My EvE Online VFX woes
I have noticed a few performance related issues with VFX that I'll share with you.
First, I use an I7 2600k that is moderately OC'd to 3.8k, 16 gigs of DDR3, and a GTX 770 4g video card.
My CPU usage does not increase linearly with the number of VFX viewers I have present. My original setup had 63 VFX on my main screen with 7 VFX sources per client. With all of them loaded, I was getting ~20 fps on my main and 100% CPU usage. No amount of tweaking with the CPU assignments solved the problem. As soon as I hid the VFX, back to capped 60fps. So, since I wanted to maintain all of the VFX, I checked to see if hiding the VFX in windows that were not focused fixed it.
Blam, went from 100% CPU usage/20fps to ~60% CPU usage/30fps. I don't know why, but ISBoxer/Innerspace/whatever was still using CPU to generate those VFX in my other 9 screens even when they weren't the focus window. Now, that still doesn't solve my problem as I went from terrible fps (for me) to only marginally better fps (for me).
So, how do I go about solving this problem, other than the obvious answers of A) buy a more powerful cpu and/or B) stop trying to use so many VFX you idiot.
First, I use an I7 2600k that is moderately OC'd to 3.8k, 16 gigs of DDR3, and a GTX 770 4g video card.
My CPU usage does not increase linearly with the number of VFX viewers I have present. My original setup had 63 VFX on my main screen with 7 VFX sources per client. With all of them loaded, I was getting ~20 fps on my main and 100% CPU usage. No amount of tweaking with the CPU assignments solved the problem. As soon as I hid the VFX, back to capped 60fps. So, since I wanted to maintain all of the VFX, I checked to see if hiding the VFX in windows that were not focused fixed it.
Blam, went from 100% CPU usage/20fps to ~60% CPU usage/30fps. I don't know why, but ISBoxer/Innerspace/whatever was still using CPU to generate those VFX in my other 9 screens even when they weren't the focus window. Now, that still doesn't solve my problem as I went from terrible fps (for me) to only marginally better fps (for me).
So, how do I go about solving this problem, other than the obvious answers of A) buy a more powerful cpu and/or B) stop trying to use so many VFX you idiot.