When a texture pack says it doubles the VRAM requirement and pushes it into a yet uncharted territory, I'm expecting a difference which SCREAMS at me from the screen. Simply put, go big, or go home!
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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor PC Performance Thread
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Well that's a huge increase in performance. Pretty good starting point for anybody without a great card and needs to turn something down.
Stitch
Gold Member
oh ok, the ingame v-sync is crap.
but forcing it through radeonpro (+ triple buffering) also doesn't work which isn't good because forcing SMAA also doesn't work.
meh, not impressed with this port.
SixtyTonAngel
Neo Member
Edit: Whoops. Double post.
alexandros
Banned
It depends on the definition. The game will take advantage of the ram you have but people have been playing on High with 1.5GB cards with no problems.
So what's the consensus on the performance? Good? I have a gtx 770 4GB and im undecided between PC and ps4, thing is ive been burned so many times with unoptimized games that is hard to make a decision, I'd like to know gameplay performace if someone can share it please, not benchmark stuff, also, does it have native gamepad support?
That or perhaps developer is just so-so. I mean, useless 6GB VRAM requirement - But no AA.. "Ultra", but still looks like years ago. Yeah.. Congratulations, you managed to put "Ultra" in your settings, but sorry, it still looks like "Just Ok".
Why are you forcing smaa? Can't you just go up one resolution? Or does the down sampling not work on your card?
Got it up and running, and while scaling is OK to Good, the game does not feel smooth during combat.
SixtyTonAngel
Neo Member
I was convinced that triple buffering wouldn't work and that it was Direct X, but setting it in the Nvidia control panel worked.
I checked the frame rate with FRAPS and there is now zero tearing. It didn't seem to work first go, but when I alt-tabbed out and started FRAPS, it seemed to work when I went back into the game.
I checked the frame rate with FRAPS and there is now zero tearing. It didn't seem to work first go, but when I alt-tabbed out and started FRAPS, it seemed to work when I went back into the game.
Because downsampling is not a good or efficient standalone AA technique.
Really? I think even bumping up a small red increase looks alot better than something like fxaa at 1080p.
Andy,
I am disappointed. Where's are official SLI profile? And, you need to restart you monitoring program to show the correct VRAM usage after enabling SLI.
Refer to my earlier post.
UnrealEck
Member
150% of what?
Remember it looks at any custom resolutions you have saved in nVidia control panel for example.
I have 4K saved and in-game, 1080p is displayed as 50% even though that's my monitor's native resolution.
alexandros
Banned
Performance is great as reported from multiple users so far. Even older cards seem to perform very well. I say go with the PC version.
alexandros
Banned
Sounds about right. Post some results afterwards!
UnrealEck
Member
Native gamepad support is in the game.
Game runs well on my GTX 770 which has half the memory yours does and it does it running high textures.
Very acceptable performance.
I think the 680 is a tiny bit below the 770 in terms of power (I think you're aware since you said medium AO) but I think you'll be fine with high textures, high AO and high shadows with everything else maxed. Same as what I have. Especially if your card isn't stock clocked.
Stitch
Gold Member
1080p
Its just not an efficient use of performance. FXAA is very cheap, while you're having to really suck some resources for downsampling.
Much better to start off with a traditional AA method and then add downsampling on top depending on how much performance you can, or are willing to spare.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
FXAA is a small hit, but it makes the image soft in the process. Downsampling is a bigger hit, sure, but everything looks so smooth and sharp that it's definitely worth it for me.
If given the option of 60 fps but FXAA or 50-60 fps and downsampling, im going with downsampling every time.
FXAA isn't the only AA method out there.
SMAA *would* be ideal if it worked, cuz its effective, doesn't result in a soft image like FXAA, and isn't that demanding.
Prophet Steve
Member
It should run great on your card definitely better than on the PS4.
I'd rather have the option to use this texture pack than not, even when you may not feel it is worth the difference in VRAM. In that case leave it off.
But he'd rather have the option to do both or have a different AA solution.
alexandros
Banned
I really hate FXAA, I'd rather run with no AA than suffer through the vaseline-smeared graphics it produces.
Yeah. I see it. It's subtle but it's there. Some other screenshots have shown a little bit more of the ultra textures than these shots.
I'm just not seeing the double the size textures. I'd expect twice as detailed for double the size. Pretty disappointed.
Turning motion blur off netted me about 10fps in the benchmark. For games that can keep a solid 60fps, I prefer no motion blur, anyway, so that's good.
UnrealEck
Member
First place I'd check is the sound options and try changing to headphones or speakers if it's on home theatre.Try changing your sound in windows to stereo too.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
I was hoping someone, anyone had AA running. I'd love to apply it in a few hours when I get home.
Are we expecting a driver update for Mordor yet or no?
I figured it out. I'd moved my USB receiver last night and it was getting interference. Now I just have to get V sync working.
And do I have to turn resolution to 150% to get AA? That's probably going to kill my performance.
Burgess_101
Member
No idea why I keep crashing. I guess I will just have to keep trying different things.
Check your event logger. If you don't specify a bit your specs we can't help you.
Burgess_101
Member
I did so last page sorry. I cant even get past initial loading now without it crashing its doing my head in.
d00d3n
Member
The benchmark scores do seem a bit optimistic compared with gameplay, especially combat. I was able to run the 150% resolution downscaling method with 70 avg fps in the benchmark (using sli, ultra but textures high), but it was not very playable in the first combat encounter against orcs. Fraps went down to 35 constantly, and down to 40 with shadows high.
Although SLI still improved performance in 1080p, ultra except textures high. The same combat encounter was a pretty stable 60 fps with SLI, but constantly down in the 30 fps range with sli disabled. Subjectively I think that combat felt much smoother with SLI activated in this case.
Also, the game looked pretty awful with vsync disabled, so I would not recommend anyone to run the game like that.
b0uncyfr0
Member
2500k and overclocked 770 2GB here. Getting roughly 60 fps solid with everything maxxed, AO and Shadow quality on High. Textures on High @ 1080p
Borderless mode is a life saver. The in game vsync is just bad. The tearing isn't too bad but I'm hoping there's a way around that. All we need now is smaa support and a new driver from nvidia.
Borderless mode is a life saver. The in game vsync is just bad. The tearing isn't too bad but I'm hoping there's a way around that. All we need now is smaa support and a new driver from nvidia.
Now, I'm not really a PC gamer (a total noob really) other than playing various MOBA's with friends and the occational guild wars 2. How would these specs fare with this game?
Intel i7-3770k 4.2ghz
Nvidia 660ti SLI
16gb ram
1080p
Would I be better off buying SoM on my ps4 or will I have a much better experience on my computer?
Intel i7-3770k 4.2ghz
Nvidia 660ti SLI
16gb ram
1080p
Would I be better off buying SoM on my ps4 or will I have a much better experience on my computer?
Dusktildawn48
Member
so im not the only that has my framerate drop a hefty amount during combat?
What is your texture setting ? High requires 3GB at 1080p. You might want to look into that.
Latest WHQL drivers ?
Wag
Member
Yep, another game with no ultra-widescreen resolution support. It supports the resolutions, but the AR is all screwed up. Nice. Why software developers realize that people have ultra-wide displays (ie: 3440x1440)? Now I have to wait for the guys from Flawless Widescreen to support it.
What's borderless versus full screen? Sorry, somewhat a newbie at some of the tweaks/tips of PC gaming.
Reboot your PC. Even though the driver recovers that was the only way I could get back to the main menu after a crash.