nVidia Geforce Experience

Installed this with the latest package but seriously what´s wrong with it.

It found Bioshock Infinite/skyrim and some others and all they suggest I run minimum settings at 1280x720 on my GTX 580 and Core 2 Duo at 3,6 gig. Hope there is no total PC newbies that make the misstake of following these guides... Question is how can they get things so incredible wrong. I have trouble killing performance in Skyrim with the high texture pack installed amd all maxed out.

I just saw similar with GE1.5. and Saints Row the Third. It recommended alot of minimums yet I already have about 80hrs in with highest settings (minus AA) and no problems hoovering around 38fps minimum.

Probably something between older CPU and Games. I bet a 2500K would probably score out all highs.

They have to balance out performance that most would find acceptable. You may be OK with 30-40 FPS but perhaps they're shooting for higher than that for the average person.

The settings that geforce experience recommend are based on get constant 60FPS on the games, i found the same hhmm "issue" in my little brothers with their E8400+gtx 560 SSC..certainly the settings on geforce experience allow to get constant 60FPS. What i do? Just ignore... I agree with RogueTrip its more a specs issue than any other thing...

I'm glad they're doing it...it helps newbies and makes PC gaming more smooth for the masses. But yeah, it doesn't necessarily help your average [H] user. I just like it for the updates, etc.

Core 2 Duo? Games ran a LOT better for me after switching from a q6600 (@3.4GHz) to a 3570k, and I only have a HD 4870.

ZMX said:

Core 2 Duo? Games ran a LOT better for me after switching from a q6600 (@3.4GHz) to a 3570k, and I only have a HD 4870.

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I am not pretending I have a monster setup but it has been doing fine with the games I mention and 99 % of the others. But as you say the sandy and ivy bridge CPUs perform a lot better clock for clock.

I would run perhaps 350 fps at the settings recommended so it´s not about constant 60 I believe.

gtx580 and core 2 duo really? good grief what a massive waste of having a gpu like that.

and I assume its E6600 not E660 like you have in your sig. and thats an older core 2 duo which make it even worse. you are lucky to get much more than half of what a gtx580 can do in many games.

cannondale06 said:

gtx580 and core 2 duo really? good grief what a massive waste of having a gpu like that.

and I assume its E6600 not E660 like you have in your sig. and thats an older core 2 duo which make it even worse. you are lucky to get much more than half of what a gtx580 can do in many games.

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yeah.. totally.. even my little brother [email protected] bottleneck a lot their gtx560SSC... specially on bench and MMO games.

I had an 8800 GTX before and the GTX 580 was a major bump. Most games is GPU heavy and I am generally fine with around 60 fps I don´t need 150 generally I don´t bench anymore and don´t run any MMOs

We have something named consoles which holds technology back which allowed me to keep this computer for ages. It really is just some racing simulations like rFactor 2 where it doesn´t cut it of the games I run. Of course I am not absolutely 100 % maxing games out with ambient occlusion and 32xaa all the time but it´s a bit unecessary

But I recon I will have to bin it at least after PS4 and Xbox One is released. Then we will see more demanding games I am sure.

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I had an 8800 GTX before and the GTX 580 was a major bump. Most games is GPU heavy and I am generally fine with around 60 fps I don´t need 150 generally I don´t bench anymore and don´t run any MMOs

We have something named consoles which holds technology back which allowed me to keep this computer for ages. It really is just some racing simulations like rFactor 2 where it doesn´t cut it of the games I run. Of course I am not absolutely 100 % maxing games out with ambient occlusion and 32xaa all the time but it´s a bit unecessary

But I recon I will have to bin it at least after PS4 and Xbox One is released. Then we will see more demanding games I am sure.

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lol again you are throwing about half of what gtx580 is capable of right down the drain with a silly old E6600.

cannondale06 said:

lol again you are throwing about half of what gtx580 is capable of right down the drain with a silly old E6600.

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Depending on the setup it had might not be all bad. Back when I had my DFI setup with a e8200 I had that thing overclocked like you wouldn't believe. Ran most everything perfectly except for a few games that were particularly well 'threaded'. Noticing CPU bottlenecks and degradation surfaced sure was interesting though. Had a 560-ti 448 core overclocked pretty nicely at the time too so that is pretty comparable to the GTX 580.

Back on topic, I think the GeForce experience thing is a great idea but it needs a loooooong way to go. Definitely think an even stronger educational aspect of it should be incorporated since doing everything for people will never let them learn. Would be nice if every game released with developer notes from internal testing on what settings generally suck up the most performance and the general impact on various system components.

Other than telling me to put textures on low in BF3 it works pretty well with my sig.