AH 3 Video card List

[Condor]

GTX 1060s are now available for about the same price or a little less than the 970 at New Egg. From what I've read it appears to be the better choice.

[BuckShot]

How can I tell if a new card will fit inside my computer? Are they a standard size?

Also, how can I tell what card my PC can take without crapping out?

Thanks

[The Fugitive]

How can I tell if a new card will fit inside my computer? Are they a standard size?

Also, how can I tell what card my PC can take without crapping out?

Thanks

Post the first third of a DXdiag here. Also, a model number of your computer if it isnt a home built rig will help in figuring out what powersupply you have.

[Chalenge]

How can I tell if a new card will fit inside my computer? Are they a standard size?

Also, how can I tell what card my PC can take without crapping out?

Thanks

If you go to the Nvidia site and look the specifications of your card there will be data on the dimensions and power requirements for the card.

[Gman]

Yeah, at the moment the ultimate is the Pascal Titan X ($1200). In SLI it may even be able to run full environment at 4k and 60fps, but until someone tries we won't know.

I've got one on order for whenever they show up, I may get two, but won't be able to right away due to availability, but I will be able to borrow another one from a neighbor who gets everything as soon as its out as well - our own arms race on the block - and give it a whirl in 1440p and 4k.  1080 SLI comes close - sort of - but I'd like to see what the new Titan X does as well.  Environment really puts a pounding on the 1080s even, which doesn't bother me, as I've only ever flown with a single notch on in Ah2 and will likely continue that in AH3.

[Chalenge]

I would love to see those numbers. The latest Quadro P6000 is a tad bit faster, but it will also priced for workstation systems. I would buy one anyway, but only if it had the HBM2 memory. I suspect that arrangement (when it finally arrives) is going to be priced very high, but I don't care because for video transcoding and rendering it will be very, very fast.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappetta/2016/07/27/nvidias-most-powerful-gpu-isnt-the-titan-x/#5c345fc6300d

[Condor]

One tool for that comparison is PassMark Video Card Benchmarks, where you can find the 9800 GTX+ on the Mid to High End Video Card Chart, scoring 928 on the sixth place of that chart. This leads to believe that any card on the High End Video Card Chart should qualify since the lowest on the list scores 940.

Note that cards scoring 1000 or so meet the minimum requirement, they won't do well even with every feature disabled!

Knowing that HiTech uses a GTX 660 in his development system gives a hint that cards scoring 4000 or more should be able to draw 30+ FPS in all situations using default settings.

I have a Radeon 6950 which scores 3174 and I need to disable shadows and post lighting effects to keep frame rates consistently at 60 or above. So I doubt most of the cards at the lower end of the lower range of the high end chart will do well.

[Pudgie]

The 9800GTX's we have, all contain 512MB of dedicated video RAM.  Yes, you have to disable every graphic feature, and turn down the "Maximum Texture Size" to 1024, or less.

With Windows 7, and later, 512MB of dedicated video RAM may be the minimum requirement.  Due to how DirectX works on Windows XP, the minimum may be 1GB for XP.

This is not cast in stone, yet.

Ah OK, that's good to know.

 

[Denniss]

With the arrival of the Nvidia GTX 1070, the prices have dropped on the GTX 970 cards which is more than enough to run AH3 with all the bells and whistles.

It was actually the Radeon 480 which caused the price drop of the 970. The 1070/80 were too far away in both price and performance to affect the 970.

[BowHTR]

Nvidea 750ti doesn't cut it.

Everything turned off/min/zero on env slider.

I think you need to do some adjusting. Myself and a few others run the GTX 750 and can get upper 50s-60 frames all day long. And that isn't with everything turned off. There is quite a few things turned up.

[Skuzzy]

The 750Ti is quite adequate for running Aces High III.  I have a much slower video card in my work computer and it runs Aces High III just fine.

I think there may be something else going on which might be inhibiting the performance in the game.

[Bizman]

I have a Radeon 6950 which scores 3174 and I need to disable shadows and post lighting effects to keep frame rates consistently at 60 or above. So I doubt most of the cards at the lower end of the lower range of the high end chart will do well.

I have a Radeon 6970 scoring 3470 and I get 35-ish using default settings both in Video settings (4096) and in the game at a resolution of 2560 x 1600. When the game goes live I suppose I have to fiddle with the settings to get some speed. At this point I prefer the defaults to see the progress of HiTech optimizing his code.

[Condor]

I have a Radeon 6970 scoring 3470 and I get 35-ish using default settings both in Video settings (4096) and in the game at a resolution of 2560 x 1600. When the game goes live I suppose I have to fiddle with the settings to get some speed. At this point I prefer the defaults to see the progress of HiTech optimizing his code.

I have a Radeon 6950, which is a little slower than your 6970, and get FPS in the same range at default settings with the exception of the environmental slider set at none. Today this was with action with 4 players at the same town shooting and bombing. That's a great improvement over several patches ago when I was lucky to get to the low teens when completely alone. I think this is a god reason for holding off on a video card upgrade until the code is optimized even further.

[Wiley]

My philosophy is hold off upgrading as long as you can.  The longer you wait generally, the cheaper cards get.

Wiley.

[Bizman]

My philosophy is hold off upgrading as long as you can.  The longer you wait generally, the cheaper cards get.

Wiley.

Great philosophy! And, viewing AH, the requirements of the game grow much slower than the power of the cards.