FPS down by 12% on recent 0.1.7x versions of custom shaders patch

[Assiduous]

Greetings fellow CSP users,

I've been running CSP version 0.1.60 for a while and have been trying out 0.1.7x versions of CSP. I've noted my benchmark FPS is down from 85 fps to 75 fps on 0.1.70 and 0.1.74. Is this a common experience? and has anyone found a way to regain the FPS? A new feature that can be switched off perhaps? I've turned a number of new features off but no luck so far. I have noticed that the CPU utilisation is up a bit from ~87 to ~93 during bench but GPU is defintely not bottlenecked. Downgrading to 0.1.60 is confirmed to increase my FPS back to 85.

I'm running an R9 270 2GB & SOL 1.5.1.

Thanks!

 

[Kevin Troschinski]

Greetings fellow CSP users,

I've been running CSP version 0.1.60 for a while and have been trying out 0.1.7x versions of CSP. I've noted my benchmark FPS is down from 85 fps to 75 fps on 0.1.70 and 0.1.74. Is this a common experience? and has anyone found a way to regain the FPS? A new feature that can be switched off perhaps? I've turned a number of new features off but no luck so far. I have noticed that the CPU utilisation is up a bit from ~87 to ~93 during bench but GPU is defintely not bottlenecked. Downgrading to 0.1.60 is confirmed to increase my FPS back to 85.

I'm running an R9 270 2GB & SOL 1.5.1.

Thanks!

Hi try this one:

under extrafx.ini there might be SSLR enabled. This cost me about 10fps and i think it was disabled at CSP 1.60

 

[chas1723]

You need to update sol if you are running the newest csp versions. Also, you are CPU bottlenecked and that is probably what is happening to your performance.

 

[Kevin Troschinski]

maybe this could be also useful:

 

[Assiduous]

Thanks for the suggestions. No joy unfortunately...

I always keep extrafx disabled.
Disabling Sol does not recover the FPS.
Confirmed this is not caused by FTH.

On CSP 0.1.60, with my settings, disabling CSP entirely (under general patch settings) results in no change in FPS.

On CSP 0.1.70, 73, 74 disabling CSP entirely recovers the missing 10 fps. I tried keeping CSP enabled and disabled every single extension manually but no luck.

 

[alexlockout]

strangely, on my computer, on the contrary, 1.60 is more picky about fps, at 1.73 I get + 10fps, but I basically use 1.60, the picture is better there.

 

[Assiduous]

I've confirmed that 0.1.69 is the version where the 10 FPS first disappears. 0.1.68 is slightly faster than 0.1.60 on my system.

 

[chas1723]

1.69 had a bug in it. It was fixed in 1.70

 

[Assiduous]

Not according to my testing, i'm down 10 FPS in every version of CSP after 0.1.68.

 

[chas1723]

then you have a setting turned on that you did not before. some of the defaults have changed if I remember correctly. I definitely got my performance back as the bug did not make use of my gpu the way it should have.

 

[ClimaxF1]

Hi there

Just posted this on fps issues and micro freezes, not sure if this will work but is worth trying, made a huge difference with me.

Micro freezes

Hi Guys Today I started getting these micro freezes, noticed these before but they were hardly ever. Now it's every lap and sometimes they last long enough to destroy your race if you are in a corner. There's also been a drop in fps and loading time's take much longer now. All my other games...

www.racedepartment.com

 

[dwightyone]

Random crashes since installing 1.75 preview 1 and activating weather fx - even when I downgrade CSP now it still does the same. Reinstalled all folders other than cars and tracks and the same thing still happens when I activate weather fx no matter the csp version - still the same. Checked FTH all clear. Verified Assetto etc... the only thing I haven't done is delete the documents folder so the fault must be there.

My point is, I think later CSP versions problems are creeping in for some PC configurations maybe, so I'm now back on 1.46 and everything is smooth as butter but have kept documents folder and am never going to activate weatherfx again - don't think its a SOL problem btw - maybe its later CSP versions which are giving some people odd weird stutters etc...

 

[Assiduous]

0.1.75 has not resolved this issue. 0.1.68 is still the best performing CSP version.

 

[Vintagedriver01]

I would first go back to the CSP 1.60 recommended version and download @RasmusP dropbox files that is included in the link. Read his .txt file and use the preselected performance .ini file of your CSP version (incase of an low end card like the AMD-R270 Vcard).
https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/mx5cup-road-atlanta-wednesday-17th-march-2021.199833/page-4
Somewhere he is also writing down he did go back to the 1.60 recommended version for an reason.

 

[RasmusP]

Somewhere he is also writing down he did go back to the 1.60 recommended version for an reason.

Yep, two reasons:
- I don't like the new windscreen shadows from the updates Reflections FX. It's more realistic but it's quite irritating for me...

- some mod tracks get completely destroyed by some newer versions. Like literally destroyed. Your car standing in the air with the pit wall going vertically through the floor, the tarmac flying somewhere around etc.

Since I only do basic online racing in the dry sunlight, 0.1.60 is completely fine for me