I haven't been able to get a hold of a camera.
I'll try tomorrow.
Most o my games work at full speed with some minor hiccups, so I'm having some fun.
I don't really need FXAA or anything, because I almost never play RIGHT next to the screen.
I currently play at 3x native for most titles. (4x is a bit laggy on more demanding games,
but most GC ones are fine.)
Currently, I need a build for Pokemon Battle Revolution. Are there any that might help?
(I use 3.0 and 3.0 204-dirty.)
I should really buy a bigger USB drive so that I can rip my 4gb - 8gb games!
Thanks for helping me set this up!
*sigh*
I thought this would happen...
This PC feels far too powerful.
CPU, GPU: both of these never see maximum usage.
I'm heavily surprised how little I actually play emulated games.
Turns out, even with advanced graphics, they just aren't fun anymore.
I should have just got the g860.
Is there anything that can make this PC feel worth it?
(I tried some demos of "modern" games, but they don't feel any fun either.)
What happened? I thought new games were supposed to be FUN.
I bought Sonic Generations, marveled at the graphics and frame rate, and then promptly stopped playing.
The general speed boost is nice, but...
I can't help but think a dual core would have been fine, especially since I see no difference
at all when I set the CPU to only use 2 cores.(I can enable and disable cores in bios.)
Come to think of it, nothing I play feels fun anymore.
Any advice?
Well you haven't really kept me updated. I still don't know what the final specs were. And you never sent me that PM I asked for
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(12-30-2011, 09:52 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Well you haven't really kept me updated. I still don't know what the final specs were. And you never sent me that PM I asked for .
i5 2300 @ 2.9 ghz (ASUS overclocked it by 1 bin., so the max is 3.2 ghz.)
Asus p8h67-m PRO-Corporate Stable Model.
8 ghz ddr3 1333 corsair Vengeance RAM.
EVGA GTS 450 GDDR5.
Raidmax Altas Case. (flimsy, but very good airflow.)
320 gb refurb SATA drive.
IDE dvd drive.(Faster than it was on my old compy.)
And that's about it.
Way too fast.
I recorded this out of boredom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT-Der5VMkg
Also, don't worry about FXAA, I figured it out myself.
The fact that you consider that too powerful simply means you're not playing the right games. Just to name a few games off the top of my head that will laugh at that gpu:
-crysis
-crysis wars/warhead
-crysis 2
-metro 2033
-Battlefield 3
-The Witcher 2
-Shogun 2
Just a few I thought of off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more out there. But of course graphics aren't everything.
As for giving your cpu a workout I can name a few GC/Wii games that probably don't run fullspeed on that rig (especially with LLE audio):
-super mario galaxy
-super mario galaxy 2
-star fox adventures
-xenoblade chronicles
-monster hunter trilogy
-star wars rogue squadron 2
-star wars rogue squadron 3
and so on....
There are probably some PS2 games that won't run at fullspeed with proper settings either, but I wouldn't know since I don't use pcsx2. Of course your cpu is good enough for any PC game and most games on modern emulators, but that's because it's brand spankin new. Nothing beats sandy bridge right now.
Are you running your games at 1920 x 1080 or 1366 x 768? Running at 1920 x 1080 will put a lot more stress on your gpu (about twice as much usually). If you run your pc games at 1366 x 768 your graphics card should be able to handle pretty much anything that you throw at it, including the games I listed above.
As for what games to play, what exactly are you looking for? What platform?
(12-30-2011, 11:11 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]The fact that you consider that too powerful simply means you're not playing the right games. Just to name a few games off the top of my head that will laugh at that gpu:
-crysis
-crysis wars/warhead
-crysis 2
-metro 2033
-Battlefield 3
-The Witcher 2
-Shogun 2
Just a few I thought of off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more out there. But of course graphics aren't everything.
As for giving your cpu a workout I can name a few GC/Wii games that probably don't run fullspeed on that rig (especially with LLE audio):
-super mario galaxy
-super mario galaxy 2
-star fox adventures
-xenoblade chronicles
-monster hunter trilogy
-star wars rogue squadron 2
-star wars rogue squadron 3
and so on....
There are probably some PS2 games that won't run at fullspeed with proper settings either, but I wouldn't know since I don't use pcsx2. Of course your cpu is good enough for any PC game and most games on modern emulators, but that's because it's brand spankin new. Nothing beats sandy bridge right now.
Are you running your games at 1920 x 1080 or 1366 x 768? Running at 1920 x 1080 will put a lot more stress on your gpu (about twice as much usually). If you run your pc games at 1366 x 768 your graphics card should be able to handle pretty much anything that you throw at it, including the games I listed above.
As for what games to play, what exactly are you looking for? What platform?
Tried Crysis, could play with everything on very high except shaders.
I play at 1360 x 768 with some AA. Looks better than 1080p on a non-native 1080p display.
I just don't seem to enjoy ANY video games any more.
And yeah, I don't really know about those cpu demanding games.
Just feels like I could have gotten a g860 and had an identical experience.
Turns out that I don't play extremely demanding games very often. (Also, I try to balance visuals and framerate, so I often just play Crysis on high across the board, etc.)
I feel wasteful.
Crysis = MODS MODS MODS!!!!
Seriously though ask a more specific question.
(12-30-2011, 11:36 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Crysis = MODS MODS MODS!!!!
Seriously though ask a more specific question.
I really just don't enjoy playing games anymore.
Really, what can this PC do that a g860 can't?
(For my purposes, anyway.)
Encode videos twice as fast, file compression/decompression twice as fast, DCC programs (digital content creation, photoshop, autocad, ray tracing renderers, etc.) run much faster, run RTS games with lots of units running around without slowing down. That's some stuff I can think of off the top of my head. Do a google search for cpu intensive software if you want more.
Once again I must point out that having a newer/faster cpu isn't about what you can/cannot do, it's about how fast you can do it. An older cpu may be able to do something, but a newer cpu may be able to do it faster. The question you have to ask yourself when deciding to upgrade is whether the old cpu was doing whatever you needed it to do fast enough to keep you satisfied.
Also pcsx2 should run a lot faster on the i5. And I must also point out that PC games aren't very cpu heavy these days.
From a recent PM (semi related):
Quote:*begins thinking about other cpu heavy pc games*
Most of the cpu heavy pc games out there are either rts games (because of the AI, which is always heavily multithreaded), rpg/action/adventure games with big open worlds (because of the number of draw calls), or battlefield games (fps games are generally not very cpu heavy, but battlefields physics and audio engines combined with big open levels make it very cpu heavy).
Games that make a lot of draw calls are also very heavy on memory bandwidth since the vertex arrays and/or textures need to be copied into vram each time (unless you use instancing and/or cache the display lists, but even those techniques can only help so much). One of the problems with llanos architecture is that the cpu and gpu share access to the same memory (due to the lack of dedicated video ram). Applications that use both heavily are more likely to be bottlenecked by memory bandwidth than either the cpu or gpu. Intel helps alleviate this by allowing the IGP to share access to the L3 cache, so the sandy bridge IGP only has to access memory when a cache miss occurs, whereas the IGP in llano has no cache and always needs to access memory whenever it needs new data. AMD has of course promised to fix this in next years APU architecture but it's not really a problem for you since you have a discrete gpu with dedicated video ram.
Either you're starting to get bored of gaming as a whole or you just haven't found the right games. But you haven't asked me a specific question regarding games of a specific platform, genre, etc. so I can't give any suggestions without that info. (although I think it's safe to say that EVERYONE loves skyrim).
Edit: I'm off for the night, I'll read whatever you write in the morning.
