*UPDATED (Potential fix discovered)* Bad FPS with AMD cards.
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I have had AMD / ATI cards before, usually I just go with whatever better.
For example, I avoided Geforce 7000 series like the plague and advised others to do so to, because they could not run SM 3.0 and AA at the same time unlike ATI cards at the time, despite giving strong performance in benchmarks. The Nvidia 5000 series was also dire. But since DX11, Nvidia cards have had the upper hand with stuff like tesselation. In the first generation, Nvidia cards handled tessellation through their GPUs shader cores, so the more cores you had the better the tessellation performance. AMD however offloaded tessellation onto a seperate chip, which had a hard limit on the amount of tessellation it could handle. The result being that if a game had too much tessellation for a 5770 to handle, a 5970 wouldn't be able to run it either. This became very apparent in tessellation heavy games like Civ V, but of course they have improved their technology since then. Currently though I'm mostly against the new price hike on the high end cards. I bought and will be sticking to a pair of GTX 680s, because I was a huge fan of the GK104s power efficiency and performance per watt, plus how low the temperature on them stays. The latest AMD cards though are like having a small nuclear reactor in your PC, your room will turn into an oven running those. GTX 780 Tis are amazingly efficient too, but waaaay too expensive. (b) Personal abuse, foul language, inappropriate subject matter, obscene, harassing, threatening, hateful, or discriminatory or defamatory remarks of any nature ... are not permitted.
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I run POE at max settings on a 4 years old ATI card.
What is your card? I'm in an abusive relationship with life. It keeps beating the hell out of me and I'm too cowardly to leave it.
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" gtx760. What is your card? |
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" That's not an ATI card :P Mine is a XFX Radeon HD 5970 Black Edition. I'm in an abusive relationship with life. It keeps beating the hell out of me and I'm too cowardly to leave it.
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" Well I have also radeon 5850... Game runs very good on that too. Last edited by dirkw83#5899 on Jun 4, 2014, 12:59:03 AM
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" I'm going to buy a 780 Ti I'm in an abusive relationship with life. It keeps beating the hell out of me and I'm too cowardly to leave it.
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" Truth, but not so much an issue of card brand. Cast on critical is bad when you have no way of changing particles seen from other players. I run at a solid 40-50 fps when I'm running solo, which I prefer most of the time anyways fortunately, but when I am feeling frisky and join a party, I always cringe when I see someone using Cast on Critical + Firestorm or Arctic Breath + Greater Multiple Projectiles. I run the game on an Nvidia GT560 with 3 ghz ddr3, which I overclock with Nvidia Inspector for reference. Still in the alpha stage, but at least build diversity isn't an issue: https://wolcengame.com/home/ Last edited by JNF#6963 on Jun 4, 2014, 1:05:21 AM
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" I have also nvidia... What inspector??? |
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" Nvidia Inspector. It's a software program that allows you to monitor your gpu temp and manipulate your clock speeds. Still in the alpha stage, but at least build diversity isn't an issue: https://wolcengame.com/home/
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one point to consider is that you'll want to look into your mobo + cpu settings. A lot of newer intel cpus have a "smart boost" which OCs as necessary to handle load, but the problem with this is that it causes huge spikes in performance and can cause more issues than it solves.
If you have an intel CPU and have problems check that these auto-OC settings are off/disabled. If you're running AMD CPUs, please don't. AMD GPUs are fine for gaming, but their CPUs are trash for gaming performance. That said, ATIs major issue is still inconsistent frames. While I realize that many of you are only considering the minimum frames, for those of us running higher end monitors the constant ups and downs from the ATI cards cause a lot of frame stutter which makes games look and feel like crap. I was using a 7670GHz edition and ran POE with no problems (i7 3770) other than frame stuttering. My minimum frames was typically around 40-45fps (coc+gmp+fireball+arctic), but it would spike up really high and then back down constantly. After switching to a 780 I haven't had those problems. I still get a little bit of spikes in frames, but the transitions are typically much more smooth and I'm pretty sure it's just a driver issue between AMD and nVidia because I had the same problems playing battlefield 4 (optimized for AMD) and switching to my nVidia cleared the stuttering up. So, tl;dr -Check your OC settings for your pc/mobo (those of you with newer intel chips) -Check your power supply, even if it's supposedly drawing enough power, old PSUs fail in weird ways -Check the bottlenecks in your setup, sometimes if your CPU is creating the bottleneck increasing your graphic settings can stabilize your frames and make it seem smoother (without actually increasing FPS) -AMD is just lagging behind nVidia in the passed 2 Gens of GPUs in terms of drivers and smoothness of gameplay. |
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