Yeah but you won't notice terrible chugging because of 800mb extra. But I see what they mean.
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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor PC Performance Thread
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Yeah but you won't notice terrible chugging because of 800mb extra. But I see what they mean.
Windows + run + install id
Then select the option from Shadow of Mordor's Properties > DLC menu.
Wasn't working for me either.
ThoseDeafMutes
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Do you have a source for that? Because semiconductor manufacturing making use of binary not decimal definitions (1024 vs 1000) seems to be included in the JEDEC standards, including their standards on DDR3 and GDDR5 memory. Furthermore, the wiki article on MB is mentioning that in storage and memory contexts it is much more common to use binary rather than decimal definition when expressing these units. Additionally, my "3GB" 780 video card has 3072MB, not 3000mb, and my new "4GB" (according to the label) video card has 4096MB.
Windom Earle
Member
Few more ultra texture pack pics @ 1920x1200, this time with more of the open world and a bit of combat:
In that combat screen I had my 970 OC'd further as a test.
So you're getting a locked 60? VRAM is staying in the 3,5 range? Guess I would be ok then.
It's dipped on occasion to 55 or so w/o further OC but it's generally pretty smooth. Performance should improve further with driver updates.
What is your VRAM on high settings?
Phreakuency
Banned
Either those shots are heavily compressed or the game is rough as hell without decent AA.
For 'ultra' settings they are pretty underwhelming.
For 'ultra' settings they are pretty underwhelming.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Doesn't seem to be any in game AA options.
Hyrule Warrior
Member
Well with that being said, I decided to take a chance and purchased it off GMG then. Hopefully it runs pretty good for me.
Guess I ordered it too late though, because it looks like there's no one there to send me a code so I register it. I was hoping to install it overnight.
I'd wait.
***If you are running SLI or Xfire, you may want to wait on your respective manufacturer profiles***
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Ground textures look like ass in that third pic. The cross-gen roots are showing, but it might be because it's open-world or close to open-world so you can't realistically give everything great textures. Still assy.
What little foliage there is on the ground looks last-gen as well. Can you take a pic with more foliage? Bushes, trees, or in a a forest, whatever.
What little foliage there is on the ground looks last-gen as well. Can you take a pic with more foliage? Bushes, trees, or in a a forest, whatever.
Allocates ~3.2gb or so on High texture settings.
They're pngs. There's no in-game AA setting. Gotta downsample of force it outside of the game. SMAA injector should be pretty effective.
Doesn't look bad, but really does not look like a game that needs 6GB of VRAM. But, eh, what do I know about programming. I'm just an arm-chair gamer.
Hmm, so this isn't a repeat of the Witcher 2 then, nevermind the positive 570 results.
I guess a 560 Ti IS good enough for the game, though I'd probably play it safe anyway.
No AA certainly doesn't help.
I was just about to ask about that. Was looking at some of my screenshots at max setting with the HD pack and was a bit surprised. WTB AA!
Pretty good performance actually. Nothing to complain about.
EVGA ACX GTX 780 - i7 5820k @ 4.4Ghz - 16GB DDR4 2667Mhz - 500GB Samsung EVO 840 SSD
1920x1080 - Everything Ultra (HD Texture Pack not yet downloaded), Tesselation on, Vsync on (not sure why it's going above 60 in the benchmark), etc...
EVGA ACX GTX 780 - i7 5820k @ 4.4Ghz - 16GB DDR4 2667Mhz - 500GB Samsung EVO 840 SSD
1920x1080 - Everything Ultra (HD Texture Pack not yet downloaded), Tesselation on, Vsync on (not sure why it's going above 60 in the benchmark), etc...
Crimsonclaw111
Member
The AA is pretty rough but in motion at 60fps it looks great.
cheezcake
Member
Have you ever noticed the Windows discrepancy between HDD size reported by manufacturer and the reported size in My Computer etc. I.E. my 250GB Samsung SSD shows 232 GB in Windows. That's because Windows actually uses the mebibyte/gibibyte definition but refuses to change their prefixes. Manufacturers however have to be strict about reporting size in MiB or MB because they are very clearly differentiated by all major standards organisations.
An easy way to look is to convert your manufacturers reported memory size to bytes by multiplying by 1000 however many times you need to. Then divide by 1024 however many times necessary and you realise you get the memory size reported by Windows.
TLDR a lot of confusion stems from the way Windows mixes MiB and MB when reporting memory size. And just to be clear IT IS more common to use it in a binary sense, but that doesn't mean its correct.
So ultra texture @1200p is only 300MB more. No wonder it barely looks better.
bodine1231
Member
You dont really need AA at 1440p though. I'll use it if it doesn't hurt performance,why not,but I don't miss it at 1440.
(Why the hell are some of you rocking 970's and 980's and still playing @1080p?)
GTX 980 SC here. VRAM is often maxed with "ultra" textures enabled, which I believe led to a couple stutters while fighting a large group of enemies in a more populated area. The difference between "high" and "ultra" textures is pretty small from where I'm sitting (~ 9ft/2.74m from a 60" TV), so I'll be sticking with "high" for a guaranteed buttery smooth experience at all times. Now, if I were to complain about one thing it'd be the lack of AA options. SMAA T2X would do wonders to this game without sacrificing performance.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
I messed up the texture comparison though. I forgot to restart before I took the shots but the models are different. Here's another quick look at how textures change from highest to lowest, though it isn't a great shot:
Windom Earle
Member
Thanks. I'll probably wait for the SLI profile then.
Even at 4K some games need AA...
bodine1231
Member
I think it's the initial load up that stutters that's throwing the avg. off.
OH NOES 6GB VRAM NEEDED
I wish companies wouldn't inflate their specs and I wish people wouldn't go crazy because of it. Maybe next time.
The game is using more than 4 gigs for plenty of people who are cranking it to max. Since there aren't really any 5 gig cards, it's Monolith covering their ass and saying 6 gigs is what you need to fully avoid that bottleneck.
That's what I'm hoping.
Oh, yeah, it really shows on the ground there. Still, if the ram requirements are grossly overstated I guess it COULD be fine with a 560 Ti, but I remember how Witcher 2 would have stuttering unless you threw more RAM at the game and so I can imagine the same can happen here.
People sweating with anything that has 2 GB+ of VRAM and is of the next generation (6xx/7xxx) ARE idiots though. May as well just go PC unless you really want to do Nemesis stuff with them on consoles, and on XB1 you'd be hit harder by lower performance presumably.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
You're certainly right about hard drive capacities, but I have never seen the same thing occur for system memory and video card memory capacities - or at least I don't remember it. For example, this work laptop I am typing from has 8.00 GB of Windows GBs. It has slightly less than that usable, but this is because of of memory addressing, not because it was manufactured in decimal GB rather than binary GB.
The Dear Leader
Banned
I'm constantly impressed at how well my i5-2500k @4.2Ghz and 2gb 7850 hold up, I'm playing with a mix of high and ultra, with textures on medium and I'm getting around 45-60fps constantly, game looks incredible, plays incredible, I'm just impressed overall, only bummer is you can kinda see some of the low resolution on the medium textures when it zooms in for the orc shitting talking, but it's entirely unnoticeable in game. Might try kicking it up to High on the textures to see what happens.
EDIT: Btw, this is the shit talking bastard that cheap shot me and went to the top of my kill list, I'm coming for you. Also a representation of the quality of the Medium textures I was talking about above.
EDIT: Btw, this is the shit talking bastard that cheap shot me and went to the top of my kill list, I'm coming for you. Also a representation of the quality of the Medium textures I was talking about above.
It's rounded up from 4.8Gb apparently. Which makes sense considering that 4Gb -> 6Gb is the most common jump in consumer cards. So a 4Gb card might get some stuttering but they played it as safe as possible.
Chance Hale
Member
Take screenshots, sounds cool 
black_vegeta
Member
780ti...has the performance???
Snapshot King
Member
Ah, that's it. Thanks man.