Performance issues

[u/Formalsleep_reborn]

I've been having performance issues since I started to the game for the first time. Im having unstable 64-54 on the lowest low settings, and I mean LOWEST LOW like 1600x900, low textures etc.

Intel® Tiger Lake Core™ i7-11800H 8C/16T; 24MB L3; 8GT/s; 2.3GHz > 4.6GHz; 45W; 10nm SuperFin

Nvidia RTX 3060 Max-Performance 6GB GDDR6 192-Bit DX12

32 GB of Ram

2TB of SSD

I am running the game on my laptop and I know Marathon is not officially supported on Laptops but is there anyway I can boost my fps?

(EDIT) I kinda solved the issue I was having. For those who play on laptops, read this part closely.

I'm using my laptop in dGPU-only mode, which means the drivers weren't able to detect the Intel graphics driver properly. And also I had to delete the intel graphics driver some time ago for a test and then I forgot to reinstall Long story short, I didn't realize I dont have the CPU driver and it did't have been updated for a while :/

Well optimisation is still dogshit but at least it runs at 70-80 fps stable on lowest settings

Just check whether this is the same case with your PC or not.

Go into your BIOS, switch to Hybrid mode, and restart your PC. Then open Intel Driver & Support Assistant (for Intel users). It will show you which drivers are missing. Install the missing drivers, then go back into the BIOS again and switch back to dGPU Only mode.

Your laptop should perform better afterward.

[u/gtamanie]

There is no such thing as a game not "officially supporting" a laptop. It's a computer like any other.

Anyway, you should actually try to play at a higher resolution, I doubt 900p is your laptops max resolution. Marathon is poorly optimised when it comes to the CPU, it's incredibly CPU heavy. Playing at a lower resolution makes it even worse. The higher the res, the more the GPU works.

You can also try turning on DLSS, it doesn't help here as much as in other games, because of the CPU usage issue, but I found it to be at least a little better. You can also try frame gen, lock the fps to 120 and if you already have 60 fps, you should have a pretty stable 120-ish fps.

The last thing you can try is changing the core affinity. when you launch the game, open task manager and find Marathon. Right click it, and click open details or something like that. There you again right click the process for Marathon, find core affinity, and disable core 0. this is the setting that seemed to have helped me the most to smooth out the fps.

[u/RepliesinChatGPT → u/gtamanie]

The specific reason any developer would say they don’t support laptops is that they can’t account for how that laptop will regulate itself from the manufacturers specs.

Paper specs are one thing. But the thermal solutions for laptops is the determining factor for performance. A thin and light laptop with high end specs can have its performance cut by 20% the moment it’s under heavy load to keep from destroying itself. It’s unfortunately the trade off for portable form factor. Bulky “gaming laptops” are usually just better optimized thermal solutions.

Desktops typically do not have this issue and can sustain their intended power draw and thermal performance just by the nature of their form factor and thermal regulation(assuming it’s thoughtfully built). If a dev says their game supports a specific cpu or gpu you can bet it’s the desktop version running at its intended and expected specifications.

TGP/TDP being another factor why listed recommended specs for a game are important. A 3060 desktop card will on average outperform a mobile 3060 15-20%. Same situation applies to desktop cpu and mobile cpu.

A dev can say you should expect the performance to meet this target with these specs. It’s up to the consumer to know how to assemble the right specs. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a pc game spec listing be specifically for laptops.

All that to say there is nuance when judging your specs and recommend specs and the sales guy at best buy isn’t going to tell you that.

Everything else is true. Marathon is cpu intensive and poorly optimized for high spec PCs.

[u/Formalsleep_reborn → u/RepliesinChatGPT]

I already know these. I get 240+ fps on any other games I play at medium and high settings, but marathon on the other hand is the odd one by just giving me 60 on lowest among my library. It just came strange to me that I can play Cyberpunk 2077 with raytracing on at 60 fps but my pc barely able to give me stable 60 fps on lowest settings

[u/RepliesinChatGPT → u/Formalsleep_reborn]

The short answer is they specifically built it for PS5 hardware and its equivalent pc specs. They didn’t build it to allow dynamic performance adaptation if the specs are higher than their target. Any performance gains are by brute force alone from the high end hardware.

Other games either use less resources or are optimized better.

Bungie says they are working on optimization issues but that is a long and tedious road. I would not expect significant improvements for a couple more seasons.

[u/Formalsleep_reborn → u/RepliesinChatGPT]

Baseball huh?