Gears 5 PC performance thread
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I'm up to chapter 3 now and no hickups on my end so far. Also i didn't experienced any bugs some people are talking about.
knocking on wood. Hope it stays that way.
9900K/2080ti combo @ max settings + texture pack. But with least and most fps capped at 60fps. It surely scales the resolution down in some cases but i don't see anything about it so far.
Feels like the perfect pc experience. Only extreme nitpicky stuff i would complain about but that normal if you're playing with the biggest of the big boys in terms of graphics.
knocking on wood. Hope it stays that way.
9900K/2080ti combo @ max settings + texture pack. But with least and most fps capped at 60fps. It surely scales the resolution down in some cases but i don't see anything about it so far.
Feels like the perfect pc experience. Only extreme nitpicky stuff i would complain about but that normal if you're playing with the biggest of the big boys in terms of graphics.
Turn on performance stats in game to full. Tells you what's available and how much is used.
This is the first game i played where i have to be careful with Vram. I turned all textures to high, and while afterburner says my Vram usage didn't change, all stutters are gone.
So whoever has a 2060 and was having stuttering problems, I just set default settings to high, and turned up everything that uses no vram to ultra and and getting a smooth 60fps with no stutters or hiccups.
So whoever has a 2060 and was having stuttering problems, I just set default settings to high, and turned up everything that uses no vram to ultra and and getting a smooth 60fps with no stutters or hiccups.
If you happen to have two gpus and a good cpu (at least something like mine i7 4790k) and 16gb ram you can run on two seperate setups quite easily with Aster multiseat. Did a Gears 5 lan and we had a great time. For tonight I reduced my own settings (normally 1440p high but for today I reduced it to medium because we just wanted to start quickly) but it was quite easy to pull off.
The CPU usage was quite high at around 100% but there weren't noticable or annoying hiccups and the games ran perfectly fine.
We played online without having a noticable handicap and we had a great time. Definitly a game I will play again here.
Next time I will step it my settings to high because it ran cool enough on the 1080 (the Windforce GTX 770 is above the Strix 1080 which was heating up quickly but it was safe around under 90c).
The CPU usage was quite high at around 100% but there weren't noticable or annoying hiccups and the games ran perfectly fine.
We played online without having a noticable handicap and we had a great time. Definitly a game I will play again here.
Next time I will step it my settings to high because it ran cool enough on the 1080 (the Windforce GTX 770 is above the Strix 1080 which was heating up quickly but it was safe around under 90c).
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That's pretty bananas. Do you need two copies of the game to pull that off?If you happen to have two gpus and a good cpu (at least something like mine i7 4790k) and 16gb ram you can run on two seperate setups quite easily with Aster multiseat. Did a Gears 5 lan and we had a great time. Even the mini enclosure I was able to run it extremely well and is competetively playable. For this time I reduced my own settings (normally 1440p high but for today I reduced it to medium because we just wanted to start quickly).
CPU usage was quite high at around 100% but there weren't noticable or annoying hiccups and the games ran perfectly fine and we can play online without having a handicap.
Next time I will step it up to high because it ran cool enough on the 1080 (the Windforce GTX 770 is above the Strix 1080 which was heating up quickly but it was safe around under 90c).
Yes, but Gamepass was just 2€ and it was a no brainer to get it for the 2nd setup too. Basically both setups run independently and most games run great without issues.
Excellent stuff.
This game has the best HDR I've seen in a game to date. The color grading is phenomenal.
As for performance, I'm running:
7700K @ 4.5 ghz
RTX 2080Ti
16GB ddr4 3000 mhz
SSD
X27 4K 144hz HDR monitor
With the Ultra preset and 60 fps min framerate set, I had 96% of frames at 4K resolution. Dynamic res kicked in rarely in seems.
Holding over 60fps pretty easily at 4K Ultra with HDR. The game looks unreal.
I did and the damn stuttering won't stop.
It's honestly ruining my experience with the game.
What the hell should I do?
Seems a driver issue. Either go back to a previous driver or wait until the 10th for game ready driver.
436.15 for 1080
I never add the dynamic resolution option active while having stuttering, it's removing the ultra textures that fixed them for me. I'm on act 3 and i played all act2-3 without ultra textures and didn't have a single stutter, not even during cutscenes. Act 1 was horribly unplayable with ultra textures.
Yeah, besides the stutter I also have graphical glitches. Watched the scene from e3 reveal, and the breath of the characters were completely wrong. The effect was blocky like a psone game
This is exactly what happened to me (and most of you I guess but perhaps you haven't noticed):
Decided to re-install the texture pack and use my old settings (Cinematics framerate set to Unlimited, Minimum framerate set to None, etc) with the exception of this time turning the Tiled Resources to Off (this setting is supposed to "Improve texture streaming efficiency by optimizing texture loads into VRAM"). Since turning that off I haven't experienced a single stutter in gameplay or in a cinematic (fairly deep into Act II now).
So I've either gotten very lucky and haven't seen a stutter yet or maybe the Tiled Resources setting is causing the issues.
So I've either gotten very lucky and haven't seen a stutter yet or maybe the Tiled Resources setting is causing the issues.
I'm getting weird texture glitches where textures are replaced with a weird neon camouflage pattern. J.Ds face and armor got it in a cutscene and the fabricator in a horde mode I just played got it. I also had multiple instances of crashes in cutscenes but turning the textures to high seemed to resolve that.
2060 and i5 6600K @ 4.3
2060 and i5 6600K @ 4.3
I missed that part, I'll look into it and see what happens.
Thanks for this. Was totally fine locked 60fps 4k everything smooth until I installed the texture pack. Then the random stuttering began.
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Yeah, I just had the first collectable in Act 1/Chapter 4 bug out and restarted the chapter only to remind myself that the collected component counter always resets when you do so.
So with Windows 7 is almost exactly like I expected it to be based on what people report.
You're pretty much losing almost half the performance because the DX12 on Win 7 is a mere ''emulation''.
I can somehow give promps for MS for doing it anyway, but the game not actually having DX11 or being optimized for Win 7 just makes this whole thing pointless.
You're pretty much losing almost half the performance because the DX12 on Win 7 is a mere ''emulation''.
I can somehow give promps for MS for doing it anyway, but the game not actually having DX11 or being optimized for Win 7 just makes this whole thing pointless.
Uninstall ultra textures
Set minimum framerate to none
Set cinematic framerate to 30 (optional)
Restart the game after one hour of gameplay
This right here fixed it for me. The main problem I had (not using DSR) was cinenmatics stuttering and this improved frametimes a lot for me during cinematics. 30 fps cinematics only give you the sense of better frametimes as a spike isn't as noticeable but when you actually monitor frametimes you'll see the graph still spiking.
Damn i tried that and unfortunately i still get stuttering during the cinematics. I feel like ive tried everything
Ran some more tests and it was apparantly not that setting which did much but more so me turning on RTSS frame limiting instead of in-game. RTSS is known to add 1 frame buffer/lag and it smooths out the cinematics decently compared to the in-game limiter, still not perfect though.
The game is heavily AMD optimized owing to the GCN, shader intrinsics optimization on the Xbox One consoles. It's great to see the power of these AMD GPUs being fully harnessed using asynchronous compute and whatnot. On the other hand, as an Nvidia user, it's also a bit of a bummer to see at times 20-30% worse frame-rate on avg. and frame-times being all-over the place on the Nvidia equivalent.
To be fair, Gears 5's drivers aren't out on the AMD side but still not out on the Nvidia side. The gap should close a little once they release the drivers.
Not sure how I missed that. Thanks!
Mouse and Keyboard against people on crossplay is ridiculously OP, my goodness me, I updated windows just to give this a shot and despite the new windows update adding mouse acceleration and numerous other issues I still got over 60 kills on king of the hill, have uninstalled the update now and rolled back.
Most people on console will not even know to turn crossplay off either so I imagine they will be wondering how people have such good aim with the sniper.
Thankfully I have disabled it because I wouldn't want to be on the end of that lol.
Most people on console will not even know to turn crossplay off either so I imagine they will be wondering how people have such good aim with the sniper.
Thankfully I have disabled it because I wouldn't want to be on the end of that lol.
I can't think of many situations in which a game ready driver has ever positively affected performance much for me, and this applies back when I was using an AMD GPU as well. Except for times when maybe a game is straight up broken without a specific driver generally performance improvements from a driver are very mild if any occur.
What I'm hoping for is maybe the driver can fix the stuttering. Are AMD users experiencing the stuttering as well I wonder?
After installing MS Store version of the game I have noticed that there's a massive 62.7GB file inside \WindowsApps\MSIXVC\ folder.
Anyone else have this file? I'm not sure what it's for, it seems like preload leftover that was never deleted?
EDIT: After looking around I found this https://support.gearsofwar.com/hc/en-us/articles/360033421451-Required-Disk-Space
Anyone else have this file? I'm not sure what it's for, it seems like preload leftover that was never deleted?
EDIT: After looking around I found this https://support.gearsofwar.com/hc/en-us/articles/360033421451-Required-Disk-Space
Seems like this is intended to be that way and doesn't actually consume extra drive space. What an odd solution.
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Game is bringing my PC to its knees and then causing a BSOD of death lol. All stock - 6700K, 980Ti, 16GB.
Game causes Chrome to cutout in the background and alt-tabbing is a nightmare.
Game causes Chrome to cutout in the background and alt-tabbing is a nightmare.
Runs like a dream on a 1080Ti. What AMD advantage are you talking about? I don't see anything out of the ordinary in TPU performance analysis. For example RX 5700 XT is slower than 2700 SUPER and no AMD GPU can touch anything above RTX 2080 and 1080 Ti....
I wouldn't call a $500 GPU that usually performs a bit better than the 5700XT running 1-2fps better normal. By TPU's own numbers going by a 5700XT review the 2070 Super performs 11% better on average, which is not overly off but that does have this game performing better than usual on AMD. Also TPU has a 5700XT being 5% faster than a 2060 Super on average yet here in Gears it's around 16% faster. And for some reason Async can't be enabled on Nvidia GPU's right now.
I'm getting terrible texture issues in Act 2. Anyone else run into something like this, and if so, how did you fix it?
I'm using a 2060 and i5 6600k @ 4.3
I'm using a 2060 and i5 6600k @ 4.3
Never saw anything like that, no. What GPU are you using?
People with < 4GB of VRAM have reported issues with textures.
People with < 4GB of VRAM have reported issues with textures.
Some rather strange things I've noticed:
- resolutions between 91% and 100% run much slower than straight native 4k/100% on my 1080 Ti. Upscaling sometimes causes a performance hit?
- when lowering resolution below native and disabling HDR, Windows still continued to render in HDR with the game in SDR. When using native res however, Windows properly switches back to SDR when disabling HDR in the game. It's almost like native resolution has more control over your display settings (almost like being in exclusive fullscreen). Probably an edge case since there is no reason to disable HDR anyway, but just something I noticed while checking to see if HDR incurs a performance hit.
- resolutions between 91% and 100% run much slower than straight native 4k/100% on my 1080 Ti. Upscaling sometimes causes a performance hit?
- when lowering resolution below native and disabling HDR, Windows still continued to render in HDR with the game in SDR. When using native res however, Windows properly switches back to SDR when disabling HDR in the game. It's almost like native resolution has more control over your display settings (almost like being in exclusive fullscreen). Probably an edge case since there is no reason to disable HDR anyway, but just something I noticed while checking to see if HDR incurs a performance hit.
I've been able to play 3+ hours in total since turning off "Tiled Resources" and the game hasn't had a hitch or stutter in gameplay or cinematics, absolutely buttery smooth. Almost done with Act II so I'm hoping it continues as is into Act III and beyond, so far so good, fingers crossed.
This is with the enhanced textures installed.
This is with the enhanced textures installed.
That's still far from 20-30% that person who I quoted claimed (Md Ray). Also don't forget that Nvidia is releasing Gears 5 game ready driver on the 10th.
That's weird. I have a much worse CPU than you and it runs fine for me including alt+tabbing and stuff. I would say it's a RAM issue but you have 16GB. Usually when alt+tabbing becomes a slow almost lagfest when switching between programs it's due to lack of RAM and the OS starts moving background tasks to the pagefile which is basically a partition on your HDD which is insanely slow compared to RAM which is why you have the lag when alt+tabbing. Are you running any background cleaner apps or gaming optimiser apps?
You could probably set everything to ultra and be just fine. I also have a 1070 and I'm running it at ultra across the board and achieving around ~90-110 fps average. My CPU is quite a bit worse than yours too with only 4 cores 8 threads compared to your full 6 cores 6 threads.