Larian Studios Forums Divinity II The Dragon Knight Saga / Flames of Vengeance (English) Technical problems Fast PC, poor performance

This game is capped at 30 fps as most are nowadays. Download FRAPS (freeware) and it will show your fps during gameplay. Using VSync in ANY game caps the fps at 30 - always. If you don't use VSync you get screen-tearing in the middle of your display. From what I can understand you only have one video card but you talk of disabling Crossfire. Crossfire is only available if you have two or more video cards. I also looked at the stock clock speeds for your 5970 card and they are 725MHz and 1000MHz. There is no doubt at these stock clocks your fps will dip well below 30 - especially with one card but even with two.

I have two GIGABYTE HD6850's in Crossfire (they are just barely faster than the 5970). I am running the game at 1080p all settings extreme with antialiasing on (the absolute maximum possible). The stock clocks for the 6850 are 775 and 1005. If I leave them stock my fps is 20-30. If I overclock them to CCC's maximum of 850 and 1200 I get 26-30 fps. I have mine super overclocked at 950 and 1150 and I get a solid 30 fps no matter what.

I use MSI Afterburner (freeware) to overclock my cards because it is the only way to unlock higher-than-CCC's maximum clocks which in turn is only possible by upping the voltage sent to the cards (which you can't do with CCC). It doesn't matter what your CPU is at. I am running my AMD X4 965 at the stock 3.4 GHz and overclocking the CPU will not make any game (almost) run faster. As the game engines evolve they get more CPU efficient.

You need to overclock your video card(s). A steady 30 fps is quite smooth but in this game it takes a heck of a lot of processing power to achieve. Like I said, my cards are marginally faster than the 5970 but the only way I can get a solid 30fps is to super overclock them using MSI Afterburner. I agree that when the game is running at anything less than 30fps it looks choppy but to expect more than 30fps - you're being unrealistic. I'm running 2GB dedicated video OC'd from 725 to 950 and 1005 to 1150 and from 1.149v to 1.270v and I'm just able to get a solid 30fps but my graphics settings are maxed and I'm extremely pleased with the gameplay.

DKS was originally capped at 30 FPS, but the second patch added an option to allow you to change or remove the cap. I don't recall the system specs or game resolution / graphics settings, but people have reported getting 60 FPS.

Wow, that's incredible. I guess I am wrong with my VSync analogy as well. VSync will cap the fps at your monitor's refresh rate - not necessarily 30. I am playing on a 60Hz lcd tv (and a cheap one too) so it's no wonder mine is capped at 30. I guess my Direct2Drive copy of the game might not necessarily have the latest patch that's available either. But to the person who originally posted this thread - try overclocking your video cards (just be aware that you void your warranty in doing so). I can play my Crysis games maxed out but only get 30 fps (I just checked and it's about 40 fps) but it is possible for me to get 60 fps if I turn some settings down.

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If I have every setting maxed I get about 40 fps with my super overclocked Crossfire setup.
If I select the timeslice shadow update I get 60 fps solid (I don't notice any difference visually).
My fps gain by overclocking my Crossfire setup is about 15 fps. My fps gain by overclocking my CPU is 0. I am glad that I took part in this thread. I was posting some misinformation and playing my game at less than it could potentially be visually (not to mention all the bug fixes). 15 fps gain by overclocking my video cards is very subtantial. I am going to check for updates for all of my Direct2Drive and GameTap games.