small update - first slider decides how much ram can be reserved for MIP in Gigabytes . Second slider decides how much space can be reserved on your hard disk ( or SSD ) in Megabytes.

This game is CPU bottlenecked. The main problem is the fact that Tarkov only uses like 1 core heavily so your CPU usage will appear to be low but that’s only the overall usage. If you go check the usage PER core you’ll find one core almost maxed out. Ex I have a 9900k and a 2080ti. @ 1440p my gpu usage is like 60% my cpu will appear to be like 30% but when I look at per core in Hwinfo I’ll have one core that is almost pegged at 100% so the 7 other cores are not really being utilized. This is why the new cpus with really good single core performance get 120 fps consistently in Live raids because that one core is just physically faster

My system will literally just not cooperate. Been through practically all settings on tarkov. Doesn't max my vram on my 2080. I have 32 gbs of ram 3000hz and an i7 10700k 4.66hz clock. Ram sets at about 59-60% use and cpu is at about 35%. All low textures and low settings and literally can't push passed 70 frames on lighthouse. Not only that but practically every other map will run at barely 80-90 frames with multiple frame drops below or at 60fps

In the past I wasnt a big fan of mip streaming because it could result in stutter; I think the loading of textures 'can' put more pressure on the CPU, which is usually already struggling with the rest of Tarkov. But I would definitely recommend giving it a try if you have performance problems. Mind that online raids can perform worse/better almost randomly sometimes, and that offline mode isnt really representative (no scav offline mode is easy on CPU, scav offline mode creates CPU load in weird patterns). Gotta go by feel sometimes.

Considering how heavy the CPU usage vs gpu usage is in this game, it seems odd to trade cpu usage for gpu usage...

I love getting like 50 fps on lighthouse even though i have a 3070, tarkov is a great game

I learned what MIP is and what it does but didn't actually see a true comparison of it on/off...

they add stuff that load up the cpu even tho cpu is already bottlenecked

thanks for the video man. i needed this for lighthouse since i also run a 2070. it shouldnt need it since i can run most modern titles at max settings but with tarkovs optimization, i still need it in this case. i just hope BSG doesnt rely on these band aid fixes to not optimize the game better like they should, though it does help in the mean time. just still think this should only be an option for lower end PCs since most would consider 20 series GPUs and CPUs like the ryzen 7 3rd gen still on the high end side which in most cases can run modern titles at high to max settings with no issue.

I recommend to all the people I help in Tarkov to turn Mip Streaming on and to up the buffer and disk limit based on their PC specs. I use it regardless of what map I am on, it offsets a lot of memory from the GPU and system in general and gives me a stable 60+ with the ability to then spend more on higher AA and Resampling (x4SS) which I think is much more important in Tarkov. Having the ability to see people off in the distance and not have them be a little blob blending in with the background. Or when aiming up, the red dot does not look like a ball of yarn! It's just way more important to me. All that said, Mip Streaming does by no means solve some of the existing memory issues Tarkov has. Obviously, with more updates, they will get better and fill the holes. But with Streets on the way (another massive map) and with more interactive objects and physics-based environmental stuff on the way. Memory, both CPU/GPU and RAM is going to become a big issue moving forward. They plan to link maps together, have interactive physics, doors that can be blown off the frames and covers that can be destroyed. All that good stuff! But all of that comes at a big cost, especially in an MP game where basically every action even if you are not a part of it needs to be relayed back to your PC in some capacity. When you have random physics and bigger maps? It all gets costly to PCs and even to servers. I also want to say that Tarkov as it stands, is the texture artist they have? They do just a phenomenal job of wrapping these 3D objects! My hat really goes off to BSG's team for making this game as playable as it is in its current state while looking very photogenic.

We need to know what your PC is to get a good idea of how it performs. Also you should have went to the same spot on lighthouse to compare FPS.

Using Mip streaming makes my game freeze end raid for few seconds.

For some reason when mIP streaming is on i actually have more lags and my game crashes when i extract for 2 min. Support told me to turn it off and all the problems dissapeared.

Thanks for your easy to follow explanations, one step at a ti. It makes learning less overwhelming!

You would think with the amount of money Tarkov has made they would optimise the game and not focus on new game modes

Mip shimming?

axel this is the most important thing you could have covered for me. Thankyou

Really the cpu is what's strained the most while playing tarkov unless you have a seriously low end gpu. In most cases enabling mip doesn't make sense if its causing more strain on the cpu. Check out the new amd 3d cpu.

Good stuff man. Thank you for the informative video Axel!!

Sadly with how the game is so cpu reliant the majority of these settings will not be of much help, mip streaming, dlss, fsr, other than for resolutions above 1080p, I'd be completely willing to go a while with no content updates if it meant they focused on the utilisation of the ram and cpu, especially with how lighthouse's culling is broken now, meaning half the playerbase cant even run the map without blue screens, even on 64gb ram

cool video it helped out a ton with starting out and composing my first soft

Good to see them bring this back this help me a lot

Axel can you do some tests forcing tarkov to use only physical cores? I got amazing results doing it using process lasso and also using a .bat i created to open tarkov with only physical cores. Also play along the cores would be a good idea, try to remove most load of the core handling tarkov should free some load and help performance.

Haven't checked this iteration of mip streaming, but without the last one I sometimes was getting BSODs. Mip streaming made the game at least playable for me

Great vid man!! I know I Get the best tips here! U still use 400 distance when on bigger maps?

i have 2600x ryzen and 2070 super what graphics should i run at? (it would help alot if someone told me)

I'm running A 3700x 8c/16t with a 3070ti and 32gb of ddr4 3600mhz ram and found I'v always had bad stutters for some reason on lighthouse more then anywhere but I tried MIP streaming and I was surprised it fix it for me. using high textures with lod set to 3000 and AF to per texture helped alot , with post fx on I still get easy 120fps on all maps besides factory gets double the fps on there.

Isnt tarkov heavily cpu bound game anyway? this probably helps very few people, its nice but i think vast majority wont notice an fps improvement

Fantastic video. Thanks bud.

I wish this game's minimum requirements matched those on the website, when buying it I though it'd work great since it's on unity but it really seems like you need all the fastest, highest-capacity RAM, storage and processing units... Hopefully the upcoming games like Road To Vostok and Project Quarantine won't be as bad when it'll come to minimum requirements...

For those of you saying Tarkov is only using 1-2 cores and causing a bottleneck try enabling "threaded optimization" within the Nvidia Control Panel specifically for Tarkov's .exe

Ty for testing!

Thank you so much!!

I have a 3070TI, 32 gigs of ram, Ryzen 9 9550X. I get great performance in any game. 120 FPS+ with settings on max or close to it. Tarkov (with a ton of Nvidia control panel adjustments/settings adjusted) I get as low as 50 all the way to 135. It's very inconsistent. I would say 70 fps is my average. I've noticed when I play as a scab on certain maps I always get a hundred FPS or more. Inconsistent frames drive me nuts. I'm on a break from tark ATM. Gonna come back when the games closer to it's final form. Hoping for arena mode sometime within 12 months.

It just reserves the VRAM without MIP streaming. Just enable FPS 3 in console and look hat "VRAM usage". Its not 8GB. You wont be bottlenecked by VRAM with High Textures and Full HD as resolution. Most likly not even on WQHD

Yeah mip streaming wont help me. If only tarkov used more than 1-2 of my 12 cores. That would be cool, but its BSG.

still rocking the 1060 so i will be testing this.

For me, my CPU is the bottleneck mostly, does that mean I should turn it off?

I wonder if disabling mip streaming will increase FPS on 3080; not bottlenecked at all but don't want any more CPU bottlenecks

Спасибо за познавательный контент!

16GB of VRAM, MIP can turned off... :D

Great content keep it up!!

Ssd hdd how do I select one or is it based on my monitor resolution?

Reading comments here; I've got a 3060, i7 11700F, 16gb ram, but usually hover at around 60 fps and I have tried everything! No idea what my problem is!

Hey bro , cool video . Did you say you had a 2070 ? I have the 2070 super and i stutter so ill need mip for me i think.

I thought I was the only one using this. It’s great! I even load the maps quicker

You do realize you can click the highlighted number above handbook and it'll clear out those numbers lol. Just like a "read all" button.

I still really wish we could get the old blurry textures that you could do in the past

Well, I have a rtx 3080, 32gb ram, i9 11900k at 5ghz so I don't need anything. Running everything at max settings 4k, get around 100fps 👌

i put my mip at 1 before the max on both options and its lookin better imo, have they announced the change to unreal 5 yet lol (imagine) but i understand (kind of) on how the graphics in eft suffers bcuz theres so much to the game that it takes from the graphic quality but the stability and optimization for such an old game/engine i don't get ? i think the whole game is complete but they have a very hard time optimizing new features and its taking them a long ass time to figure out.

Hey uh Axel. In your taps under site url, is that moodle dashboard on the far right side?

Can anyone tell me why in GPU engine on MY task manager it says for Tarkov Gpu0-copy instead of saying 3D. My frames are fine but mine reads different then Axel here

My GPU is always loaded 60% at max regardless of the settings

not mip streaming related . i have textures pooping when i get near them . like lod quality is lower then 2

@Axel_tv do you over clock cpu at all?

Okay so I have a question for anyone who can help (tried to give some context so sorry if it’s a lot): I’ve been playing tarkov for a couple years now and I have a system that’s gettin pretty old now (GTX 1060, i7 7700 cpu, 16gb of ram with 3gb of vram). I can run tarkov well enough that it’s playable where maps that have lower performance overall for everyone such as lighthouse and reserve I can get around 40 fps with some minor dips, smaller maps that perform better like factory run perfectly fine at 60 fps or for factory specifically I can get 120. I used to run MIP streaming before they took it out but game seemed to run fine for the most part without it while it was removed, although again being on an older setup I’d like to get the best performance I can. Im not the most knowledgeable when it comes to all this PC tech stuff, so should I keep running low graphics settings like I have been and settle for the at least playable performance I’ve been getting, or should I turn MIP back on and raise my graphics settings up a little bit? Or is there another combo of settings I should try that I might be missing out on that would help?

GTX 1070 here. Frickin' miners ruining the markets, can't upgrade.

MIP streaming is just annoying visually. Just set the texture detail to fit your VRAM. Would have been easier if EFT had a VRAM usage like GTA V has.

Actually, game started to run really good since that update

ti (the instrunt into the channel rack) and then it crashes the soft soft... Can soone help please?

nevermind ingame settings, whats the ergo on that gun in the background?

Mip streaming is bad for high end PC's! It makes everything load slower, even when finishing a raid (waited more than 3 minutes for the the screen to pop out). Not recommended!

My cpu usage is always 100% while in tarkov.

Tarkov developers are usnig NASA supercomputers to develop this game

Question. Did you ever noticed issues with USB keyboard? Sometimes I'm losing my keyboard controls at the beginning, or during the raid. This happening only in tracov.

thank you so much super viedo

i cant even play other maps besides factory because i get bsod right after spawn countdown

tarkov is a CPU heavy game, the CPU is the bottleneck usually, not the GPU

As long as you got the vram and ram leave mip off.

for me mip streaming make tarkov insta crash when entering a raid unless i use it with minimum amount of the two sliders

My game stutters so much so I need this

gpu bottleneck is way smoother then cpu bottleneck

Axek how tf are you getting 140fps at all lol i get 90 max

How is your 16 gb of ram using 10 on tarkov i have 16 also and i use like 6 for game not 10

10900x // 32 gb ram 3200mhz // 3080 founders // i get 60-70 frames it sucks

I gave up optimizing tarkov on my current rig, whatever I do it will look hideous and run like ass, we're talking 55 fps in factory, sub 40 everywhere else I just hope that Arena will be lighter to run since there won't be as many IAs, if I can get constant 60 fps in fights I'll be happy Side note since this is rather venting my frustration into the void : How well would a 1600 / 1800€ computer run tarkov ? (I got a build in mind, that price doesn't include stuff I have like ssd m2 / watercooling etc, so it's mostly a beefy i7 and whatever new gpu I'll manage to get my hands on so I can bid farewell to my trusty yet dying GTX 970) I'm really getting frustrated because on top of all the issues we all face, outside of tarkov's hardcore element, aka desync and the likes, I feel like I experience it times 10 because I mostly play on less frames than most people in raid, so I get less opportunities to "click the right ones" if that makes sense. It's most likely a bias, yet I can't help but wonder how easier it'd feel with a decent build

I think they should just go ahead and transfer over to unreal engine 5 before release. The game might actually be able to run then

I've been doing this all wrong I guess. I have 12 gigs of gpu memory, but a more mid to low tier cpu, I should be turning this off to help my cpu

What’s a good cpu to upgrade to. I was thinking of getting a 10700K because this game is really cpu heavy for me.

TNice tutorials was the first video I saw to get into soft soft, tNice tutorials year in May. Today I published a Resetup from XXXTentacion "Moonlight".

does mip shimming still work?

I only have 3g vram and everytime i start lighthouse my game crashes and i get constant stutters and low fps. Anyone know a fix/settings to make it better?

Do you think i can run the game easily with a 660 ti, i5 3750k and 8go of ram ?

When I enable MIP streaming I have hard freezes until I tab out and back in at some point during every single raid.

Complains about the settings not being explained, literally scrolls over the pop up that has the explanation....thanks for the benchmarks though.

Appears the default is the distorted app wNice tutorialch softed terrible.

Totally unrelated, but what's that light you have on the wall in the background?

How are you getting so many frames on lighthouse? I have a 9900k@5.2 all core and a 3900 with 32gb of ram. I'm going to be building my 12900k rig when I'm not feeling so lazy. I swear I used to get more frames with a 2080ti. I get 50-90 frames at 1440p with performance DLSS and everything maxed. I get lower than 60 when I use scopes with zoom.

My pc is so shit if I turn on mip it will probably crash me but I will try it. I’m using vsync haven’t crashed in weeks. If I start crashing il disable it

I have a really old CPU but a great GPU, what would be the best settings to get some frames? I get maximum frames in the 40s and its painful, im playing 1080p

Didn't try it on the new patch

“Lower range” 1550 ti lol. Still running my 1070. Seems fine without shimming I think. Never used it.

So do I turn it off or on?💀

Mip streaming is for those who don’t have balling pc, I don’t have to use it with my i9-12900K + Asus ROG Strix 2080 Ti OC + 32GB 3200MHz RAM ;)

Why are you saying -streaming šo weird>? Shiming???

I9 9900k n a 2080 super here, been using dads settings without mip for awhile now. Cpu usually around 45% but gpu like 33% lol Havnt had a crash on lighthouse anymore since i lowered textures to medium n shadows low Think it was only crashing when i would watch buddys stream on discord and id be streaming on disc.. so weird only map i ever have issues on but seems to be good. Crazzy, great vid and very good info once again big Axe

its so weird that a game that looks as bad as tarkov has such an issue with frames ect...this lighting engine doesn't get enough flak....

This is not how VRAM works, you arent bottlenecked by reserved VRAM lol

I think the box example is simply LOD…

those are two different places on the map thats why its different fps