Setting aside whether the destructive upgrade cycle of PCs is worth it for me or not that game is just badly optimised next to almost anything released at the same time.
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Setting aside whether the destructive upgrade cycle of PCs is worth it for me or not that game is just badly optimised next to almost anything released at the same time.
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JC2?
They've decided to go after a specific market, it runs fine for me on a reasonable DX10 machine, particularly as they've dropped DX9. How can something be badly optimised for not running on something it wasn't intended to be run on, and therefore hasn't been optimised for...
Wait I'm confused what's badly optimised? :S
If Just Cause 2... then what? That game runs pretty well, especially against other games that support DX10... In fact I hardly notice a difference between a game in DX9 performance wise to that in Just Cause 2's DX10.
Well the original idea was that DX10 should run better than DX9 ones and I've seen no evidence of this at all, it's okay next to other games in DX10 but next to other DX9 games it runs pretty badly. Set an 8800GTX on it and you'll still struggle to get decent framerates while later games like Dead Rising 2 run incredibly well on the same hardware.
But they also get more demanding as they stay the same or get worse.
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Thats is absolute garbage. Graphics are getting better and better. I suggest you play a new game on a high spec PC sometime. BF3 is getting close to photorealism.
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The game doesn't look like it requires a monster set up to be honest, you get decent FPS from a 560Ti and up, this is on HQ at 1080P too, if you lowered to medium you'd obviously gain a fair bit of FPS
Though you need a quad core at least for this game, dual core won't cut it.
It's obviously still alpha so things will change though.
http://gamegpu.ru/Action-/-FPS-/-TPS/Battlefield-3-Alpha-test-GPU.html
Though you need a quad core at least for this game, dual core won't cut it.
It's obviously still alpha so things will change though.
http://gamegpu.ru/Action-/-FPS-/-TPS/Battlefield-3-Alpha-test-GPU.html
So like Crysis with less demanding geometry?
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Seems like with good drivers my 6990 will be way up there 
Crysis isn't that great tbh. I thought the objects were a bit blocky and the textures not that great. Sure it was good at the time, but it has been surpassed.
The lighting in BF3 alone is better than I've seen in any game ever.
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They haven't even included Tessellation in BF3 either yet, so graphics should improve still.
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Agreed.
My graphics card is only thing I tend to upgrade regularly. My i7 will be 2 years old this September, and I plan to make it last until around the start of 2013.
Graphics tend to need more frequent upgrades, especially if you don't buy the top model every year.
I swear Rack is just posting to get free postage now...
Underground in the Metró looked amazing, especially if your team takes the vehicle down with you!
It probably is starting to bottleneck but not in the region where it becomes a problem.
I have the Q8300 and I don't really notice any bottlenecking (as of yet). I'm gonna give it a year or so (when I get my Uni money) then i'll invest in a new processor.
Still plodding away on a Q6600 and a 4870.
I'm considering getting a new graphics card, not for a speed increase but for quieter operation. Sometimes if I turn on vsync the noise drops out completely, but doesn't work with every game.
Looking at the 6870 offer on ocuk atm.
I'm considering getting a new graphics card, not for a speed increase but for quieter operation. Sometimes if I turn on vsync the noise drops out completely, but doesn't work with every game.
Looking at the 6870 offer on ocuk atm.
CPU is only a bottleneck if you don't notice any performance improvement when you upgrade the graphics card with your current CPU.
Your Q6600 is most certainly not bottlenecking anything, quad cores scale fairly linearly.