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Thread: An Interesting 2v2 Automatch...26 Jan 2016, 03:16 AM

I think he must have dropped at a very specific moment

In: COH2 Bugs

Thread: Fun Game Against Jove25 Jan 2016, 10:13 AM

It's not often I can say that I enjoy seeing a top 10 opponent pop up in CELO, but whether it was because he was trolling a bit (partysans!) or because Kholodny Ferma is a good map, I was able to have a fairly solid match against him.

I was able to harass fairly well with a kubel, and got my sturmpios to vet 5.

It was an annoyingly buggy match, unfortunately. The game was painfully unresponsive at times (not good against partysan ambushes

), and I almost never heard an audio cue when I lost a squad, so I went a little crazy trying to work out what was happening at times, but I still had fun. GG.

In: Replays

Thread: CoH2 GPU/CPU usage25 Jan 2016, 02:53 AM

24 Jan 2016, 19:03 PMiignition

I'm seeing around 40-50% CPU and around 30-40% GPU usage throughout a 1v1 with a steady 60 fps. I'm running a overclocked i5-3570k and GTX 970 on high settings.

Yeah, 1v1 will play much better than the larger game modes. It seems to have a lot to do with how many units are in the game. So they all start off well, but 4v4 loses fps really fast.

If you're getting a steady 60fps, that would likely mean you have v-sync on. You can turn that off if you want to see how your total fps changes throughout the game.

In: Hardware and Tech

Thread: CoH2 GPU/CPU usage24 Jan 2016, 00:46 AM

23 Jan 2016, 12:25 PMkamk

Which CPU are you using? Those jumps after 2 cores are a little unexpected. Fraps interfering?

Core i7 960

In: Hardware and Tech

Thread: CoH2 GPU/CPU usage23 Jan 2016, 07:03 AM

Did my own benchmarks for CPU affinity changes to RelicCoH2.exe:

Steppes 4v4 Replay - 1 Core enabled

Frames	Time (ms)	Min	Max	Avg
6735	200000	22	47	33.675

Steppes 4v4 Replay - 2 Cores enabled

Frames	Time (ms)	Min	Max	Avg
9307	200000	32	64	46.535

Steppes 4v4 Replay - 3 Cores enabled

Frames	Time (ms)	Min	Max	Avg
10843	200000	38	71	54.215

Steppes 4v4 Replay - 4 Cores enabled

Frames	Time (ms)	Min	Max	Avg
11777	200000	42	78	58.885

In: Hardware and Tech

Thread: COH2 System Performance Guide23 Jan 2016, 05:01 AM

More improvements:

Introduction made much more intuitive and helpful to new readers.
Benchmarks added to CPU section. Explained current performance bottleneck issues with the game.
Added to video card section to help people identify video card performance problems (if any).
Added page file information to RAM section.
Confirmed turning off physics improves FPS.
Added sub-headings to many paragraphs that needed to be broken up for readability.

20 Jan 2016, 16:11 PMMithiriath

To update drivers we can use also http://www.driverscloud.com

Thanks. I've never used that site before though, so I'm not sure how comfortable I am personally recommending it. Downloading files from third-party sites is always a bit risky.

In: Lobby

Thread: CoH2 GPU/CPU usage22 Jan 2016, 12:48 PM

I overlocked my CPU from 3.2Ghz to 3.8Ghz and played some 4v4. I started with about 110fps, and ended up with 50-60fps well into the game. Still not great to be losing over half my starting fps, but at least it was much more responsive than it usually is.

Edit:

I created a benchmark out of a 4v4 game on Steppes and used FRAPS from 2 minutes in, with 'follow camera' enabled on myself.

Benchmarks:

Steppes 4v4 700sec 3.2Ghz No physics

Frames	Time (ms)	Min	Max	Avg
36877	700000	31	77	52.681

Steppes 4v4 700sec 3.8Ghz No physics

Frames	Time (ms)	Min	Max	Avg
42447	700000	36	87	60.639

Steppes 4v4 700sec 3.2Ghz Max physics

Frames	Time (ms)	Min	Max	Avg
33391	700000	22	70	47.701

tldr;

Turning off physics = good
Overclocking CPU = even better
No magic bullets though.

In: Hardware and Tech

Thread: CoH2 GPU/CPU usage21 Jan 2016, 11:48 AM

For what it's worth, I figured I may as well have a go at disabling replays to see if that might have anything to do with it. Still seemed to be just as bad though.

The confusing part is why FPS can jump by about 20 when I look an empty part of the map if the GPU isn't the bottleneck.

In: Hardware and Tech

Thread: COH2 System Performance Guide20 Jan 2016, 09:40 AM

A number of improvements made in preparation for official guide:

CPU section fleshed out substantially.
Further explanation of SSD reliability.
Moderate improvements to Windows Updates.
Small additions to graphics settings.
Various minor edits.

In: Lobby

Thread: CoH2 GPU/CPU usage20 Jan 2016, 04:01 AM

Hmm. So I was trying to find out if there's any way to view how many active threads a particular process has. I didn't find anything, but I did find that Process Explorer lets me set CPU Affinity (which cores it is allowed to run on).

Removing 1 out 4 cores had a small or no visible impact on FPS.
Removing 2 out of 4 cores had significant impact.
Removing 3 out of 4 cores had a huge impact.

Individual core usage noticeably increases as you reduce the number of available cores, but still didn't get near 100%.

I also noticed that RelicCoH2.exe had a very low CPU priority by default, but raising it had no apparent impact. It might help to reduce lag moments though.

CPU Core Distribution

In lobby:

In loading screen:

In-game:

While I can't get over that strange 30% CPU usage barrier, the core distribution definitely changes enough to suggest that the game is technically multi-threaded. I don't really have enough knowledge with this stuff to make any better guesses though. I feel like some input from Relic would go a long way here.

In: Hardware and Tech