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Mass Effect: Andromeda PC system requirements
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prag16
Banned
It sounds like your PC is good enough to curb stomp a PS4 Pro. The PS4 Pro doesn't exactly have secret sauce. The better visual experience for you is probably on PC. Unless the couch and big TV are important for you and you're not set up to PC game in that manner.
Better graphical quality settings / level of effects vs. checkerboard 4k
Something only you can answer for yourself.
edit: Apparently Dictator93 has better info on PS4Pro res
Dictator93
Member
It is 1800c on PS4pro, and 30hz.
So it will not be 4K or even checkerboarded 3840X2160.
Trickster
Member
Why not hook your pc up to your 4k display?
prag16
Banned
Almost certainly. My 2550k isn't worried either.
Option 3 = downsample from 4K on PC.
1440p will likely look better than the scaled 4k.
Slackbladder
Member
I am definitely looking forward to seeing HDR on ME:A. Finally HDR decided to work with Shadow Warrior 2 after not initially and it's great. Resi 7 is harder to tell due to the muted colours. But I'm expecting ME:A to be particularly vibrant.
Same problem here. Witcher 3 stutters as well. Gonna upgrade in summer i think, it's had a good 5 years at least!
CaptainSmirnov
Member
Yes, I believe 1440p has more pixels than 1800checkerboard
Hell yeah, I think it's going to look great!
BossDarkseid
Member
Yeah. For me I will tweak settings to get 1440p/60fps, and that sort of IQ and playability are trumps over getting it for Ps4 Pro. If my friends were all on PS4 then i'd probably go on that for the MP, but I'm not gonna be able to tell the difference between some settings anyway so if I have to lower a few to hit 60 I dm.
i could do that, but my tvs pretty far from my pc, and id have to move it unfortunately
i could do that, but my tvs pretty far from my pc, and id have to move it unfortunately
We have the technology.
yea.. too far of a distance.. people would just trip over the wire.. not worth it for one game. if anything, ill prob just get it on pc.. 1440p looks good regardless and 4k would just make my fps dip too much
LordOfChaos
Member
Funny when even the 8 core FX's get rolled by a modest i3 in most games. Hopefully a sign of great multithreading?
Slackbladder
Member
With my PC I can play any game 1440p@60fps and usually with highest settings, minus high AA (obviously no 8xMSAA). That said I'll try 4K@30fps just to see (and maybe for pics) and if there is no stutter or judder and the frame timing is good I might even play at 4K. But I'll probably sit at 1440p unless there is an inbuilt scaler like in DA:I where I can go to 4K but knock off 25%. Might give slightly better PQ.
The Dear Leader
Banned
FrostBite 3 usually loves dem threads.
martino
Member
if you want to obliterate you pro draw distance (and imagine horizon with it) you will go pc.
It's an open world.
We have the technology.
yea not worth
The Dear Leader
Banned
8.3 million for 4k
4.1 million for faux-k
3.6 million pixels for 1440p.
2.88 million for checkerboard scaled 1800p.
2 million rendered for 1080p
edit: Frankly, if you have a PC that can run this game at 1080p60fps or better, it makes no damn sense to go with the console version IMO
My 2500k bottlenecked my 1080, I got huge gains upgrading my CPU, like 2x the performance on most newish AAA games. Especially open world games I have a hard time believing that the 2500k is not sitting at 100 percent useage in most new games unless it's very heavily overclocked.
No, we do not. HDMI cables are really finicky when over 20+ft to support 4K + HDR.
Signal deteriorates too much?
exmachina64
Banned
We have the technology.
Alright I'm just messing with you now lol
You're the best.
If people want to take hi res pics there's Ansel or I expect SRWE will work (it does for DAI). That way you can play in whatever resolution you like for the fps, but get those stunning screenshots to look at afterwards.
With SRWE you get the opportunity to change aspect ratio as well, making for even nicer pictures.
With SRWE you get the opportunity to change aspect ratio as well, making for even nicer pictures.
Yep. Sparkles and Black screens.
Will wait for the prices to be a bit more reasonable before biting. With the assumption there will be a lot of dlc and likely priced to high as usual, I might even wait longer still for a goty release or something similar (though EA don't seem to bother with this on PC, in which case Origin Access for a brief period would be more cost effective)
family_guy
Member
We have the technology.
Can't get 1440p on a Steam Link. 1080p max.
Isn't that why you get an active cable? Or does HDR currently present a problem?
If you want to get a little creative, I suppose you could use HDBTs and run CAT-6 in-between.
If you want the full 18Gbps (e.g. 4K/60 4:4:4 or RGB, edit: this is at 10bit or higher) what cables work are very hit and miss. Some of the active cables with redmere work for some people, others that say they do and don't. Hell even HDMI Premium certified (certified to 18Gbps) cables are all over the place. I bought a monoprice HDMI premium certified cable at 20ft and the signal just kept dropping out, their 6ft variant works fine. Some people even have issues with the Celerity fibre optic cables, this is a $300+ cable. Once we start moving to HDMI 2.1 and require up to 48Gbps, who knows what will work.
Check this thread on AVS Forum regarding the issues and cables that do/don't work.
http://www.avsforum.com/forum/168-h...-support-4k-60hz-4-4-4-chroma-deep-color.html
This is what I use to get Oculus Rift working in another room, haven't tried it with the projector as I don't think it (the one I have) can handle the full 18Gbps.
Alpha Phoenix
Member
I would say it depends on whether MEA wins GOTY, otherwise there would be no incentive for them to do so.
Good information. Thanks.
It doesn't really need to. So long as it's critically acclaimed I think they'll do it.
Err, they dont do these types of things because they care about winning the award.
With Dragon Age it was almost certainly because the game didn't do that well financially so they couldn't rely on their normal strategy.
It was one of if not Bioware's biggest game of all time.
Biggest launch.
It still debuted at like number 5 in the UK. It was not in the top 10 of its launch month in the US. That's not the numbers they were looking for. Even if ME: A ends up being their biggest launch soon, it doesn't neccessarily mean it's what EA are wanting at this point.
There's a reason they did not report figures much beyond that period. The DLC and the multiplayer both did not do well.
Doesn't matter if it's Active or Passive, long distance hdmi cables are too problematic at the moment to push out the full 18Gbps with 4K and HDR. I've tried with my media set up and have gone over a bunch of cables. This is why there are no Premium Certified Cables over 25ft.
Back-In-Black
Banned
We don't know the official numbers but I'm positive it sold well. EA isn't really big on releasing numbers in general so I'm not sure if we can cite that as evidence it didn't sell well.
Every game wins GOTY (from someone or another). That said, "wait for a price drop" works almost universally.
I plan to preorder Andromeda to support the development of similar games.