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[Ciggavelli]

Saints Row IV must have some problems because I'm getting 20-40 fps regardless of what preset or visual settings I have on. Ultra, 1440P doesn't seem to do a thing.

I can run it perfectly fine with my Nvidia card, but maybe this thread can help out:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/206420/discussions/0/846962439266496592/

I think people are saying to turn down post-processing

I say turn down that lighting shyt too

 

[daze23]

I'm running the 13.8 beta drivers and my other games work fine. I can get up to 100fps on Bioshock Infinte on Ultra at 1080P so idk what's the problem.

I'm also having a problem where I can't use any FPS counter with sweetfx. If I use fraps and cut the game on, sweetfx doesn't work and if I try to turn fraps on while the game is already running with sweetfx applied, it'll just disable the sweetfx tweaks. I tried radeonpro and it doesn't do anything.

remove sweetfx from the equation

do you have a way to monitor your gpu usage? if you're getting bad fps, and your gpu isn't at 99-100%, then the cpu is probably the bottleneck. that seems to happen a lot with open world games, especially if they don't have good multicore support

 

[itsyoung!!]

Crysis is the game that lets you know even your PC rig isn't shyt.

My computer whooped crysis 3

 

[Fatboi1]

that is pretty odd, i think i had a friend who had low fps too (forgot what his rig was) but he said it cleared up after reinstalling his driver

i dont use sweetFX though so not sure about that issue

Actually I'm running 13.6 beta, so I'm going to update to 13.8v2 and see if that fixes it.

 

[Liquid]

BF4 will be running at 720p on the consoles, and people who have seen the PC/PS4 version have said the Ps4 version has washed out looking textures by comparison.

I expected 1080P, but I can't be too surprised by it. The bump in graphics + the advanced destruction is going to be taxing on any hardware. Maybe BFBC3 or BF5 on the PS4 can bump it up to 1080P once they squeeze more out of the hardware.

 

[Demonic Jenkins]

Isn't directly comparing the console hardware to PC equivalent misleading? Consoles have always done more with their GPU/CPU because of how "focused" the software is to the hardware...no?

Can a PC with the innards of the xbox 360 run 360 quality games?

 

[Type Username Here]

My computer whooped crysis 3

Post your specs and pics breh

 

[Liquid]

Isn't directly comparing the console hardware to PC equivalent misleading? Consoles have always done more with their GPU/CPU because of how "focused" the software is to the hardware...no?

Can a PC with the innards of the xbox 360 run 360 quality games?

Why do you keep bringing this up in here? Its been proven time and time again, the consoles have a slight advantage when they launch and then it significantly sways towards the PC side after 6 months or so if you are talking for price on hardware. Plus you also have to consider how cheap you can get games on the PC AND the fact that you now have to pay on the PlayStation AND XBOX to play multiplayer every year.

As far as the bolded...No, but a $300 PC these days would absolutely obliterate the specs inside a PS3 or XBOX 360. You are getting great value with the PS4 at launch for the $400 price tag, but @ $500 the debate is there to be had again. You can build an AMD based $500-$600 PC that would play games @ about the same as you would with an XBOX one. Once the generation continues to go on then there is no contest. By year 2 and both consoles are at about $350-$400, then the PC is the clear leader again per price point.

I have done the math on this for 10+ years already. If you are the madden and cod type player that just buys those 2 games every year then a console is probably your best bet. If you are a gamer that buys anywhere from 8-15 games per year then your best bet is the PC. You save thousands over a console generation with how fast prices drop on the PC.

 

[Fatboi1]

Why do you keep bringing this up in here? Its been proven time and time again, the consoles have a slight advantage when they launch and then it significantly sways towards the PC side after 6 months or so if you are talking for price on hardware. Plus you also have to consider how cheap you can get games on the PC AND the fact that you now have to pay on the PlayStation AND XBOX to play multiplayer every year.

As far as the bolded...No, but a $300 PC these days would absolutely obliterate the specs inside a PS3 or XBOX 360. You are getting great value with the PS4 at launch for the $400 price tag, but @ $500 the debate is there to be had again. You can build an AMD based $500-$600 PC that would play games @ about the same as you would with an XBOX one. Once the generation continues to go on then there is no contest. By year 2 and both consoles are at about $350-$400, then the PC is the clear leader again per price point.

I have done the math on this for 10+ years already. If you are the madden and cod type player that just buys those 2 games every year then a console is probably your best bet. If you are a gamer that buys anywhere from 8-15 games per year then your best bet is the PC. You save thousands over a console generation with how fast prices drop on the PC.

to add to that, any update you make to your pc hardware wise, you have now upgraded the visuals and performance of all your games whereas on the console the game you buy today will be the same forever.

 

[Type Username Here]

to add to that, any update you make to your pc hardware wise, you have now upgraded the visuals and performance of all your games whereas on the console the game you buy today will be the same forever.

And to add to that, you also improve the computer for non-gaming tasks. This is important to me and others because I use my desktop for other large, resource consuming projects.

 

[The Guru]

How does this math apply to a mawfakker who pirates 90% to 100% of his games on a yearly basis

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

How does this math apply to a mawfakker who pirates 90% to 100% of his games on a yearly basis

 

[Liquid]

How does this math apply to a mawfakker who pirates 90% to 100% of his games on a yearly basis

You can pirate games on the PC as well, just means you are paying a premium for the best performance on the PC.

 

[MaccabeanRebel]

Isn't directly comparing the console hardware to PC equivalent misleading? Consoles have always done more with their GPU/CPU because of how "focused" the software is to the hardware...no?

Can a PC with the innards of the xbox 360 run 360 quality games?

That's basically not true any more. Back in the day that may have been the case because consoles were minimalist and didn't really have a full fledge OS.

Now with these huge networks PSN and xbox live you have to have a OS to manage all the concurrency. Xbox 1 basically is running windows 8 breh..

 

[itsyoung!!]

Post your specs and pics breh

670 gtx
i7-3770k
8 GB RAM

im not reinstalling that trash but in multiplayer on max settings (I think AA was 4x or off though not too sure) I never dropped below 80 FPS on any map and some maps I never dropped below 100 FPS