Gothic 3 Performance thread!

[akshayt]

The 8800GTX gets good FPS only in 1280x1024 without AA, not at 1600x1200 or 1920x1400 with 4x AA, at that resolution with 4x AA I should expect it to be worse or as bad as Radeon 1900 or Geforce 7900

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: akshayt
The 8800GTX gets good FPS only in 1280x1024 without AA, not at 1600x1200 or 1920x1400 with 4x AA, at that resolution with 4x AA I should expect it to be worse or as bad as Radeon 1900 or Geforce 7900

based on *what* ... your experience?
:thumbsdown:

i am SO glad to see a clarification that G3 does NOT use the same Engine as Oblivion

 

[akshayt]

seeing the FPS of Xbit labs, which show that the games only gets 40+ avg and 30+ min when using 1280x1024 without AA.

 

[apoppin]

you DO realize that the game is patched and the demo is not

--even then the game is UNoptimized and buggy as ... heck

 

[Captante]

My performance seems to be a bit better then the X-Bit tests at 1920x1200, but my guess is that newer drivers combined with the latest patch are responsible for the difference ... even so when the engine chokes, frames do drop briefly to around 25 fps.. bad news is that demo or full game version, a 3200+ with X1900XTX isn't going to do very well with this game unless the detail settings & resolution are lowered... but then we've had this conversation before!!!

 

[Avalon]

So...is the game actually good?

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Avalon
So...is the game actually good?

yes ... and NO!

it is very flawed ... starts great ... crap "identical" Endings ... worth playing it? ... maybe


"my" thread kinds sums it up: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=33&threadid=1961388&enterthread=y
[Cliffs: wait till they fix it ... when it is bargain bin]

edit - fixed

 

[Gstanfor]

Plenty of games out there (civ4 for instance) are based off of the GameByro "engine", that in itself means next to nothing. There is plenty of unique code sitting on top of that.

Most of the issues are caused by the way the game streams the world data in and out of the pc. Patching should eventually help out here. The AI is a larger problem, since its completely different to what was present in Gothic I/II and very dynamic rather than hard coded which makes for seeming strange game decisions/behaviour until the devs get more experience with it.

The game could definitely have used at least an extra six months development time. Sad how in the PC industry some of the most innovative developers have also been the most maltreated by the publishing houses.

 

[SPARTAN VI]

Originally posted by: JAG87

Originally posted by: akshayt

Techboi's Minimum Recommended

Intel P4 3.0GHz or AMD 64 3000
1.5GB RAM
256MB Geforce 6800GT or 7600GT level card
Experience: 1024x768 low/low to med settings


Recommended

Intel 4GHz or AMD 64 3700/3800 (Dual Core Recommended)
2GB RAM
512MB Radeon X1900XT or Geforce 7900GTO/GTX or equivalent
Experience: 1024x768 near Max settings without AA


Optimal

Core 2 Duo (X2 @ 2.4GHz, bare minimum I would say, Core 2 Duo strongly recommended)
3(+)GB RAM
512MB(+) Geforce 8800GTX/8800GTS
Experience: 1280x1024 MAX settings without AA, maybe even 1600x1200 or better



MY RIG
AMD 64 3200 Winchester @ 2.4GHz
2GB RAM
512MB Radeon x1900xtx

which category does your rig fall into?

now that you have figured that out,
why the hell do you keep making stupid threads about what kind of performance other people get in the same games you play?

your cpu is the bare minimum required, therefore you are going to get bare minimum frame rates. and NO your video card IS NOT GOING TO HELP YOU. that x1900 is completely raped by the rest of your system. you are probably using half of its real potential.

Do you have any evidence to support this? Granted, his 3200+ may very well bottleneck his X1900XTX much like my 3700+ bottlenecks my 8800GTS. In my experience, even the most CPU intensive games reveal the GPU's limit before the CPU's bottleneck.

My experiment involved Medieval 2: Total War, probably one of the more, if not the most, CPU intensive games out there. I ran two benchmarks usings FRAPS and identical battle parameters.

A64 3700+ w/X1900XT: 1280x1024 6xAA 16xAF HQ, Huge unite scale, Max everything
2006-12-09 14:07:24 - medieval2
Frames: 8167 - Time: 300000ms - Avg: 27.223 - Min: 11 - Max: 43

It became painfully obvious to my brethren at the total war forums that they were getting identical performance out of their E6600s...

Core 2 Duo E6600 w/X1900XT: 1280x1024 6xAA 16xAF HQ, Huge unite scale, Max everything
Avg: 27.9 Min: 20 - Max: 42



And then I got my 8800GTS:

A64 3700+ w/8800GTS: 1280x1024 8xAA 16xAF HQ, Huge unit scale, Max everything
2006-12-18 13:39:35 - medieval2
Frames: 11796 - Time: 300000ms - Avg: 39.320 - Min: 14 - Max: 60

Sure my minimum framerate was very low in both tests, but when analyzing the distribution data, it was only for a second.

This is M2TW... a CPU sucker. I'd expect to see more of the same with Gotic 3.

 

[TheRyuu]

Well if I had the game I'm sure it would perform good on my brand new 8800GTS (just got it working).

I am SOOOOO happy with it