Will a single HD6970 cut it on Ultra?

[Stormrage]

Will a single HD6970 cut it on Ultra?

I like to play my games on 60 fps with everything maxed out on 1920x1200, but the more new games come out, the less fps I get with them. I hoped that the Witcher 2 would run it at least on 40 fps with everything on max, but then I saw a preview screenshot of Ultra settings on 1080p with the fraps fps counter on top showing 32 fps. The previewer had an i7 975 (I have an i7 2600k, so should be no problems there and I have enough memory to feed half of Africa) and a GTX 590/GTX 560 Ti for PhysX (The Witcher 2 uses Havok so irrelevant) and it got me worried. Such a powerful card, and only 32 fps? Admittedly it was a cutscene (Triss and Geralt having sexy time) so perhaps it was prerendered, but it sure didn't look prerendered (usually prerendered cutscenes are really compressed and low-res, but this one looked really good). So it got me worried. I bought the computer about a month and a half ago especially to play Witcher 2 on max (well I planned to buy a new PC for a long time, about 2 years, but Witcher 2 was the final straw, so to speak), so it would be hilariously sad-and-not-funny-at-all if it'll run on 20 fps unless I turn off AA or something like that.

 

[shaggeh]

Of course it will. tl;dr

 

[Stormrage]

Of course it will. tl;dr

I sure hope so, but if you had read, you'd see a GTX 590 ran on 32 fps during the preview build.It also could be a problem with AA, like in DA2, where fire particles were not properly defined and AA was applied to every pixel dropping fps to 10-20 even on best systems (just one of many faults of Dragon Age 2)...

 

[shaggeh]

I've seen a preview, where the game ran on 20-30 fps on GTS250 and i5 2500k.

 

[Stormrage]

I've seen a preview, where the game ran on 20-30 fps on GTS250 and i5 2500k.

On Ultra? I doubt that GTS250 could handle ultra...

 

[Eri94_user70]

Game run smoothly on high detail on GF 9800 GT and Core 2 Quad.

 

[aeneas1]

Game run smoothly on high detail on GF 9800 GT and Core 2 Quad.

any links to that?

 

[Eri94_user70]

but article is in polishhttp://www.gram.pl/art_9gziHe2_Wiedzmin_2_Zabojcy_Krolow_beta_test.html

 

[Kuuskutonen]

Well I'm surprised nobody brought it up, but it's all about you're monitor's resolution.. I think with 1920x1080 single 6970 will run it smoothly on ultra. It's top tier new GPU goddammit

 

[aeneas1]

but article is in polishhttp://www.gram.pl/art_9gziHe2_Wiedzmin_2_Zabojcy_Krolow_beta_test.html

thanks for the link

 

[Paul_cz]

There is smooth and there is "smooth".For some, smooth is 30.For others (like me) smooth is 60. So I truly hope my GTX560Ti with Sandy Bridge 4ghz will run it at 60 in 1920*1200 on ultra details. For me framerate is so important that I will rather drop details to high than suffer less than 60. But I hope I won't have to. After all this is PC custom engine, it should be well optimized.

 

[cipher89]

pssssst! 60fps is nothing! Real men play it on 15fps...

 

[Licaon_Kter]

pssssst! 60fps is nothing! Real men play it on 15fps...

so true, because once you get to see the game on ULTRA you can barely stand anything below that, i mean, it looks so ugly

 

[jbscotchman]

An HD6970 with a sandy bridge cpu shouldn't have any problems maintaining a solid framerate on ultra settings. If it can't then I'm kinda worried for my 560 Ti, but I'm only gonna be playing at 1600x900 so that helps.

 

[daymiena]

I'm going to run it on Ultra with a 6850. Wish me luck.

 

[ryannberg]

I'm going to run it on Ultra with a 6850. Wish me luck.

I got the same card. Someone linked a place where it tells you if you can run the game and at was general settings. It said I should have no problem playing at high settings, but I have a lower resolution monitor then what the general gaming population seems to have, I have a 1600x900 monitor, plus I have a lower threshold of what is playable frame rates, so I am thinking that I should be able to play on Ultra settings and be playable.

 

[Lexxbomb.887]

well If I don't get 60 FPS I am not going to be a very happy camper... well except that I will be playing the Witcher 2 which will make me happy... but hopefully the rig above will get the 60 FPS... oh and the rig will overclock to 4.2GHz easily and remain stable.graphic cards are 2x HIS ATI HD6870 in XFire config.

 

[apocstrike]

What about my specs. Will i be able to enjoy this game at high settings?CPU Phenom 1090T, And Ati radeon 5830

 

[freakie1one]

Another thing you guys should keep in mind... Well, two things, actually:1. They weren't playing on the final build of the game (the preview build may not have had all optimisations implemented yet)2. Graphic drivers almost always mature after a game is released (you usually get much better FPS in a game a month or two after it's released and new drivers have been tweaked to give better performance)

 

[jonelo]

1920x1200 , Ultra ( i5-760/4GB/GeForce 460)http://galyonkin.com/2011/05/07/vedmak-2-pervyie-vpechatleniya/