Soulblighter31
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Your card is the one slightly slower, not his.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda PC Performance Thread
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Your card is the one slightly slower, not his.
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Not unless the 970 gets performance advantage out of architectural differences for new games.
In terms of raw power the 780Ti is slightly faster than the 970.
Soulblighter31
Banned
nvidia abandoned the 7xx series from a driver standpoint, while it gave the 970 small improvements with every driver. I just looked at a bunch of recent games, DR4, Wildlands, WD2, Dishonored 2 - in all of them the 970 outperforms the 780Ti. But its by small margins, 3-4 frames usually, they're more or less equal
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Here's some MP footage that I recorded of the PC version:
https://youtu.be/Mfyqp_btCPY
1440p / 60fps / high settings, film grain and CA turned off
GTX 1070 / i7-4790k / 16GB DDR3
Played around 5 matches so far and it's been smooth, apart from one game where we had to migrate hosts and the game kept skipping all over the place. Performance wasn't bad for me.
https://youtu.be/Mfyqp_btCPY
1440p / 60fps / high settings, film grain and CA turned off
GTX 1070 / i7-4790k / 16GB DDR3
Played around 5 matches so far and it's been smooth, apart from one game where we had to migrate hosts and the game kept skipping all over the place. Performance wasn't bad for me.
I see, I am still genuinely surprised that you are getting close to stable 60FPS in Habitat 7 though.
That is only demanding with weather effects.
The next planet is more demanding with the mako though.
Can you explore more than the first planet?
I just checked some reviews. Even when the 970 just launched it was pretty much equal to a 780 TI.
I actually went from a 780 to a 970, and on newer games the difference is noticeable. Support for the newer versions of DirectX is at a bare minimum on the 7xx cards, so the 970 is better suited to this. On older games the 780Ti is stronger (because it IS a stronger card), and usually is barely better.
Played through the opening and the about an hour of the first planet. All settings are default, graphics settings set to ultra.
1920x1080: 60 FPS average, floats between 54 and 65. By and large, at 60.
2715x1527: Not much of a difference from 1080.
3840x2160: FPS drops to 30, some stuttering but nothing too serious.
I'll go in later and start messing around with resolution scaling and stuff.
Running on a GTX 1080, i7-4820k @ 3.7 with 16 GB DDR3. Installed to HDD.
1920x1080: 60 FPS average, floats between 54 and 65. By and large, at 60.
2715x1527: Not much of a difference from 1080.
3840x2160: FPS drops to 30, some stuttering but nothing too serious.
I'll go in later and start messing around with resolution scaling and stuff.
Running on a GTX 1080, i7-4820k @ 3.7 with 16 GB DDR3. Installed to HDD.
daninthemix
Member
This makes me think the game spanks the CPU.
xeroborn55
Member
anyone know how big the download is on origin?
Anyone else having issue's with shadow's and dark areas?
Some ground textures look crushed black, and dark room's are extremely dark. I've been playing with my gamma settings. It seems to help a little, but everything looks much darker than it should. Also when standing in shaded areas character details disappear almost altogether.
Some ground textures look crushed black, and dark room's are extremely dark. I've been playing with my gamma settings. It seems to help a little, but everything looks much darker than it should. Also when standing in shaded areas character details disappear almost altogether.
~43GB I believe.
KINGofCRA5H
Member
Can't get over this resolution scale thing. Since when has a Frostbite game had this? Why do you have to tweak a bunch of stuff in order to get the game to run in your native resolution? I can run BF1 at 1440p with everything at or very near Ultra settings, and get a locked 60fps. In ME:A, I can't get anywhere near that, unless the game runs at 1080p? Wtf? I had to set the resolution scale to like .74 or something random since I can't stand playing in 1080p.
4790k @ 4.8
16GB
980ftw 4GB
SSD
w10
4790k @ 4.8
16GB
980ftw 4GB
SSD
w10
xeroborn55
Member
Thank you.
I have a i5 6600k, 16gb ram, and a 970. I'm getting that itch though... was looking at 1080's on amazon.
Playing at 1080p@60hz on a 6700k + GTX 1080. Everything on Ultra, except HBAO instead of HBAO Full. (Just a guess at this point that that's an easy thing to sacrifice for performance. Maybe Effects or Lighting to High would be better.) No real issues keeping a locked 60 so far, so I'll have to play with the resolution scaling, but we'll see what happens in really busy scenes.
I did notice that framepacing seemed a little off – framerates were fluctuating a bit in the high 50s when they would have been well above that with vsync off, frametimes fluctuating by a few ms. So, I'm playing around with driver settings. I turned off the in-game vsync and triple buffering, and turned on a 60 FPS cap in RTSS, and Fast Sync and Max Pre-rendered Frames = 1 in Nvidia Control Panel. (Not sure if the former supersedes the latter.) Seems like that might be better, at least in the room in the Nexus my current save spawns in. We'll see.
Edit: Getting stuttering, which after reading more about Fast Sync, is not surprising. I'll try with regular driver vsync later.
I did notice that framepacing seemed a little off – framerates were fluctuating a bit in the high 50s when they would have been well above that with vsync off, frametimes fluctuating by a few ms. So, I'm playing around with driver settings. I turned off the in-game vsync and triple buffering, and turned on a 60 FPS cap in RTSS, and Fast Sync and Max Pre-rendered Frames = 1 in Nvidia Control Panel. (Not sure if the former supersedes the latter.) Seems like that might be better, at least in the room in the Nexus my current save spawns in. We'll see.
Edit: Getting stuttering, which after reading more about Fast Sync, is not surprising. I'll try with regular driver vsync later.
Going by earlier posts, I'd venture a guess that the CPU may very well be a bottleneck for most having issues.
Thanks for posting this man. We have the exact same configuration lol!
Since Battlefield 4..how have you missed this??
It doesn't take a few tweaks to run at native resolution, you just turn resolution scaler off.
BF1 is a less demanding game, it targets 60FPS on consoles, Mass Effect targets 30FPS on the other hand because it's obviously more demanding tech wise.
Dang how did you get 4.8....liquid cooling?
Darkstorne
Member
I was pretty much locked 60fps there with a 970 too (High settings, none on Ultra, and HBAO instead of HBAO Full). Eos is also almost always 60fps, but Nexus would drop to high 40s in some areas, the ship (Tempest I think?) would often drop into the 30s which was kinda gross, and cutscenes with their janky looking DOF drop me to the 40s as well.
I'm hoping with a dedicated driver for this game 60fps will be achieveable everywhere outside of cutscenes. And I remember DA:I having a graphics setting specifically for cutscenes that could be turned down to Low to remove the DOF and ensure 60fps there too. Chances are high Andromeda adopted the same system.
I found what the problem was. First I tried deactivating vsync but that just gave me 3-4 more FPS but still had drops to 57-58 (and introduced stuttering). So I changed the framebuffer from 64 bits to 32 bits. With just that change I have now no drops below 60 and I activated vsync again because I couldn't stand the stuttering.
TheExhaustedWalrus
Member
I keep getting "YOUR VC++ RUNTIME PACKAGE HAS NOT INSTALLED CORRECTLY" when installing. Already updated Windows. What should I do?
I had similar issue with past games, it's Origin related rather than game. Been a whole though so don't remember steps all that much. Google the exact error and Origin and you'll likely find a solution.
I'd try first step though, if it's actually downloaded, going into the game's folder and finding the package and running it.
It must be a bug. I was looking for it in my 5 hours I played so far and didn't see it. I'm playing at Ultra too.
Skyr
Member
Try downloading it manually and reimstall.
http://www.techspot.com/downloads/6776-visual-c-redistributable-package.html
YuriLowell
Member
Does it support ultrawide resolutions?
As others have said, I also suspect your CPU@3.7 is the reason you are seeing little difference between 1080 and 1527. Can you not squeeze a bit more out of your overclock?
dgrdsv
Member
FB3 is known to run like shit on Kepler cards in general so you can be pretty sure that 970 is beating 780Ti here. It also have more VRAM which can be an even further detriment to 780Ti.
This has nothing to do with drivers, and by this time I'd hoped that people would stop spreading this crap as it was debunked by tests and benchmarks more than a couple of times now.
https://www.computerbase.de/2017-01/geforce-treiber-test/2/
TheExhaustedWalrus
Member
No dice. Tried reinstalling it, running from the folder, nothing. The Origin troubleshooter just tells me to reinstall it through the folder and that doesn't work.
Shadowhaxor
Member
Yes.
Steam controller works very well, have been using it since the start. Gamepad controls plus mouse aim on the pad and gyro has no problem aside from the prompts switching back and forth but I'm used to that.
Only issue I have is the hold button commands happen too fast for me. When I want to reload 4/5 times it'll switch weapons instead. Same with the hold to holster, when I want to do that the weapon wheel pops up 4/5 times. Does this happen to other people on other controllers?
If anything I can do some rebinding to fix this small issue. The rest of the game plays great with it, combat feels very good especially with gyro aim imo.
LelouchZero
Member
This machine crushes the Xbox One, the game looks pretty tough to run so you may have to use a combination of medium to high at that resolution. The Xbox One also runs this game at a sub 900p resolution.
Hopefully we can get some performance impressions from people with 7950 and 7970 GPUs, as-well as their R9 200 series refreshes.
I haven't jumped ingame yet but it ran great on my 21:9 monitor while I messed around with settings at lunch time. I'm jumping in tonight.
Any fellow GTX 1080 users out there? How are the frames on Ultra?
I run a GTX 760 with an i7 4770 and 16GB DDR3 and it runs like trash.
Latvian Hitman
Member
It does, but cut scenes are 16:9 with pillar boxes. Same situation as DA:I. Like with that game, should be an easy Flawless Widescreen fix coming pretty soon. Everything else about the game is good to go.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Is the game really demanding or is it a case of poor optimization(Deus EX MD)?
Rig
- i5 6600K @ 4.2 GHz
- 16GB
- 980Ti - Ghost Recon drivers
- 1080p
- VSync On (otherwise tearing for days)
- Custom settings with everything manually set to max and resolution scale function Off
Ivory Samoan
Member
Runs good on a lower CPU (3770K) with a 980 - getting steady 60fps with mostly high settings (odd medium one and one ultra one) with temporal AA in 1080p - upscaled with HDR running in 4K looks fantastic too.
Mustn't be CPU heavy then, I head it was: GPU doesn't go 100% on it either, which is weird.
Haven't even tried to OC my CPU. 3820k runs at 3.7 stock. By very little difference I was only speaking to framerate, which barely takes a hit between 1080 and 1527.
What is the GPU utilization? My guess the cpu cant keep up and keeps the same framerate.
