I’ve been playing a new game (borderlands 3) that uses a lot of my hardware’s capability.

80-90% ram (16 gb ddr4) 90-100% gpu (gtx 1660 super)

I ordered more ram, but can not afford new gpu at the moment. The weird thing is I experience no issues aside from small frame drops while playing alone, but when playing with friends (cross platform if that’s relevant) I can not get a stable connection either as host myself or to their host. I play plenty of online games and have never had connection issues. Does hardware utilization potentially affect online connection? I fear it might as this is the most graphically demanding game I have played.

Any advice or insight is appreciated.

  • ChilledMayonnaise@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    That memory percentage value is concerning.

    I’m curious what the Committed values are in the details of the Memory tab in Task Manager while playing BL3. There will be two values separated by a /. The left value is the actual amount of memory in use, real and virtual. The right value is the amount of physical memory you have (16GB) plus the size of the pagefile.sys file.

    Let’s address the right value first. For example, if the right value is 24GB, then that means that your pagefile.sys file is ~8GB in size. (24GB - 16GB[real] = 8GB remaining.) We really don’t care much about the actual size of the pagefile in your case. Just letting you know what that value represents in case you were wondering.

    Let’s talk about that left value. This is the single most important value, IMHO, on the whole of that Memory tab.

    If it is close to or greater than 16GB (13-14GB or greater), then you are severely in need of more memory. You can try decreasing the video settings in the game to see if that’ll help. Also, let’s say that left value is 20GB - better make sure that your memory upgrade is going take you considerably beyond 20GB. This is a good “high-water mark” for the actual amount of memory that your computer uses.

    If I were you, I’d greatly reduce the graphics settings (write down/screenshot what you have currently, so you can restore it) in one go. This way you can find out if those graphics settings have anything to do with disconnects. After changing the graphics settings to Raspberry Pi mode :) and you’re still getting disconnects (and memory consumption and GPU usage have decreased considerably - which would be expected), then something else is up.

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      1 year ago

      Thank you for the awesome response! I did some steps on my own to help. I found I was one release behind drivers on my cpu, Wi-Fi, and gpu. I got those updated. I went into my nvidia settings and ran a test to optimize for borderlands. Solo play is running well without any frame drops.

      My memory shows as 14.3/27.4 gb while actively playing the game. Seems like ram could definitely help! I’ve already got some on the way. Ddr4 32gb (16x2) 3600 which should be here in a few days.

      Hopefully all these combined changes help!

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        1 year ago

        This probably is irrelevant but since I went down this rabbit hole I finally took the time to learn how to migrate my os from my hdd to my sdd. Was way in over my head but got it worked out eventually