I completely agree with you, the difference is huge, having dof off doubles my fps!
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I completely agree with you, the difference is huge, having dof off doubles my fps!
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I easily ran it maxed out at 1920x1080 on a 6990 - couldn't run it well on release, but AMD's subsequent driver releases worked wonders.
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This maybe of interest to you, I've not completed the whole set of benches for campaign games but I've ran Metro 2033 benches with DOF:Off and On.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18421921
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If you want to avoid those slowdowns, you need to lower your settings to high + DoF and AA disabled. Tessellation isn't a hugh FPS killer, that should be on. The fancy effects on very high + DoF + AA are the major problems in this game. To bad the settings can't be set separately.
Playable settings shoud be very high+AA(you can turn this off if you want)+tessellation.
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Unless you play at 2560 x 1440?
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At that res. perhaps. At 1080p, no way, 2GB is more than enough.
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It's rather badly coded... still fantastic looking, however.
Even with my card @ 1920x1080... still getting dips in to the 20s
Even with my card @ 1920x1080... still getting dips in to the 20s
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That should be about right, at least for 1080p. 7850 isn't enough for "ultra" details unfortunately. DoF and maybe AA, must go if 30-40FPS is a must at all times. I'd say that with DoF disabled, it should be a fine experience, even with the occasional drops in FPS.
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The problem isn't PhysX, with it disabled you can play just fine. It's the game/effects itself/themselves.
He said it was the smoke that was causing the slowdowns-physX effects done on the cpu, when you add an Nvidia gpu to the setup, it takes the strain off the cpu.
Going from personal experience when I played it with my 5870 on release, I had a similar problem, but when I added my old 9800GT and hacked the physX, the slowdown was minimised.
The way PhysX is coded, right or wrong(thats another argument in itself), it causes a massive overhead on the cpu.
The game simply won't run without PhysX installed, when you turn it off or it's not available on an AMD gpu, there is still some going on through the cpu.
Going from personal experience when I played it with my 5870 on release, I had a similar problem, but when I added my old 9800GT and hacked the physX, the slowdown was minimised.
The way PhysX is coded, right or wrong(thats another argument in itself), it causes a massive overhead on the cpu.
The game simply won't run without PhysX installed, when you turn it off or it's not available on an AMD gpu, there is still some going on through the cpu.
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There are certain scenes, like the one Hunter enters the station, in which there isn't any PhysX stuff going on, but it can kill your FPS easily. If you turn the setting down from very high to high, you'll see the penalty gone.
What physx does on the CPU isn't that demanding - just basic havok level calculations. I think that smoke that floats around it's just for the show, like in Skyrim when you look at the snow that "seems" to be blown by the wind on mountain paths.
What physx does on the CPU isn't that demanding - just basic havok level calculations. I think that smoke that floats around it's just for the show, like in Skyrim when you look at the snow that "seems" to be blown by the wind on mountain paths.