zamardii12
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So, maybe this isn't AMD so much as it is the optimization of the game but here is what I did over the weekend...
So I have always held onto my last gaming rig and kept it in storage since I upgraded it a while ago, but I decided to re-purpose it over the weekend. At my work we were retiring a bunch of Dell 790s... 4th gen Core i5s (still Quad Core) and I added the memory from my old gaming rig into it to push it up to 8gigs of ram. I put in my PSU and I bought a 128GB SSD and had a 2TB spinning drive and the idea was to just put together a simple media-center PC. I have a wireless keyboard with a built-in touch pad so the wife and I could watch movies, Netflix, Sling, and TV shows I have stored on the 2TB drive.
But, I got to thinking over the weekend if the video card could handle anything from not long ago so I downloaded the latest driver I could find for the card which was 15.7.1 from 2015 (actually surprised it was supported for so long).
As you can see from my sig I am using a Nvidia card for my main rig now; but this is the card I held onto from my old gaming computer...
It has a HUGE cooler on it. I had to take a metal cutting scissor and cut out the hard drive bays just to get it to fit inside that business-class Dell 790 mid-tower case.
Anyway, my first test was Resident Evil 7. Our TV is 1080p so I loaded it up @ 1080p with pretty much all the settings on High and I have had virtually no issues playing the game on there with this setup. I have the occassional FPS dip, but the game looks and runs fantastic 99% of the time. I am quite shocked as to how well it has been running. I am going to try some other newer games to see how things go, but I really have to hand it to AMD... If I didn't have that itch to always have the latest and greatest I don't see why the HD 6970 couldn't still run a decent amount of today's games with ease and I probably would still be okay if I hadn't upgraded. this probably isn't all due to AMD... likely Capcom optimized RE7 quite well but it's still impressive regardless.
So I have always held onto my last gaming rig and kept it in storage since I upgraded it a while ago, but I decided to re-purpose it over the weekend. At my work we were retiring a bunch of Dell 790s... 4th gen Core i5s (still Quad Core) and I added the memory from my old gaming rig into it to push it up to 8gigs of ram. I put in my PSU and I bought a 128GB SSD and had a 2TB spinning drive and the idea was to just put together a simple media-center PC. I have a wireless keyboard with a built-in touch pad so the wife and I could watch movies, Netflix, Sling, and TV shows I have stored on the 2TB drive.
But, I got to thinking over the weekend if the video card could handle anything from not long ago so I downloaded the latest driver I could find for the card which was 15.7.1 from 2015 (actually surprised it was supported for so long).
As you can see from my sig I am using a Nvidia card for my main rig now; but this is the card I held onto from my old gaming computer...
It has a HUGE cooler on it. I had to take a metal cutting scissor and cut out the hard drive bays just to get it to fit inside that business-class Dell 790 mid-tower case.
Anyway, my first test was Resident Evil 7. Our TV is 1080p so I loaded it up @ 1080p with pretty much all the settings on High and I have had virtually no issues playing the game on there with this setup. I have the occassional FPS dip, but the game looks and runs fantastic 99% of the time. I am quite shocked as to how well it has been running. I am going to try some other newer games to see how things go, but I really have to hand it to AMD... If I didn't have that itch to always have the latest and greatest I don't see why the HD 6970 couldn't still run a decent amount of today's games with ease and I probably would still be okay if I hadn't upgraded. this probably isn't all due to AMD... likely Capcom optimized RE7 quite well but it's still impressive regardless.