Rift - Recommended Hardware

[Pazgaz]

I'm 5 boxing Rift and have really bad performance.
Specs are 2700k, 16GB ram 1333mhz, AMD 6970. Rift is on my SSD.
Current GFX settings are kinda low + I've enabled the low quality renderer and I'm not even getting 20fps.
Could this have anything to do with IS cpu settings?
If not, what kind of spec will I need for acceptable performance? (40 fps min)

[Pazgaz]

Changed cpu strategy to select all cpus for every window and my fps is now 50-60.

[MiRai]

I started up some RIFT trials earlier this morning and have been tweaking settings trying to find a way around the horrible low renderer route that is mostly recommended while multiboxing this game. What I just found... is that if I disable hyper-threading (or just not use the virtual cores in this case) that my performance shoots through the roof.

http://i.imgur.com/D2fxPYI.jpg

The screenshot shows:

• 5x RIFT Clients @ 1280x720
• Foreground/Background FPS @ 30/30
• Main Client @ Ultra (+Edge Smoothing AA)
• Slave Clients @ Medium (+Edge Smoothing AA)

Side Notes:

• CPU usage shows 50% because the virtual cores are not being utilized and the physical cores are maxed
• RAM usage is showing high because I currently have a RAM drive up at the moment (not with RIFT on it)
• Currently using SLI -- GTX 580 (3GB) x2

Obviously, most of you guys run this game at 1920x1080 or a similar resolution, but what I was getting at was that my FPS was a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y horrendous prior to deselecting my virtual cores. I don't know if SLI hurts or helps this game, but the bottleneck at the moment is my CPU so it doesn't really matter.

[Oatboat]

All these rift posts make me miss mine. got 3 level 50 clerics that have been sitting for about 9 months.

[Pazgaz]

Can you check if the game benefits from sli?

[MiRai]

Can you check if the game benefits from sli?

It would appear that it does.

Single GPU = 100% load w/ FPS loss
GPU x2 SLI = ~66% load holding fine at ~30FPS (which was what I had it capped at) (CPU limited at this point)

A quick video showing my performance in game - http://youtu.be/XeGaaP5lvis

[Pazgaz]

Thanks!
Is there a way to change gfx settings on window swap like we do on wow?

[MiRai]

Thanks!
Is there a way to change gfx settings on window swap like we do on wow?

I'm pretty sure the macro API doesn't allow for such things.

[Pazgaz]

Too bad, I guess I'll stay with medium on all until I upgrade to a machine capable of ultra on all.