UnrealEck
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Damage will usually come from overdoing it with voltage, which you can't do without modifying your card.
Anyway, Heaven benchmark is one of the best for testing overclocks. It crashes at even a hint of instability.
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Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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Damage will usually come from overdoing it with voltage, which you can't do without modifying your card.
Anyway, Heaven benchmark is one of the best for testing overclocks. It crashes at even a hint of instability.
Stupid Sexy Flanders
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I'm feeling pretty worried about my i5-4670k and r9 280x but hopefully they'll pull me through high at 30fps. Wish I had an Nvidia card for "dat hairworks" though.
Gumbie
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Deleted member 325805
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New build. 1080p Benchmark:
41fps with a 970, eww. Looks like I'll need to tweak some settings to maintain 60fps all the time.
That's a pretty huge overclock, i think you should be pretty close to a stock 980, you are on water cooling right?
SirMossyBloke
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I'm not, no. My temp never goes above 61 degrees C during the heaven benchmark. I'm not even going to touch my voltage either, too new to risk it.
Hairworks works on AMD cards, actually. It just might run pretty crappy.
That graph just looks wrong...I mean hairworks is off too and 1080p... :S Maybe they made the shadow/vegetation distance sliders crazy long or something.
Gumbie
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Looks like there's going to be a lot of people who want to maintain 60fps cranking shadows and foliage distance to medium.
PLASTICA-MAN
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Config files has some settings like: HairworksAALevel=8
Have you tested this overclock on heavy games like Crysis 3 for at least a hour? Also 980/970 boost higher on benchmarks while are lower in games
m_shortpants
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Same, may just have to disable hairworks. As long as I don't see it in the game I won't know what I'm missing
Need to avoid any pictures before I end up splurging and impulse buying a second 970.
New build. 1080p Benchmark:
So these benchmarks prove the game is going to look much better than the console version? Because I seen the ps4 version in action and it wasn't impressive at all.
I'll go as far as Low Shadows easily, they still look great. Foliage distance makes a bigger difference but since I'm only on a 680, it'll probably be medium at best.
They prove it's much more demanding. How good it looks is subjective.
After all, I'm one of the weird guys who were never that impressed by Crysis 3, and would rank downsampled Mirror's Edge over it any day.
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Does seem a bit iffy, the frame rate is lower than the Dragon Age benchmarks and honestly DA looks better graphically.
SirMossyBloke
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No, I don't own crysis 3 sadly. I really do need to test it in a real game versus just Heaven. My clock speed is just with Heaven so I guess I'm just starting out. I also read that the benchmark barely uses any CPU and during a game that does it increases the heat overall, so I need to keep an eye on temp too during actual gaming.
MrRoflWaffles
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I think the shadows sweet spot is high, personally - gets rid of any blockiness and mimics Ultra but is just a little less precise.
Low doesn't look at all bad, though. Just maybe a tad blocky for my liking from Andy's comparison pics
CarbonFire
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Hopefully someone quickly figures out what settings in the "ultra" preset are killing Kepler performance so much.
There has to be a reason other than just Nvidia scumbaggery, doesn't there?
There has to be a reason other than just Nvidia scumbaggery, doesn't there?
I'm still guessing it's just lolupgrade bullshit, but come on!
You don't need WC for that. My runs 1550-1560/8200 Mhz on stock MSI colling. Max temp was 78 celcius.
SliChillax
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In the Nvidia guide, the grass generation efficency costs more performance at 9600 but looks worse than 2400?
30 frames. da fuck. that's all i'm gonna get, sad face.New build. 1080p Benchmark:
ScepticMatt
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Just like in photography, it helps to seperate and focus attention onto foreground objects like Geralt and provides a depth cue.
Well, as long as you don't also use sharpening, it ruins the effect in the game as well as the real world.
I like it. Most of the other DoF settings I've seen in games are way too strong in my opinion.
Yes. The issue is that it generates so much grass that it overwrites the other types of foliage, so rather than a variety of lush looking foliage, you just get a shit load of grass.
Consider yourself as having SLI desktop 970s.
So Andy, what are the odds that an overclocked 980 and 4770k can maintain a locked 30fps with everything at Ultra +tweaks you showed?
I played through witcher 2 on a pair of GTX 470's and ran it at mostly everything all the way up and locked at 30 and it wasn't bad. Seems like the way combat flows in the witcher games, it's not nearly as twitchy and sensitve to frame rate the way arkham games, DMC and other fast paced action oriented 3rd person combat games run.
I played through witcher 2 on a pair of GTX 470's and ran it at mostly everything all the way up and locked at 30 and it wasn't bad. Seems like the way combat flows in the witcher games, it's not nearly as twitchy and sensitve to frame rate the way arkham games, DMC and other fast paced action oriented 3rd person combat games run.
digitalrelic
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Eh... I think the Witcher looks significantly better than either of those games. And GTA V doesn't run at a locked 60fps with everything maxed @1080p on a 980 either. Really, any new games that really push the envelope will challenge that 60fps/1080P goal. Ryse, Assassin's Creed Unity, Project CARS, The Witcher 3, etc... I'm sure Arkham Knight won't buck that trend.
I just remember being in disbelief at the amount of people saying it was "insane", "stupid", "useless", or a "complete waste of money" to get a Titan X for anything under 1440P.
It's still insane to pay $1000 for a video card mainly.
nobodyshero
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If I can swing ultra at locked 30, I'll be stoked. Locked 30>unlocked 60
Lovely Salsa
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New build. 1080p Benchmark:
What am I looking at here? Average fps?
No way. Is the game THAT demanding?
Well, they were wrong, but I think their point still somewhat stands. If you get a Titan X, you'll probably get a lot more out of it playing less demanding games at stupidly high resolutions and/or framerates than playing more demanding games on Ultra.
The differences between High and Ultra just aren't big enough to justify buying such an expensive card only for that reason, imo. It's better to just play at lower settings and then revisit it later when mid range cards can eat this game for breakfest.
I wouldn't call it "stupid" or "a complete waste of money", though, I'm not really into judging other people's purchases, if they want a Titan X to play at 1080p, then I hope they're happy with their purchase.
Judging from the benchmark posted above me, we should be able to.
CyberPunked
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Are there any settings for Hairworks? Like can you have it just on Geralt?
It's everything on Ultra. Foliage distance draw on Ultra consumes a lot of FPS according to the Nvidia guide.
On the other hand: Everything on Ultra + Hairworks is above 30FPS for a single 970. That's good
(1080p, Everything on Ultra, ingame AA)
The lines with blue background which say "Hairworks an" are with Hairworks enabled. The grey ones are without Hairworks
Tone down a couple of very demanding settings and a 960 might run at locked 30 with mostly Ultra Settings. Sounds quite good to me.
well good for youOn the other hand: Everything on Ultra + Hairworks is above 30FPS for a single 970. That's good
I've got a titan classic, and it at the bottom of that chart. *starts crying* :_:
wanderingprostheyltite
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It's everything on Ultra. Foliage distance draw on Ultra consumes a lot of FPS according to the Nvidia guide.
On the other hand: Everything on Ultra + Hairworks is above 30FPS for a single 970. That's good
Music to my ears. Was assuming hairworks would tank my perf to unplayable levels on a 970. Gimme dat horse hair.
Lovely Salsa
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It's everything on Ultra. Foliage distance draw on Ultra consumes a lot of FPS according to the Nvidia guide.
On the other hand: Everything on Ultra + Hairworks is above 30FPS for a single 970. That's good
For you maybe but Im screwed
rip gtx680
Will....will it look/run better on ps4? Which wouldnt make sense
m_shortpants
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Do you think OCing my 4690k would provide any fps increases?
I know they've said it isn't very CPU intensive.
I know they've said it isn't very CPU intensive.