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Tom · January 07, 2016, 10:35:26 AM

This is going to be fun.

Mr. Analog · January 07, 2016, 10:38:38 AM

Nice!

Tom · January 07, 2016, 10:41:27 AM

It's no 980ti, but I ain't made o' money yaknow. OCed and it can match a stock R9 Fury

Mr. Analog · January 07, 2016, 10:49:24 AM

The main thing is onboard memory, which you got tons of now, so most games will run pretty well IMO

Tom · January 07, 2016, 10:59:17 AM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on January 07, 2016, 10:49:24 AM
The main thing is onboard memory, which you got tons of now, so most games will run pretty well IMO

Turns out the 970 with 3.5G usable ram performs only slightly worse. The jury is still out on whether games will start asking for that much ram or not in the future. I win if they do. I'm going to do some testing to see how much vram use I can get games to use.

Saw a guy do a test with a 970 and a hd pack for Skyrim still didn't use more than 3.5G. but then maybe they know not to use more than that on the 970.

Mr. Analog · January 07, 2016, 11:04:10 AM

Are we talking vanilla Skyrim or modded Skyrim?

Tom · January 07, 2016, 11:10:50 AM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on January 07, 2016, 11:04:10 AM
Are we talking vanilla Skyrim or modded Skyrim?

I think he skipped doing a TON of mods, but he did install huge HD texture packs.

Also It's bigger than my head.

Mr. Analog · January 07, 2016, 11:12:29 AM

Holy crap

Thorin · January 07, 2016, 12:04:19 PM

Congrats!

The best part of that second picture is the fact that you made sure to wear a Fraga t-shirt while unboxing your new gaming video card...

Tom · January 07, 2016, 12:11:18 PM

Quote from: Thorin on January 07, 2016, 12:04:19 PM
Congrats!

The best part of that second picture is the fact that you made sure to wear a Fraga t-shirt while unboxing your new gaming video card...

Hahaha, yeah. Maybe I should post that to the FB Fraga group. 2007 shirt too.

Tom · January 07, 2016, 06:59:32 PM

Got the card installed. Briefly tested Fallout 4 and it autodetected I should use the "Ultra" settings, and it basically didn't go below 60fps. Of course vsync was turned on and the new crimson stuff makes it hard to find the global vsync settings. *sigh* so I don't know what the max fps was. But it felt smooth

Tom · January 07, 2016, 07:01:50 PM

More FWP, I think the shinyness one or more of the high quality settings adds is distracting. It's not like they have global reflections...

Mr. Analog · January 07, 2016, 07:52:50 PM

Quote from: Tom on January 07, 2016, 06:59:32 PM
Got the card installed. Briefly tested Fallout 4 and it autodetected I should use the "Ultra" settings, and it basically didn't go below 60fps. Of course vsync was turned on and the new crimson stuff makes it hard to find the global vsync settings. *sigh* so I don't know what the max fps was. But it felt smooth

To uncap your FPS you gotta modify your config

Set "iPresentInterval" to 0

ALSO YOU WILL HAVE TO ENABLE VSYNC thru your video card driver / settings or as I discovered Fallout 4 gameplay is linked to the FPS so when you are getting 900+ fps on something like the lockpicking screen or an interior you're gonna have a hell of time (also the physics gets HILARIOUS at over hundred FPS)

Anyway, some more unlocks for things like FOV:
http://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-tweak-fallout-4s-hidden-graphics-options/

BOOSH

ENJOY

Tom · January 07, 2016, 08:01:16 PM

I was just going to see what kind of numbers I'd get, so I was going to force vsync off in the drivers, so even the game can't enable it. Easier to mess with that I thought, than editing an ini file. I don't actually mind it being capped to 60fps since I dislike tearing

So assuming I do set that iPresentInterval option, does it still break the gameplay? (I heard about that already, and I think it's hilarious! tying physics and logic to the frame rate is ridiculous)

I will play with dual and triple 1080p as well

even though the 390 isn't likely going to do well at 3x1080p, it may do decently at 2x1080p.

May also play with some overclocking. You can actually get like 10-20fps improvements from OCing the 390s, and in Fallout 4, OCing your cpu AND ram actually helps a lot. F4 seems to be really cpu and memory bound, such that OCing your ram from 1600mhz up to like 1866 or 2000+ will net you a significant improvement. Usually its the other way around, most games aren't limited much by ram at all. I think I'll be able to get near 1ghz OC out of my cpu, but ram will be tricky, I have a mixed kit 1333/1600 and 1866. I was thinking of replacing the older kit with a matched pair for the new ram i bought last month if running faster ram helps out enough.

Mr. Analog · January 07, 2016, 08:10:54 PM

It's capped at 30 fps, that flag uncaps it to whatever your card can manage, and stupidly there's no game config option for VSYNC so I had to set it through the nVidia control panel.

TBH it's not THAT broken, the main things that will break are dialog and the lockpicking screens, everything else just gets slightly more fun