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Building a PC for this Game.
I am curious about something.
I have read recently on these forums that directx 11 and tessellisation will not be used in Rift. Is this true?
I have a slow single core and 8800GTX with vista OS and 2 gigs ram.
I will be upgrading to a system before release and want to get no lag due to system in raids and in cities with tons of people.
My thoughts are
CPU i5 760
GPU nvidia 570
Win 7 home 64bit
8 Gig DDR3 ram
128GB SSD
Motherboard that fits all this stuff.
I have a good case and 750watt PSU and nice mouse, keyboard, monitor.
Looking to play the game with all settings maxxed. I might even connect it to my 55inch vizio with HDMI for big screen fun.
I have heard this game was designed from the start with High Definition in mind so hooking it up to my TV sounds like the better option.
Question is, do you think I am going overboard with my specs? The cost before SSD is close to $800
I originally was thinking the nvidia 460 until the 570 came out. Looking on some sites the frame rate difference seems worth the price though. Plus it will be future proof for hopefully 2 to 3 years with manual overclocking and sli possibilities.
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My pc runs the game fine and it's nowhere near those specs.
correct me if im wrong, but i was told game uses customized gamebryo engine.
which doesn't use dual core.. nor the SLI/Cross-X setup.
i dont think it will run any better even if you have monster computer.
infact i read somewhere in their forum.. decked out computer lagging in game /w ultra setting.
it'd be best to save your money.. and buy nicer computer later on. (computer parts drop prices all the time or wait until rift support these features but i doubt it)
you might want to upgrade your single core though... i suspect you have very old CPU.
why
that would be a screaming maching indeed!!.. just upgraded my pc with 2 GTX 460's and i get around 30fps on ultra...
I7-860
8GB RAM
Nvidia 275GTX
And I can run the game just fine on highest at 30~38 FPS. The only time it ever dips below 30 is during an invasion. Even then it's not that "unplayable".
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Well.. I will try to explain why.
In Starcraft 2 when I get into 3v3 or 4v4 games my frame rates dip into the 2 to 4 frames per second range.
In World of Warcraft Wrath of the Liche King I found it very hard to follow the steps needed to dance around the patterns with my raid on the floor to avoid the flames because of the low frames per second with lots of players and action on screen.
I am a person that enjoys games tweaked to the higher settings the way the designers meant the game to be seen and the way you see in ultra high quality game play videos with no lag.
I have bee wanting to upgrade for a while but didn't feel a game warrented the jump until now. I want to play Guildwars 2, Starcraft 2, Diablo 3 (whenever it comes out), Rift, Two Worlds 2, Call of Duty Black Ops, and a few others that seem to need a much higher PC spec than what I have to play the way I would like with settings turned up.
So from what I hear of the replies from the previous posts here....
I don't need 4 core for this game. Only two...one for OS and one for game.
Sounds like the game is improved with higher quality single core video card...but not much more by sli.
But then again there are a bunch of other games on my list I posted and I know at least one of those will be helped by more cores.
I'd say wait for Sandy Bridge to launch in three weeks. Get a Core i5 2400 or 2500 for about the same price as what you'd get there, but it will be markedly faster. Sandy Bridge will likely offer a more aggressive turbo boost, which will help with performance in programs that can only use one processor core, too.
At this point, I'd really recommend getting a quad core processor, even on your budget. Many games already do better with three cores than two, though not that many benefit much from a fourth core just yet. But what do you think the future trend is? Will future games take advantage of more cores than current ones or fewer? You don't want to have to replace the system in a year because you got a cheap processor.
If you go with anything above a Radeon HD 6870, you get a little less performance per $--whether it's from Nvidia or AMD. A GeForce GTX 570 is still a decent enough value if that's your budget.
What SSD is it? SandForce SSDs that are usually the most sensible purchase now don't come in a 128 GB size. Crucial's RealSSD C300 does, but really only makes sense if you've got SATA 3 in the chipset, which a P55 chipset doesn't.
You don't need 8 GB of memory. You likely won't need more than 4 GB by the time you replace the machine entirely in several years. But if you really want to get 8 GB just in case, then go ahead. Do make sure it's two modules of 4 GB each if you get 8 GB, though, rather than four of 2 GB each.
What power supply is it? There are 750 W power supplies that would be overkill for the system you're assembling, and there are "750 W" power supplies that I wouldn't trust to run a nettop.
I have: Quad Core, 4 gig ram, and a gtx 465 super-clocked. game runs amazing still. everyone in the 'beta' are not getting high fps but that makes sense since every beta is that way because the company has yet to figure out the correct stress level for the game since it still does not know how many people will be playing. my requirements are just great. i was even at 19 fps and i still had no lag and my animations were 100% fluid still, that is talent! i don't know any games where i can do 19 fps without lag or skipping. don't over-spend on a PC for this game. yes it requires more than WoW but let me put it this way: FFXIV I did on ULTRA with what I have and that game requires way moe than RIFT.
i7 930
6gb ram
gtx 480
I run it on ultra in the 40s, sometimes 30s. Turning off shadows even raised it another 10fps for me, hehe. I bet if I customized it a bit and did some tinkering I would be in 60s, but since I don't notice anything at all, never bothered. 1st beta was more like 20s, so might get better as they keep optimizing. Regardless of what the fps said though, the game ran extremely smooth with absolutely no lag for me ever. That really surprised me.
I'd probably get better numbers if I actually overclocked and optimized my system, but I'm lazy and things have been running smoothly for me in everything.
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ati 5770
phenom 2x4
4gb ram
and i never run below 30 fps @ ultra
My pc is from 2006-07 and it runs the game without any problem.
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While i appreciate people posting their machine's specs in threads like these, i'm always missing the resolution you guys run the game in. I've heard my mate holler that WoW's Dalaran is "running on max on my ATI 4850 with 70fps!!" and when i visited him i found him playing in a beyond blurry, non-native 1280x resolution on his 19".
My Phenom2 X4 at 3.2, 4GB, 285GTX give me 20-30fps in 1920x1080, all details max. I will OC my cpu to 3.8 for a comparison tomorrow, but i doubt that'll give me more than some additional 5fps. On the other hand it seems to be quite cpu intensive as it fires my cpu-temp up like nothing before, making the fan howl like a turbine.
Now, while some players experience 20fps as absolutely fluid, others do get a headache or start to feel sick when playing below ~40fps +. I belong to the latter and therefore i'm always interested in maximum performance -otherwise i would have cancel my subscription due to health issues.
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I tend to agree with you here. I finally purchased my dream PC this summer ($2,700 dollars), and to be honest, the performance simply isn't there and my PS3 still plays several multiplatform titles better than my computer.
I'd expect the Sandy Bridge quad cores to sell for about $200-$300. Maybe somewhat more for the 2600K with the unlocked multiplier. Intel isn't officially saying yet. The high end Sandy Bridge processors with six or eight cores are coming much later in 2011, and will cost more.
Zambezi (four module, eight core Bulldozer) and Llano (basically a Phenom II with integrated graphics on the same die) will launch as soon as AMD is satisfied that yields are high enough to be profitable to mass produce them. Officially, Zambezi is scheduled for the second quarter of 2011. I'd expect there to be a two module, four core Bulldozer chip that launches sometime later. There should also be two and three module salvage parts from Zambezi.
Your PS3 plays them on much lower settings. Try turning down your video settings and see how that compares.
Also, what SSD did you get? Or did you spend $2700 to get a computer that isn't even high end?
yea im smelling something like an alienware lol. id be hard pressed to spend 2700 on a pc... unless we throw in some ssd
My PC runs Rift with max settings. I have
E5200
GTX460
4gb RAM
So idk why you want something THAT powerfull just for rift.
So does Rift take advantage of multi-cores and 2x GFX's ? And if so what are your loads.
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I spent 2k on my PC and it blows any console out of the water.
if my PS3 plays them on "much" lower settings, I honestly can't tell.
Don't have an SSD. Have two 1TB HDs configured in raid zero. I can PM you with a full list of parts sometime.
Hah. You did spend $2700 and didn't even get a high end computer for that price. RAID 0 hard drives? Really? It's not 2007 anymore.
This is why you ask what you should get before you buy, rather than after. Or at least Karble does.
I spent 1k on my PC and it blows any console out of the water.