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Riding on the back of my previous thread, where users ran an old instancing demo to investigate AMD's draw call performance, I'm extremely curious as to where Ryzen falls in a "modern" game; lots of draw calls, lots of background processing, and huge draw distances.
The reason why, is that all the current benchmarks are bad. Either they only show how average framerates which are useless without minimums, or they show systems getting numbers that they shouldn't be pulling in the first place. The latter is almost certainly due to the testers using an un-intensive part of the game for their systems.
And there's also the fact that all the benchmarks kicking around that measure CPU performance, for Fallout 4 at least, use NVidia GPUs. This is bad, as NVidia's driver supports DCLs, a very crude form of threaded draw calls. This muddies the waters greatly as we're testing worst-case scenario here, so only systems with an AMD GPU need apply. Sorry Green Team.
There's a couple things you'll need to do, before you can jump in:
1. Download these two save files, and place them in your "My Games\Fallout4\Saves" folder: https://mega.nz/#!bxljwZiQ!foEekBl-RWzM8XY5HZYztBOQrBeEpbloSsgZNVH8yLw
2. Backup & replace your .ini files in "My Games\Fallout4" with these: https://mega.nz/#!X88FDB6I!x9FCxGAB79AsFLXN16xyiI4mRjs_CQ_FPOBZ-zYIsJs
3. In FalloutPrefs.ini, replace: sD3DDevice="AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series" with the value from your original FalloutPrefs file.
4. Download and install the latest ENB mod, by placing the files inside the "WrapperVersion" folder, into the same folder as your Fallout4.exe file: http://enbdev.com/mod_fallout4_v0311.htm
5. Replace the ENB .ini files with these: https://mega.nz/#!3kUHTY7K!GnxkhGoqX1WjnqxUsVHMbPhfmO5zFmB5Ys8dcMva048
6. Disable VSync in your GPU driver settings program
And once you're in the game:
1. Load the save(s)
2. Press Shift+Enter to bring up the ENB overlay
3. Click on the "Profiler" category. Pan the camera around until you get the same number of draw calls, as the number in the save. So for "Corvega11700draws21fps", try and get as close to 11700 draw calls as possible. Same gig for the DiamondCity save.
4. Note down your framerate, and number of draw calls.
Finally, when submitting your results, use the following format:
OS:
CPU:
RAM:
GPU:
GPU Driver:
First Save (Corvega)
Draw Calls:
FPS:
Second Save (Diamond City)
Draw Calls:
FPS:
The next post will be used to collect the results.
The reason why, is that all the current benchmarks are bad. Either they only show how average framerates which are useless without minimums, or they show systems getting numbers that they shouldn't be pulling in the first place. The latter is almost certainly due to the testers using an un-intensive part of the game for their systems.
And there's also the fact that all the benchmarks kicking around that measure CPU performance, for Fallout 4 at least, use NVidia GPUs. This is bad, as NVidia's driver supports DCLs, a very crude form of threaded draw calls. This muddies the waters greatly as we're testing worst-case scenario here, so only systems with an AMD GPU need apply. Sorry Green Team.
There's a couple things you'll need to do, before you can jump in:
1. Download these two save files, and place them in your "My Games\Fallout4\Saves" folder: https://mega.nz/#!bxljwZiQ!foEekBl-RWzM8XY5HZYztBOQrBeEpbloSsgZNVH8yLw
2. Backup & replace your .ini files in "My Games\Fallout4" with these: https://mega.nz/#!X88FDB6I!x9FCxGAB79AsFLXN16xyiI4mRjs_CQ_FPOBZ-zYIsJs
3. In FalloutPrefs.ini, replace: sD3DDevice="AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series" with the value from your original FalloutPrefs file.
4. Download and install the latest ENB mod, by placing the files inside the "WrapperVersion" folder, into the same folder as your Fallout4.exe file: http://enbdev.com/mod_fallout4_v0311.htm
5. Replace the ENB .ini files with these: https://mega.nz/#!3kUHTY7K!GnxkhGoqX1WjnqxUsVHMbPhfmO5zFmB5Ys8dcMva048
6. Disable VSync in your GPU driver settings program
And once you're in the game:
1. Load the save(s)
2. Press Shift+Enter to bring up the ENB overlay
3. Click on the "Profiler" category. Pan the camera around until you get the same number of draw calls, as the number in the save. So for "Corvega11700draws21fps", try and get as close to 11700 draw calls as possible. Same gig for the DiamondCity save.
4. Note down your framerate, and number of draw calls.
Finally, when submitting your results, use the following format:
OS:
CPU:
RAM:
GPU:
GPU Driver:
First Save (Corvega)
Draw Calls:
FPS:
Second Save (Diamond City)
Draw Calls:
FPS:
The next post will be used to collect the results.
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