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Call of Duty: Ghosts on PC demands 6GB of RAM.. yet it uses <2GB
- Thread starter angular graphics
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If you played Battlefield 4, you probably wouldn't be saying that.
Dice seems to give slightly more fucks though.
BF4 beta was ridiculously unoptimized as well.
Intheflorsh
Banned
Why would it help a publisher to impose arbitrary limits on who can and can't play a PC game? It seems like that would only hurt sales. There's got to be something else, maybe something to do with the game's optimization in certain parts.
Muppet of a Man
Member
THIS. IS. THE WITCHER 3!
Didn't respawn plunder most of their lead staff? Who worked on the PC originals?
Blame EA for wanting this game out before Ghosts, BF4 wasn't ready for release.
DoctorPayne
Banned
Cool, it looks fantastic.
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, I can't remember any other game that just flat out said "NO!, you shall not play". I was hoping Ghosts would have a bigger community than Black Ops 2, but there's just no way. I'd expect around 20k at most.
Sir Abacus
Member
Chrome uses a 32-bit process per tab model so each tab can use up to 2GB of RAM.
I'm sure angular is aware of that, he is probably wondering why he has so many tabs open.
The worst part is that Call of Duty was a PC series and IW was a PC developer. It wasn't until CoD3 before it became a console-first series.
By default, CoD4 kicks you from multi-player matches for cheating if you bought the Steam version. You need to go into settings to disable the Steam overlay (which is detected as a cheat).
Valve leaves stuff up to the publishers, but Activision doesn't care about a good user experience and the public keeps rewarding Activision anyways.
The only solution is to stop buying games from publishers who can't release a decent product.
I've set it to Extra
Also to prove my point that all levels seem to have the same look, here are four different shots from four different levels.
http://i.imgur.com/KpRXd5v.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ywvHQPz.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/EzB0B41.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/PQNMbfQ.jpg
MW3 was the same with everything grey looking. It's very disappointing because for once they've got the tech and shaders that COD lacked but it's used so badly that it leaves me perplexed as per what was IW thinking when they went "oh yea this looks nice and I'm sure people would be immediately be able to notice all those new effects that we're using in this game". Also the textures, they don't seem to be made keeping the next gen consoles in mind at all. I just hope Treyarch pulls out something better, but knowing Activision I don't have my hopes very high because quite possibly the next COD and probably the one after that as well, will be a cross gen tittle.....gotta capitalize from that PS360 market while they can.
ambientmystic
Member
With LAA enabled it can easily reach 4GB of RAM.
All 32bit processes can use up to 4 GB RAM if the LAA flag is enabled for that executable on 64bit Windows.
It kind of sounds like you have a bunch of background processes running. Try viewing "startup" from task manager and see if you have anything extra opening when you start.
Did you try to disable TXAA?, I remember when BLOPS2 launched TXAA was a blurry mess and had the same looks as your screenshots.
Set it to native same thing with MW3 extra does more looks like shit and native looks way better.
I'll try
Oh also changing settings means reloading the entire level all over again, even if it means changing something like AA.
angular graphics
Banned
I was wondering about both actually. But yes, mainly, how many hundreds of tabs one has to open for that to happen!!!
Nabs
Member
lol
Sir Abacus
Member
Couple of dozen. Silverlight and Flash will happily piss away three quarters of a gig of RAM between them after a couple of days.
Yeah, set it to Native. Extra scales the image and looks awful.
I like how they deliberately made the last-gen wolf worse than was actually possible.
xemumanic
Member
Wait a second, there's a logic fail here, but I'm not sure if its me or those who said this early on.
How is this "unoptimized"? It's using less than a third of the amount of RAM that was suggested.
EDIT: Also, this is just RAM use. Not performance. Are there even any drivers out there from Nvidia/AMD with support?
How is this "unoptimized"? It's using less than a third of the amount of RAM that was suggested.
EDIT: Also, this is just RAM use. Not performance. Are there even any drivers out there from Nvidia/AMD with support?
No setting called Native it's Very Low, Low, Normal, High and Extra.
You probably mean High? What does this image quality even do? Can't be a post process AA.
This. Set it to Native and take screencaps again. The game will look so much better.
angular graphics
Banned
You are fine on Extra. This isn't MW3 which operated differently.
CassidyIzABeast
Member
If you told me that was a screenshot of the X1 version scaled to 1080p I'd believe it. Why is the image so soft?This is true.
The game also doesn't runs all that well. I've got a superclocked 780 and on max settings @1080p 2xTXAA it drops to low 40s whenever I look at an area like this.While something like BF4 MP, I can get a constant 60FPS at maximum settings and 4*MSAA @ 1080p
I mean Black Ops 2 looks miles ahead of this even though it's considerably inferior technically. The campaign is even worse. Also IW has absolutely terrible art, they simply don't know what makes a game looks good because this game lacks colours, every level looks to have the same TOD.
Wow... how hard is it... And what is it going to do with all the rams? Start a herd? What's the point of reserving this much?! This is ridicuous.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
I thought a couple of the Nvidia ones looked quite good compared to the best I have seen of Blops 2.
The HBAO+ stuff that Nvidia put into Batman Arkham Origins is probably the best AO implementation I have seen yet and Ghosts seems to be shaping up the same way.
Yeah, some of the Nvidia shots look good and people are butchering it with these screenshots that are clearly because of a wrong setup.
Same here sethos,also 3 hours. Yay europe! Btw wanna add me to steam? Wanna do some extinction mode or squad later on or just mp.
narcosis219
Member
guys, what's the fuss? just download more RAM!
TouchMyBox
Member
Maybe they wanted to make a barf simulator?
Won't bother with MP on PC. IW's games on PC are cheat central with poor support, so I tend to just stick with SP and Bot matches
Won't bother with MP on PC. IW's games on PC are cheat central with poor support, so I tend to just stick with SP and Bot matches
Well they have confirmed it will have ranked dedi servers. So that is good just like Black Ops 2 did.
something fishy
Member
More like direct last gen ports.
Is this real? That's pathetic.
So I guess all the people saying that these are fake requirements to make people on the fence give up on trying to upgrade and go with consoles for next-gen were right?
What other reason is there for this? To artificially create an impression that their game is just too cool and 'powerful'?
And saying that they are trying to cover their asses for when a user may be running too many RAM consuming shit in the background makes no sense. If that was the case we should have been seeing fake requirements for years now.
So when cracked versions of the game with real requirements for its last-gen graphics start appearing everywhere, it will be the bad PC-gamers fault, right? And before I'm crucified, I hate piracy and how it has affected PC gaming. But this is ridiculous.
So I guess all the people saying that these are fake requirements to make people on the fence give up on trying to upgrade and go with consoles for next-gen were right?
What other reason is there for this? To artificially create an impression that their game is just too cool and 'powerful'?
And saying that they are trying to cover their asses for when a user may be running too many RAM consuming shit in the background makes no sense. If that was the case we should have been seeing fake requirements for years now.
So when cracked versions of the game with real requirements for its last-gen graphics start appearing everywhere, it will be the bad PC-gamers fault, right? And before I'm crucified, I hate piracy and how it has affected PC gaming. But this is ridiculous.