MelonSplitter
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I also have a i7 930 OC'ed to 3.8 Ghz. Do you think I'll be fine?
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It'll be fine with that setup. The 4870x2 is still an amazing card (about 90+ percent fast as the 5870 and sometimes faster).
...What?
Yes, 4870x2 will be fine as New Vegas still has textures created by 5 year olds.
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.
Sad but true...did FO3 get a high res texture pack like Oblivion did - from qarl? I think thats his name.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
yeah a much better visual experience on PC, low rez console or high rez PC , not much of a choice really.
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.
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.
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