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290 or GTX 970 for GTA V / Dying Light

savagesam117 said:
A quick google brings up contact Hardening shadows. Not a clue what this is though.
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Got this from alien isolation
Realistic shadowing is an essential ingredient of Alien: Isolation’s creepy atmosphere. To make these shadows as realistic as possible, The Creative Assembly team tapped AMD’s “contact hardening shadow” technology. This technique dynamically hardens or soften a shadow’s edges depending on the distance of the shadow from the light source and object casting that shadow.

While shadowing techniques are incredibly efficient on the Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture in contemporary AMD Radeon™ graphics products, this technique nevertheless requires a powerful GPU and can only be enabled when the “ultra” in-game graphics preset is enabled.
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shankly1985 said:
Got this from alien isolation
Realistic shadowing is an essential ingredient of Alien: Isolation’s creepy atmosphere. To make these shadows as realistic as possible, The Creative Assembly team tapped AMD’s “contact hardening shadow” technology. This technique dynamically hardens or soften a shadow’s edges depending on the distance of the shadow from the light source and object casting that shadow.

While shadowing techniques are incredibly efficient on the Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture in contemporary AMD Radeon™ graphics products, this technique nevertheless requires a powerful GPU and can only be enabled when the “ultra” in-game graphics preset is enabled.
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http://community.amd.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-2772-3040/ai_chs.png
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Ah right, that looks much better. I've never seen it in a game before? Although haven't looked into the Alien: Isolation settings, it creeps me out, to much suspense!
 
At 1080 either card will be more than suitable but will you always game at that resolution? The 290x will perform better if you ever go up in resolution abd you will get the full 4gb of ram still you can not go wrong with either at 1080
 
These are my results from back when I had the GTX970 and R9-290

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Dying Light "prefers" the GTX970 at 1440p and 4K also but you will need to run lower settings.
 
shankly1985 said:
Got this from alien isolation
Realistic shadowing is an essential ingredient of Alien: Isolation’s creepy atmosphere. To make these shadows as realistic as possible, The Creative Assembly team tapped AMD’s “contact hardening shadow” technology. This technique dynamically hardens or soften a shadow’s edges depending on the distance of the shadow from the light source and object casting that shadow.

While shadowing techniques are incredibly efficient on the Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture in contemporary AMD Radeon™ graphics products, this technique nevertheless requires a powerful GPU and can only be enabled when the “ultra” in-game graphics preset is enabled.
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http://community.amd.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-2772-3040/ai_chs.png
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Can this be done via Nvidia graphics cards? Did it have a big performance hit on Nvidia?

I ask because I loved the game and it ran brilliantly on my 290x, I thought it ran just as well for Nvidia users.
 
EdgeDs said:
At 1080 either card will be more than suitable but will you always game at that resolution? The 290x will perform better if you ever go up in resolution abd you will get the full 4gb of ram still you can not go wrong with either at 1080
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Can't see me changing from 1080 for a long time.
 
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