Performance Problems / Shadow-PC Power
#Performance Problems / Shadow-PC Power
gentle pond
For the CPU clock, it’s auto boosting, but task manager cannot see this and only displays the base clock speeds.
The in game performance, haven’t played CS however, make sure you’re not lowering settings too low and taking the load off of the GPU and putting it on the CPU, in this case the CPU becomes a huge bottleneck.
Things to check for - Running at native resolution (not using any scaling or rendering lower than 100%) especially if playing at 1080p. Have a play around with the settings and see if the frames go up.
gentle pond
Yep it’s a VM thing (cpu clock) last time I checked Speccy shows it. But it’s tricky. However yeah like I said, don’t use lowest settings, that’s only going to hinder and cause GPU load to go onto CPU.
But either way, CPU clocks is a non issue. Finding the correct settings is the focus here ☺️
Seeing all CS settings might be helpful, to see if I can see anything that stands out that would cause cpu bottleneck.
Ah.. That doesn't help .. I can't understand that language 😄
Thanks.. Okay I see you've out everything back up, that's good. However, 8X MSAA will tank GPU performance. Lower that setting and see how performance is.
"The x8 in MSAA means 8 times the resolution. MSAA is basically super-sampling with some tricks and shortcuts built in to reduce the impact. Basically it tries to only run super-sampling on parts of the image where it will matter."
FXAA if an option would be best
Ah okay. Not heard of cmaa2 before. Try it and see what it’s like.
Strange, cause the in game performance on here at 4K is averaging above 60fps. Maybe try MSAA 2x and 4x 🤷🏻♂️
Or upping the internal resolution past 1080p if you can.
It is. But even when at most optimal it won’t run at full 3.8GHz cause the CPU itself cannot run an all core boost at that speed I don’t think. Shadow have likely internally capped the max core clock for this. Speccy on idle for me shows 3.0GHz, either way even if got to 3.50GHz, that clock speed while being 4C/8T is low by todays standards. Consumer CPUs are at minimum 6/12 with most being 8/16 with clock speeds easily going over 4GHz.
It’s the one downside of Shadow I find, which is why games appear to perform better above 1080p when it comes to Power.
I hope that more researching goes into finding more “Gaming” focused datacentre CPUs for whenever comes next.
As mentioned, being a VM it is difficult for windows to read the clock speeds, it just sees the base core clocks.
Does Speccy show above this when gaming? As mentioned mine is 3.0GHz idle. Haven’t had it running at same time as a game to check.
Like that software cannot read it 🤷♂️ Speccy shows 3.0GHz but doesn't change.. it's just a VM thing.
But it is happening.
Can't even set to show clock speeds with RTSS. So yeah, just hard to be read due to being VM.
Of course, doesn't help the fact. Just a shame that CS2 performs worse at 1080p than 4K when comes to Shadow Power, due to CPU bottleneck. I guess the in-game resolution option doesn't go above 1080p? Might be able to create a custom resolution in Nvidia control panel to use that. Worth trying.
Well that is odd.
I have no idea then.
Can’t hurt, although you’ve said you tried a Reset and didn’t change outcome and the fact that each boot (after 15-20 mins shutdown) you’re on different hardware means it cannot be hardware fault, unless multiple servers are faulty.
Support would suggest Shutdown for 20mins, Reinstall Game, Reinstall GPU drivers (via RTX experience), then ultimately Reset the shadow.
HWIDs are treated differently when it comes to Shadow, they don’t disclose how due to people who may be ban evading.
The only constant with each boot is your data and the system spec, not the hardware itself.
stiff sorrel
For the CPU clock, it’s auto boosting, but task manager cannot see this and only...
Not sure why you’re going all in on it being a user issue. I’m having the same problem out of nowhere. I did not change my configuration and suddenly my cpu has a steady fps drop every 5 seconds it plummets then recovers. I’m assuming it’s a thermal issue.