Lots in this thread I'm rather unsure about the exact meaning off and seemingly half truths or something.
So I'm guessing when you set your resolution in MWO it always reverts to 60Hz?
What about borderless windowed mode?
Because I'm betting it would run like you want with borderless window
Just not the fps you might want, but the Hz should be there
RAM speed with a Ryzen matters because the speed of the infinity fabric, the interconnect between cores, is tied to RAM speed
There is no direct control like with an Intel CPU using mesh
The old adage low timings and high speed is surely true, could be gotten a lot with 3000 CL14 for maybe 10 bucks more than that 2400 kit
3000 isn't exoticly fast
It's fine your going to replace it, but that being said usually any 2400 kit can do 3000 with a small bump in voltage (the new kit will have a higher voltage than the 2400 kit, that RAM is just factory overclocked)
RAM speed isn't maxed out for AMD because Intel or something, it's the memory controller in Ryzen that can't go higher
For instance using one stick instead of 2 would yield higher speeds
Secondly the second gen Ryzen improved the memory controller, giving higher speeds
It's not just the RAM that needs to be stable at the rated speed, the memory controller needs to be able to handle it as well
Maybe it wasn't that AMD was "late" to DDR4, but that it was a completely new platform
The board partners had no experience with while simultaneously having to deal with new Intel chipsets as well, all in a manner of a few months
The Ryzen platform matured very fast in the following months
Also try to coax more frequency out of your Ryzen
MWO likes as fast cores as you can give it.
The trouble with CCX was fixed in Windows 10 like a year ago, disabling SMT could improve performance slightly, but oc'ing the RAM from 2400 to 3000 should provide a bigger boost
As would adding 100Mhz more, the 1700x should top out just shy of 4Ghz, as more capable CPU dies where binned for Threadripper.
For crossfire or SLI to work the driver needs to support the game as well, depending on the profile it might work in dx9 or/and dx11
Sometimes an old driver might actually be better for an "old game"
And why would crossfire be a dx12 feature?
DX12 can theoretically use 1 card from AMD and 1 from Nvidia in a sort of SLI/crossfire, the only game that can do that though is Ashes of singularity.
Vulkan gained the ability for SLI/crossfire with 1.1 I think.
It's an old game with an old engine, it doesn't respond to more cores like newer titles do, you could have threadripper and have worse perfomance than your old i5
Btw
Processor wise, when it comes to MWO, the i5 would've been better
Pushing that i5 to 4.5 Ghz should have be been doable, was a K after all
That being said, Ryzen is a great platform, just not particularly to MWO as it can't multihtread really well
NARC BAIT, on 18 December 2017 - 06:45 AM, said:
putting the same code into a new engine would likely yield the same results that we currently have ...
That's not really how it works
PGI would license a new engine and support would be part of the deal, well usually
It's not like you take your code out of CryEngine and copy and paste it into Unreal Engine.
Both engines provide a framework from which you start your thing.
You can see a difference between MWO and MW5 already, add NVidia support to the mix and it should all work out better then MWO does now
Especially since coding seems to be a lost art amongst the MWO dev's (moved over to MW5?

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M T, on 20 July 2018 - 03:44 PM, said:
Found a solution: Custom Resolution Utility.
Disclaimer: If you **** up something make sure you have Splashtop or some remote program running so you can revert back the changes you've done in case...
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Can't say for AMD but works on my Nvidia card.
1. Make sure your profile is on (active)
2. Deselect every tickbox on the left
3. Find your settings for your max resolution / refresh rate first and make a printscreen or write values down somewhere.
4. Get rid of all resolutions in every section, also in the extension block, go over all the data including EDID and take it all out.
5. Add new resolution in 'Detailed resolutions' and Extension block with the values you wrote down earlier.
6. Reboot or use restart(64).exe to reset driver.
Result:
- Only highest refresh rate available in Nvidia Control panel, 60hz, 85hz, 100hz and whatever you had are removed.
- Forces Windows and all games, exclusive full screen or not to run at maximum refresh rate at all times, no matter what resolution even.
- Full screen optimization works nicely here (Windows 10 1807), basically full screen + instant alt tab best of both worlds. Lowest input lag. Best of both worlds :-)
I bet this fixes a lot of refresh rate issues on a lot of games and system wide...
Yeah I'm not sure for AMD either, but with Nvidia you can just set a custom resolution using the driver panel and give that resolution the refresh rate you want
It's how I drive my 60hz display with 75hz
In games it shows up with the same resolution set apart with the refresh rate at the end
Also, again, MWO = best mode = borderless window
Can alt tab all day
Edited by Peter2k, 23 August 2018 - 08:38 PM.