I made a thread last week about my brand new XFX Radeon HD 5870 and how much I loved it and it ran so smooth in my game. My system is in the sig, it is not top of the line, but still pretty dang fast I think ?
Anyways I play WoW the most, and love it with all eye candy turned on to Ultra settings, and surprisingly it can still be a demanding game, especially in Northrend, with the high res textures and shadows, etc...
I play at 2560x1600res on my 30" Display, Ultra settings maxed out. I used to have a GTX-280, and played at those same settings, and it played ok, sometimes got choppy, but overall not too bad. So when I picked up the new AMD 5870, I set it to 8xMultisample, which the GTX-280 could never play smooth on, the 280 could only handle 4xMulitsample.
The first night playing WoW at 8xMultisample on the 5870 was smooth as butter, it was awesome, and the game looked sharper and more vibrant, but I had a character in Outlands that night. Then I played my other character in Northrend, and I get this "hitching" or little chop like once every 5 seconds or so ? Mainly on the mounts, I will be riding or flying and like every 5 seconds or so, just a very slight hiccup or brief pause for only like 1/10th of a second, but it is still slightly noticeable. Feels more like a frame rate issue or even a network lag ? But I do no recall having that on my GTX-280.
I lowered the settings back down to 4xMultisample, and it is still there ? WTF ?
Anyways I play WoW the most, and love it with all eye candy turned on to Ultra settings, and surprisingly it can still be a demanding game, especially in Northrend, with the high res textures and shadows, etc...
I play at 2560x1600res on my 30" Display, Ultra settings maxed out. I used to have a GTX-280, and played at those same settings, and it played ok, sometimes got choppy, but overall not too bad. So when I picked up the new AMD 5870, I set it to 8xMultisample, which the GTX-280 could never play smooth on, the 280 could only handle 4xMulitsample.
The first night playing WoW at 8xMultisample on the 5870 was smooth as butter, it was awesome, and the game looked sharper and more vibrant, but I had a character in Outlands that night. Then I played my other character in Northrend, and I get this "hitching" or little chop like once every 5 seconds or so ? Mainly on the mounts, I will be riding or flying and like every 5 seconds or so, just a very slight hiccup or brief pause for only like 1/10th of a second, but it is still slightly noticeable. Feels more like a frame rate issue or even a network lag ? But I do no recall having that on my GTX-280.
I lowered the settings back down to 4xMultisample, and it is still there ? WTF ?