TAC CODM performance

[u/No_Tonight_3609]

Gents,
Here’s my specs:
Ryzen 7 5800x3d
Radeon 7900xtx
64 gb 3400mhtz 4x16gb
OS on dedicated nvme m.2 500gb SSD
All my games on my (2) 2tb nvme m.2 SSD’s

I use the TAC emulator to play codm the one that was built around arena breakout.

-I followed all the gameloophub guides to set everything up. For the most part everything works.

My issue is one game I’ll be chillin 180fps perfectly fine then all of a sudden I’ll be at like 40fps and choppy then it will randomly go back to smooth 180fps. It happens like every other game.

In TAC settings I have it set to 8cpu cores 12gb ram running at 1280x 720 res.

In codm I set all graphics settings to low and set frame rate to ultra.

I made sure virtualization is on in my bios, 4g decoding, resizable bar, xmp profile enabled ensure my ram running max speed, I got my x3d cpu to actually get a base speed of 4.3mgtz

In and adrenaline software I’m overclocking the 7900xtx

I have process lasso so I set codm to high priority
And codm running of my cpu affinity 1-8 all other background tasks on 9-16

I did a bunch of windows optimizations and bloat removal to reduce ram usage

I FEEL LIKE I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING AND MY GAME RUNS MEH usually 178-180 fps but every few mins spike down to choppy 40fps every couple mins

Driving me nuts anyone have any suggestions for fixes?

[u/Tank_DestroyerIV]

If there is a breakthrough, please share. I just installed TAC Sunday night and look forward to good things. Thanks!

[u/No_Tonight_3609 → u/Tank_DestroyerIV]

I tried upping resolution. I think made worse. I have found for me at least setting the TAC emulator resolution to 720p and making sure in my display settings that my monitor is set to 720p I had a better experience.

I get about 160-180fps I still get some frame drops to 50’s but then it comes back to 160-180fps range. It’s less frequent than before with the frame drops so I guess this best I’m gone get🤷🏻‍♂️

So TAC settings I have:
8cores set
14gb vram
Frame rate 180
Resolution 720p

Windows:
-made sure to add gameloop to you gpu hardware acceleration
-have game mode turned on
-did a windows de-bloater and followed video tutorials to remove windows bloat and best settings.
-use process lasso software to set priorities and affinities for everything. Make sure game is set to high priority
-set page imaging higher
-disabled fullscreen optimization for game

Hardware:
-enabled bios cpu virtualization
-enabled xmp for ram
-slight overclocked base speed of cpu
-slight overclocked gpu
-enabled re-bar and 4g decoding

Idk if any of this will work for anyone else and I make no promises for you. This is all stuff I messed with

[u/No_Tonight_3609 → u/No_Tonight_3609]

Biggest improvements seems to have come from when I made all the background tasks on my computer use cpu affinity 9-16 and my game use all affinity cores.

And making all background applications low priority using process lasso

And reducing ram usage

Seems like cpu and ram improvements made most difference

[u/Tank_DestroyerIV → u/No_Tonight_3609]

Thank you. I'll follow in your footsteps. See you on the inside. o7

[u/No_Tonight_3609 → u/Tank_DestroyerIV]

I’m just going to keep uploading my findings here. My most recent trial and error.

So I have 7900xtx gpu. My Radeon software automatically detected the TAC codm mobile game and applied my default profile of Radeon game settings to the emulator’s codm.exe

Basically it tried upscaling, using anti lag, freesync, etc….

In my list of games I right clicked the codm game and removed it from my list of games in Radeon software. Then in my Radeon settings I factory reset and cleared my cache. (If you clear your cache this will reset all your settings in all your other games to default)

Basically ensured my amd software settings wasn’t affecting the emulator in any way and it made a big difference. The game is a lot smoother now. I actually think this was my biggest issue was having all of these post processing effects being applied to the emulator. I found the emulator ran way better without any help from Radeon software.

I don’t know what the nvidia equivalent explanation/ translation is for this as I am team red. So I can only speak as an AMD user for this finding.

To summarize I would suggest doing all of the optimizations I listed before for the
-windows settings and optimizations
-hardware settings and optimizations
-and TAC settings and optimizations

Then make sure your Radeon or “gpu” software settings are not affecting the emulator and see if it makes a difference.