With the new AH 3 in mind I plan to upgrade my video card from a Nvidia Geeforce GT 720 to....................hmmmm. What should I get? :joystick:You should get anything that is of same age or newer and with a model number that ends with at least 50, preferably 60 or more. You might also need a more powerful power supply but as oboe said, some more information would be needed.
I5 4460 CPU @ 3.2 GHZ
10 G Ram
Plan on upgrading your computer to play AH3.
I get 45+ FPS in AH3, but I have a pretty good computer.
My System:
Precessor: Intel I-7 Quad Core 3.8ghz
Memory: 8G DDR3 memory
Hard Drives: 128G Solid State HD + 1 Terabyte Hitachi hard-drive partioned in 4 sections.
Video Card: EVGA GTX 970 (4G) Super Clocked with ACX cooling
Monitor: ASUS 24in LCD (Full HD - 1920 x1080)
Power Supply: 875w
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and you have all the slider cranked all the way up right?
My video card isn't as new as yours but with almost everything at default and the eye candy turned on and shadows off and environment slider down I have a steady 59 fps pretty much every where I go.
| What you get with GTX 750Ti Memory Bandwidth: 86.4 GB/sec FLOPS: 1305.6 GFLOPS Pixel Fill Rate: 16320 MPixels/sec Texture Fill Rate: 40800 MTexels/sec | What you get with 6 year old GTX 580 Memory Bandwidth: 192.384 GB/sec FLOPS: 1581.056 GFLOPS Pixel Fill Rate: 37056 MPixels/sec Texture Fill Rate: 49408 MTexels/sec |
No, I turned off Shadows and Anti Aliasing. Other than that, I also set the slider at 0.
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This post really depresses me. I have comparable hardware excluding the video card & power supply. I was considering the 750Ti myself, as it would work with my current psu, but now it sounds like even after putting $300-400 into a GTX970 plus however much a compatible power supply would cost to run it I'd possibly be only getting 45 fps and that's not even with the graphics on high????
Are you sure there's nothing functionally wrong with your PC? Anything else dragging the video card during play? I'm having a hard time believing a 970 on a quad-core i7 would perform so poorly. It seems to contradict reports others are giving.
If your experience is typical, and nothing improves in release, I'm regretfully going to have to pull the plug on AH. I just can't justify throwing whatever amount of money is necessary to run 60fps and not have the game look like crap.
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This post really depresses me. I have comparable hardware excluding the video card & power supply. I was considering the 750Ti myself, as it would work with my current psu, but now it sounds like even after putting $300-400 into a GTX970 plus however much a compatible power supply would cost to run it I'd possibly be only getting 45 fps and that's not even with the graphics on high????
Are you sure there's nothing functionally wrong with your PC? Anything else dragging the video card during play? I'm having a hard time believing a 970 on a quad-core i7 would perform so poorly. It seems to contradict reports others are giving.
If your experience is typical, and nothing improves in release, I'm regretfully going to have to pull the plug on AH. I just can't justify throwing whatever amount of money is necessary to run 60fps and not have the game look like crap.
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Fishbait,
Don't despair just yet. I do think an i7 coupled with a GTX970 should run have no problem keeping FR above 60 (my opinion). I have an i5 and a 3GB Radeon 280X and in most situations my frame rates are solid 59. My texture size is 4096 and I have the sliders in the middle, and Environmental updates set to 1. I run all the other options 'on'.
Another thing, I've played with the graphics sliders quite a bit and other than changes in frame rates, I can't tell a whole lot of difference. That is to say, when I set the graphic sliders to least detail/max performance - I still think the game looks a lot bit better than AH2. I'm pretty fussy, and I have never found any graphic setting where the game looks like crap.
I think a lot of people are changing the FOV to 106 to match AH2, but I've noticed if I leave it at AH3 default (80?), the aircraft seem larger - I can see details in the skins during a fight that I would've completely missed in AH2. I have to say its impressive.
This post really depresses me. I have comparable hardware excluding the video card & power supply. I was considering the 750Ti myself, as it would work with my current psu, but now it sounds like even after putting $300-400 into a GTX970 plus however much a compatible power supply would cost to run it I'd possibly be only getting 45 fps and that's not even with the graphics on high????
Are you sure there's nothing functionally wrong with your PC? Anything else dragging the video card during play? I'm having a hard time believing a 970 on a quad-core i7 would perform so poorly. It seems to contradict reports others are giving.
If your experience is typical, and nothing improves in release, I'm regretfully going to have to pull the plug on AH. I just can't justify throwing whatever amount of money is necessary to run 60fps and not have the game look like crap.
:bhead
Don't believe everything you hear. Skuzzy, HTC and a few on these boards have the knowledge.Skuzzy, HTC and more than a few on these boards are countering your assessment.
The 970GTX runs monitor refresh rate with sliders up and shadows off. I did not like the shadows. Even then the 970GTX more then fills the bill. I am running one @60fps constant.
I had a GTX750Ti and it played all the time from 59fps to 40fps same settings. These are facts. I still have the 750Ti. It more then does the job, it won't hold monitor refresh all the time but the lowest it ever dipped in my case was 25fps. Don't believe everything you hear. Some don't know how to set the game or the card up properly.
If anyone wishes to have my GTX750Ti you are most welcome. I will give it free to someone who just needs a card to be able to play the game. Make sure you have the power supply to run it. If you do PM me and it is yours. I would not give it away if I knew it wouldn't play the game. Need a pcie slot, it's a large card. Ensure your pc has room for it.
Don't believe everything you hear. Skuzzy, HTC and a few on these boards have the knowledge.
After some study I will wait for the final AH3 to come out. I will need more power to go to a more advanced graphics card. Currently have 350 watts. I`ve thought about a change to the GT 750Ti, I was told it could improve things a good bit. The clock is faster but like my present card it has 2 G memory.
I`m running AH3 now in the low 30s-40s. It has bogged down to mid upper teens with a lot going on. It is hit and miss with no happy medium FPS.
My goal is 50s fps all around with default settings.
Game current settings set at,
1280-720
post light off
reflections off
shawdows off.
I do not want to turn any more off.
AH2 runs steady 60fps with all video maxed out.
I just wanted to clarify, the 750Ti should do a good job as Hajo has attested. My post was intended to make sure that Nosara, understood that with default settings, it was improbable that he would stay above 50 fps in all situations. Hajo confirmed this in his post, that I will paraphrase, FPS ~ 59 to 40, with the lowest ~25. Settings sliders up and shadows off.
Default settings includes shadows, and also environment map slider at 1. Since I don't have the 750Ti, the comparison to the GTX 580, was to show that there are other components of a video card besides dedicated video memory and clock speed. How that will affect the final version of AH3 is still a question mark for now. Hopefully, this thread will avoid anyone grabbing any "new" video card and ramping everything to max and expecting solid 60 fps framerates or better. Also, I hope that most will have the patience to wait until final version (or the most "stable" memory configuration for beta) has been announced.
I have a GTX 960 4gig, i7 3.60 ghz
have no issues..
60FR almost constantly..all sliders up to max eyecandy..
I'm having a hard time believing a 970 on a quad-core i7 would perform so poorly. It seems to contradict reports others are giving.
I don't think it's the card that is causing his low frame rates, there is something else with his system that is preventing him from getting higher frame rates. I pretty much have the same system specs he has and can run AH3 with graphics on full with a steady 60fpsm (v-sync on).
turn environment mapping to "0" if your suffering FPS issues.I agree with bruv119. I have spoken to skuzzy and he said that Environment Mapping doesn't really matter in the game because you wont notice much of a difference and it will suck your video card down. He said Environment Mapping is only good when making videos, that it should be enabled then.
Also try playing the beta for longer than 5-10 minutes. I find my ancient machine runs better when all the objects etc get loaded in. I have an old dual core E6600 and a 2Gb ATI 5850 and it runs 50-60 FPS with most additional eye candy off. Still looks and runs smoother than AH2.
I will upgrade when the time comes though because this tower is 8 years old, only thing I added was the 5850.
I doubt if GTX 750Ti will give a solid 50 fps with defaults.
No, I turned off Shadows and Anti Aliasing. Other than that, I also set the slider at 0.
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Im surprised as i get about 60 fps with a 750 ti and with a gtx 950 on $500 Dell computers. This is with default ah3 settings flying around offline shooting drones etc.