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Need to get a clue how crysis 2 MAXED performs on gtx 460 768/ athlon IIx3/1280x1024

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Like the title says;

I have an athlonII x3 at 3.4ghz, 4 gb ram, running a 1280*1024.

I'm thinking of replacing my hd 4770 512mb with a slightly underclocked gtx 460 768mb, the "green version" (hughe price difference between it and a normal gtx 460 768 in my country).

But, so far, I haven't found any review that deals with that resolution and a cpu as weak as mine, so I want to see some relevant benchmarks.

Plain opinions are also welcomed.
 
How does it perform now? If you turn your resolution down below your native res (which, as you've said, is already low), does performance increase?
 
http://www.techspot.com/review/379-crysis-2-performance/

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Any chance to unlock the L3$?

Notice a few things:

-Athlon II doesn't scale very with multi gpu, but single cards shouldn't be as bad when compared with core i - http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/athlon-ii-x3-440-gaming-performance,2619.html

- 1680x1050 is ~33% more pixels than your resolution.

- DX11 should make the game a bit more gpu bound.
 
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^^^Well, I actually meant maxed as in patch 1.9 + DX11 + tessellation + hi res texture pack + ultraspec etc etc

Blue Shift said:
How does it perform now? If you turn your resolution down below your native res (which, as you've said, is already low), does performance increase?
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I don't have the game yet, and I don't plan to get it unless I can play it on the best possible visual settings, or at least best possible settings minus stuff like DOF, motion blur and 2x aa down from 4x - stuff like that.

Yes PC master race elitist snob.


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Any chance to unlock the L3$?
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No idea how to do that, but I might try and unlock the 4th core. I have an asrock m3a770de motherboard, apparently those are good for this sort of stuff.
 
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Well all that stuff is going to make it slower. I'm waiting for a copy of crysis 2 - phenom II X2 555BE @4 cores (also an asrock)+6850 here. Just need to activate the ACC (or Core control or something) I believe. Mine just needs to press X while booting. 🙂



The cache unlock is done like you do the 4th core, I believe. Even if you can't get the core there is a chance you get the L3$ and vice-versa. This game seems to like more cores and more cache.
 
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-Slacker- said:
^^^Well, I actually meant maxed as in patch 1.9 + DX11 + tessellation + hi res texture pack + ultraspec etc etc
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According to that first chart, it might be possible to get close to 30 fps with your current CPU. That's playable.

It also looks like it's possible to get 30fps on a system with a GTX 460, as seen in the second chart. As far as DX11 goes, the GTX 4xx series is known for being able to tessellate reasonably well. Since you'll be playing at 1280x1024, Crysis 2 may very well be playable with that system, at maximum settings.

The GTX 460 was mid-range last year, and cards haven't changed much since then. Even if you're not able to max out Crysis 2 (why would you even want to play it?), it's still capable of playing all modern games at your resolution, at medium or high settings. I think. If you find yourself CPU bound, you can always pop in a Phenom II at very little cost.

This is all just opinion and speculation. YMMV.
 
2^ I didn't know DOF and motion blur speed the game up ... in that case I would definitely leave them on, but, at least in the case with DOF, I thought it brings performance down because id does so in metro 2033, and not just mildly.

I'll definitely try to unlock the 4th core, but I want to be sure that I'm getting a new gpu first.

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According to that first chart, it might be possible to get close to 30 fps with your current CPU. That's playable.

It also looks like it's possible to get 30fps on a system with a GTX 460, as seen in the second chart. As far as DX11 goes, the GTX 4xx series is known for being able to tessellate reasonably well. Since you'll be playing at 1280x1024, Crysis 2 may very well be playable with that system, at maximum settings.
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~30 avg fps is what I figured I'd get too if I unlocked all the cores, an 25 at most for 3 cores (with horrible minimums, obviously), but I was hoping someone would disagree with that, in the positive sense 😀

The GTX 460 was mid-range last year, and cards haven't changed much since then. Even if you're not able to max out Crysis 2 (why would you even want to play it?), it's still capable of playing all modern games at your resolution, at medium or high settings. I think. If you find yourself CPU bound, you can always pop in a Phenom II at very little cost.
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Actually, no, I can't, at least not right now - that's why I'm going for the "green" edition, as in the "we're trying to sell you a defective video card that runs at lower clock speeds and obviously does not overclock, but we're hoping you're a gullible tree hugging hippie, and so we'll market the card's weakness as a strength, sort of like how apple markets their operating systems as virus-free, when the reality is that no hacker cares about iOS because it's crap, which is why they don't make viruses for it" edition.
 
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You don't need more cores you need a better GPU than the GTX 460 768 MB. You'll have problems loading the high-res textures in Crysis2 and tesselation will bring it to its knees from time to time. Make an effort and get the GTX460 1 GB, prices have come down on the 400 series, from where I live there's an MSI which costs the equivalent of 140 Euro.
 
Yes, around 10% but a regular one you can overclock. The thing is Crysis 2 needs the high res pack in order to look as it should have been in the first place and this requires minimum the amount of Vram on your planned version of the 460. Other games seem to benefit from more memory lately. But it's your choice and you know better.
 
This package provides higher texture resolution for a wide variety of assets. It supports both the DirectX 11 and DirectX 9 versions of Crysis 2. A 64-bit operating system and a graphics card with at least 768 MB of memory are required.

http://www.mycrysis.com/dx11
 
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yeah 768mb should be enough at 1280x1024. I would rather gouge my eyes out than play at that horrible 5:4 aspect ratio though. you will literally be missing out on 1/3 of the fov since games are made for widescreen. 😱
 
Long ago, mankind used to play video games on 5:4 aspect ratio monitors; It was a time when people still played quake, internet actually felt like internet what with the half a minute loading pages, cgi models looked like origami, and you could still hear birds chirping in the sky.

I believe that we have grown too attached to our wide screen monitors and forgot the simple joys of 5:4. One only needs to take the time to ask one's self: where are we heading to? Not only as a civilization, but as God fearing people.
 
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Long ago, mankind used to play video games on 5:4 aspect ratio monitors; It was a time when people still played quake, internet actually felt like internet what with the half a minute loading pages, cgi models looked like origami, and you could still hear birds chirping in the sky.

I believe that we have grown too attached to our wide screen monitors and forgot the simple joys of 5:4. One only needs to take the time to ask one's self: where are we heading to? Not only as a civilization, but as God fearing people.
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lol, well most people played on 4:3 for sure. 5:4 was an oddball aspect ratio right from the beginning and most gamers probably skipped it. there is no joy in removing 1/3 of the games intended fov. 😛
 
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