Ultra Recommended Specs

darkcircuit

Hey all,

Well I finally bit the bullet and cancelled my WoW sub and bought Rift. I wasn't sick of WoW gameplay, just sick of Blizzards re-hashing of old content and therefore I'm enjoying rift

To come to the reason for this thread, I'm not a fan of running games on anything but the best graphics preset (ultra in this case), and when I do so on my current system I can only reach a measily 25 FPS, which obviously drops more when I am taking part in large rifts.

My question is, in your experience, what changes are going to give me the best boost in overall performance when playing Rift in Ultra settings?

My current setup is below:

Case:  Antec P180

Monitor: Samsung 24" running at 1920x1200

PSU: Hiper (SP?) 650 watt Modular

MB: ASUS P5W DH Deluxe (no longer supported)

Memory: Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2

HD:  Seagate 750GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

Cooler: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro

Graphics: XFX HD 4870 1GB DDR5

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium

Thanks for any help you can offer,

Dave

jacklo

From my own experience, I wouldn't worry too much about frames per second in Rift.

I've played games with double the fps yet are jittery and laggy.

Rift is odd in that slower frame rates don't really affect the gameplay as much as other games. That's my experience anyway.

EDIT:

In answer to your question though, dropping the antialiasing and bloom will make a big difference. Personally I don't care for the bloom effect anyway and the antialiasing isn't such a big deal either.

Razeron

Rift simply doesn't perform well.

 

Your hardware is fine.

DoktorTeufel

Originally posted by Razeron

Rift simply doesn't perform well.

 

Your hardware is fine.

 

You're simply wrong.

 

His hardware is old. Let's see, he has 4GB of DDR2, a Core 2 Duo processor, an HD 4870 GPU, an older mobo, a relatively high-res monitor, and he expects to run RIFT on Ultra settings at a high framerate, and you think RIFT is at fault? Get real, you're being absolutely ridiculous.

 

I can run Rift on Ultra settings at 60 FPS. That's because I have a GeForce 580 GPU, an overclocked i7 2600k CPU, 8GB of DDR3 RAM @1600MHz, and... some fancy mobo, I forget. I also still use a 1680 x 1050 monitor, which somewhat reduces the amount of graphical overhead needed.

 

If you want to run a game released in 2011 (even an MMORPG) on Ultra graphics settings, you need an up-to-date computer. That's the point of Ultra settings: So that people with the best computers can experience the best graphics. If someone with an old computer can run the game on Ultra, they're not really the best graphics, are they?

Thamoris

Originally posted by jacklo

From my own experience, I wouldn't worry too much about frames per second in Rift.

I've played games with double the fps yet are jittery and laggy.

Rift is odd in that slower frame rates don't really affect the gameplay as much as other games. That's my experience anyway.

EDIT:

In answer to your question though, dropping the antialiasing and bloom will make a big difference. Personally I don't care for the bloom effect anyway and the antialiasing isn't such a big deal either.

 I've experienced the same thing. I avg only 10-12 fps, but it plays like 20-25 fps that I've seen in other games.

Z3R01

Originally posted by Thamoris

Originally posted by jacklo

From my own experience, I wouldn't worry too much about frames per second in Rift.

I've played games with double the fps yet are jittery and laggy.

Rift is odd in that slower frame rates don't really affect the gameplay as much as other games. That's my experience anyway.

EDIT:

In answer to your question though, dropping the antialiasing and bloom will make a big difference. Personally I don't care for the bloom effect anyway and the antialiasing isn't such a big deal either.

 I've experienced the same thing. I avg only 10-12 fps, but it plays like 20-25 fps that I've seen in other games.

^ will agree with this.

I play on a mid range laptop and get 20-30 fps on Medium/high (in an extremely crowded city) and It runs like im pulling 60fps.

pl3dge

I can run ultra without too much problem. I have a steady 50+fps while questing and around 30 while raiding.

 

GTX 560 Ti

i3 3ghz

40" Samsung 3DTV 1920x1080

4gb RAM

Windows 7 64 bit

darkcircuit

Thanks for all the replies guys

Well I decided to take the plunge and upgrade some of my current components; I have a I7 2600K OC'd professionally to 4.5Ghz, a Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 CPU cooler, a MSI P67A-GD53 MB and 8GB of Corsair Vengence DDR3 1600Mhz ram, on its way to me. I'm aware that my graphics card is a little out of date, but one thing at a time eh

GrayGhost79

Originally posted by pl3dge

I can run ultra without too much problem. I have a steady 50+fps while questing and around 30 while raiding.

 

GTX 560 Ti

i3 3ghz

40" Samsung 3DTV 1920x1080

4gb RAM

Windows 7 64 bit

Same, playing with Ultra with no issues but slightly different specs. 

 

GTX 560 ti 

i7 2600k 

8gb DDR3 Corsair Vengence

Windows 7 64 bit

DoktorTeufel

Originally posted by darkcircuit

Thanks for all the replies guys

Well I decided to take the plunge and upgrade some of my current components; I have a I7 2600K OC'd professionally to 4.5Ghz, a Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 CPU cooler, a MSI P67A-GD53 MB and 8GB of Corsair Vengence DDR3 1600Mhz ram, on its way to me. I'm aware that my graphics card is a little out of date, but one thing at a time eh

 

By the way, I wasn't trying to be mean to you. I myself had an old computer with very much the same graphical output as yours up until a couple of weeks ago. I'm just telling that person who thinks RIFT is badly optimized because of your experience with RIFT on your old machine that he's acting the fool.

GrayGhost79

Originally posted by darkcircuit

Thanks for all the replies guys

Well I decided to take the plunge and upgrade some of my current components; I have a I7 2600K OC'd professionally to 4.5Ghz, a Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 CPU cooler, a MSI P67A-GD53 MB and 8GB of Corsair Vengence DDR3 1600Mhz ram, on its way to me. I'm aware that my graphics card is a little out of date, but one thing at a time eh

Should have probably went for the i5 2500k if it's mainly for gaming as the hyperthreading from the i7 2600k won't do you much good in the gaming area, it's more for things like 3Ds Max and etc. Would have saved you $100 easy and then you could have cut it down to 4gbs of DDR3 for now and saved another $80ish then bought something like a HD 6870 card which is compairable to the GTX 560 ti. 560 is better by a little but the HD 6870 is better than your current card by a great deal.