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Graphics issue with ultra mpde

Adelante

By Adelante,
Posted on: 2011-03-01 20:26 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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I have a gtx 260 216 core i7 6gigs of ram. When I set it to ultra mode, everything become extremely laggy. I know you sacrifice performance for quality but I don't exactly have a terrible computer. I just updated my video chip driver. Could there be anything else? And it's not like this game has intensive graphics. I can dual box world of Warcraft with both on highest setting and raid with them.

It's so confusing because this game is supposed to use less resources than those higher graphic games, I.e. Crysis.

 

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CoH actually uses a lot more resources than most people think, even without Ultra Mode. If you are trying to view Ultra at it's highest settings, then I definitely recommend moving them down to the minimum Ultra and start working your way back up from there until you feel like you are at a comfortable balance of "Shiny vs. Performance".

For reference, I have a Radeon 5770 HD and have to run Ambient Occlusion all the way down on "High Performance" just to stay above 20fps consistently. lol

 

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Originally Posted by Adelante View Post
I have a gtx 260 216 core i7 6gigs of ram. When I set it to ultra mode, everything become extremely laggy. I know you sacrifice performance for quality but I don't exactly have a terrible computer. I just updated my video chip driver. Could there be anything else? And it's not like this game has intensive graphics. I can dual box world of Warcraft with both on highest setting and raid with them.

It's so confusing because this game is supposed to use less resources than those higher graphic games, I.e. Crysis.
A GTX 260 will only buy you about 30~ fps @ 1680*1050 with
  • High Shadows
  • High Reflections
  • Ultra Water
  • Performance Ambient Occlusion
  • 100% World Detail

And yes, this game does have intensive graphics. A GTX 260 is around the starting point for ultra-mode support in 1680*1050. The starting point is the GTS 250... which actually has more shader power.

For reference, the GTS 250 has the following through put rates:
  • 11,808 MegaPixels
  • 47,232 MegaTexel
  • 70.4gbps Memory
The GTX 260 216 has the following rates:
  • 16,128 MegaPixels
  • 41,472 MegaTexels
  • 111.9gbps Memory
So while the GTX 260 216 is more powerful in games that rely on textures, and in applying filtering effects such as anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering. it is actually WEAKER in producing shaders.

Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on your point of view, Ultra-Mode is rendered through the shaders. Which means that for this particular game, your GTX 260 isn't likely to outperform a GTS 250... and more than likely, will perform a bit worse.