what kind of settings you have and what kind of fps you get? I'm planning to buy this card soon. thanks.
See sig. Lowest FPS I ever see is 20 - 30. 90% of the time I'm above 30 or 40. Changing settings to low doesn't change anything, CPU limited.
I use a 670, I get 60-120 FPS, though I have it somewhat OC (and I have done some tinkering to remove the CPU bottleneck)
Have a 670 too and it runs pretty good on highest settings. In big fights I also have 40 - 50 fps (always CPU limited with i5 2500k @ 4 ghz). In idle areas I have about 90 fps.
seems a bit low since I get 25-35 in battles inside buildings and 45-65 outside and i'm only using a GTX 555, but I have a core i7 but it should not matter much
Yes ofcourse. my 670 I have OC so it runs at about 1150 Mhz. CPU wise I noticed (you can see what bottlenecks by putting up the FPS meter with ALT+F) that my 3770k OC at 4,2 Ghz was the bottleneck in my system which is just bonkers. So I checked the windows resource monitor and saw that there were parked cores/threads. I then used the program found at: http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility to remove the parking feature from the game which moved the bottleneck to the GPU instead and gave me 60-120 FPS at max settings
Yeah my 670 caps at about 1197mhz in PS2. None of my cores are parked, and I don't think a .9ghz OC is going to be the difference between 40 and 120 FPS. Performance is all over the place.
Have to say this seems very odd, I'm using a 3770k which to my knowledge is only 0.1ghz faster (3.4ghz) Using a 560 TI and never drop below 40 FPS in battles i consider massive in size. Making me doubt if i should upgrade
do you think that would improve my fps as well? I have a i7 2600 (dunno if I have parked cpu's tho) and a GTX 555 (which is considerably weaker than your 670)...
It might, I cannot guarantee anything but it did help me since my CPU wasn't being very well used since Win7 stopped it, and since you as well are using an i7 it could very well give you a boost. So I'd say, try it out, worst case senario you will have the same performance as before
The 670's an awesome card. It won't help tremendously here except if your CPU can handle Ultra, but it does it's part. Helps a lot of other games too.
Headsup the 660Ti uses the same chip as the 670. Only difference is the memory bandwith (which only impacts some games).
I have an MSI 670, and i have found that playing on minimum ingame settings* and maximum ingame settings has no effect on my framerate. Note: my i7 is overclocked, but 3 years and 9 months old. My frame rate is between 15 and 30 in combat, 55+ outside(regardless of what i am doing if there is no one around). *Disabling graphical functions in the .ini file does improve it a little, as does messing with the nvidia control panel. Point: if you dont care about graphics, then dont upgrade the card, just make sure the cpu is kickass, the game will tell you if your fps is limited by GFX in the alf+f display.
my 3570k oc'ed modestly to 4.0ghz is bottlenecking my game too. I run a gtx 680 that runs cold.. Basically the way this game seems to work is that it runs mostly off the CPU and a few aspects of the game are dedicated to the GPU. Had this been reversed i dont think anyone with a good rig would be getting poor FPS. Usually ill keep vsynced at 60ish. Its the times im rolling in massive tank columns with tons of air support that things will dip down quite a bit. Wish i didnt have to use vsync but the game tears like no other game ive played. oh i forgot to add, that while my CPU is bottlenecking i never use 100% of any core, all cores are unparked.
The core unparker program just modifies the power management setting, which you can easily do yourself. It's not some magical tool.
Complete and utter lies. You are NOT getting 60 FPS in a heavy battle at a bio or tech with hundreds of people. Unparking cores also does nothing for FPS and there is no proof of it doing so either, all it can do is remove stutters if your system has them. Prove your gettin 60fps in a massive battle record it buddy.
I have a 670 and cap its FPS with vSync. I play at maximum settings, 1080p and with the 'ultra' textures enabled in the UserOptions.ini. FPS is pretty stable at 60 with occasional slowdowns in busy battles but this is more due to the CPU than the GPU. It's a very good card.
