Metro 2033- playable with 5870?

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Hey guys,
anybody who knows or who has Metro 2033,
it's really cheap now and I have wanted it for ages (even though I'm too scared, I'm ard)

Check out my sig, 3.4ghz phenom2 965 and 5870@850mhz, all stock speeds,
can I run Metro 2033 in 1920x1080 and at what settings?
I mean I know I can run it... but can i max it out? or at least have it on high-to-ultra settings?

thanks guys!
 
Not quite maxed out, but not far off. Probably get away with it maxed and MSAA and DOF off (the two killer fps eaters).

I run it with 2x 5870s and it's fine maxed, but some areas will slow to 30fps which I imagine would be a fairly nasty 20fps with just the one! Also I'm on a 4.2ghz i7..
 
Slight thread hijack, I have a 2900xt (old I know) and a Q6600, can I run it at 1440x900?
 
i've the same rig as you apart from a 5850, not a 5870 and i can play it fine at high settings 1080P :)

FYI, you will get more if you overclock your cpu to 3.6+, and it'll help your gfx card stretch it's legs so to speak ;)
 
Ran pretty smooth on my 5870 at 1080p, max settings but with MSAA, Advanced DoF and Tesselation disabled, all of which don't affect image quality that much anyway - infact the game looked better with MSAA disabled.
 
Easily, I played it on a 4890 at 2048x ... the only thing I had off was the 'DOF' and everything else was high.
 
As long as you don't use Advanced DoF and 4xMSAA, you'll be fine. Those two settings are the real performance killers. Tessellation didn't really have a great impact on my frame rate that I saw from FRAPS (a few frames at worse), but it did seem to make the game a bit stuttery in places despite having reasonable fps. It also made the screen slightly blurrier for some reason and I couldn't actually tell what was being tessellated, so I'd recommend you just have it off to be honest.

Apart from the three settings I mentioned, though, you should manage reasonable frame rates in most places. There are a few sequences in the game where your frame rate may die a bit, but 90% of the game is perfectly playable and sufficiently smooth.
 
I managed to run with everything turned up with a 4870X2 so you should be fine. You might not get quite as high maximum frame rates, however you won't have any potential dual gpu issues to worry about, and I also would imagine that you'll get higher minimum and average fps as well. :)
 
arc@css said:
I managed to run with everything turned up with a 4870X2 so you should be fine. You might not get quite as high maximum frame rates, however you won't have any potential dual gpu issues to worry about, and I also would imagine that you'll get higher minimum and average fps as well. :)
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You;re on DX10 as well though
 
THIS (click here) is a brilliant article about DX11 in Metro
and I have to say
Tessellation is 100% pointless in Metro, judging by these examples. If you experience a fair performance hit, sod it off, what's the point?! I can hardly tell the difference on stills never mind on fast moving images whilst running away from monsters
 
And what's more from these advanced depth of field shots it just makes the game more complicated and more laggy for no return on realism- your eyes don't blur out your peripheral vision when you focus on something in the distance?!
 
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