Fallout New Vegas with 4870X2

Yes,

it is the same game graphics and engine wise as Fallout 3.

if your system can run Fallout 3 than you are good.

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Yup ran this on my 4870CF setup and it was sweet except for 8x AA, which then came to a grinding halt in VATS :), looking forward to New Vegas !!
 
Thats good to know! I was thinking about getting it for my 360 or PS3 but I had so much
fun with Fallout 2 on my PC that I'll grab a Windows version.
 
yeah a much better visual experience on PC, low rez console or high rez PC , not much of a choice really.
 
It'll be fine with that setup. The 4870x2 is still an amazing card (about 90+ percent fast as the 5870 and sometimes faster) so Fallout : New Vegas will look fantastic.
 
Yes, 4870x2 will be fine as New Vegas still has textures created by 5 year olds.
 

It's actually faster than a 5870 more often than not, and is even competitive with the GTX480 in some titles. I'm sure there are some games where the 5870 is faster than the 4870x2 but I can't think of any off hand.
 
Thats good to know! I was thinking about getting it for my 360 or PS3 but I had so much
fun with Fallout 2 on my PC that I'll grab a Windows version.

not to mention the console version is $59.99 and will mostly stay that way for a long time unless you buy used. you can get the windows version for probably $10 in a couple months for the download version.
 
Just an FYI to those with a 4870x2 and probably other CFX setups, so far I can't get Crossfire enabled even when using RadeonPro. I've also tried the 10.10 beta Cats and the 10.9a app profiles but no luck. The engine seems really borked to me, I'm getting around 40 fps on a single card but in some situations (like looking at an NPC) the game dips down to around 15 fps.

Might want to hold off on this one until they fix some of this crap, at least if you have an x2 card.
 
Hell, I played Fo3 just fine with a single 4870, 2-4xaa @ 1920, depending on location. Was more than playable for about 90% of the story line.
 
Sad but true...did FO3 get a high res texture pack like Oblivion did - from qarl? I think thats his name.

Not sure, i wouldn't be surprised, it's the same engine and everything so could of done.
 
Don't expect great performance no matter your system. There's something very wrong with the engine. On my 5870 the game's utilizing about 30% of the GPU. Nvidia cards have a problem with water multisampling and both ATI and Nvidia cards have problems with fps drops when looking at NPCs if using Windows7. The latter can be somewhat fixed by opening the console and typing toggleEmotions.

The game's official forum is filled with people having performance problems even on high-end systems and Win7, though it seems to be working okay for a few of them.
 
My e8400 @ 4ghz with a GTX460 runs fallout 3 brilliantly at max settings 1680x1050, and it's pretty much exacly the same as new vegas
 
Hell, I played Fo3 just fine with a single 4870, 2-4xaa @ 1920, depending on location. Was more than playable for about 90% of the story line.

Fallout 3 ran well from the start for me too. I just got into Primm in New Vegas and I'm getting dips into the single digits, especially on the interior of the casino. The engine has been screwed up pretty badly it seems.
 
Just an FYI to those with a 4870x2 and probably other CFX setups, so far I can't get Crossfire enabled even when using RadeonPro. I've also tried the 10.10 beta Cats and the 10.9a app profiles but no luck. The engine seems really borked to me, I'm getting around 40 fps on a single card but in some situations (like looking at an NPC) the game dips down to around 15 fps.

Might want to hold off on this one until they fix some of this crap, at least if you have an x2 card.

Newer drivers have been bad for my 4870 X2 as well. But can't you play this using 10.4 or 10.5 drivers? I would assume that should work.
 
Newer drivers have been bad for my 4870 X2 as well. But can't you play this using 10.4 or 10.5 drivers? I would assume that should work.

Well for some odd reason the 4870x2 has driver issues where the second GPU won't be used and your fps dips big time for the lack of it. I had to revert back to 10.3 to get both GPUs working properly in majority of games (Win7 Ultimate 64-bit).

New Vegas needs some patch love in terms of performance , its crazy how it dips with only a few NPCs around.
 
Well for some odd reason the 4870x2 has driver issues where the second GPU won't be used and your fps dips big time for the lack of it. I had to revert back to 10.3 to get both GPUs working properly in majority of games (Win7 Ultimate 64-bit).

Are you using the 10.9a hotfix drivers that were released specifically for these cards?

I just helped my friend out installing drivers for his 4870x2 and I understand that it is a bit counter-intuitive that you can't just go to AMD.COM and download the latest catalyst drivers. The 10.9 drivers will not allow the 2nd GPU to function correctly, that is the purpose of the 10.9a hotfix.

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATICatalyst109Hotfix.aspx
 
Fallout New Vegas has turned the Gamembryo engine into a horrific monster. I had severe hitching/microstuttering in repeatable situations (spin around in spot, as camera pans over buildings or NC's it hitched withoutusing more than 50% gpu).

I fixed it by:
Excluding fallout NV in ffdshow settings (you have this if you have k-lite codec pack among others). Before I did this I was getting 80-90% load consistently across all 4 cores at 4ghz!

Updating nvidia drivers, setting it to full power for fallout

Turning down water multisampling.
 
Managed to get a fix for Crossfire from the Bethesda forums. Put this d3d9.dll in your FalloutNV directory and use RadeonPro to force AFR.
 
Are you using the 10.9a hotfix drivers that were released specifically for these cards?

I just helped my friend out installing drivers for his 4870x2 and I understand that it is a bit counter-intuitive that you can't just go to AMD.COM and download the latest catalyst drivers. The 10.9 drivers will not allow the 2nd GPU to function correctly, that is the purpose of the 10.9a hotfix.

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATICatalyst109Hotfix.aspx

Sadly that hotfix just replaces one GPU bug with another. With some games the second GPU gets stuck at 3D speeds and won't go back to idle after exiting the game. Haha.

10.5A or earlier still seems like the best drivers for the 4870 X2.
 
Are you using the 10.9a hotfix drivers that were released specifically for these cards?

I just helped my friend out installing drivers for his 4870x2 and I understand that it is a bit counter-intuitive that you can't just go to AMD.COM and download the latest catalyst drivers. The 10.9 drivers will not allow the 2nd GPU to function correctly, that is the purpose of the 10.9a hotfix.

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATICatalyst109Hotfix.aspx

At the time I don't think there was a 10.9a hotfix so it just remained broke until I rolled back to the 10.3's. It was pretty frustrating I had to try each driver and down grade each time until it finally started using the extra GPU.

Glad they got that fixed. Also I sold my 4870x2 on the forum here for 75 bucks :)
 
Sadly that hotfix just replaces one GPU bug with another. With some games the second GPU gets stuck at 3D speeds and won't go back to idle after exiting the game. Haha.

10.5A or earlier still seems like the best drivers for the 4870 X2.

Wow .. AMD driver team :(
 
Just an FYI to those with a 4870x2 and probably other CFX setups, so far I can't get Crossfire enabled even when using RadeonPro. I've also tried the 10.10 beta Cats and the 10.9a app profiles but no luck. The engine seems really borked to me, I'm getting around 40 fps on a single card but in some situations (like looking at an NPC) the game dips down to around 15 fps.

Might want to hold off on this one until they fix some of this crap, at least if you have an x2 card.

I can confirm that it's a bug with the game, crossfire doesn't work on my 5970 card, the 2nd GPU just sits idle, tried 10.9 and 10.9a driver profiles, nothing enables the 2nd GPU, neither does the DX9 DLL, although someone here confirmed they can force AFR with this DLL in place, I've not tried that, I don't really want to install more 3rd party tools.

If you have crossfire or a dual GPU ATI card then you'll be running on 1 GPU for the time being, hopefully they'll fix this quickly.
 
yeah a much better visual experience on PC, low rez console or high rez PC , not much of a choice really.

But not buying it for the PC helps make the point that devs should focus on consoles. Rather than PC's where hardware makers screw the consumer with junk like physics and refuse to realize that desktops are old and dated and everybody is moving to laptops.

My PC could run it, but I'll vote with my wallet and console it.
 
Rather than PC's where hardware makers screw the consumer with junk like physics and refuse to realize that desktops are old and dated and everybody is moving to laptops.

Yet desktops are at the forefront of technological innovation.

With the consolization of games comes the inevitable recycling and simplifying of games. Physics is hardly implemented in games because... yes consoles (technology built from "old and dated" hardware). There also comes the vast potential of mod communities (no need to explain how big this is). The reason games seem to favor consoles more nowadays is due to the attraction to casual gamers.
 
Yet desktops are at the forefront of technological innovation.

With the consolization of games comes the inevitable recycling and simplifying of games. Physics is hardly implemented in games because... yes consoles (technology built from "old and dated" hardware). There also comes the vast potential of mod communities (no need to explain how big this is). The reason games seem to favor consoles more nowadays is due to the attraction to casual gamers.

Who cares if they are at the forefront. Laptops are more mobile and do the tasks most people want better because of that. Walking into an office and seeing a desktop makes the person look as ass backwards as if they had a typewriter.

That combined with the screwing of consumers by the hardware companies... ummm.... I've voted with my wallet. I'll buy a copy of it for each console and won't buy a copy for any of my PCs.
 
Who cares if they are at the forefront. Laptops are more mobile and do the tasks most people want better because of that. Walking into an office and seeing a desktop makes the person look as ass backwards as if they had a typewriter

You're talking about Laptops vs. Desktops in offices in the context of gaming? I'm sure there are some people who play 3D games at work but i'm not sure how that is particularly relevant to anything.

But beyond that, I can't say I agree with you that using desktops makes an office look "ass backwards".

Any office that is serious about it's productivity isn't going to put themselves in a position where they are going to be replacing laptops in a few years just because the user wore out the $10 integrated keyboard. Mobility isn't worth being stuck using a tiny laptop screen vs a nice 23-30" panel on a desktop either.

Laptops are only as common now in the workplace because most people use their computer for little more than email and word processing, with maybe some facebook and solitaire on the side.

That combined with the screwing of consumers by the hardware companies... ummm.... I've voted with my wallet. I'll buy a copy of it for each console and won't buy a copy for any of my PCs.

So basically you threw in the towel and decided to focus on an inferior platform, good luck with that. My setup with 4 GPUs is arguably one of the most error prone configurations you could probably have with driver issues on top of quad CF scaling issues, heat issues, power issues, etc yet in the end it's been mostly trivial to fix the issues that have come along because I took just a little time to actually research the issues and find the solutions.
 
The DX9 DLL fixed all my performance issues in this game, even if crossfire doesn't work a single 4850 should drive it fine.
 
Just found this on the bethsoft forums, i posted in the games forum on hardocp but remembered this thread and decided to paste here, those with crossfire, enjoy :)

For all the ATI users out there, there is a better version of the D3D9.DLL fix, for whatever reason the other (original) dll fix caused some problems on ATI cards, namely that quality wasn't as high, it broke TSAA which made the vegetation and many other transparent texture look wanky.

However someone found a better DLL for ATI cards - http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloa...e.php?id=34970

For me it restored crossfire working on my 5970, I've just cranked the settings from high to ultra, so now i'm running 2560x1600 max settings, 2xAA 16xAF. For whatever reason the iPresentInterval value got set to 1 in the config files, so I changed it back to 0 in all 3 (default in game dir, and 2 in my documnets) and that removed Vsync and now im cruising at about 80fps, yeeehaw pardner
 
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