Borderlands 2 - PC Performance Thread
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Confusion Illusion
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Same card and monitor res I have as well. PhysX is not really a big deal for me because I wouldn't be paying any attention to stuff like that when I'm playing.
Admiral Snackbar
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EVGA 670, ready to rock. Joined the group, Season Pass bought on GMG after seeing that discount. Goddamn this DLC!
HungOverOnATues
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Just bought the game and the season pass for 25% off. Preloading now at 9MB/s. Just noticed that Steam gives you the option now to install to different locations. Is that new for the beta or does everyone have that option now?
It's new.
Dead Prince
Banned
not enough room on the comfy couch for 2.
For one, because PC gamers want keyboard and mouse, and Windows doesn't really handle two separate mice and keyboards as two sets of gaming devices. So then Gearbox would have to tell people that at least one person has to be on gamepad, explaining all of that, and have two in-game profiles running on PC, which they'd have to write themselves as that stuff is handled by the OS on consoles.
Gearbox decided to spend time on the PC version putting in what most PC gamers want instead, like extra tweaks that everyone makes use of.
And why is it that all these "I want split screen on PC and I'm going to get upset if they don't" people are suddenly coming out of the woodwork right now? How many other first person shooters on PC have had split-screen play?
Krappadizzle
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I have a GTX 460 as a dedicated physX card and a GTX 680 for everything else. Though I noticed in Batman: AC that I got better performance if I have all physX just process on the 680. Wonder if this'll be different.
jediyoshi
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If you have an nvidia card, to know what to expect. If you don't, to know what you're missing.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
My ageing 8600GT is gonna rock this game. =/
My 3450HD is going to rock it harder.
Felix Lighter
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UE3, I'd expect better, right?
Jasper Avenue
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I won't be getting any PHYSX goodness because I have an AMD card, but I cannot wait to actually play this in 1080p at 60 fps. Looks delicious.
Angel Abaddon
Member
Going to be running it on a 2500k and 6870 come Friday, but after watching the Physx demo, wondering if my brother has a spare GeForce card I can use as a dedicated Physx card. That stuff looks awesome.
How many others are 100% intended for co-op play and have fully functional campaign splitscreen on both other platforms?
petethepanda
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Got my 660ti in the mail yesterday, Borderlands 2 preloading now.
Yeah I should expect way better (I run Mass Effect 3 at 60fps), but the heavy dose of Nvidia
That's something we should start pushing for more often, maybe even expect it as mandatory.
indigo-cyclops
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Got this with my recent 670 purchase and let's say I'm fucking down and ready.
Felix Lighter
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I know what you mean. I get nervous every time a game uses Physx.
Big Papa Husker
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Wow... what fan are you using? I got my 2500K to 4.5, but that's where I stopped.
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
I wonder how my GeForce GTX 550 Ti will hold up..Probably pretty damn well.
FleckSplat
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What of a 460 with Amd Phenom II hexacore and 8 gig ram?
Physx on Medium or Low?
Physx on Medium or Low?
JPBrowncoat
Member
I already preloaded BL2 on one drive and just enabled a second drive for Steam but even after deleting the local content I can't get the option to preload on the other drive. Anyone have any ideas?
Raitosaito
Member
Time to get a new card
I could start naming them all the way back to before when consoles couldn't even run these games. The first name that comes to mind is the last few Call of Duty games, which have featured teamplay or cooperative play in two or more popular modes for a few years now. None of them have had split-screen on PC. Or BF3 coop or competitive play. Or Brink. It's because no one's been asking for it until now, all of a sudden.
You know, it's not like every console shooter of the last few years has had split-screen either, even when in coop mode. Dead Island, Brink, the Saints Row series, Bad Company 2, BF3, Darkness II... split-screen is a privilege, not a right.
Screen resolution? Do you need antialiasing? Ambient Occlusion? Basically, if you're cranking those up, PhysX often starts to tax things pretty badly.
Dipping into the 40's for FPS isn't flawless imo
The water effects and suctions and movement to explosions make it look more immersive so I'm glad I've got a 670.
Hyper 212+
It gets kind of toasty around summer time (75c+). But otherwise it's incredibly state for me.
Hah, I just tried the same thing.
Worst case scenario I unlock the files, move the files to the new directory, delete local content and install to that directory.
I assume it'll let us choose the install dir when it unlocks the files though.
JPBrowncoat
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Yeah that's my current plan. Probably just gonna play it at midnight and see how bad loadtimes are first.
Co-op play is not a major selling point or even a particularly pushed bullet point for a single one of those games. Maybe Brink? Did that have splitscreen on console?
This is a game with ONE mode, and it's a mode 100% built around 4-player co-op.
No, every console shooter doesn't have splitscreen. What does that have to do with whether or not it makes sense for the PC version of a game to have it when both its console ports DO?
At that point heat wasn't a problem for me, stability was (also using the 212). Even at dangerously unsafe voltages I wasn't able to get past 4.5GHz without bluescreens.
Maybe with Haswell!
likedamaster
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I know my 680 will probably fold under the 2560x1600 pressure, but I'm ready.
Thankfully, since it's both a sequel and an UE3 game we should have nothing to worry about as far as ATI taking forever to get a proper crossfire profile.
Should be able to force either the Borderlands profile, or another UE3 profile if that doesn't give as good a scaling. I know I'll be testing various profiles before I bother getting too deep into my first play.
BrokenEchelon
Banned
Wow. Lots of people made the jump to 600 series cards already it seems.
I expect little to no issues with my OC'd 560 Ti.
I expect little to no issues with my OC'd 560 Ti.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
I want this on PC so bad! AHH what I would give for cross-console play.