GFX card & The witcher 2

[Ibanez81]

Hi

I have an XFX 6870 Black edition, And it plays crysis2 great, but When i play The witcher 2 on the lowest settings possible the Gpu gets quite hot (near 90c) When playing crysis at 63fps it only goes to about 65c.

I thought crysis2 was suppose to be one of the hardest games to run but compared to this witcher 2 it seems like nothing?

It just seems rather hot for it to be on the lowest setting or is it not?

 

[Scoob]

Hi there,

I find The Witcher 2 to be a slightly more demanding that Crysis 2 (Dx11, high textures etc.) - this is at 1920x1200 on a GTX570 @ 800 core. I'd need to confirm my settings in each however, though I usually max everything except AA and some DOF effects stuff in games generally.

My temps (on a fairly agressive fan profile) hit the low 60's in each game.

Both games play really smoothly, but do give the GPU a workout.

I'd say that Crysis 2 (DX11) isn't the Crysis of today if you see what I mean, but, in DX11 at least, it is fairly demanding.

Cheers,

Scoob.

 

[SieB]

The Witcher 2 is like Crysis, unoptimized and runs like crap. There is supposed to be a patch that was made by The Witcher community, not an official one, that improves performance. I don't have a link but it should be easy to find.

 

[rishisen]

my pcs+ 6970 handles the witcher very well indeed but with the high res and dx11 on crysis 2 i can get as little as low 20 fps

 

[Scoob]

my pcs+ 6970 handles the witcher very well indeed but with the high res and dx11 on crysis 2 i can get as little as low 20 fps

Both play pretty well on mine. I thought Crysis 2 was fairly light compared to its predecessor...though the DX11 patch did make it more demanding.

I don't know what exact FPS I was getting, just that I considered the gameplay on both to be generally pretty smooth - I'm usually considered fairly fussy.

Cheers,

Scoob.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

L4D2 had the same problem on release. I remember when it came out my dual 5770 hawks would both get up to high 70s and 80s. Then a patch came out and they never got above 65c.

 

[Scoob]

L4D2 had the same problem on release. I remember when it came out my dual 5770 hawks would both get up to high 70s and 80s. Then a patch came out and they never got above 65c.

Likely some obscure inefficiency in the engine causing the cards to stress when really they shouldn't. I guess either a game patch or driver update can fix this sort of issue.

Not played L4D2 myself.

Cheers,

Scoob.

 

[Ibanez81]

yea, ive managed to find alot of info about people having this problem and major frame skipping, seems to be a problem with the game that can be patched as SieB said

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

You may also want to download the latest Drivers. From what i have seen one of the drivers or CAPs after 11.7 fixed a Witcher problem.

11.8 official came out a few days ago, you may want to check up on that.

 

[Ibanez81]

i check for updates everyday

 

[SieB]

Just read there is an official patch coming in September "Witcher 2 - 2.0" which should fix bugs, improve performance and add a couple of new modes to the game.

 

[Ibanez81]

cool! It seems to be ok now, Im playing with most settings on high with uber sampling off and getting some good gameplay, The cutscene graphics are Awesome!

 

[Ya93sin]

On a similar note, I got Shogun 2 the other day, at max settings I get about 28-9 fps average. CPU bottleneck ftw

 

[Scoob]

On a similar note, I got Shogun 2 the other day, at max settings I get about 28-9 fps average. CPU bottleneck ftw

Really, Shogun 2 is hammering your CPU to that degree? Must be one badly optimised game as I'd certainly not expect it to be particularly demanding on any modern CPU, let alone one with a generous overclock in place. I thought Shogun 2 was supposed to be primarily graphically demanding as well as (from what I've read) being a bit of a vRam hog at higher resolutions.

I did play around with the Shogun 2 Demo some time back and, while I couldn't get into the game (it was my first try at one of the series) I thought it played nice and smooth with settings turned up. I did try it out because it was considered reasonably graphically demanding & I wanted to see how my GTX 570 handled it now it was backed up by the 2500k. Maybe later levels in the full game are more demanding or something?

I might re-visit the demo and see how it plays again...

Cheers,

Scoob.

 

[Ya93sin]

Really, Shogun 2 is hammering your CPU to that degree? Must be one badly optimised game as I'd certainly not expect it to be particularly demanding on any modern CPU, let alone one with a generous overclock in place. I thought Shogun 2 was supposed to be primarily graphically demanding as well as (from what I've read) being a bit of a vRam hog at higher resolutions.

I did play around with the Shogun 2 Demo some time back and, while I couldn't get into the game (it was my first try at one of the series) I thought it played nice and smooth with settings turned up. I did try it out because it was considered reasonably graphically demanding & I wanted to see how my GTX 570 handled it now it was backed up by the 2500k. Maybe later levels in the full game are more demanding or something?

I might re-visit the demo and see how it plays again...

Cheers,

Scoob.

Dunno, but they have new graphical features, some random things like Shader Model 5.0, but ofc its badly optimised, its total war!

With all the soldiers and the atmospheric effects it does hammer the CPU.

Its using the same engine as Napoleon/Empire total wars as well, and its meant to be better optimised relative to the graphical features it has. One thing it is though, is goddamn beautiful

 

[Ibanez81]

Graphics seem to be good anyway, This is with everything on High spec and uber sampling turned off.

 

[JezEngland]

Wat's it like now with 2.0 update, I should get Witcher 2 next week? looks great, choices of LotR War in the North, Space Marine and Skyrim I haven't much gaming time these days I think I'll do best investing that time in Witcher but I'll always argue that a little too

 

[dugdiamond]

well - i completed witcher2 very easily (3days)

elder scrolls took me about 2wks, and the world in skyrim is supposed to be 16 times larger.... so i am hoping to get over a month of playtime on it (without mods and addons) (11.11.11)

 

[JezEngland]

ahh. i will research skyrim. thanks