BATMAN on HD4890

kevy1986 · 1 Oct 2009 at 21:24

WHy am i getting like under 20 fps on Batman. I have 8 gig ram Q6600 clocked at 3.3ghz. Is it that PhyX crap Nvidea are pushing ? All settings on max, do i need to change this ?

chaparral · 1 Oct 2009 at 21:26

kevy1986 said:
Is it that PhyX crap Nvidea are pushing ?

No...

As phyX is only used on nvidia cards..

Goldfingers · 1 Oct 2009 at 21:30

What resolution?

Newest drivers?

Dark_Angel · 1 Oct 2009 at 21:33

chaparral said:
No...

As phyX is only used on nvidia cards..

Actually, it can be used under ATI apparently. Though it is done on the CPU I believe.

That framerate is really wrong, I got 60 usually at 1920 on my 4850?

Update drivers? Other games work ok?

Ghuraba · 1 Oct 2009 at 21:56

Maybe he has PhyX turned which is using the cpu resulting in low fps.

Amnesia · 1 Oct 2009 at 22:30

yeah turn the physx off if u have it enabled...it ran fine on my 4850

David41 · 1 Oct 2009 at 22:42

Have you forced aa through catalyst control centre? Doing this gave me poor framerates. Try this before you go updating drivers etc.

Geckovich · 1 Oct 2009 at 23:11

As said, turn off PhysX.

For me running at 1920x1080 with a 4870 and q6600 at 3.8 with 2xaa (forced) the benchmark gives me min/max/av of 11/52/16.

Same settings with physX off give me 52/98/73.

rjk · 2 Oct 2009 at 00:05

before i went back onto crossfire [took my second card out to put waterblocks on one at a time]

my 4890s were playing batman fine - fantastic fps even using one card tbh

gaming at 1900X1200 with everything on max

reflux · 2 Oct 2009 at 00:06

PhysX seems to give me a massive hit on my card.

kevy1986 · 2 Oct 2009 at 08:06

It was PhysX ! Totally killed it. Not dropping below 60 fps now with v syn. Spretty good looking game like, So what am i missing with physx being turned off then ?

maxilive · 2 Oct 2009 at 08:33

Moving paper and capes, I think they are the main noticeable differences, but I haven't played it yet

reflux · 2 Oct 2009 at 08:36

I'm pretty hacked off really - bought the game thinking the PhysX content might be worthwhile, but it carps all over the frame rate even on the lowest setting and all you get is a bit of paper fluttering about. That's with a high-end Nvidia card. Nvidia = fail.

m4cc45 · 2 Oct 2009 at 08:55

My cape and paper moved on an ATI 4870. I think it's more like the air around fans and such like (by which I mean there's like a light fog around some of the fans which doesn't appear).

Can't say I feel I've missed anything with PhysX off.

M.

bunga_aj · 2 Oct 2009 at 08:57

I've played with it ON and OFF and I have to say, you really wouldn't miss it.

The only time I sat back and thought "oh..my...god" at the physx was in the scarecrow sections. Mainly cos one particular event caused my PC to bleed =p

Participant · 2 Oct 2009 at 09:52

What's the point in GPU physx when it causes such a large hit on the framerate?

maxilive · 2 Oct 2009 at 10:26

Robbie G said:
What's the point in GPU physx when it causes such a large hit on the framerate?

Progression, it's early tech so it is going to take time for Physx to actually become useful/usable.

EDC · 2 Oct 2009 at 10:47

More to the point is why am I forced to Install PhysX software to run Arkham Asylum, I don't need it and I don't want it. Just another piece of useless software if your running an ATI card

m4cc45 · 2 Oct 2009 at 11:15

Obviously it's to make you aware of PhysX so that the next time you upgrade you want a card that supports it - which is only NVidia then they make money.

All a big marketing ploy.

M.

EDC · 2 Oct 2009 at 11:41