSlot="0" DeactivateSwapGroup="1" /&gt;
    &lt;SwapGroup ResetRegion="-1" ActiveRegion="-1" PiPSqueakSlot="0" DeactivateSwapGroup="2" /&gt;
    &lt;SwapGroup ResetRegion="-1" ActiveRegion="-1" PiPSqueakSlot="0" DeactivateSwapGroup="3" /&gt;
    &lt;SwapGroup ResetRegion="-1" ActiveRegion="-1" PiPSqueakSlot="0" DeactivateSwapGroup="4" /&gt;
    &lt;SwapGroup ResetRegion="-1" ActiveRegion="-1" PiPSqueakSlot="0" DeactivateSwapGroup="5" /&gt;
    &lt;SwapGroup ResetRegion="-1" ActiveRegion="-1" PiPSqueakSlot="0" DeactivateSwapGroup="6" /&gt;
    &lt;SwapGroup ResetRegion="-1" ActiveRegion="-1" PiPSqueakSlot="0" DeactivateSwapGroup="7" /&gt;
  &lt;/SwapGroups&gt;
&lt;/WindowLayout&gt;</SerializedObject>
</Box>
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Post Wed May 20, 2015 2:44 am

Re: Best FPS performance+layout config for 4?

Dedicated cores is going to lag performance, because if your core becomes busy doing something else, like network processing, turning over the clock, running a quick AV check, or servicing one of the other 90 background processes, you will get lag. The best CPU strategy is usually the ALL Games use ALL Cores. Unless you run into specific problems with this, then don't bother with round robin.

Other than that. You have 2core hyperthreading, which is not wonderful in terms of potential because hyperthreading adds approximately 30% processing power. So you have 2 cores + ~30%.

Based on your settings provided, I'm guessing you're playing D3. If not, then try lowering the background framerate. You could try it anyway, and set 30/20, or 30/15. It may work reasonably with less lag, but still provide decent gameplay with little desync. If you get lot's of desync then you will need to try a closer to even setting.

Also, with Instant Swapping, it does mean all regions are running at the Reset Region resolution size; so 1440x900. The size of the mini viewer regions makes no difference.

But that all said. You should check out where your bottleneck is by doing some monitoring. http://www.isboxer.com/wiki/HOWTO:Tweak_your_framerate Once you know what the bottleneck is, you can look at what to do to address it, although upgrades (if needed) may be a limited solution on a laptop.

You could also provided a diagnostic as that would give us a little insight as to what is running on your machine, and we could tell you to shut some stuff down :) http://isboxer.com/wiki/Diagnostics
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Post Thu May 21, 2015 1:22 am

Re: Best FPS performance+layout config for 4?

So seems my 2core machine both cores run between 99.9 and 100%
GPU at 70%

Any tips to send more things to GPU in Everquest?
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Post Thu May 21, 2015 6:49 am

Re: Best FPS performance+layout config for 4?

feclar wrote:So seems my 2core machine both cores run between 99.9 and 100%
GPU at 70%

Any tips to send more things to GPU in Everquest?

Those things tend to be hard-coded into the game client/game engine, and normally you can't just pick which piece of hardware is used when rendering the scene.

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