There was Rage, and Batman: Arkham City will probably need some driver work.
The level of CPU bottlenecking makes me think that the game would really have benefitted from DirectX 11 DirectCompute or OpenCL as well as more thorough multithreading.
Actually, if they are that close to release then GCN should get more attention. The only really big titles that needed work recently are bf3 and skyrim, weaker performance in those 2 will be easy to explain if GCN rocks, but if GCN flops then nobody will remember how great AMD cards were in a couple of "last year's" games.
I'm playing on Ultra on my GTX460 @1080p, however with only 4xAA instead of the Ultra default which is 8xAA. Didn't touch any other settings, I understand that even Ultra doesn't enable everything...etc.
As for what kind of fps I'm getting, I haven't checked. It feels fine though so far, pleasantly surprised at how this GTX 460 has handled both BF3 and now Skyrim.
There was Rage, and Batman: Arkham City will probably need some driver work.
The level of CPU bottlenecking makes me think that the game would really have benefitted from DirectX 11 DirectCompute or OpenCL as well as more thorough multithreading.
I completely agree. It may sound extreme, but Skyrim is the first title that I anticipated so much, seeing AMD with zero support and Nvidia with a beta driver and SLI already on the ground actually makes me reconsider going AMD in the future.
Didn't play Rage, Deus Ex had some Crossfire support right away, but as of now there isn't even an ETA for a Skyrim profile, and those who DID buy Rage are STILL waiting for that new driver. Ridiculous.
If you're willing to turn down settings or are fine with 30-35 fps (which is what I get outdoors on my unlocked, slightly overclocked 6950s, with NO AA--turn that on and it's 20% less) on hardware fully capable of a solid 60fps then sure. The inherent drawback to Crossfire vs. SLI once again rears its head and Nvidia gets the extra performance on day 1 while AMD users wait.
According to the twitter feed, 11.11 is pretty much Rage fixes, and their next beta after that will (finally) offer CF for Rage.
Now, I'm going to play the hell out of Skyrim anyway. And you know what? 35 fps outdoors, 50-60 fps indoors sure isn't bad. Doesn't stop me from being massively disappointed, this was my most anticipated title of the year and AMD support is behind. Hopefully just a little, but behind nonetheless.
Wow that's some hardcore CPU limitation going on there.
Yes, the game needs clock speed not Multicore.
That said, there is zero gameplay difference in this game between 40fps and 50fps.
Wow that's some hardcore CPU limitation going on there.
What two architectures are you talking about? It's well known that Ph2 is a Core2 competitor. And its obvious from that benchmark that Ph2 is behind nehalem and way behind sandy bridge. Shadiness not found.See this sort of benchmark result is what makes me think there's something shady going on under the table with Intel CPUs vs. AMD cpus.
In this benchmark, it would appear that both architectures are, clock for clock, identical. VERY surprising to see the Ph2 945 beating the Core2Quad 9550.
All the in-game screenshots I've seen people posting make the game look like a slightly updated Oblivion/Fallout. Doesn't look good at all.
All the in-game screenshots I've seen people posting make the game look like a slightly updated Oblivion/Fallout. Doesn't look good at all.
It looks slightly better than Oblivion with Qarl's Texture Pack.
It's really a terrible port. You can't even click any selections in the menu with your mouse, you have to use a combination of different keys on your keyboard to navigate the menus and inventory screens, etc. Really ? No mouse support ?
Well, new catalyst driver apparently fixed all the issues with skyrim for AMD cards.
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1651227
Thats fast.
Just wondering. Anyone with skyrim on nvidia drivers have any issues? I am getting random blue screens making me restart windows every so often and also a bit of stuttering every so often.