HD 6850 Good Enough

[ddpaulb]

Is my HD 6850 good enough for The Elder Scrolls V, Civilization Beyond Earth and the newer Total War stuff? Or is it time to replace it?

 

[Techhog]

At what resolution?

 

[ddpaulb]

At what resolution?

1920x1680

 

[Techhog]

I assume you meant 1080... Skyrim should be fine, Civ: BE might work at mid-low settings, and you might be screwed as far as Total War goes. If you were to upgrade, what would your budget be? Upgrading is what i would recommend btw

 

[ddpaulb]

I assume you meant 1080... Skyrim should be fine, Civ: BE might work at mid-low settings, and you might be screwed as far as Total War goes. If you were to upgrade, what would your budget be? Upgrading is what i would recommend btw

$100

 

[MajinCry]

For Skyrim without an ENB, the 6850 is just fine.

 

[Techhog]

You're probably better off just forgetting about Total War in that case unless you find a good deal on a used card and don't mind turning settings down and/or 30FPS.

What are the rest of your specs btw?

 

[ddpaulb]

For Skyrim without an ENB, the 6850 is just fine.

What is an ENB?

 

[MajinCry]

What is an ENB?

It's a mod made by Boris Vorontsov, that allows users to change the shaders used in Skyrim. People have written their own HLSL code using it, and made Skyrim look very, very amazing.

The Natural Lighting And Atmospherics mod is a good example.

 

[Techhog]

What are your full specs btw? And how much VRAM does your card have?

 

[ddpaulb]

What are your full specs btw? And how much VRAM does your card have?

• Graphics Processor ATI Radeon HD 6850
• Pipeline 1,120 stream processors (775MHz), 32 ROPs
• Memory 1GB GDDR5, 4GHz effective
• Bandwidth 128GB/sec, 256-bit interface
• Compatability DirectX 11, OpenGL 3.1

 

[Elixer]

The 6850 is long in tooth, however, lower the res, and you can play most of those games listed at a good pace.

If you insist on 1080 with all the eye candy, then yeah, time to upgrade.

 

[Techhog]

• Graphics Processor ATI Radeon HD 6850
• Pipeline 1,120 stream processors (775MHz), 32 ROPs
• Memory 1GB GDDR5, 4GHz effective
• Bandwidth 128GB/sec, 256-bit interface
• Compatability DirectX 11, OpenGL 3.1

I need you to post your full system specs as well.