Help me get 60fps

[Indignation211]

Ive been playing for quite a while now and I cant help but feel im only getting 30-40fps when I should be getting 60. Its especially jarring when I see youtube videos that are smoother than my actual gameplay.

My specs are:
2x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M with SLI
Windows 7 Home Premium
Intel Core I7

I've ensured that both PSO2 and my monitor are set to run at 60fps. Ive also tried disabling SLI and reducing PSO2 graphics setings. None of it has any noticable impact. No matter what I cant seem to get rid of that little bit of stutter that keeps it from looking silky smooth.

Is there anything else I can try, or do I need new hardware?

Thank You

[Coldco]

Power Options ?

http://i.imgur.com/vZWzPnZ.jpg

[Indignation211]

Oh right, I also set that to high performance.

[Shoterxx]

Might be a CPU bottleneck. What i7 do you have, and at what usage percentage do you have it during gameplay?

[Tunga]

Do you know what FPS you are actually getting?

[Indignation211]

Do you know what FPS you are actually getting?

Um, no. How do I determine that?

[isCasted]

YouTube videos will always look smoother than real-time gameplay, because videos always have smooth frame pacing. Real-time rendering will never have even time between frames. Frames don't take exactly 15 ms each to render. Some need 5, some - 10, some - 20, sometimes even 30. You can perceive these jumps as if they were frame drops, but there may still be 60 in one second.
Imagine that your screen freezes for half a second, then game outputs 59 frames in the next half. Technically that's 60 FPS, but of course it's freaking unplayable.

Rather than "feeling" try measuring it. Video recording programs, Nvidia Inspector, RTSS - all of these give you an FPS overlay.

[Tunga]

Um, no. How do I determine that?

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/geforce-experience-2-1-released

[Keilyn]

I was looking at Benchmarks for 680M SLI.
I wanted to look for Networked Games (MMORPG)...
Believe it or not, PSO-2 went through a graphics update this year..

The one I found suggested the following:

Guild Wars 2 (Ultra Settings) 1920 x 1080 = 51.9 FPS
Guild Wars 2 (High Settings) 1366 x 768 = 52.5 FPS
This points to a CPU Bottleneck.

The Secret World (Ultra Settings) 1920 x 1080 = 31.1 FPS
The Secret World (High Settings) 1366 x 768 = 62.9 FPS

680M under SLI is nice for laptops,
but I always wonder on how hot a laptop gets when running in SLI in that extremely small enclosed space.

I don't know how far you will get in your framerate.
At least make sure you are set to 60 FPS in the tweaker if you use it to not be limited...

[Indignation211]

NVIDIA Inspector doesn't seem to have an FPS counter, i can't get the one in GeForce Experience to show up, and FRAPS gets me kicked out of PSO2...

[ashley50]

Bandicam has FPS counter as well, try that one.

[Tunga]

I use MSI afterburner

[Indignation211]

So i got bandicam running and finally managed to get an fps counter to show up. I'm averaging a little over 60fps...


YouTube videos will always look smoother than real-time gameplay, because videos always have smooth frame pacing. Real-time rendering will never have even time between frames. Frames don't take exactly 15 ms each to render. Some need 5, some - 10, some - 20, sometimes even 30. You can perceive these jumps as if they were frame drops, but there may still be 60 in one second.

It must be this. I've tried literally everything to make the video as smooth as possible and bandicam is showing that im getting 60fps.

Thank you all for your help. I guess I still have much to learn when it comes to these things.

P.S. Regarding my CPU, task manager shows me only using about 20% of my CPU when PSO2 is running. It is an Intel Core i7 3630QM @ 2.40GHz

[HentaiLolicon]

Try this 40321
Not sure if it will work (works for me at least). In fact, that 75fps is 65fps in game, fps limiter of pso2 is damn broken