Metro: 2033, trailer
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Totally unplayable. I have NEVER in 20 years of gaming been unable to play due to performance problems. Until now.
I've tried defragging, running adware removal, spybot, a squared free, changing drivers, restoring PC to stock settings. Everything. When any action starts, it's a stuttering slideshow no matter what settings I choose.
If it's ATI's fault, they want ****ing.
I've tried defragging, running adware removal, spybot, a squared free, changing drivers, restoring PC to stock settings. Everything. When any action starts, it's a stuttering slideshow no matter what settings I choose.
If it's ATI's fault, they want ****ing.
My system is a i7 860 @ stock, 5870 @ stock, 6gb ddr3 @ stock and I've only have FPS dips which are noticable when a very bright light appears otherwise its actually nice a smooth lol. This is at 1920x1080 res using the 10.3a cats
Just remember dont uninstall the previous set, overwrite them with the newer cats. So many people make this mistake its laughable
Just remember dont uninstall the previous set, overwrite them with the newer cats. So many people make this mistake its laughable
I normally uninstall the old cats and remove remnants with Driver Sweeper. Are you saying that you should install newer drivers OVER the old ones?
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O.k had time to play with this now, with a 5970 1900*1200 im getting average of around 45FPS in normal situations such as walking round your home tunnels, however action packed and firing seens I'm down to 35FPS, add the bright lights into that, im lucky to hold 25FPS.
The white lighting is insane on FPS hits.
Overclocking my GPU gives me another 4FPS all round.
Disabling Tess also give another 4FPS.
However turning off DOF gives a massive 20/30FPS boost.
From my previous post enabling V-sync and changing that setting on a .cfg makes no difference, infact had a performance hit for me.
One things for sure its the best graphical game I have ever seen, but runs poorly on ATI stuff so beware. Near as damn it brings my system to its knees but playable at 30FPS.
Improvement with the 10.3 beta cats but still not what I'm used to.
I tried making the executable address large memory addresses to try to get it to use more memory. I used CFF Explorer for this and overwrote the .exe file but then the game wouldn't start so I'm currently reinstalling.
If a 4890 is running ok, I wonder if the problem is with multiple GPU's in Crossfire which is basically what my 4870X2 is?
I tried making the executable address large memory addresses to try to get it to use more memory. I used CFF Explorer for this and overwrote the .exe file but then the game wouldn't start so I'm currently reinstalling.
If a 4890 is running ok, I wonder if the problem is with multiple GPU's in Crossfire which is basically what my 4870X2 is?
How long buddy ?
I think that the game is quite good, it has got some nice levels and definitely has got some scary atmosphere.
Shame it runs so badly on my old system 8800GT, C2D 2.4Ghz and 4GB memory. I think this is the worst performing game ever on my rig yet.
Shame it runs so badly on my old system 8800GT, C2D 2.4Ghz and 4GB memory. I think this is the worst performing game ever on my rig yet.
I actually have no idea, took a break half way through because the constant changes in lighting was giving me a head ache.
Around 8-9 hours on Normal, though to be fair Normal is painfully easy.
After thinking about it, I have a few complaints bout the game.
1. Lack of weapons - There are about 10 in total and you get the "best" versions by around the mid point of the game and you will never change them, this gets kind of dull, what's more annoying is that on the last few levels one of your "squad" has a ****ing laser rifle which as far as I saw was unavailable to the player unless they pre ordered from an american store, now pre order bonus's are fine and all but when it's something like that thrusting it into the face of everyone who doesn't have a chance at getting it is pretty damn harsh.
2. Lack of monster variations - The monsters are brilliant, I will give them that, unfortunately you spend the entire game killing the same 3 monsters, occasionally they throw in a particularly strong one, this is then ruined by 1 level where there is nothing but that 1 strong monster over, and over, and over and over again, it feels like the only point of it is to force you to use ammo.
3. Bullets as Ammo - Great in theory, bad in practise, they could have made the ammo used tampons and the game would go exactly the same, I never had to buy ammo/med kits or air filters and I never had to dip into my "money ammo" for it's original purpose once.
4. Nazis - They seem pointless, you spend maybe 15 minutes killing them, they have no real influence and are no more of a threat that anyone else, also they're Russian, why would the Russians decide to be Nazis? it smacks of addition for the sake of edgy-ness.
5. Gas Mask - Pointless, you get as many air filters as you would need to take a leisurely stroll all the way to Portugal, mine never broke once because there are dozens lying around for your to swap to.
Honestly however much fun I had, you can balance that by my disappointment and how easy some of the aspects where that they made out to be a lot harder.
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Caporegime
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5850 overclocked, performance was fine, yes a few slower moments throughout but few and far between not nearly enough to hurt the game.
Disable tesselation and DOF(sucky effect anyway) and performance will pretty much double with zero IQ difference, or not noticeable. Overused effect in terms of code, with little actual quality increase, screams to me that its been implemented in a way that simply add's a performance hit without an IQ increase, just like AA in Batman, where ATi cards were doing all the work, but it simply wasn't rendering the final AA, performance without use.
Its called Nvidia bought game that add's something to make AMD cards suck on purpose, shocking? not even remotely surprising, its a "launch" title for Fermi, I would have been surprised if it wasn't programmed perfectly to take advantage of Fermi while purposefully being coded in a way to cripple 5xxx series performance. THe fact that you can disable both without a IQ decrease and a MASSIVE performance jump says it all.
A 5870 doubling 4890 performance and a 5770 beating out a 4890 shows that the new gen really is much better than the last gen, just took a while for games to be tough enough to show it.
Unfortunately I found the game dull as poo, story is, well, daft as heck, accents nice, dialogue poo, laughable long and boring bits interspersed throughout, lots of entirely boring on the rails sections. A few very nice fights to be fair, but too few and far between. Monsters, like with several other stupid games like Crysis, Bioshock and a bunch of others, have no variety and similar start to finish. Crappy gun upgrades, wanting to be RPG ish like someone said above, but with a truly stupid money/upgrade system that makes it a needless add on.
Its ok, but linear and basic with nothing particularly new, a few good fights with lots of awful ones and a story that doesn't make it stand out from the crowd. The fact that it was made by a large portion of the Stalker team(from what I understand) is not even slightly surprising, all the same faults, the same dodgey type of story, same feel, same overuse of new effects, same horrible performance drop for little IQ gain in a few settings and same wanna be RGP/fps mix, failing miserably.
ITs worth a play through but I'd recommend waiting for it to be MUCH cheaper as I wasted money on another game only worth 1/3rd of what I paid.
Disable tesselation and DOF(sucky effect anyway) and performance will pretty much double with zero IQ difference, or not noticeable. Overused effect in terms of code, with little actual quality increase, screams to me that its been implemented in a way that simply add's a performance hit without an IQ increase, just like AA in Batman, where ATi cards were doing all the work, but it simply wasn't rendering the final AA, performance without use.
Its called Nvidia bought game that add's something to make AMD cards suck on purpose, shocking? not even remotely surprising, its a "launch" title for Fermi, I would have been surprised if it wasn't programmed perfectly to take advantage of Fermi while purposefully being coded in a way to cripple 5xxx series performance. THe fact that you can disable both without a IQ decrease and a MASSIVE performance jump says it all.
A 5870 doubling 4890 performance and a 5770 beating out a 4890 shows that the new gen really is much better than the last gen, just took a while for games to be tough enough to show it.
Unfortunately I found the game dull as poo, story is, well, daft as heck, accents nice, dialogue poo, laughable long and boring bits interspersed throughout, lots of entirely boring on the rails sections. A few very nice fights to be fair, but too few and far between. Monsters, like with several other stupid games like Crysis, Bioshock and a bunch of others, have no variety and similar start to finish. Crappy gun upgrades, wanting to be RPG ish like someone said above, but with a truly stupid money/upgrade system that makes it a needless add on.
Its ok, but linear and basic with nothing particularly new, a few good fights with lots of awful ones and a story that doesn't make it stand out from the crowd. The fact that it was made by a large portion of the Stalker team(from what I understand) is not even slightly surprising, all the same faults, the same dodgey type of story, same feel, same overuse of new effects, same horrible performance drop for little IQ gain in a few settings and same wanna be RGP/fps mix, failing miserably.
ITs worth a play through but I'd recommend waiting for it to be MUCH cheaper as I wasted money on another game only worth 1/3rd of what I paid.
If you overclock your cpu you might get an increase in performance.
Doubt it, my [email protected], 4gb ram and 8800GT dont get on with the game. It will work fine then suddelny drop to 4fps for no reason what so ever, even in tunnels with nothing going on. I'm using 196.21 drivers and will not change yet because they are the only ones that work with starcraft 2
5770 should be arriving in the next few days anyway
Pretty much sums up my own thoughts on the game so far and I'm upto chapter 5 so far. The graphics are nice in the tunnels but don't look that great outside and the storyline makes absolutely no sense at all. Theres no explanation to the attempted "continuity" to it. Without anyone telling you, you magically know someones name you have to go meet and know exactly where to find them lol. Its happened 3 times now with no mention of the person before hand :S
The game started off quite like FEAR with the nice "scary" bits and a really tense feeling and its completely lost that now and I'm just over half way through I think.
Overall a disappointing game which is held together by pretty graphics and I'm enjoying red faction guerilla more then it and that came free lmao
