Yeah, getting low framerates in a low graphics game on a rig that runs Skyrim maxed at a steady 60 FPS is not very enjoyable. But Carbine says they are working on it, so my advice to OP is to check back later and see if it's improved.
How can you compare a RPG with a MMO? Besides Skyrim is a 2011 game, a crappy 2014 laptop should run it just fine.
I have not been following WS forums for a couple of weeks. Last time I checked, the problem was more with multithread CPUs rather than with GPUs. Dev's said that they were working on the code to improve the performance in multithread CPUs.
For ATI GPU users, the 14.4 drivers publised in April raised my fps by 5-10.
Then you can play GW2 or ESO. Just stay away from WS and save your money. So simple.
For the rest who can play the game, see you in Nexus
And this is why people hate posting on here. There is no useful reason for this post. You failed to help, show sympathy and instead, indirectly, made the situation worse. Why even post on this thread at all if this your comment?
Originally posted by DEATHRAMENT I tried the game in late in open beta and i had the same frame rate issue, it was unplayable for me really. I have a nvidia 260 gtx and an amd cpu forget now what it is exactly but playes other games fine. Maybe its better now im not sure, but it was terrible when i tried the game.
Kind of should always know what your CPU is.
Intel i5 Haswell 3.4ghz Quad-Core. I know that off the top of my head, but it takes all of 15sec to go into your Control Panel, click System And Security, and then click System.
It does also need to be mentioned that AMD CPUs are completely sub par when it comes to video games compared to Intel CPUs. (See Benchmarks: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html ) . It really depends on your CPU for an MMO because of the way they're designed they're more CPU intensive, which is counter to many single player/multiplayer standalone games that are GPU intensive. It's a design thing that they do.
P.S. Realms are up, try it now to see if either of the last 2 patches improved it.
Originally posted by Ridelynn Originally posted by Siphaed Also, .....just one last thought, but if your PC can't handle "High" setting, turn the settings down.
Best advice given with regard to PC gaming given - ever.
Why people can't just accept this sometimes is beyond me. The drive to MAX MAX every setting just because it's there is retarded.
Well, If you go out and buy new capable hardware for that "max experience" and you have to turn things down because one particular piece of software is not up to scratch then it can be quite annoying..
If you have older hardware then i agree with you that you should temper your expectations.
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They've addressed the issue and have made progress. Gaffney clearly stated the game won't be perfect at launch, which pretty much guarantees the game will launch with some systems still having issues. If this is a problem, I'm sure they would have no issue giving a player a refund. I've personally had no issues running it at all and get consistent frames over 60.
I had a radeon HD 6900 series and was getting about 30 fps on medium settings in cluttered areas. I picked up a GTX 760 and my fps jumped to 60 on ultra high settings. The game is heavily GPU based. The guy who said MMO's are CPU based is misinformed, it's based on how each individual game is made. I'm not saying the game doesn't have optimization issues, they've already said optimization passes will continue well through launch.
I try out a lot of games and most of them, if not all, are released with choppy performance if you run everything on max settings, whether its a MMO or a single player game. Drivers must be released to play their part, patches for optimization etc etc.
That said, playing on absolute max settings is insanity . I noticed a huge FPS drop in Wildstar if I go above 75% view distance. There's no way my PC can handle a smooth Wildstar experience with everything maxed out on a gtx 680, i5 2500K at 4.4ghz . I lowered quite a few settings without compromising visual quality too much so I can get acceptable FPS's.
Turn your settings down, best way to do this is to go to a city or a heavy quest hub and tweak your settings so you can reach at least 30 FPS in those areas. It only gets better after that.
If you're struggling to get 30 FPS anywhere in the game on low settings then I suggest a new computer or wait for all the proper drivers and optimization patches.
Originally posted by Iceman8235 I had a radeon HD 6900 series and was getting about 30 fps on medium settings in cluttered areas. I picked up a GTX 760 and my fps jumped to 60 on ultra high settings. The game is heavily GPU based. The guy who said MMO's are CPU based is misinformed, it's based on how each individual game is made. I'm not saying the game doesn't have optimization issues, they've already said optimization passes will continue well through launch.
Well, even one of their devs said the game was too cpu based - but when I moved from my rig that ran a GTX 555 to my current 770 - I can run on ULTRA with no frame loss at all. This was not the case on the 555.
Originally posted by Iceman8235 I had a radeon HD 6900 series and was getting about 30 fps on medium settings in cluttered areas. I picked up a GTX 760 and my fps jumped to 60 on ultra high settings. The game is heavily GPU based. The guy who said MMO's are CPU based is misinformed, it's based on how each individual game is made. I'm not saying the game doesn't have optimization issues, they've already said optimization passes will continue well through launch.
Well, even one of their devs said the game was too cpu based - but when I moved from my rig that ran a GTX 555 to my current 770 - I can run on ULTRA with no frame loss at all. This was not the case on the 555.
Exactly, they've stated again and again that the game is very reliant on the CPU, and they've not optimized for ATI / AMD hardware yet, they are working on that now.
No mater how many times you show people that MMOs are very CPU based, and show them the math, they'll fight on this issue forever.
If you're struggling to get 30 FPS anywhere in the game on low settings then I suggest a new computer or wait for all the proper drivers and optimization patches.
Except that I was getting 30 FPS and now with the patch a few days ago I'm up to 40-50. Optimization, who knew?!
The performance is a known issue and they are working on it.
Probably no "miracle" patch but they'll improve the optimization patch by patch.
At the moment intel processors are superior on Wildstar compared to AMD.
I'm running Phenom 1055T x6 @ 3,5~~ghz with Windows 8.1 and GTX 580.
FPS jumps from 25-80 with average somewhere in 35-45.
They have not acknowledged this as a "known issue", as this has been complained about since the beginning of Closed Beta, and the official forum response is always the same: different computer setups behave differently and they are slowly working on making the game efficient for all setups. This is damage-control speak for "we hope people will believe the problem is their hardware specs and not our game engine".
The framerate HAS NOT IMPROVED SINCE CLOSED BETA through all the complaint megathreads on the Closed Beta forum. People that tell you otherwise have not done proper benchmarks - they are the fanboi players that Carbine are counting on to convince everyone else that the game is running fine.
Every week, I would check the game during Closed Beta, again and again, hoping each patch would make a single frame of improvement, but it never did. Truly a sad story for Wildstar as the game has great potential.
The framerate has improved a lot since the first beta weekends.
Mainly becase they've added more options to their video settings menu so you can tune the client a lot more than in the first CBs/Beta weekends. Common issue for people who just log-in and expect a stable 100 fps is that they aren't deleting their APPDATA or trying to tweak the settings.
The performance is bad but if you are willing to lower from ultra then you can achieve playable framerates. Bitchin that the release should be pushed back is just stupid.
I have decided to wait on this title until the technical glitches have been ironed out. That being said, the game has been running smoother than it did a couple of weeks ago. I was experiencing way to much stutter but it appears to sit between 30 and 40 fps now which is still low, but at least I wasn't experiencing any sudden drops. I hope they continue to make improvements on this topic.
Originally posted by DEATHRAMENT I tried the game in late in open beta and i had the same frame rate issue, it was unplayable for me really. I have a nvidia 260 gtx and an amd cpu forget now what it is exactly but playes other games fine. Maybe its better now im not sure, but it was terrible when i tried the game.
Kind of should always know what your CPU is.
Intel i5 Haswell 3.4ghz Quad-Core. I know that off the top of my head, but it takes all of 15sec to go into your Control Panel, click System And Security, and then click System.
It does also need to be mentioned that AMD CPUs are completely sub par when it comes to video games compared to Intel CPUs. (See Benchmarks: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html ) . It really depends on your CPU for an MMO because of the way they're designed they're more CPU intensive, which is counter to many single player/multiplayer standalone games that are GPU intensive. It's a design thing that they do.
P.S. Realms are up, try it now to see if either of the last 2 patches improved it.
Pointless thread. First i'm at work so i can't check my pc atm and i don't know my cpu off by heart. Second it makes no difference what it is as i can play all other games on medium with no issues at all. And maybe AMD cpu's are sub par as u say but again it makes no difference as i can play any mmo released with no frame rate issues on medium settings. Plenty on high.
Originally posted by fivoroth Buy Geforce GTX 790. Then if you can't run at max, come back.
This game looks like it requires a 9800 gtx for recommended, any decent card within last 5 years shouldn't have problems.
This. If the game looked like Black Desert I could understand the FPS issues. This game has no freaking textures, surfaces are typically a solid color. I thought a big part of the reason they had ultra stylized gfx was for a performance bump for the big raids? I just can't imagine a large raid when there are issues with FPS running around solo. This should be their top priority as they are limiting their playerbase right out of the gate. And are limiting those that get 70+ fps in other recent MMO's...it's baffling really.
The game will bleed a ton of players once people reach endgame and experience slideshows in raids and cant compete in PvP.
The performance problem is real for many people and across all sorts of hardware. In the many megathreads there are people with highend machines posting about fps dips to 20 and below. Coming up with crap like "lol game is fine, runs on my 8 year old laptop lol" or "human eye cant see the difference between 25 and 80fps" only makes people look like the idiots they are.
I can look at the ground or zoom all in to a rock and get 15fps in some areas. Or fight with 30fps while my CPU idles at 20-30% and my GPU at 70%.
My bet is that there is not much Carbine can do about it, except for some tweaks here and there -like they found several bugged object in PvP maps and such. On the other hand they have also been wrong with many statements on that topic, proven by players. Players have also proven that there are many things going wrong with how the game renders stuff in general, resulting in i.e. a difference of only 5 fps between ultra-low and ultra-high settings in some areas.
Or zooming all into an object and changing the drawing distance can give you anything from 20 to 60fps -while what you see on screen stays exactly the same.
Of course the game will receive further tuning, but the basic problem will remain unless Carbine rewrites part of the engine. Other than that, they will likely sit it out until more and more players go through an upgrade-cycle.
This. If the game looked like Black Desert I could understand the FPS issues. This game has no freaking textures, surfaces are typically a solid color. I thought a big part of the reason they had ultra stylized gfx was for a performance bump for the big raids? I just can't imagine a large raid when there are issues with FPS running around solo. This should be their top priority as they are limiting their playerbase right out of the gate. And are limiting those that get 70+ fps in other recent MMO's...it's baffling really.
Yeah it's baffling for someone who isn't in the industry and has never programmed or bothered to really do any research into graphic design...
It sure is baffling for someone like that I bet.
Edit: looked through the thread again, I noticed all the people who have a complaint, don't offer any information or sourcing or facts.
Yet all the people saying Wildstar has optimized and will continue to do so have provided sources and information and data.
So I guess its 'gut feeling' crowd vs 'facts' crowd.
This. If the game looked like Black Desert I could understand the FPS issues. This game has no freaking textures, surfaces are typically a solid color. I thought a big part of the reason they had ultra stylized gfx was for a performance bump for the big raids? I just can't imagine a large raid when there are issues with FPS running around solo. This should be their top priority as they are limiting their playerbase right out of the gate. And are limiting those that get 70+ fps in other recent MMO's...it's baffling really.
Yeah it's baffling for someone who isn't in the industry and has never programmed or bothered to really do any research into graphic design...
It sure is baffling for someone like that I bet.
Edit: looked through the thread again, I noticed all the people who have a complaint, don't offer any information or sourcing or facts.
Yet all the people saying Wildstar has optimized and will continue to do so have provided sources and information and data.
So I guess its 'gut feeling' crowd vs 'facts' crowd.
It's called alt f1. That will display your fps. When you have the worst FPS performance of any recent MMO that is a big problem for your company/business. I don't know why I have to explain this to you.
The game will bleed a ton of players once people reach endgame and experience slideshows in raids and cant compete in PvP.
The performance problem is real for many people and across all sorts of hardware. In the many megathreads there are people with highend machines posting about fps dips to 20 and below. Coming up with crap like "lol game is fine, runs on my 8 year old laptop lol" or "human eye cant see the difference between 25 and 80fps" only makes people look like the idiots they are.
I can look at the ground or zoom all in to a rock and get 15fps in some areas. Or fight with 30fps while my CPU idles at 20-30% and my GPU at 70%.
My bet is that there is not much Carbine can do about it, except for some tweaks here and there -like they found several bugged object in PvP maps and such. On the other hand they have also been wrong with many statements on that topic, proven by players. Players have also proven that there are many things going wrong with how the game renders stuff in general, resulting in i.e. a difference of only 5 fps between ultra-low and ultra-high settings in some areas.
Or zooming all into an object and changing the drawing distance can give you anything from 20 to 60fps -while what you see on screen stays exactly the same.
Of course the game will receive further tuning, but the basic problem will remain unless Carbine rewrites part of the engine. Other than that, they will likely sit it out until more and more players go through an upgrade-cycle.
lol so you think its the 'engine' do you. ofc course the game will continue to be tuned, just like WOW, GW2 etc before it, luckily for you they will indeed be tweaking code, threading etc, and now they have seen your report on the 'engine' they will probably focus on that. you would think people have never seen a mmorg during first couple weeks where this always happens.
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The game will bleed a ton of players once people reach endgame and experience slideshows in raids and cant compete in PvP.
The performance problem is real for many people and across all sorts of hardware. In the many megathreads there are people with highend machines posting about fps dips to 20 and below. Coming up with crap like "lol game is fine, runs on my 8 year old laptop lol" or "human eye cant see the difference between 25 and 80fps" only makes people look like the idiots they are.
I can look at the ground or zoom all in to a rock and get 15fps in some areas. Or fight with 30fps while my CPU idles at 20-30% and my GPU at 70%.
My bet is that there is not much Carbine can do about it, except for some tweaks here and there -like they found several bugged object in PvP maps and such. On the other hand they have also been wrong with many statements on that topic, proven by players. Players have also proven that there are many things going wrong with how the game renders stuff in general, resulting in i.e. a difference of only 5 fps between ultra-low and ultra-high settings in some areas.
Or zooming all into an object and changing the drawing distance can give you anything from 20 to 60fps -while what you see on screen stays exactly the same.
Of course the game will receive further tuning, but the basic problem will remain unless Carbine rewrites part of the engine. Other than that, they will likely sit it out until more and more players go through an upgrade-cycle.
lol so you think its the 'engine' do you. ofc course the game will continue to be tuned, just like WOW, GW2 etc before it, luckily for you they will indeed be tweaking code, threading etc, and now they have seen your report on the 'engine' they will probably focus on that. you would think people have never seen a mmorg during first couple weeks where this always happens.
1. Of course it is the engine. But i guess you are right and the people with 20fps on SLI 780s or 290x' are all wrong. Have you even followed the discussion that is going on on the subject for month and month? If not, i guess i'm wasting my time to answer you.
2. People have seen enough mmos with bad fps "during first couple" of weeks to know that after years and millions in development, a studio isn't likely to fix this easily if it already carries over into launch. People have also seen what happened to these titles, i.e. Rift.
Originally posted by fivoroth Buy Geforce GTX 790. Then if you can't run at max, come back.
Well, MMOs are actually VERY CPU intensive.
So I mean having a great GPU might not help at all.
I read that crap over and over and over again. It's false, lies, mumbojumbo. If you want a game to run well you bet your money on your GPU. Any kind of modern game, you bet your money on your GPU. Just make sure your CPU isn't bottlenecking your GPU too much and you're good to go.
I've seen people spending money on a SSD and/or CPU instead of replacing their poor GPU just to be stuck on the same crappy FPS situation. Get a good balance between CPU and GPU but always go for a better for a better GPU if you have to choose between those 2.
There is a great deal of loading improvement when it comes to having a SSD instead of a HDD. So, people will see that performance increase, and a slight performance increase in the overall game. I'm not the only one who's seen this 1st hand, check out Hidden Arena's site and a few other community sites as well. There is a performance difference between the two (eventually SSD will be the STANDARD by 2020)
The true key is not having any aspect of your PC limping along. You will want good bus speeds for your RAM, a good data read/write rate for your HDD or SSD (a new SSD with a lower rate than a HDD is a recipe for fail), a nice GPU, a very nice CPU (with high individual core ratings instead of just overall Quad, seeing as how many games still don't utilize all the cores and some still run optimized on single core usage), a well ventilated case with lots of fans and finally a Silver or better rated PSU with excess of 75W (min) above what you require.
PC gaming is a hobby on two folds: Hardware maintenance (which includes upkeep of drivers, BIOS, and more) and the games.
Also, .....just one last thought, but if your PC can't handle "High" setting, turn the settings down.
GW2 was not optimised for GPU in the beginning. They later fixed that when people were going cry me a river.
SSD is a waste of money imo. Loading screens are not that bad and that's the only place you are going to feel it.
Anyways when I said the OP should get GTX 790, I thought it was implied that he would also get a CPU like i7 4960X
OOh and also no AMD/radeon crap. That's just inferior.
So OP get GTX 790 and i7 4960x. If you can't max it, come back and will deem the game unoptimised mess.
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How can you compare a RPG with a MMO? Besides Skyrim is a 2011 game, a crappy 2014 laptop should run it just fine.
I have not been following WS forums for a couple of weeks. Last time I checked, the problem was more with multithread CPUs rather than with GPUs. Dev's said that they were working on the code to improve the performance in multithread CPUs.
For ATI GPU users, the 14.4 drivers publised in April raised my fps by 5-10.
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And this is why people hate posting on here. There is no useful reason for this post. You failed to help, show sympathy and instead, indirectly, made the situation worse. Why even post on this thread at all if this your comment?
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Why people can't just accept this sometimes is beyond me. The drive to MAX MAX every setting just because it's there is retarded.
Kind of should always know what your CPU is.
Intel i5 Haswell 3.4ghz Quad-Core. I know that off the top of my head, but it takes all of 15sec to go into your Control Panel, click System And Security, and then click System.
It does also need to be mentioned that AMD CPUs are completely sub par when it comes to video games compared to Intel CPUs. (See Benchmarks: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html ) . It really depends on your CPU for an MMO because of the way they're designed they're more CPU intensive, which is counter to many single player/multiplayer standalone games that are GPU intensive. It's a design thing that they do.
P.S. Realms are up, try it now to see if either of the last 2 patches improved it.
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Why people can't just accept this sometimes is beyond me. The drive to MAX MAX every setting just because it's there is retarded.
Well, If you go out and buy new capable hardware for that "max experience" and you have to turn things down because one particular piece of software is not up to scratch then it can be quite annoying..
If you have older hardware then i agree with you that you should temper your expectations.
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I try out a lot of games and most of them, if not all, are released with choppy performance if you run everything on max settings, whether its a MMO or a single player game. Drivers must be released to play their part, patches for optimization etc etc.
That said, playing on absolute max settings is insanity . I noticed a huge FPS drop in Wildstar if I go above 75% view distance. There's no way my PC can handle a smooth Wildstar experience with everything maxed out on a gtx 680, i5 2500K at 4.4ghz . I lowered quite a few settings without compromising visual quality too much so I can get acceptable FPS's.
Turn your settings down, best way to do this is to go to a city or a heavy quest hub and tweak your settings so you can reach at least 30 FPS in those areas. It only gets better after that.
If you're struggling to get 30 FPS anywhere in the game on low settings then I suggest a new computer or wait for all the proper drivers and optimization patches.
Well, even one of their devs said the game was too cpu based - but when I moved from my rig that ran a GTX 555 to my current 770 - I can run on ULTRA with no frame loss at all. This was not the case on the 555.
Exactly, they've stated again and again that the game is very reliant on the CPU, and they've not optimized for ATI / AMD hardware yet, they are working on that now.
No mater how many times you show people that MMOs are very CPU based, and show them the math, they'll fight on this issue forever.
But yes, MMOs are VERY CPU dependent.
Except that I was getting 30 FPS and now with the patch a few days ago I'm up to 40-50. Optimization, who knew?!
The framerate has improved a lot since the first beta weekends.
Mainly becase they've added more options to their video settings menu so you can tune the client a lot more than in the first CBs/Beta weekends. Common issue for people who just log-in and expect a stable 100 fps is that they aren't deleting their APPDATA or trying to tweak the settings.
The performance is bad but if you are willing to lower from ultra then you can achieve playable framerates. Bitchin that the release should be pushed back is just stupid.
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Pointless thread. First i'm at work so i can't check my pc atm and i don't know my cpu off by heart. Second it makes no difference what it is as i can play all other games on medium with no issues at all. And maybe AMD cpu's are sub par as u say but again it makes no difference as i can play any mmo released with no frame rate issues on medium settings. Plenty on high.
This. If the game looked like Black Desert I could understand the FPS issues. This game has no freaking textures, surfaces are typically a solid color. I thought a big part of the reason they had ultra stylized gfx was for a performance bump for the big raids? I just can't imagine a large raid when there are issues with FPS running around solo. This should be their top priority as they are limiting their playerbase right out of the gate. And are limiting those that get 70+ fps in other recent MMO's...it's baffling really.
Edit: Just logged in 29 - 31 fps solo....
The game will bleed a ton of players once people reach endgame and experience slideshows in raids and cant compete in PvP.
The performance problem is real for many people and across all sorts of hardware. In the many megathreads there are people with highend machines posting about fps dips to 20 and below. Coming up with crap like "lol game is fine, runs on my 8 year old laptop lol" or "human eye cant see the difference between 25 and 80fps" only makes people look like the idiots they are.
I can look at the ground or zoom all in to a rock and get 15fps in some areas. Or fight with 30fps while my CPU idles at 20-30% and my GPU at 70%.
My bet is that there is not much Carbine can do about it, except for some tweaks here and there -like they found several bugged object in PvP maps and such. On the other hand they have also been wrong with many statements on that topic, proven by players. Players have also proven that there are many things going wrong with how the game renders stuff in general, resulting in i.e. a difference of only 5 fps between ultra-low and ultra-high settings in some areas.
Or zooming all into an object and changing the drawing distance can give you anything from 20 to 60fps -while what you see on screen stays exactly the same.
Of course the game will receive further tuning, but the basic problem will remain unless Carbine rewrites part of the engine. Other than that, they will likely sit it out until more and more players go through an upgrade-cycle.
Yeah it's baffling for someone who isn't in the industry and has never programmed or bothered to really do any research into graphic design...
It sure is baffling for someone like that I bet.
Edit: looked through the thread again, I noticed all the people who have a complaint, don't offer any information or sourcing or facts.
Yet all the people saying Wildstar has optimized and will continue to do so have provided sources and information and data.
So I guess its 'gut feeling' crowd vs 'facts' crowd.
It's called alt f1. That will display your fps. When you have the worst FPS performance of any recent MMO that is a big problem for your company/business. I don't know why I have to explain this to you.
lol so you think its the 'engine' do you. ofc course the game will continue to be tuned, just like WOW, GW2 etc before it, luckily for you they will indeed be tweaking code, threading etc, and now they have seen your report on the 'engine' they will probably focus on that. you would think people have never seen a mmorg during first couple weeks where this always happens.
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that's bullshit.
atm the engine is really CPU dependand, and carbine is working on it to give the GPU more work and attention.
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1. Of course it is the engine. But i guess you are right and the people with 20fps on SLI 780s or 290x' are all wrong. Have you even followed the discussion that is going on on the subject for month and month? If not, i guess i'm wasting my time to answer you.
2. People have seen enough mmos with bad fps "during first couple" of weeks to know that after years and millions in development, a studio isn't likely to fix this easily if it already carries over into launch. People have also seen what happened to these titles, i.e. Rift.
Here: Intel i7, 8 Gb Ram, GTX 670M. Very slow, unplayable with normal settings.
GW2 was not optimised for GPU in the beginning. They later fixed that when people were going cry me a river.
SSD is a waste of money imo. Loading screens are not that bad and that's the only place you are going to feel it.
Anyways when I said the OP should get GTX 790, I thought it was implied that he would also get a CPU like i7 4960X
OOh and also no AMD/radeon crap. That's just inferior.
So OP get GTX 790 and i7 4960x. If you can't max it, come back and will deem the game unoptimised mess.
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