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niknas
November 8th, 2019, 16:37
Having gone thorugh the threads about performance, it's mostly about loading times etc. Haven't found that many about HDPI displays and GPU with Unity.
Attaching a short vidcap from my laptop, a HP with Core I7-7500U@2,7GHz, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD and a Geforce 940MX. Running 3840*2160@200% scaling.

When forcing FGC to use the Geforce GPU, it mostly works fine (until I have >5 text windows open, then dice rolls etc slows down painfully).

Doing the same with FGU, it slows down even more somehow. This is without opening lots of windows. See video. Throwing dice with map open, lagging and quite slow. Closing map and dice works better.
If i maximize the map, it is completely unusable with 5s lagging trying to move tokens or windows.

Is this expected or just a temporary state in beta?
FGU Map open
https://youtu.be/m4UuaXzNelc
FGU Maximized map open
https://youtu.be/ZfibetUihsE

FGC reference
https://youtu.be/wg8Esrb5CXk

Edit: Using 5E, loaded PHB, Xanathar and Dragon Heist.

celestian
November 8th, 2019, 16:41
I'm curious what you mean exactly by "forcing to use geforce gpu"? I run dual 2560x1440's on a 2070 and havent had any video slag but then im not sure what you mean by forcing them to use "GPU".

niknas
November 8th, 2019, 16:44
I'm curious what you mean exactly by "forcing to use geforce gpu"? I run dual 2560x1440's on a 2070 and havent had any video slag but then im not sure what you mean by forcing them to use "GPU".

The Core I7 have a GPU Intel 620(?) as well. Unless I'm setting the app to use Nvidia, it default to the Intel one and FGC & FGU is painfully slow even without doing anything.

notrealdan
November 8th, 2019, 16:46
I'm curious what you mean exactly by "forcing to use geforce gpu"? I run dual 2560x1440's on a 2070 and havent had any video slag but then im not sure what you mean by forcing them to use "GPU".

A lot of laptops with nVidia GPUs also have an Intel GPU, which uses far less power for general everyday use. But, many programs don't run very well on the Intels, or simply need more horsepower, so you can specify that certain programs will always run on the nVidia chip. I do this for FGC, since it runs so poorly on Intel. I have not tested FGU enough to say if it works better on one or the other, though I do know the Intel-specific issues from FGC are not present in FGU.