Poor game and toolset performance on Geforce 580M and 6-cores intel

[Legacy_HipMaestro]

               IIRC, you only get 3 choices -2, -1 & 0.  I'd try -2 first.  In nwtoolset.ini, it's listed under Start up, in nwplayer.ini, it's under Game options.  Also, I've read about turning off threaded optimization via nVidia control center but as an ATI user, can't really tutor you through that step.  Maybe FP has better help.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par HipMaestro, 23 mai 2012 - 10:12 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Dark_Ansem]

               already turned that off and forcing vsync + triple buffering via nvidia control panel '>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_AndarianTD]

               I saw some correspondence on the NVIDIA forums recently that the 301 driver had re-introduced some of the problems with NWN that had been fixed last year. Rolling back to a pre-300 driver might help. I'm running 296.10 with Win7 on a GTX470, and it works quite well.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Dark_Ansem]

               I thought it's supposed to be the other way round? "With 270.61 I would typically get 13fps (on a 2x460GTX SLI) while 301.24 gives me 45fps. That's not great for a game this old, but perfectly playable in my view. More generally OpenGL performance seems unchanged (Unigine Heaven giving virtually the same results between the two Forceware versions)."
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Dark_Ansem, 24 mai 2012 - 07:40 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_AndarianTD]

               Dark_Ansem: check out some of the earlier parts of the thread to get the history. There was a tremendous problem running NWN and some other games on the Fermi class (400+ series) cards when they were introduced. It was basically unplayable. We bugged NVIDIA until the 280-ish Fermi driver update took care of it about a year ago. The 300-ish updates look like they've broken it again. An update between the two (as I said, I run 296.10 with no trouble) should improve performance significantly, for NWN at least.

The reason for the exasperation in Sora's response to AstralWanderer (which you quoted above) was that he was commenting on the issue without being aware of that history.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par AndarianTD, 24 mai 2012 - 12:02 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Dark_Ansem]

               ah. you're right however, NWN ran horribly on my previous machine, and it was a Fermi card.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Beerfish]

               Long shot perhaps, have you fiddled with the sound settings in the menu?  When I 1st got it way back when if played far poorer than it should have considering my rig.  After I changed the sound settings from their default set up it improved things A LOT.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Dark_Ansem]

               I did, only miles2d is acceptable for performance. everything else tends to lag a lot. I wonder why?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_AndarianTD]

               

Beerfish wrote...

Long shot perhaps, have you fiddled with the sound settings in the menu?  When I 1st got it way back when if played far poorer than it should have considering my rig.  After I changed the sound settings from their default set up it improved things A LOT.

We tried that. It worked OK for my laptop running a GeForce 9800, but for the Fermi card bug it had no effect. There was no solution for the latter except a juryrigging fix using glintercept (discussed earlier in the thread I linked), which helped enough to make the game sort of playable. If it's a resurgence of the same problem (and a 500 series card is a Fermi card, so I suspect it would be), only a driver update or a rollback is likely to help.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par AndarianTD, 25 mai 2012 - 03:08 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Dark_Ansem]

                let's hope it's not '>