Max Payne 3 Next big graphics powerhouse ?

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toyota

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vram monster with MSAA for sure. with 8X MSAA, 2gb will probably be borderline at 1920x1080/1200 and go right past 2gb at 2560x1440/1600. and as learned with GTA 4, you dont technically have to use all of your vram to lose performance. my gtx570 ws only using about 1100-1150 of vram in GTA 4 but turning off aero gave me a massive performance increase because of the additional freed up vram. tbh though I see no point in using that much MSAA in Max Payne.
 

nemesismk2

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I really liked Max Payne and Max Payne 2 so I am interested in Max Payne 3. When i played Max Payne and Max Payne 2 I played them using a Hercules 4500 Kyro 2 with a massive 64MB Memory lol with a AMD Athlon XP 2500 for great gaming
 

moonbogg

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Well its nice to see Nvidia barely getting by on Vram yet again. I have to admit, AMD did it right for the past 2 generations regarding Vram. At least this time around you have a choice to buy a 4gb card from the 600 series. This makes the 690 look totally useless for anything above 1080p in this game. The lack of Vram on the 600 series in standard form is disgusting.
 

chimaxi83

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Well its nice to see Nvidia barely getting by on Vram yet again. I have to admit, AMD did it right for the past 2 generations regarding Vram. At least this time around you have a choice to buy a 4gb card from the 600 series. This makes the 690 look totally useless for anything above 1080p in this game. The lack of Vram on the 600 series in standard form is disgusting.

Because of one game? Lol. Are you an AMD champ?
 

Grooveriding

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Per the VRAM situation in this game. I think they are way off base.

I could turn everything up, but MSAA to 8x, it limited me to 4x. I manually edited the config file for 8xAA and it runs just fine.

Seems like the estimations in the config options are plain wrong.
 

Zanovar

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Per the VRAM situation in this game. I think they are way off base.

I could turn everything up, but MSAA to 8x, it limited me to 4x. I manually edited the config file for 8xAA and it runs just fine.

Seems like the estimations in the config options are plain wrong.

Are you enjoying the game groove?,i loved the first 2.
 

Gordon Freemen

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wow dude WOW. Rory is going to have words with you on Monday.
No need to be a rat for no reason mate when both parties were being equally derogatory and both have valid opinions even though there could have been a better way to words things on both parties accounts. "moonbogg" did come off as a Radeon Bigot although his point was vaild about the Vram issue. That being said I don't like to see either Radeon or Nvidia get bashed for I have owned many variants of both parties GPUs over the years and have been equally delighted & dissatisfied by both camps.
 
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weird gamegpu found crap sli/cf scaling.. [H] finds it scales pretty well for sli better than cf.

also, fxaa not incuding a blurry mess?? pretty damn good effort there.
 

SHAQ

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Yes at 8X MSAA it not only fills up 2GB at 1080P but it also pegs my 680's at full load with vsync on. Occasionally at 4X it did the same. Now I just need to get Sparse Grid working.
 

Gordon Freemen

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weird gamegpu found crap sli/cf scaling.. [H] finds it scales pretty well for sli better than cf.

also, fxaa not incuding a blurry mess?? pretty damn good effort there.
So is FXAA "Blurry" in MP3 ? At any rate there is one Video up on Youtube that had a 6970 playing MP3 on Ultra @ 1200P pulling in 80 - 120fps not bad at all considering the mess that is GTA 4 I considered MP3 would have been similar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0RGNHTBrmI
 

SHAQ

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Also I believe the game might be 64 bit as I don't have a DX11+FPS indicator on my G510. That usually occurs when a game is 64 bit.
 

toyota

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So is FXAA "Blurry" in MP3 ? At any rate there is one Video up on Youtube that had a 6970 playing MP3 on Ultra @ 1200P pulling in 80 - 120fps not bad at all considering the mess that is GTA 4 I considered MP3 would have been similar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0RGNHTBrmI
that game is not running at the framerate indicated there. you can look at the benchmarks on the previous page plus you can clearly tell the game is running way slower. I believe there is an issue right now with afterburner/precision reporting much higher framerate than it should in MP 3.
 

Gordon Freemen

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that game is not running at the framerate indicated there. you can look at the benchmarks on the previous page plus you can clearly tell the game is running way slower. I believe there is an issue right now with afterburner/precision reporting much higher framerate than it should in MP 3.
Of course though it could be that Youtube runs videos at what is it 29fps max but it might be 30fps I am not positive. What I am positive about is that MP3 is a well optimized Rockstar game for ONCE LOL
 

.Root

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Hopefully Nvidia works on the scaling for MP2, as my 4 680s only see moderate usage in BF3. Most other games fail to make use of 2 of them, much less 4. And yes, I'm running high res with a 3930K @ 4.7ghz, so thats not it ;x
 

cmdrdredd

Lifer
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Again a game where 4x MSAA cuts FPS in half? WTF? In this day and age that just shouldn't happen.
 

chimaxi83

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Hopefully Nvidia works on the scaling for MP2, as my 4 680s only see moderate usage in BF3. Most other games fail to make use of 2 of them, much less 4. And yes, I'm running high res with a 3930K @ 4.7ghz, so thats not it ;x

Nice setup, M3t4lh34d/BossToss. :thumbsup: Why have all of your posts since you rejoined been "hey guys, I have FOUR 680s FOUR 680s FOUR 680s"? lol we know bro.
 

moonbogg

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Hopefully Nvidia works on the scaling for MP2, as my 4 680s only see moderate usage in BF3. Most other games fail to make use of 2 of them, much less 4. And yes, I'm running high res with a 3930K @ 4.7ghz, so thats not it ;x

What res are you running at? I have gone through hell to figure out why my two 670's get low GPU usage in BF3 @ 1080p with my 2600k @ 4.6. Turns out its simply CPU bottlenecked like MAD. With 4 680's I bet you suffer the same thing regardless of resolution.

EDIT: Speaking of which...could you help me out in diagnosing BF3 and its use of 6 cores vs 4 PLEASE?! I would all but die to know what FPS you get standing on the sharki TV station looking over the map with all ultra and a low resolution to eliminate the GPUs from the equation totally. My FPS goes down to like 55 up there with 64 players (CPU limitation).
 
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