It's all over the place. In some areas I am locked at 60 constantly, in others I was hitting no higher than 30fps... Those 30fps areas were always the WvWvW zones. SLI scaling was also non-existent. I would see 50%/50% generally across both cards, so I just disabled SLI and ran on one card.
I don't think these were driver issues though. The game is certainly not demanding graphically, but it's not a light weight like WoW is either. I think there are issues with the game engine causing performance issues.
GW2 is an NVIDIA TWIMTBP title. As such, AMD does not have access to the final gold build, so we will be unable to investigate CrossFire scaling until after the game launches this weekend.
Another update:
We're at +7% CF scaling currently, at 1080/1600p w/ all the bells and whistles. NVIDIA is at -20% across the board.
This title may just not be all that friendly to multi-GPU, but we're continuing to look into it.
Radeon fans might also be pleased to know that 7000 Series is faster at 1080/1600p w/ AA, by about 5-10%.
You want pre-purchase, not pre-order - there is a difference. Pre purchase gets early access, pre order doesn't.
I would love to see a taskmgr from an August event that shows only 2 threads.
I am going through threads on several forums and it seems the August 21st stress test is where people went from 2 threads to using every available thread. In fact every single post about cpu usage I have found dated the 21st or later is showing this.
Here is my cpu usage...seems to be using all 4 cores.
"The game is pretty evenly optimized for single GPUs already. Forcing AA is not supported for NV or AMD at this time, but the game does natively support FXAA." http://www.overclock.net/t/1297192/guild-wars-2-crossfire-7970/10#post_18000639
NO. Another AAA game with FXAA and no MSAA?? /facepalm
Since a bunch of you are in the beta, how is the game overall, polished for launch? Thinking of this or Secret World.. (definitely Planet Side 2).
Extremely polished. I would honestly say, had it been any other company it would have been released like a year ago
Its one of the most, if not the most polished and finished MMO at launch I have seen.
Extremely polished. I would honestly say, had it been any other company it would have been released like a year ago
Its one of the most, if not the most polished and finished MMO at launch I have seen.
seems like it uses four cores to me, shame there is no dx11 code path though
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=71544BFEA7E532E2!506
"The game is pretty evenly optimized for single GPUs already. Forcing AA is not supported for NV or AMD at this time, but the game does natively support FXAA." http://www.overclock.net/t/1297192/guild-wars-2-crossfire-7970/10#post_18000639
NO. Another AAA game with FXAA and no MSAA?? /facepalm
Lets just hope that GW2 absolutely crushes WoW and makes it bleed more subs eh?
I used to love WoW (2004-2007) but I *really* hate what they've done with it over the past couple of years. Die WoW, die.
It's not the game it's a DX9 limitation. You can't use deferred shaders and have MSAA.
And for the love of Mike, stop feeding the trolls.
-ViRGE
Used the link Shintai provided and got my copies ready for early access.
Gonna be a good weekend
Indeed Got to play in the stress test yesterday and was absolutely blown away in that one hour. Huge world which you're rewarded for exploring, crafting that's actually fun, better combat than even in Tera and random people helping each other out :wub:
Also, thats why every reviewer hates on amd these days. The 7970 was owned by the 670 and 680 so they released an overclocked 'ghz edition' to go against it. what a joke. does nvidia release a 680 ghz edition ? Then when the 660ti comes out they want more performance out of the 7950 so they come out (again) with an overclocked version. what a joke.
By the way, here are a couple of pictures, showing how awful (and blurry) the ingame FXAA is.
Fullsize pics: No-AA, FXAA, SMAA. (blegh, imgur destroyed the original jpg-quality)
Not only, did ArenaNet go the 'lazy-way', by not supporting MSAA but instead, implementing FXAA. They also did a real shitty job doing so.
Don't get me wrong, I love ArenaNet for their enthusiasm, openness, community-involvement and general awesomeness, and their game is certainly one of the greatest things I've played since many years.
However, its quite apparent that they really don't care about 'niche' things like MSAA, SSAA and FXAA, at least not until now, which is understandable, since they've been working their asses off to get GW2 out of the door, but I still think its a damn shame the graphical-options aren't as polished as the rest of the game.