Question Windows 11 Bad Performance With Some Older Games?

[Cassius101]

My Specs
Gigabyte Gaming OC 6800XT
Intel I7 12700kf
16GB 5200 MHZ Kingston DDR5 Ram
ASRock Z690 PG Velocita Motherboard
Western Digital Black 1TB SN850 NVMe


Darkest Hour Mod for Red Orchestra doesn't work at all and crashes all the time, my performance on Battlefield 4 and Squad is lack luster and it isn't as good as this. I only get 50-80fps on 1440p / mostly high settings on Squad.
I have Windows 11 Home 64 bit.

This person gets 70-100FPS on 4K.

What is wrong with my PC? The only reason I can think of is because it is Windows 11, maybe I should try running it in compatibility mode but I doubt that will help, it already didn't work doing that for Darkest Hour mod Red Orchestra which runs on the Unreal 2 game engine. I start Darkest Hour and it is in a horrible resolution and right after I change the resolution the game freezes.

 

[Furious_Styles]

Platform and graphics settings have to be accounted for. DDR5 uses 2 32bit bus per module v. single 64 bit on DDR4 correct? I have seen test where a single DDR5 v. 2 made little difference, and at least one other where the 1s and .1s did suffer. I haven't seen any to date, that would explain the gap the OP is seeing though.

I hope the OP does nothing else and upgrades to two sticks of memory so we can see if that's the issue. I kinda have my doubts that it is.

 

[Leeea]

I hope the OP does nothing else and upgrades to two sticks of memory so we can see if that's the issue. I kinda have my doubts that it is.

I suspect the OP is long gone and we will never know.

 

[Furious_Styles]

I suspect the OP is long gone and we will never know.

Yeah would be nice for OP to check back in and let us know if he figured it out.

 

[Cassius101]

Single channel vs dual channel :: Squad Game Owner Discussion

Hi, is there a noticeable difference in fluency and fps when using a single channel or a dual channel?

steamcommunity.com

As per youtube ~10-20fps improvement running dual channel

I don't think it will matter for me when I was only getting 50-80fps in squad on mostly max settings and 1440p, if I had it on 4k it would probably be 20-50fps. Trash Windows 11 is the issue and/or AMD GPU's are not inter acting well with Windows 11 for older games , specifically my gigabyte gaming OC 6800XT.

 

[Cassius101]

Yeah would be nice for OP to check back in and let us know if he figured it out.

I still haven't and I can't buy new Ram right now due to paying for many other things. So I should get 2 sticks of 8gb ram? That is better than 2 sticks of 16gb ram?

 

[Cassius101]

Get a second 16GB dimm (same brand/speed/model as your existing one). Its important the two sticks match. I would not go for four sticks as your board only has dual channel memory. Four sticks would hurt latency.

If you can't find another stick that matches your existing one, you may need to just buy a match pair and sell off your current stick.

I thought dual channel memory was the highest?

"
In a single-channel configuration, only one of them is functional. This limits memory throughput to the rated speed of the slowest single RAM module installed. In dual-channel memory configurations, the memory controller uses both channels to communicate with the CPU, essentially doubling the bandwidth.
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[Furious_Styles]

I thought dual channel memory was the highest?

"
In a single-channel configuration, only one of them is functional. This limits memory throughput to the rated speed of the slowest single RAM module installed. In dual-channel memory configurations, the memory controller uses both channels to communicate with the CPU, essentially doubling the bandwidth.
"

It typically is the best. The other is quad channel which is typically avoided unless you're going the HEDT route or some AMD configs.

 

[Stuka87]

I still haven't and I can't buy new Ram right now due to paying for many other things. So I should get 2 sticks of 8gb ram? That is better than 2 sticks of 16gb ram?

The cheapest route would be buying one more 16GB stick that is the same model/speed if your current 16GB memory module. You only need to buy two 16GB sticks if you cannot find one to match your current one.