Looking for help with my computer setup

[Tinsley847]

Hello Everyone,

A couple questions for those of
you that know a lot more about custom computers than I do.

1. With the system I am
currently running (see below). Am I bottlenecking at my CPU? I am not able to
run Crysis 3 on very high settings.

Furthermore, with the setup
that I run, which of the anti-aliasing modes should I use? I have a strong
feeling that I am bogging down my system with the incorrect one.

2. I was hoping to get some
insight on which settings in Cry3 are hurting me the most. Point being, that I
would like to just tone back some settings rather than set everything from very
high to high.

High across the board, very
high texture res, and the MGPU AA setting seems to run alright on my rig. It
would definitely be better at a higher frame rate though. Also what confuses me
is when I go full blown very high. It’s not just a slideshow; it also shows the
NPC Psycho as a texture blob.


CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Processor 3.41 GHz
VIDEO CARD : HIS Radeon HD 6990 4GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready
HDD : Single Hard Drive 300GB (Not Solid State)
MOTHERBOARD : Asus M4A79T Deluxe, AMD 790FX Chipset
MEMORY: 8GB (2GBx4)
MONITOR: 27” LCD – Samsung (MAX RESOLUTION = 1920x1080)
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
POWER SUPPLY: 1000 WATT Power Supply

Thank you...

 

[bballkenn]

1. Use something like AMD System monitor http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/amd-system-monitor/Pages/overview.aspx while you are playing Crysis 3, on a second monitor. See which one is maxing out first. It's nice because they have an integrated graph of both CPU/GPU usage. You will find the bottleneck.

On the 2nd questions can't really help. Not to keen on game settings.

 

[Tinsley847]

Thank you, I will work on borrowing another monitor to do this.

Is there something I can run, so I can see my FPS while playing a game? Without a 2nd monitor that is.