Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2; Glory to the emperor!

[Bob_McMillan]

Maybe your CPU is being held back from its full performance.

Have you made sure you have EXPO and precision boost overdrive enabled in your BIOS?

Is your CPU getting thermal limited while playing the game? Maybe it needs better cooling.

Not gonna lie, I have no idea what those BIOS settings are. Will check them out.

It's entirely possible I need better cooling. I'm just using the fan that came with it.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I'm just using the fan that came with it.

No gaming-capable CPU is going to do well with just the stock cooler. If you're at all comfortable taking it off to replace it, may I suggest the Thermalright Peerless Assassin? Inexpensive and capable of cooling all but the absolutely hottest CPUs.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

No gaming-capable CPU is going to do well with just the stock cooler. If you're at all comfortable taking it off to replace it, may I suggest the Thermalright Peerless Assassin? Inexpensive and capable of cooling all but the absolutely hottest CPUs.

Must be a popular pick, because it's all sold out in my country. Thanks for the rec though.

EDIT: I checked my PC temps during the first few major swarm events in the game. Didn't go past 83 degrees Celsius I think. Which seems like a good temp from what I've seen online. I've got to get to the targeting dish mission though to truly test, that was easily the worst performance I've gotten.

Also replaying the initial missions with my current settings, the game seems a lot blurrier on Kadaku. Very significantly so. Even during sections that didn't seem particularly intensive.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Must be a popular pick, because it's all sold out in my country. Thanks for the rec though.

EDIT: I checked my PC temps during the first few major swarm events in the game. Didn't go past 83 degrees Celsius I think. Which seems like a good temp from what I've seen online. I've got to get to the targeting dish mission though to truly test, that was easily the worst performance I've gotten.

Also replaying the initial missions with my current settings, the game seems a lot blurrier on Kadaku. Very significantly so. Even during sections that didn't seem particularly intensive.

Do you have motion blur enabled? If you do I would turn that right the fuck off.

Also, if you're going to be playing around in your BIOS settings make sure that Smart Access Memory is enabled.

What Is Smart Access Memory (SAM or Resizable BAR) - GPU Mag

What Is AMD's Smart Access Memory (SAM) and how is it different from resizable BAR? Here's a super short guide that explains it all.

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[The Rogue Wolf]

I checked my PC temps during the first few major swarm events in the game. Didn't go past 83 degrees Celsius I think.

That's... not terrific, but it shouldn't be causing any throttling; most CPUs these days don't start doing that until somewhere between 90 and 105 degrees C.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Do you have motion blur enabled? If you do I would turn that right the fuck off.

Also, if you're going to be playing around in your BIOS settings make sure that Smart Access Memory is enabled.

What Is Smart Access Memory (SAM or Resizable BAR) - GPU Mag

What Is AMD's Smart Access Memory (SAM) and how is it different from resizable BAR? Here's a super short guide that explains it all.

www.gpumag.com

Nah it wasn't motion blur, the blurriness was present even when I wasn't moving. Which is why it was so noticeable, I felt like I wasn't wearing my glasses. Was probably the FSR working in overtime for some reason. Thanks for the link.

That's... not terrific, but it shouldn't be causing any throttling; most CPUs these days don't start doing that until somewhere between 90 and 105 degrees C.

To be fair, it was mostly staying below 80 degrees. What would you say is "terrific"?

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

To be fair, it was mostly staying below 80 degrees. What would you say is "terrific"?

I personally start getting nervous with anything over 70. The thing is that when the CPU is sustaining that high a temperature, nearby parts of the motherboard are also going to be running pretty hot. Modern motherboards are built to withstand that, but I remember when they really weren't.

 

[Gordon_4]

Nah it wasn't motion blur, the blurriness was present even when I wasn't moving. Which is why it was so noticeable, I felt like I wasn't wearing my glasses. Was probably the FSR working in overtime for some reason. Thanks for the link.

To be fair, it was mostly staying below 80 degrees. What would you say is "terrific"?

From memory a good air cooler can keep all but the most psychotically power hungry chips in the 60-70 range. Noctua are the best in the air cooling game, but the the Thermaltake one is I hear good value for its ability. The rule of thumb is that if the chip isn’t bundled with a cooler, you will need a good third party one. And for top end chips AIO Water Coolers are basically your only option.

Just as an aside, if you press Window Key+Pause Break it should bring up the system info and tell you what CPU you have and how much memory you have. Knowing that will allow us to make further recommendations.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

From memory a good air cooler can keep all but the most psychotically power hungry chips in the 60-70 range. Noctua are the best in the air cooling game, but the the Thermaltake one is I hear good value for its ability. The rule of thumb is that if the chip isn’t bundled with a cooler, you will need a good third party one. And for top end chips AIO Water Coolers are basically your only option.

Just as an aside, if you press Window Key+Pause Break it should bring up the system info and tell you what CPU you have and how much memory you have. Knowing that will allow us to make further recommendations.

When I built this PC, I was actually planning on getting an air cooler, but there were those who said for my Ryzen 5 5600, the cooler it comes with should be sufficient. I think it has been so far, but I guess if I want to game more seriously I should get a better one. Also I did share with Dirty Hipster my specs already, but I'm running the aforementioned CPU, a RX 6600, 16 GB of RAM, and an SSD.

OT: Played through the satellite mission again and had a MUCH better time. This whole mission, I didn't even lose any health. Everything felt a lot smoother in general. I enabled all the BIOS settings that were recommended. According the performance logs from AMD Adrenaline:

• GPU: Average 63 degrees, Max 66
• CPU: Average 80 degrees, Max 86
• FPS: Average 114, Minimum 60

Huh, didn't expect that the CPU average temp would be as high as 80. On the smaller missions, it seemed rare that it would go that high. The FPS results are confusing though, because I definitely saw a bunch of 40s and 50s on the Steam FPS overlay. Could those readings have been flukes due to V-sync? My monitor is only 60 Hz after all.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

New Operation just got released, along with a new difficulty and a pretty big balancing patch and some performance improvements.

 

[Worgen]

New Operation just got released, along with a new difficulty and a pretty big balancing patch and some performance improvements.

Did the new operation, its pretty cool, long but pretty well made. Although, it could use more ammo drops.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

... some performance improvements.

Uhhh... are we sure about that Installed the patch and continued my replay of the campaign, and I got the worst stutters I've ever gotten. Perhaps the new patch needs some time to stabilize or something, it did get better as I played on.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Uhhh... are we sure about that Installed the patch and continued my replay of the campaign, and I got the worst stutters I've ever gotten. Perhaps the new patch needs some time to stabilize or something, it did get better as I played on.

Make sure the patch didn't mess with any of your settings. I've been having issues with Space Marine 2 that every time it gets patched my settings go back to default and I have to redo all of them.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Make sure the patch didn't mess with any of your settings. I've been having issues with Space Marine 2 that every time it gets patched my settings go back to default and I have to redo all of them.

Ah. That's annoying. Thanks for the tip.