CoH DX10 Patch Feedback Thread

[Riptide]

Originally Posted by doddsy

wow. all the more reason to wait before splashing out for new hardware.

Yeah no kidding. Talk about a performance nosedive. That is UGLY.

[nippyjun]

I really don't see much of a difference in standard view.

[Brent101]

Originally Posted by Riptide

Yeah no kidding. Talk about a performance nosedive. That is UGLY.

Id ignore my benchmarks at the moment. Ive tried it a few more times and its been over the place and SLI isn't supported at the moment, so it is only using one 8800.

For example, I run the fear benchmark and it runs great. I try it again later and the scores are way off. And I can't get SLI to work in Lost Planet etc. At this point, I wouldn't rely on my scores because everything is all over the place with my system.

[Bman212121]

Originally Posted by Brent101

Id ignore my benchmarks at the moment. Ive tried it a few more times and its been over the place and SLI isn't supported at the moment, so it is only using one 8800.

For example, I run the fear benchmark and it runs great. I try it again later and the scores are way off. And I can't get SLI to work in Lost Planet etc. At this point, I wouldn't rely on my scores because everything is all over the place with my system.

I left vysnc on when I ran the tests, but with 1920 x 1200 everything max except textures on high, 4x AA 16x AF in DX9 mode I get an average of 56fps max 60, and in DX10 it was average of 27 max 30 or so. So on a single GTX it is basically cuts the performance in half as of right now. Given that performance doubled for nekro between the older driver and this one, I'd expect there is still a lot of tweaking to be done and it should be much faster with more updates.

[stncttr908]

I'm playing through the campaign (never finished it on my Athlon XP/6800GT setup) on DX9. With all the problems I've experienced with Vista and the performance nosedive associated with this DX10 patch I'm quite happy where I am.

[Jonelo]

http://www.nextgpu.com/forum/index.p...16337#msg16337

2900 xt C2 3200 MHZ

1600x1200, FA@16x
http://www.telefonica.net/web2/hitmaker/relic00009.jpg

1600x1200, FAA@4x y FA@16x
http://www.telefonica.net/web2/hitmaker/relic00012.jpg

[El_Sid]

Can't wait SLi in next driver.

[MowTin]

Originally Posted by miahallen

Here's my results with the rig in my sig...

Nice graph!

[miahallen]

Originally Posted by MowTin

Nice graph!

Thanks, BTW the DX10 @ 2048x1536 results were not shown, I'll explain.

For all results, I gave the best of three runs. The first was always thrown out (always the lowest results, by a long shot), usually the third run was best. When I got to the last test - DX10 @ 2048x1536 - the first run returned very poor results as expected....but it was the only successful run. The second run failed with an error from Vista saying I had run out of system memory (although task manager was showing only about 1.3GB being utilized for the previous few minutes)...I'm wondering if I had filled the GTX's frame buffer? I remember reading about how Vista has control over both system & graphics memory with DX10. Anybody with another high resolution display and a single GTX want to give it a shot? The third run resulted in total system lockdown. When I hit instability, I stop.

Therefore, the graph was not completely...complete

[El_Sid]

Some shots:

[AthlonXP1800]

It seem you will need 3 to 4GB RAM to run CoH at very high resolutions under DX10 mode.

Here some good FAQ from Relic forums:

Q. My frame rate is locked at 60fps, how can I unlock it?

A. Use the -novsync command line parameter by creating a shortcut to RelicCoH.exe with -novsync in the target.
e.g.
"C:\Program Files\THQ\Company of Heroes\RelicCOH.exe" -novsync

Q. Can I do anything to prevent CoH from running out of memory when playing certain maps at very high resolutions and anti-aliasing settings?

A. No, you must lower your display settings. By default Vista 32 gives each application two gigabytes of virtual address space. You can look up how to change this to three gigabytes, use Vista 64, try the -notriplebuffer or -novsync command line parameters, or try newer display drivers when they are available.

-novsync, triple buffering, and perftest

vsync is now enabled by default in both 9 and 10, although the -novsync command can be used to disable it. In Direct3D 10 (not d3d9) triple buffering is enabled if the -novsync or -notriplebuffer command line parameters are not used. Triple buffering will make the in game frame rate more consistent, but will use addition video memory and consume more virtual address space.

To make CoH more friendly to incorporating in benchmark suites we've adding the -perftest command line parameter (be sure to use -novsync with it!) which will save a performance report text file with average/min/max frame rates in the %user%/documents/my games/company of heroes/log files folder.

Running at very high resolutions and anti aliasing settings

Due to the limited address space of Vista 32 if trying to run at very high resolutions and/or anti aliasing settings the driver may consume so much virtual address space the application crashes. Running with -novsync for performance testing will disable triple buffering to recover a tiny bit of memory, but the best solution is to run Vista 32 set to give applications three gigabytes of virtual address space or to just run Vista 64 which gives all 32bit applications a full four gigabytes.

Subsequent runs

At the time the patch was released there was a known issue that made subsequent runs slower with certain cards. To work around this and ensure benchmarks are consistent and representative please exit CoH completely before re-running a performance test.

http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=150531

[zerobeta]

Hmm it requires 3GB-4GB RAM for DX10 mode with not that much of a visual difference, and runs less smooth? (Correct me if I am wrong)

The game requires 512MB RAM (minimum system requirements) for DX9 mode, and it runs smoother?