LiquidMetal14
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What kind of garbage optimization's make this game eat VRAM? Unacceptable.
Max Payne 3 PC Features Detailed.
- Thread starter Saty
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game probably eats up VRAM instead of System RAM if available. haikira just mentioned he's running it great with 1.5 gigs of VRAM.
Any luck getting vsync to work? Pretty much can't play at 200+ FPS. Cards are getting too hot.
I'm pretty the numbers double on the options page if you have a multi-gpu setup. So it should actually be 2000MB / 3000MB.
mysticwhip
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hopefully my intel hd graphics card can run this bad boy on the lowest settings.
uh, anyone else care to comment on this? what the fuck?
indigo-cyclops
Member
Huh, I always noticed a speed increase when running lower resolution and windowed. Guess it was just an illusion of some kind.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Ok so it may not be so bad.
Hmm i've got that same cpu, but only 4GB ram, and a Radeon HD 4870 2GB.
Please do.
It'll be sometime tomorrow since my DL dropped back down to 50% after decryption finished
I have no idea what's going on with it so I'm just gonna call it a night and let it do its thing haha.Also yes can we have some clarification Sethos' comment about the sluggish mouse control? It's Max Payne, it needs to have flawless mouse control.
Few more screenshots
Quick notes
- HDAO looks great compared to SSAO, small FPS hit
- Game runs smooth overall
- Though odd FPS hits when you run into dead bodies and move them, physics seem to take a huge chunk of performance? ( Happens sometimes, rarely actually )
- That fucking mouse acceleration and sluggishness. Moving my mouse all the way across my mousepad 2-3 times to move it half a screen? Get out. This will kill me.
Quick notes
- HDAO looks great compared to SSAO, small FPS hit
- Game runs smooth overall
- Though odd FPS hits when you run into dead bodies and move them, physics seem to take a huge chunk of performance? ( Happens sometimes, rarely actually )
- That fucking mouse acceleration and sluggishness. Moving my mouse all the way across my mousepad 2-3 times to move it half a screen? Get out. This will kill me.
indigo-cyclops
Member
Sounds like it so far. I wonder if the mouse smoothing / accel can be adjusted in a config...
Performance wise it feels really incredible. Haven't actually played much because of the issues I'm having with Vsync.
Can someone please let me know if you are able to cap the frame-rate to 60FPS in DX10/11 mode? That seems to be the issue I am having. DX9 it's works in everything else it doesn't.
try Dxtory. Its a footage capturing program but it includes a way to cap the framerate at 60fps without the use of vsync.
Anyone know how big SP1 download is? I'm away from my PC so I can't check but I don't think I have it installed.
I have Win 7 64x.
IcyBlueStrawberry
Member
Steam itself has stopped working on me twice tonight. Not sure whether it's relevant or not, but I'd never had issues with Steam before I started downloading this game.
get used to the cutscenes at least in the beginning of the game.
niiiiiice
Krappadizzle
Member
Mouse does feel super sluggish. Game runs freaking amazingly well though. Now to fix this mouse sluggishness. Ideas?
Runs really great on my system.
I put on MSAA 2x on top of FXAA on high just to see and I get surprisingly good framerates. 45-60 for the most part minus one part in the opening gameplay section of Chapter II where it dipped to 30 for a few seconds. The game feels really great with a 360 controller. The reticle speed is perfect.
I'm going to turn off MSAA and see how much of a difference that makes.
Graphics are stunning:
I was surprised by the amount of aliasing in the screens although it doesn't look quite as dramatic as when you are actually playing.
Overall, it looks like they really did a nice job on the PC version.
I put on MSAA 2x on top of FXAA on high just to see and I get surprisingly good framerates. 45-60 for the most part minus one part in the opening gameplay section of Chapter II where it dipped to 30 for a few seconds. The game feels really great with a 360 controller. The reticle speed is perfect.
I'm going to turn off MSAA and see how much of a difference that makes.
Graphics are stunning:
I was surprised by the amount of aliasing in the screens although it doesn't look quite as dramatic as when you are actually playing.
Overall, it looks like they really did a nice job on the PC version.
the cut scenes hide the loading so i don't think you can skip?
Did you verify the integrity of the game ( If you are on Steam ofc. )
I like how the main menu is more performance intensive than the game itself.
Yeah it said loading but I didn't even get a main menu first. Rockstar pisses me off with this stuff because they purposely make things obtuse and complicated to get their movie-schtick off. It happens in every one of their games this gen in some way.
Revolutionary
Member
Goddamn this game looks good on PC. The vsync is weird, though... on my card, at least (GTX 680). When the FPS gets close to 30, it syncs to 30 and makes the aiming sluggish. Had to dial back the MSAA a bit in order to maintain a steady 60 and keep the aiming responsive.
This.
I changed to HDAO and turned off MSAA 2x and the game looks significantly better and the framerate has been 60fps in the first chapter when I redid it just now compared to it dipping into the 50's/high 40's at times.
Also, I had a weird white outline on Max that went away when I changed the settings:
Outline
No outline
What are your graphic settings? I'm guessing with your card if you're hitting very high, I could at least get high with minimal AA.
Sorry to be all dramatic now but the mouse acceleration is borderline ruining the game. Feels like my mouse is a big fat wobbly console controller, mushy god damn aiming and it feels like I can't hit shit. Gets even worse when Max is on the ground, takes 50 runs across the mousepad to move it a few inches, plus it gets even more sluggish and laggy.
Figured out what my vsync issue was. The EVGA Precision wasn't playing nice with the game. Once I turned it off the D3Doverrider kicked in and now it's working wonderfully.
One thing I notice though. MSAA doesn't seem to do a damn thing. It shows my memory usage going up in the menu but it doesn't look like any kind of anti aliasing is happening.
One thing I notice though. MSAA doesn't seem to do a damn thing. It shows my memory usage going up in the menu but it doesn't look like any kind of anti aliasing is happening.
Im sad to say that it doesnt surprise me. A part of me felt that the controller focus would end up in Rockstar screwing up something like this. Fuck.
To the people having problems with mouse acceleration:
https://twitter.com/RockstarSupport/status/208438940984803328
My copy isn't even close to being done on Steam, so I don't know how effective this will be at alleviating you guys' issues though.
Btw they seem to be eyeing the support twitter + steam forums so if you want more comprehensive mouse options I'd raise hell in one of the aforementioned to get their attention.
https://twitter.com/RockstarSupport/status/208438940984803328
My copy isn't even close to being done on Steam, so I don't know how effective this will be at alleviating you guys' issues though.
Btw they seem to be eyeing the support twitter + steam forums so if you want more comprehensive mouse options I'd raise hell in one of the aforementioned to get their attention.
Really? I didn't think it was that bad. The only time it was really sluggish to me was the menu.
Yep, I've noticed this too. Weird.
Will try, thanks.
Jay Shadow
Member
Highlight so far was me diving into a room and hitting my face on a table before I got a shot off.
This isn't meant to be condescending, but did you restart the game after you chose it? Other than that, I honestly didn't see a big difference with it on, so it isn't worth the performance hit IMO.
EDIT: Whoops, on my comparison I put the same the same screenshot up twice. LMAO...Fixed it now