Fps issue

[Zhera 0]

Hello Simtropolis,

 

I've recently purchased SimCity 2013, and I've found myself in a weird situation, something I would describe as poor optimization.

My SimCity setup:

Resolution: 1920x1080

Lighting: LOW

Textures: HIGH

Shadows: MEDIUM

Geometry: MEDIUM

Animations: MEDIUM

Tilt-shift: LESS

AA: OFF

FPS LIMÌTER: OFF

V-SYNC: OFF

 

This gives me 18-20 fps, and I try to endure this even though it's horrible.

 

The situation is, when I change lighting detail only and keep everything else as it is above:

I'm getting 60'ish fps when lighting is on minimal setting.

But when I turn lighting to low, it goes to the 20 fps.

When I put lighting to medium, it stays around 20.

If I however lighting on high or ultra, I get 15'ish fps.

 

My specs:

Win7 Premium 64-bit

Intel Core i7 2670QM 2,2 GHz - Default overclocked to 3,1 GHz

Nvidia GT555M 2GB

8GB's of RAM

 

Am I somewhat retarded, or does this change in fps, when changing lighting, seem unfair and a result of poor optimization from the development crew?

 

I appreciate any feedback to help me improve my fps.

 

P.S. Maxing out the game gives me 13 fps, but being on ultra lighting with everything else at lowest gives me 15 fps, what the what the?

P.P.S My taskmanager shows that only about 6% of my cpu is being used by SimCity when playing.

P.P.P.S It seems that the "lighting detail" setting kind of overrides the other graphical settings, which I've never seen a game do before. Par. ex. when I turn everything to high, from lighting to animations I get 13 fps, when I turn lighting to high and everything else to low, I get 16 fps.

[Infinito 0]

I have the same issue! 

[lars_city 23]

Your resolution might be the key issue here, laptops with that kind of resolution in combination with a low-end mobile graphic card is not very good, try to reduce it a notch down.

[flyer2359 92]

Is your laptop running hot/overheating?  This will cause the computer to automatically downclock everything on you to keep it cool, so OC'ing probably wasn't the best of ideas, especially not on laptops for heat purposes.  

 

As the post above me also stated, that is a pretty high resolution as well.  But, I do agree that lighting seems to have the biggest impact on FPS and it seems to have been optimized poorly.

 

I get about 13-18 FPS running the same graphics settings with a lower resolution and my i7 720QM is only 1.6ghz and the graphics card is a  GT230M 1GB (MUCH slower than yours).

[Panos 29]

I have a Dell XPS with 550M. 

 

You need to put the power management to full speed. All advance settings to 100%. No throttling when you have the laptop on power, is rule of thumb to play games on laptops.

Latest Nvidia drivers (autodetect at Nvidia isn't working, download the latest they work). 

 

I play it with all

Resolution: 1920x1080

Lighting: MEDIUM

Textures: HIGH

Shadows: LOW

Geometry: MEDIUM

Animations: MEDIUM

Tilt-shift: LESS

AA: OFF

FPS LIMÌTER: 60

V-SYNC: OFF

 

works fine. But need more power this game to be honest.

 

At the GTX570 at home everything is on High  and 8x AA, and 3D glasses (Nvidia Vision kit). Runs like a dream. 

[firstdied 0]

I got nvidia GT650M and 6gb ram,i7 and i can't even get up to 15 fps even with all settings pulled down to medium.

Tthat's just horrible to play !

Is it my connection my gpu, cpu ? 

Oh and i installed simcity on SSD, don't know if that was a really good idea...

Thanks for your help