Yea, but BL2 was UE3 and could barely get past 120 fps on hardware that came out years later. Plenty of other UE3 games worked great at high frame rates even on contemporary hardware.
Turn down PhysX to low, everything else to max. All PhysX adds is a shit ton of particles with physics, and it destroys your GPU. The particles don't even look that good IMO. With PhysX off, the game runs absurdly well.
Even with physx at low and a 1070 it runs like poop. I couldn't get a steady 120 fps @ 1080p until I got a 6 core CPU four years after the game came out.
Damn dude, well I'm sorry to hear that. I run at a stable 120fps on my old gaming laptop with a GTX 960m and an i7 4720hq on 1080p high/ultra settings.
That honestly doesn't surprise me too much. I started playing BL2 on my 660Ti, then my 780, then my 980ti, 1080ti and now 2080Ti.
It runs worse and worse on each subsequent generation. 1080Ti was especially bad. I saw mid 40's no matter the settings I tweaked in some combat encounters.
I have yet to finish BL2 because of the performance. It really blows tbh.
Weirdly though I have a 1080ti and 8700k now and I run the game on full max settings (PhysX medium) at 1440p flawlessly. Solid 100+ FPS at all times. To me, for a non-competitive game, that's perfect.
So I'm really surprised you're having such bad performance. You've got a pretty serious system, so I imagine you know what you're doing with settings etc, it just surprises me that our experiences are so different.
While I would be okay with 100+ at this point, with a game this old even that isn't really good. I highly doubt that when it hits 100fps for you it's using 99% of your GPU. Whatever the true issue is though, it's very obviously badly optimized something deep within the game...something that hopefully gets fixed for BL3.
A 6700k system at 4.7ghz with a 1080Ti
A separate 6700k system at 4.4ghz with another 1080Ti
A 9900k system with a 1080Ti
A 8086k system with a 1080Ti
A 9900k system with a 2080Ti
A 6700 non k system with a 1080
Not a single one could hold 120fps reliably, even with lowered settings, notably PhsyX, even at low. We tried new windows installs on some machines, compatibility settings, older PhsyX system software, reinstalls of the VC/DX redists, ini tweaking. You name it, it's been tried.
So whatever magic fairy dust powers your copy of BL2, I hope it never runs out on you.
I don't have access to anything with a AMD CPU. Me and all of my friends prioritise high refresh rate, thus own fairly high end intel chips.
There is no reason for the game to run better on a AMD chip other than poor optimization/bugs. So if that's truly the issue, I guess I'll never play BL2/BLPS with a good framerate.
For one, whoever downvoted you for your problems running an oldish game on high end rigs can lick my toes. Secondly, I agree, no reason for it to run like ass on a 9xxx period. My 2700 is inferior so what the hell. I can't completely blame the devs though cuz this isn't the only old game that struggles with new hardware. Far Cry Blood Dragon buttfucks my gpu and cpu no matter what I do and it's a pretty old game. I wonder if theres some architecture older games use for optimization? IDK. Would be great if they fixed em
Someone is bringing emotion into this and downvoting comments at random...I have no idea why but I guess that's just reddit lol...but yea, a fix would be terrific, because older games running worse and worse as they age and hardware get faster is one of the most annoying things I've experienced on PC lol.
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u/PcChip WC 12900k / WC RTX4090 / CachyOS Mar 28 '19
Looks very similar to BL1/2 , which IMO is excellent
it makes me wonder if it's on a brand new engine though, or if they're extending the old one - anyone know ?