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I tried out that driver and some others. No change.
Hopefully nvidia can fix their drivers.
apoppin
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i am getting DA II also today. The only "fix" i know of is to carefully remove my GTX 580 SLI and replace them with HD 6990+HD 6970 TriFire-X3.:whiste:
Since i have identical HDDs - one for Nvidia and one for AMD Graphics - a complete switch over takes about 5 minutes. If you can't do this, remember DA II is an AMD game set up for 5+1 Eyefinity. Give Nvidia a week or two for a beta driver hotfix; maybe less since it is an AAA title.
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I have a 6870, but doubt it can drive my 30" monitor. Meh. I may just bite the bullet and play in DX9, because nvidia cards can't seem to handle DX11 with the drivers that are out.
As the Bioware employee said (the one i quoted) there is supposed to be new driver on Monday or Tuesday from both camps to address the dx11 performance and stability so i highly doubt it would take a week for nvidia to release a fix
Just wait a week for NV and ati driver fixes. Why play this game at low settings when you can play full settings in a week, I mean you waited long enough for the sequal for come out, what's 1 more week?
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AMD/ATI works just fine.
It's nvidia that is garbage in this game currently.
I will wait, but shouldn't have to because nv screwed the pooch on their drivers.
nVidia having issues?!!?! NEVAHR!
I could test it out with my GTS450 :hmm:
p.s. the game runs fine on my 6850
I could test it out with my GTS450 :hmm:
p.s. the game runs fine on my 6850
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Throckmorton
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I don't understand why drivers would ever have to be "optimized" for a particular game. The whole point of Direct3D is that it's standard.
Skurge
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Is this some of that better out of the box AAA title support I've been hearing about?
Yeah, that same support that doesnt have SLI working in Total War: SHOGUN 2.
While, ideally, everything works. Practically, nothing works. There is actually a law for that, the Murphy's law. "Things that can go wrong, will go wrong." When Nvidia assists in developing a game, it also file reports back to its own team, and therefore fixing things as time goes by. Unless it isn't a bug, or it has already affect other games, changes won't be on the release note. The only different this time, AMD is helping.:thumbsup:
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Well it tanked on 5760x1200 with the 6990 at 8xAA.
On Nvidia cards right now it can't even handle 1080p.
RussianSensation
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Yes, you are right but my point was that it tanks on AMD with only 4x AF. For 99.9% of games even 16x AF is basically a 2-3% performance hit. So this tells us that either the game is very texture heavy (this specific area is where GF100/110 series have a huge deficit compared to AMD) or the drivers are at fault (or both).
On a 6990:
"This game also has a vast landscape of textures in play, therefore Anisotropic Filtering does have a lot to do in this game, and does go a long way to improving the image quality. We found that the performance hit occurs at 16X, 8X and 4X AF. At 2X AF there is not a big hit, so the best option for image quality and performance right now is to use 2X AF."
On a single 6970, Kyle wasn't even able to use any AF. Since the high-res pack requires at least 1024mb of VRAM to run in the first place, I am leaving towards the fact that this may be a texture deficiency of current generation + a combo of unoptimized drivers.
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I didn't think it was a competition but things like this happen I'm sure it will be fixed soon.
I guess the real humor of this situation is the DX9 renderer looks about 99% identical but runs 5x faster.
RussianSensation
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Outside of BattleForge, almost every DX11 game I can think of barely looks better in DX10/11 over DX9 and runs significantly slower. I think DX10/11 were created to sell more videocards :hmm: (*obviously not but the performance hit vs. increased visual quality tradeoff isn't really there!).
I am anxiously awaiting how much performance hit Crysis 2 DX11 patch will bring (i.e., can you say 64 billion tessellation factor?).
RussianSensation
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It's a special '580 Pawned' edition. It has 16 Kepler style super duper wide SPs -- fast enough to beat a 580.
On a more serious note, I sold my GTX470 and am replacing it with a 6950 that I am going to unlock to a 6970.
My reasons were:
(1) Hopefully a quieter card at load
(2) MUCH better performance in distributed computing (double precision) work such as in Milkyway@Home (GTX470 wasn't going past 60-70% in SETI@Home regardless what driver I used and could barely beat my i7 @ 3.9ghz).
(3) Net me some 25% gains in certain games such as Crysis 1/2, F1 2010/2011, etc. I sold the 470 for a very good price so the total upgrade cost was minimal.
(4) I got bored of the 470 and just wanted to play with new hardware (probably not the most logical reason to swap cards).
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So basically you are going ATI because an OCed 6950 runs Crysis as well as a GTX 580
And he can play DA2 under DX11, because nvidia is hosed in that area atm.
OILFIELDTRASH
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Is this a hack and slash type game or what? I still haven't played the first one. I hated the witcher, is it like that? I love oblivion. Should I try the first one?
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Well for a week, Nvidia users can feel what its like to be a AMD owner with a new hit PhysX titleSounds like a great reason to upgrade to me
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a new hit PhysX title
What are those ? Oh those three games. Wow, three whole games.
I was too busy playing Batman AA on my 5870 CF setup at frames nvidia couldn't come near to producing on 285SLI.
I had to turn off Physx from High in Mafia 2 because it was too much of a resource hog for 480SLI to handle.
I think that's it actually. There have only been 2 good games that use physx.
Metro 2033 was good, but used gpu physx effects in .05% of the entire game.
Now run off and find another thread to try and derail. Unless you'd like to post an nvidia PR slide first ?
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