Resolume Forum

Hello there.
I recently purchased a new laptop and am barely getting 30fps with 3 layers at 1920x1080. Changing the amount of layers up to 10+ has no effect on the FPS. I'm wondering if there is a reason my FPS are so low. Perhaps some bottlenecking is going on somewhere?
Specs:
MSI GT72VR Dominator
i7-6700HQ
GTX1060 M 6G GDDR5
512GB SD + 1TB HHD
32 GB DDR4 2400 MHZ

Is there something I need to do to optimize the usage of my GPU perhaps? The CPU usage is sitting around 40%, the GPU around 36%. CPU Temp is 46c and GPU Temp is 40c.

Also, when I first installed arena 5 last week, I was getting 79fps easy. I'm not sure what made it throttle down

go into nvidia control panel> 3d settings> and add resolume and set it to high-performance gpu. then go to the bottom of the list of options and turn off v-sync.

I would also set your power settings to high performance in case you accidentally lose power for a second and don't want frame loss while running on battery.

Are all your clips dxv3?

I see this with Mac guys who start using PCs. Photojpg isn't as forgiving on pc.

Double check all content is on the SSD.

May sound silly..... but have you checked if your display Hz is set to 60hz? .... i ask because adding layers dont affect your 30fps problem.

Best wishes
cosmowe

Slurpee wrote:Also, when I first installed arena 5 last week, I was getting 79fps easy. I'm not sure what made it throttle down

Did you update your NVidia drivers? I had to slightly downgrade my drivers using a version from my laptop manufacturer (gigabyte) to get my frame rate back. Before the driver change I could hardly get anything above 30fps.

Now the benchmark gives me 85fps for 20 clean layers and barely 30fps (29-32) for 20 noisy layers.

Also, got to keep my power cord connected to get those rates.

Sadler wrote:

Slurpee wrote:Also, when I first installed arena 5 last week, I was getting 79fps easy. I'm not sure what made it throttle down

Did you update your NVidia drivers? I had to slightly downgrade my drivers using a version from my laptop manufacturer (gigabyte) to get my frame rate back. Before the driver change I could hardly get anything above 30fps.

Now the benchmark gives me 85fps for 20 clean layers and barely 30fps (29-32) for 20 noisy layers.

Also, got to keep my power cord connected to get those rates.

Might have been a v-sync option rather than a driver issue?

Sadler wrote:

Slurpee wrote:Also, when I first installed arena 5 last week, I was getting 79fps easy. I'm not sure what made it throttle down

Did you update your NVidia drivers? I had to slightly downgrade my drivers using a version from my laptop manufacturer (gigabyte) to get my frame rate back. Before the driver change I could hardly get anything above 30fps.

Now the benchmark gives me 85fps for 20 clean layers and barely 30fps (29-32) for 20 noisy layers.

Also, got to keep my power cord connected to get those rates.

Wondering what laptop you have, I just got the Aero 15.

hive8 wrote: Wondering what laptop you have, I just got the Aero 15.

I got the Gigabyte P37x v6 - i7-6700HQ and GTX 1070.

The Aero 15 is a stunning looking machine (especially in orange ).

I had two problems with my laptop - the one in this thread, solved by the gigabyte drivers. The other is that the USB3.1 doesn't play well with Kinect V2. Gigabyte support take several days between answers and have not helped with either problem so far - quite annoying as I will have to resort to my desktop for the next performance.