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[WarGruf]

Well then Ladys and Gents,

After setting up my spare monitor I decided to go play with some graphics settings to see what results it had on GPU / CPU activiy and temps.

And strangely enough I found that dissabling ALL Anti-Aliasing ingame to be a boon.
Now this is not because if AA is turned off you get higher FPS (derp thats to be expected),
but because If you enable AA through CCC it gives better results.

Now this might work for Nvidia as well so bare that in mind.

Before when I had Post AA enabled in game @ 1920x1080p with V-sync enabled, damage glow on and everything else set to Very high, minus Shadows which were at medium. I saw an average FPS between 60 - 25 depending how intense the combat was.

Now after setting CatalystControlCenter to control the graphics it is much beter and Looks sharper. The FPS sits in the high 60s to 40s with less noticable dips.

I do run in DX11 so it might just be DX11 specific.

Here's a run down of my CCC settings.
AA mode = Override app settings
AA samples =12xEQ
Filter = Edge detect
AA method = Supersampling
Morphological filtering = On

AF filter mode = Override app settings
AF level = 16x
Texture filtering quality = High quality
Surface format optimization = Off

Vertical Refresh = On unless specifies
OpenGl Buffer = Off

Tessellation Mode = Override app settings
Maximum Tessellation level = 64x

Now if you think your GPU can handle taking control of these settings, it seems to take a load of the CPU and increase FPS.

That being said over the days testing my CPU usage topped out @ 40% and the GPU @ 85%.
I belive this game needs some major Optimizing to get the best from any system.

My Rig is:
AMD FX-8350 @ 4.816Mhz / FSB-NB freq = 2600Mhz (x24 mulit)
Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 (2501 bios)
8 GB Corsair Vengance 1600 DDR3 @ 1866Mhz 1.5v (9-10-9-27-48)
R9 270X DualX 4Gb @ 1120Mhz Core / 1400Mhz mem / 18% power.
800w PSU 80+ gold
HAF XM case 4x 200mm Fans
CoolerMaster Nepton 140XL watercooler / push-pull into the case.
Samsung SSD 840 Evo Pro 250GB (main drive)
Win7 64bit Pro

Personally I think there is a problem with the ingame AA settings... Possibly trying to 32x AA instead of 16x AA etc. Who knows but it seems out of whack.

So have a play with the settings and lets see your results!

[Bad Haircut]

Thanks for posting this! I'll have a tweak with CCC when i get home.

[Night Fury76]

bump so i can find it later

[Golrar]

Thanks Wargruf! You answered two questions for me - AA and whether or not buying an R9 290 on sale is a good idea rather than saving up for the GTX970. From your info on your R9 270, it tells me I should be OK. Wish I'd had the info on Black Friday, but oh well.

[Iothil]

That problem is the same for Nvidia in some setups, my wife runs it on laptop (medion erazer, win8.1) and needed to manually assign all graphic options via Nvidia CC because for a reason unknown, some machines do not recognize MWO as a 3d engine based game and try to run it on intel graphics, depending on how good the rest of your hardware is, that could get you permanently to 10fps or less, as in her case.