Originally posted by Wight34:

Originally posted by Shaken_Widow:

it is not:

"a game engine issue"

my 970 gtx is getting 99 fps in a massive village...

you guys are most likely playing with your cpus as your dedicated GPU which is a windows setting that was defaulted last year in a windows update.

go to your gpu control center, and go to the 3d settings, on the global settings the "preferred graphics processor" will be set to automatic thanks to the windows update, auto = using your cpu to do gpu functions.

you need to set it to "high performance NVIDIA processor"

this is why a lot of people are reporting zero gpu usage since october of last year, windows update screwed with our settings.

Interesting - could you post a picture of the village, FPS and total instances loaded?

im not playing right now as the owner of the server is at work, but the reality is that my game also ran like crap before i fixed the setting that was changed by a windows update.

in the update, they made it so that windows is now in charge of the preferred graphics processor, and they even made their own GPU control panel that i've only used the one time when i was finding out about all of this.

they are basically trying to control peoples pcs by adding these new "features" that are no more than decade old software they finally decided to push out like the new U2 album on iphones.

we didn't have a choice, and one day our pcs updated and downloaded a bunch of new windows apps that did all of this.

to clarify: when in the NVIDIA control panel under 3d global settings, there is an "i" bubble with the following message:
"Windows OS now manages selection of the graphics processor. Open "Windows graphics settings""

to which when you click on the link to the "windows graphics settings" it will take you to a windows shell menu that is literally the same thing as the nvidia control panel, just WINDOWS.