No, I didn't... I'm too ashamed :sofa:...provided you have a good 1080p monitor and a good PSU, which you didn't mention.
How is this even possible??? a ps4 gpu's theorical processing power is like 2 TFLOPS, A GTX 980's is like 5 TFLOPS how comes it performes the same 30 fps? Sounds wierd for me.
If we can trust the lower level of requirements, you're quite under the minimum since the desktop 660 is well beyond the performance of the mobile counterpart. So you'll probably have trouble playing the game or finding reasonable performance.
@Guy N'wah is there any official statement about resolution for minimum requirements? I can't remember any. Could be still 1080p but also lower. What do you think?
Isn't it more than "a little" slower compared to 770? Not like 6-7fps slower but like 10-15. Depending on settings.
If we can trust the lower level of requirements, you're quite under the minimum since the desktop 660 is well beyond the performance of the mobile counterpart. So you'll probably have trouble playing the game or finding reasonable performance.
@Guy N'wah is there any official statement about resolution for minimum requirements? I can't remember any. Could be still 1080p but also lower. What do you think?
you should get an i7 my friend, for that nice rig!So l'm looking OK with a GTX980 Super OC and 16GB RAM + SSD. My only issue at the moment looks to be my processor...again. FX4100 QC3.5GHz. Still, TW2 looks amazing so hopefully I should be able to scale down a bit from maximum and still see TW3 as intended!
you should get an i7 my friend, for that nice rig!
The FX-4100's limiting on that. I'd look into how much of an upgrade within the FX series you can absorb. People who will not be spending your money will suggest a Core i7, which also requires a new motherboard and is a $450 or more (US) proposition. If your motherboard can take an AMD FX-8, that's much less expensive (FX-8350 Black, $180 US) and still meets recommended system requirements. Even with a new motherboard, it would cost about $300 US.So l'm looking OK with a GTX980 Super OC and 16GB RAM + SSD. My only issue at the moment looks to be my processor...again. FX4100 QC3.5GHz. Still, TW2 looks amazing so hopefully I should be able to scale down a bit from maximum and still see TW3 as intended!
The FX-4100's limiting on that. I'd look into how much of an upgrade within the FX series you can absorb. People who will not be spending your money will suggest a Core i7, which also requires a new motherboard and is a $450 or more (US) proposition. If your motherboard can take an AMD FX-8, that's much less expensive (FX-8350 Black, $180 US) and still meets recommended system requirements. Even with a new motherboard, it would cost about $300 US.
Now the question I have is about the RAM. If the minimum requirement for RAM is 6GB and someone has only 8 isn't that cutting it somewhat close? Looking at my task manager is says I am using around 1.5 at idle.
I was thinking of upgrading being that I have some extra cash anyway but I am concerned because I want to enjoy the game as close to max settings as I can.
No, because the minimum requirement is not for the game itself but for the whole system. 6GB RAM works out to about 5 for the game and 1 for Windows. (Remember that Windows uses speculative loading to preload memory with applications that get used often. That memory is easily freed when you start a large application like a 64-bit game. Windows is actually using less than a gigabyte for itself, plus a half gigabyte or so for backing store for the GPU.)
Setting the minimum at 6 and the recommended at 8 suggests the game will want 4 to 7 for itself.
i think both the 970/980 or the 290/290x( if you have right psu good airflow etc) are better choices because the 960 only has 2 gb vram atm and games nowdays already use close to 4gb so i'd suggest to get a card with 4gb. if it's true it's possible that the 960 will have a 4gb version aswell in the next month( not sure about this). However the 970 will be still more faster and it's not worth to go for dual gpu system, it's never as stable as a single gpu. I had a laptop with sli system and it was very unstable, flickering everywhere, support problems for games.. etc.I watched a couple of reviews of the GTX 960, which performs very good for gaming on 1080p. Do you guys think it could handle Witcher 3 on high, provided you have a good CPU and enough RAM? I aim a bit lower than 1080p (1440p), and what I read about it, I think it's a really good choice seeing the price/performance ratio. I was wondering if it was rather worth it to wait for a TI release of this card, if there will be I mean.. or if it's better to get an SLI of this card.
I watched a couple of reviews of the GTX 960, which performs very good for gaming on 1080p. Do you guys think it could handle Witcher 3 on high, provided you have a good CPU and enough RAM? I aim a bit lower than 1080p (1440p), and what I read about it, I think it's a really good choice seeing the price/performance ratio. I was wondering if it was rather worth it to wait for a TI release of this card, if there will be I mean.. or if it's better to get an SLI of this card.
Did not understand myself if there will be a 960 Ti release. If I have to be honest, my first answer would be "no". Anyway if you are planning to upgrade specifically for TW3, waiting for benches before buying would certainly be wise if you can hold yourself off the game. I think you could be playing in high @1080p with that GPU.
About SLI I tend to dislike it because it's expensive and poorly implemented, since a good SLI profile is not assured and you could experience some problems like microstuttering or else. So I think it's a bad way of improving performance, suitable if you want to go "over the top" and need to play @1440p or 4k. Before go SLI imho you could put more money in a better single GPU, so in the end I think SLI is only reasonable with top GPUs (980 or 970) if a single one doesn't give you enough power.
So in your opinion 8 will be fine for this game and in overall are you of the opinion that 16 for gaming is overkill?