Concerned about my new PC's Gaming Performance

[lasoski311]

See below for system specs...

I was under the impression that my new pc would be able to play crysis on "very high" at 1440x900 but its struggling, any ideas why that might be? or my pc just not good enough?

When i run it a the "high" setting it really doesnt get much better. I also installed The Witcher Enhanced Edition and it seems to struggle a little with that when maxed out at 1440x900.

I am concerned my pc is not performing as well as it should.

 

[cbn]

Are you using Vista?

Because I have read that OS is very hard on the GPU (maybe because it enables DX10 effects....I dunno)

I have XP and a 4770 and it has no trouble whatsoever handling Crysis demo 1680x1050 on medium settings.

 

[lasoski311]

i am running vista, does anyone else think thats the problem?

 

[dguy6789]

You won't get totally fluid frame rates with a 4870 and Crysis on Very High unless you run a lower res. You should be able to have a pretty decent 30fps~ average though. Vista isn't the problem.

If you're expecting perfectly smooth frame rates at those settings, you're expecting too much. But if it's not playable at those settings, then something's wrong.

 

[imported_Scoop]

That is strange. I'm running The Witcher: EE on my system 1600x1200 everything maxed out, except AA which is grayed out and depth of field cause I don't like it, and it's running without much of a problem. If you have these turned on, maybe it's too much for your system?

And no, Vista is not the problem, that information is like from the last century.

 

[Griswold]

Originally posted by: lasoski311
i am running vista, does anyone else think thats the problem?

No. I'm playing crysis on a vista64 machine with a HD4770 (830/850) at 1600x1200 on high settings and am content with the performance. I would say very high is reserved for those dual card systems. The visual bonus isnt that great over high settings anyway.

Of course, there are slow downs in extremely busy situations but its always playble for me. Crysis Warhead is an entirely different story though...

I guess its also a matter of how much low-fps-time you can take - as a casual gamer I can deal with some not-so-butter-smooth situations as long as they're the minority.

Also remember, lots of AA/AF (via driver settings) makes things much harder for your video card. Could it be that in your case?

At any rate, vista in and itself is not the issue. There could be many reasons for unplayable framerates, but to say vista is alone at fault is wrong.

 

[lasoski311]

Originally posted by: Griswold

Originally posted by: lasoski311
i am running vista, does anyone else think thats the problem?

No. I'm playing crysis on a vista64 machine with a HD4770 (830/850) at 1600x1200 on high settings and am content with the performance. I would say very high is reserved for those dual card systems. The visual bonus isnt that great over high settings anyway.

Of course, there are slow downs in extremely busy situations but its always playble for me. Crysis Warhead is an entirely different story though...

I guess its also a matter of how much low-fps-time you can take - as a casual gamer I can deal with some not-so-butter-smooth situations as long as they're the minority.

Also remember, lots of AA/AF (via driver settings) makes things much harder for your video card. Could it be that in your case?

At any rate, vista in and itself is not the issue. There could be many reasons for unplayable framerates, but to say vista is alone at fault is wrong.

Yes that could possibly be the problem i will check when i get home from work

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: lasoski311
I was under the impression that my new pc would be able to play crysis on "very high" at 1440x900 but its struggling, any ideas why that might be? or my pc just not good enough?

Nothing can play Crysis on "very high" smoothly.

Actually, I was checking it out on a Core i7 965 setup with GTX 295 in Quad SLI on a 30" monitor and it was choppy at 2560x1600 resolution with stuff turned up. Lowering it to 1920x1200 made it a lot smoother.

 

[JASTECH]

I too run Vista Ultimate 64 and play with out much of a problem. I see you run all that hardware with a 500w PSU. You might be very close to the max output and that might cause issues now or down the road. At idle my system uses 258 watts and you want your PSU to be double the watts needed as that is where they are tested at and most efficient and will last longer. I will be changing mine to a 1050watt on my new system to have growing room and to be safe.

Zap, Maybe the GTX 300 series will finally pass the games up?

Thanks, JASTECH

 

[zod96]

Try running in DX9 and see what happens. All my games have always always run much much better in XP then in Vista

 

[cbn]

Originally posted by: Scoop

And no, Vista is not the problem, that information is like from the last century.

Haha. I know what you are saying.

I have always heard people say Vista was bad for gaming for all kinds of reasons (resource hog, etc) but never really believed it. I just threw that out because I have a weaker video card running higher resolution without problems on XP.

Just wondering (anyone) does using DX10 put anymore strain on the video card than running just DX9? XP can only run DX9 while Vista uses DX10 by default.

 

[Tempered81]

yah, run dx9, no AA, high settings with veryhigh shaders. Don't run a bunch of background shit simultaneously. Can your Deneb do more than 3ghz?