My FPS in BF1 is dropping below 60 a lot.Amiens is basically unplayable with FPS dropping to 40s and 50s.Other maps are more forgiving but it still drops below 60.Is it because my ram is in single channel?(8gb 2666).Lowering settings doesnt help.Specs are i5 8600 4.1ghz on all cores,Gtx 1080 oc to 2050mhz and 8gb 2666mhz Ram in single channel.
CPU usage is higher than gpu usage too 90% of the time
The game does not run well on single channel ram. It’s well documented here. Dual channel is a must to run the game well.
Am not entirely sure about this dual channel performance upgrade with bf1.
Both my systems are a single 8gb stick and they run fine.
Gamers nexus did an article on this a while back and they found no discernible difference either
I don’t know. There’s countless threads here with the same issue. Those who put in another stick found the issues went away. I’ve never run the game with one stick, and wouldn’t attempt it anyways. It’s wasted performance.
The best way to compare single vs dual channel is to think of single channel running at half it’s listed MHz. So 2666Mhz in single channel is the performance equivalent of running two 1333Mhz ram sticks in dual channel mode.
So then we take a look at the performance chart and see that yes, there is a difference in performance between 2666Mhz and 1333Mhz memory speed. A little over 20fps increase on the low 1% fps dips.
I think its system specific regarding dual channel being necessary or not.. Ive tried both on two PCs. One (weaker i5 cpu) got maybe a 20fps boost, the other PC (8700k) wasnt affected at all.
Yeah probably correct I suspect the extra bandwidth helps out in cpu limited scenarios
RAM seem to effect performance alot in this game. I even saw a good increase in FPS just by clock the RAM to 2133 from 1600.
Yea it does.. I saw a similar gain going from 1600mhz to 3200 as going from an i5 to an 8700k. Crazy how much ram speed can improve this game.