PC Gaming

[Qoheles]

It's a very sad day in PC gaming if you need two 980s in SLI to run current games at max settings . It seems like developers are still releasing broken, unoptimized ports for the PC.

Lords of the Fallen was definitely broken; it's a lot better now, but it crashed every 10-15mins [or every hour if you were lucky] when it first launched.

What 980's do you have?

ASUS Strix.

 

[Kibagami]

It's a very sad day in PC gaming if you need two 980s in SLI to run current games at max settings . It seems like developers are still releasing broken, unoptimized ports for the PC.

Really? I feel as if it's mostly good. It behooves GPU companies to keep up. And vice versa.

 

[Solidus]

Lords of the Fallen was definitely broken; it's a lot better now, but it crashed every 10-15mins [or every hour if you were lucky] when it first launched.



ASUS Strix.

Ugh, sounds awful. Asus makes really good custom coolers for their cards, though, so the STRIX is a good choice.

Really? I feel as if it's mostly good. It behooves GPU companies to keep up. And vice versa.

Not really. Good GPUs cost a small fortune, and you shouldn't have to upgrade your graphics cards every year to play games at 60 fps with max settings, especially when the consoles are far less capable of handling the same games as well, but still manage to do a decent job.

I mean, just recently, we've seen how unoptimized The Evil Within was. For its recommended specs, it needed 4 GB of VRAM, a Core i7, 4 GB of RAM, a GTX 680. And at 1080p, there was hardly any graphical difference from the PS4 version. How insane is that?

 

[Kibagami]

Not really. Good GPUs cost a small fortune, and you shouldn't have to upgrade your graphics cards every year to play games at 60 fps with max settings, especially when the consoles are far less capable of handling the same games as well, but still manage to do a decent job.

I mean, just recently, we've seen how unoptimized The Evil Within was. For its recommended specs, it needed 4 GB of VRAM, a Core i7, 4 GB of RAM, a GTX 680. And at 1080p, there was hardly any graphical difference from the PS4 version. How insane is that?

Okay, now I see your point.

At least with upgrading, you could sell your old card to offset costs and there's always going to be a sale. And a GPU pays for itself, matey. Arrr.

 

[darthviper107]

I've been getting really good performance with the 980, however, COD:AW has bugs, actual performance issues like a few points where the framerate dropped considerably for no reason (nothing crazy was going on in the game at the time). Looks to me like it's probably the worst PC port of COD so far.

 

[Kibagami]

I've been getting really good performance with the 980, however, COD:AW has bugs, actual performance issues like a few points where the framerate dropped considerably for no reason (nothing crazy was going on in the game at the time). Looks to me like it's probably the worst PC port of COD so far.

**** goes to hell it during loads between missions and while the cut scene video plays.

And I'm almost done with it. It was a pretty, scenic ride but I can't wait to get it off my box.

 

[darthviper107]

Yeah, audio in cinematics is out of sync and then sometimes menus freeze for a minute, plus the entire UI is not at all updated for PC. Then the part later in the game with the flying vehicle doesn't have the right controls at all, you have to steer with the keyboard.

 

[Kibagami]

Yeah, it just stalls for me and it's stop motion. I'm not sure if those cut scenes are video or not.

And you would think it would do so while it loads, but no. It starts going to hell after loading completes.

 

[MPCanes]

Good system specs, Does the 970 provide much of a performance boost over the 680?

Haven't really seen huge gains, but I've also now amped up everything to max when I was holding back on things like AA/shadows before...

Ryse seems a bit smoother, WoW seems the same, AC IV runs pretty great with everything on max, other modern games weren't really giving the 680 much trouble.

 

[Qoheles]

Assassin's Creed Unity - PC Performance thread - NeoGAF

Wow. 780 getting 30 FPS, and even dropping to 20s. LOL.

 

[Solidus]

So, the GTX 780's struggling with AC Unity? Hey, that's my graphics card lol. Seriously , **** this game!!

 

[Kibagami]

So, the GTX 780's struggling with AC Unity? Hey, that's my graphics card lol. Seriously , **** this game!!

Why not!? Arrr!

 

[Qoheles]

So, the GTX 780's struggling with AC Unity? Hey, that's my graphics card lol. Seriously , **** this game!!

Apparently you can run it at 50+ if you disable TXAA and PCSS shadows.

 

[Qoheles]

Would you believe it? 980 SLi and I don't even get constant 60 FPS with everything maxed/on [except Vsync]; with big crowds, it goes down to about 45.

According to someone on Nvidia forums with SLi too, TXAA gives him a ~50 FPS hit.

I don't know about the 50 FPS hit, and he says without it he has 110 FPS; I don't know if he's overclocked because I'm not getting anywhere as high as that.

 

[Brainiac]

*****K Ubisoft man...... I'll soon blacklist them.... but then they will send Sam Fisher after me, luckily he will suffer from frame rate drops and I will be able to get away

 

[darthviper107]

I'm only noticing a couple of drops here and there--GTX 980 everything turned up

 

[Solidus]

I'm only noticing a couple of drops here and there--GTX 980 everything turned up

Are you using Fraps to record your frame-rates?

 

[darthviper107]

I actually haven't looked at the framerate, I wouldn't be surprised if it's around 30-40. I know it's not at a level that's a problem. Though ultimately something like this should be running at like 100fps

 

[Brainiac]

I'm getting good performance now with my 770, maybe not 60fps but its very smooth(I havent checked), I just updated my Nvidia drivers

 

[Vader AL]

The Evil Within is $20.39 on Steam. Or if you have a greenmangaming account they have the vip deal for $16.10. Same with Wolfenstein: The New Order.

Anyone played Lords of the Fallen?