My fortnite is running Despite better components than my buddy, it is still not as smooth as it can be

Li
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I have a ryzen 7 3700x a rtx 2060 super an ssd with 512 gb an hdd with 1 tb and 2x times 8 gb ram with 4000 mhz and he only has one rtx 1070 and an i7 in his laptop what can be the reason that his game anyway runs more smoothly?

mo

Your question is very difficult to understand (grammar, sentence structure), I ask you to revise it

Bo

Do you have the same attitudes?

Li

Got the performance mode inside that needs the least power and turned off all windows settings and also turned off my ray tracing and he didn't do anything

Bo

I hardly think that your 3700x can manage an FCLK of 2GHz, do you have a divider in it? Otherwise I would try to go to 1900MHz MEMCLK and FCLK and adjust the timings a little better, if that doesn't work 3.6GHz RAM / 1.8GHz MEMCLK & FCLK, all Zen2 processors can do that.

Fortnite, especially at low settings, is actually constantly in the CPU limit and only a high clock rate and low latency help here, as the game only uses two threads. So try to reduce the latency, this works mainly with a high interposer clock (FCLK) and it should run 1: 1 with the memory clock (MEMCLK), MEMCLK is always half your RAM speed (DDR stands for double data rate, so two data packets are sent / received with each cycle, so the memory is effectively twice as fast as the frequency).

Your CPU should actually go to ~ 4.2GHz independently in the PBO2 with good cooling, if it doesn't, you should try to overclock it accordingly.

That you have worse fps than a mobile i7 is still unusual, especially since it is probably 7th or 9th gen? (I assume you meant a GTX 1070 with the GPU?). However, the many cores & threads of your CPU in Fortnite actually bring you little, just clock and latency…

Li

Yes exactly I meant GTX 10 70 … Do you think that an Intel would be better and if so, which one. Well, I have more FPS than he does with his laptop, but my game doesn't run smoothly at all and his is and that's the difference and I don't know how I can do it so smoothly

Bo

It would be unusual if you have better frame times but the game is still worse, sure that it is not e.g. On the panel? Maybe his is just faster or has a higher refresh rate.

No, not necessarily Intel, Zen3 (5xxx) is e.g. Superior to the core i's 10th in almost all games, Zen2 has slightly higher latencies. That's why push the FCLK as high as possible and let it run 1: 1 with the MEMCLK.

Li

How do you mean panel or refresh rate only know me a bit with pcs could you please explain that to me again and its processor is an i7 8700k in the laptop so do you think i should buy an ital because fortnite only runs on one core and intel there's better?

Bo

No.

I mean if you have higher fps that means that - provided the fps do not fluctuate significantly - the frame time is better. That should actually speak for a more fluid experience.

If it doesn't, it could be that your peripherals are simply worse, e.g. That your monitor has a longer signal run time (the term input lag is a bit wrong but more common) than that of your friend. It would also be possible for his screen to have a higher refresh rate (i.e. Image repetitions per second). It would also be possible that he uses adaptive sync (G-Sync or FreeSync), which actually increases the latency slightly, but smooths the fps a bit and the playback feels more fluid.

Again, it has nothing to do with Intel Zen3 (Ryzen 5xxx) e.g. Is faster than core i, even than the 10th gen.

Your CPU is not optimal for Fortnite, because the game is not well optimized and can't use the many cores, however, a desktop 3700x is in any case an 8700k, which is built into a laptop (quite unusual by the way), as big as a house superior, also in Fortnite, because the cooling in a laptop is much worse and you have to reduce the core voltage and clock. However, a high clock speed is important for single-thread performance.

Li

My monitor has 240 hz and 0.5 ms and his display has 144 hz and 3 ms or so I don't know but it is so that his game runs better and smoother despite 100 fps less

Bo

There are no monitors with a signal delay of 500ns and with the 3ms you probably mean the switching speed of the liquid crystals.

On the one hand, this information from the manufacturer is completely nonsensical, and on the other hand, it is not the signal propagation time either.

The signal propagation time describes the time that the panel needs to output the frame from the GPU after it has been transferred. So the time that the scaler needs in the monitor for the calculation (this is usually 2-50ms, a little higher for TVs).

The switching time describes the time that a liquid crystal pixel needs to be able to display the corresponding pixel after the voltage is applied (LC are brought into a certain arrangement by applying voltage to display a pixel. They have to be moved physically and the inertia of this reaction is the switching time).