FPS spikes AMD R9 390

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FPS spikes AMD R9 390

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I have no idea why im experiencing frame rate drops at anytime when playing this game. Though i see that age chooses a nividia profile for my amd card?

specs:
fx-8350 4ghz CPU
16bg ram
Gigabyte R9 390 8GB GPU


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File 'Age3Log.txt' opened at Fri Feb 05 01:24:25 2016

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PreGame 6773: Game locale: English
PreGame 7066: nvCPL is unavailable.
PreGame 7393: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
PreGame 7393: Render using: AMD Radeon (TM) R9 390 Series
PreGame 7393: Driver: aticfx32.dll -- version 8.17.10.1433
PreGame 7393: VendorID = 0x1002
PreGame 7393: DeviceID = 0x67b1
PreGame 7393: SubSysID = 0x22c11458
PreGame 7393: Revision = 0x80
PreGame 7393: DeviceIdentifier: {D7B71EE2-24F1-11CF-7172-CB023EC2C535}
PreGame 7405: XML render config -- found vendor 0x1002 as 'ATI'
PreGame 7405: XML render config -- choosing generic device configuration file 'geforce fx 6800'
PreGame 16566: Game startup complete (16.56 sec)!
PreGame 16566: ------------------------------------------------------------
34811 00:00:34: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
34811 00:00:34: Render using: AMD Radeon (TM) R9 390 Series
34811 00:00:34: Driver: aticfx32.dll -- version 8.17.10.1433
34811 00:00:34: VendorID = 0x1002
34811 00:00:34: DeviceID = 0x67b1
34811 00:00:34: SubSysID = 0x22c11458
34811 00:00:34: Revision = 0x80
34811 00:00:34: DeviceIdentifier: {D7B71EE2-24F1-11CF-7172-CB023EC2C535}
34811 00:00:34: XML render config -- found vendor 0x1002 as 'ATI'
34811 00:00:34: XML render config -- choosing generic device configuration file 'geforce fx 6800'
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Re: FPS spikes AMD R9 390

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Not too sure about this one.

Classic advice is to update drivers and stuff. Did you have an nvidia card before? Perhaps it's a problem with your CPU or RAM rather than your GPU? I'm not sure. What does Afterburner say?

I have a big post somewhere talking about whether or not the game is GPU or CPU bound. Basically the gist of it is that early on in the game, when not a lot of stuff is going on, FPS is dictated by your GPU horsepower. Later on, when a lot of units are out, dealing damage, moving around, etc. then what happens is that it's your CPU's single-threaded ability which becomes the bottleneck and as such, FPS is dictated by CPU horsepower in >single-threaded< applications.

Bulldozer is not know for being excellent in terms of single-threaded performance, rather they're great CPUs when you need a lot of cores to do parallel-ish tasks such as encoding or compiling programs. AoE3 is not a super optimized game unfortunately, it's quite old.

Perhaps take the time to do a fresh GPU driver install (because GPU drivers DO take up CPU resources depending on how good they are, e.g. Nvidia drivers are notorious for being better in that regard in DX11 applications I believe).

http://www.overclock.net/t/988215/how-t ... s-new-2016

http://www.overclock.net/t/1150443/how- ... s-new-2016


Perhaps with a nice fresh GPU driver install, things will pick up. AoE3 is old and optimized but Bulldozer CPUs should still do OK either way.
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Re: FPS spikes AMD R9 390

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Newer gpus arent detected by older games as easily so it emulates a device with known spec/vendor id, such as geforce 6800. My quadro is emulated as something similar (gpu usage sits at a miserable 5% as a result and offloads the work to the cpu, which can drop in usage due to poor optimization)
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Re: FPS spikes AMD R9 390

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I have always used AMD but is there anyway to override the ID is uses to maybe provide the best available optimization that the game has to offer?
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Re: FPS spikes AMD R9 390

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Get a Skylake 6700K and overclock it to 5Ghz. The game is single-threaded and not well optimized.
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Re: FPS spikes AMD R9 390

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It doesn't max a single core either. 4ghz is plenty. The problem is that the gpu clock doesn't go up for this game

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