Confusing Benchmarks AMD and ENB.

[MsMadison]

I'm having an issue and it's very confusing. I have been trying out ENBs. Bleak ENB, NVLA ENB, and Clairity ENB. I have seen people with much lower specs than me claiming to keep at least 45-50 FPS in most areas. The author for Clairty ENB even stated in their description they keep close to a constant 60 FPS with specs lower than mine.

 

Every ENB I try knocks me down to 35 FPS and i'm just confused as to why. Is something wrong here? Am I missing something? Does ENB not play well with AMD or what?

 

 

PC Specs:

 

RX 480 8gb (Base model.) 

 

16 GB DDR3 RAM.

 

FX 8350 4.0 Ghz CPU.

 

 

If it helps the texture pack I have been using is Noble Skyrim, with Terrain Parallax Tribute, Realistic Water 2, and Climates of Tamriel and the grass mod verdant. 

[mgrandy]

just for my own sanity,  what PSU u using.

 

are you experiencing high load on your cpu at the drops in fps ?

which amd driver ver are you using also?

guessing you aint using a moded rx 480 bios?

 

what does it sit at without mods, fps?

please tell me you aint using fraps too?

 

you have bench marked other games? preferable amd rated games like gta5 etc

 

amd uses the cpu to do stuff that nivida cards have built in this is y i ask

 

your settings for game would also help along with your amd g card settings too

 

[Bazinga]

I also had some trouble with low framerates after changing some hardware and switching to another ENB a short time ago.

But for me framerate dropped even more, to somewhat around 20.

 

Still don't know what was happening there but I suspected that it was some vsync issue where the framerate first is locked at 60 fps and then gets halved again for some stupid reason. Add the ENB performance hit and you're down to 20 just like that.

Seems like I was right. I read somewhere (can't remember where though) that there is indeed such a glitch and that it has to do with the borderless fullscreen mode that you can activate either in the enblocal.ini or for Onetweak if you use that. I think it was something about a Windows driver having to handle stuff that the graphic card driver can do better and much faster ... or something like that.

But at least for me this error only occurs reliably when setting the borderless fullscreen through the ENB. With Onetweak it only occurs occasionally so I can still use that to test changes I make to HDT physics on the fly.

Still, when I just want to play and don't mod I switch back to completely disabling the borderless fullscreen mode and use true fullscreen instead.

[mgrandy]

I also had some trouble with low framerates after changing some hardware and switching to another ENB a short time ago.

But for me framerate dropped even more, to somewhat around 20.

 

Still don't know what was happening there but I suspected that it was some vsync issue where the framerate first is locked at 60 fps and then gets halved again for some stupid reason. Add the ENB performance hit and you're down to 20 just like that.

Seems like I was right. I read somewhere (can't remember where though) that there is indeed such a glitch and that it has to do with the borderless fullscreen mode that you can activate either in the enblocal.ini or for Onetweak if you use that. I think it was something about a Windows driver having to handle stuff that the graphic card driver can do better and much faster ... or something like that.

But at least for me this error only occurs reliably when setting the borderless fullscreen through the ENB. With Onetweak it only occurs occasionally so I can still use that to test changes I make to HDT physics on the fly.

Still, when I just want to play and don't mod I switch back to completely disabling the borderless fullscreen mode and use true fullscreen instead.

there is vsync and freesync:- vsync is included built in to all nivida cards, freesync is amd version of this not built into the card due to copyright laws and nivida own that specific company. the drivers are very young. if you look at the reports you have zero chance of this running borderless mode in crossfire which also leads me to believe they are still having issues overall. this is from memory so take with a pinch of salt i could be wrong. havnt had my 460 long enough yet to test it all out

[Zebot]

Seems like the CPU might be the bottleneck...

 

I have the same setup except for the cpu wich is a i5 4790, and i run the game with ENB and heavily modded with a consistent 45 to 50 FPS outside.

 

But also you might check the ENB ini files since it might have some wrong numbers in the setup.