I've been batting around the idea of upgrading my GPU and it appears based on what I"ve read for the past week
it would be a total waste of time, for ETS 2 (or for any other game I have at the res I run at now)
I see in ETS2 at 300 scaling 45 to 60fps depending if night (hardest hit) or daylight or city driving. Typical daylight
55ish FPS.
400 scaling typical as above conditions 35 to 45 fps with dips to below 30 especially in cities ., depends on environment.
That is on a FAR LESS card on paper than the GTX 780. I've seen this reported in a lot of forums.
These guys are using even less screen res than I do as my system is 1920x1200 and the reports I've seen are from plain old HD systems, 1920x1080, a few less pixels to push.
I love the game, and would like to see higher frame rates but to be honest I'm happy with anything above 40 as
my eyes don't really see enough difference to fuss over (UNLESS i'm staring at a fps meter).
System here is System:
Windows 7 64 | 8GB RAM, Asus MB P8Z68-V PRO Gen3
CPU: Intel i7-2600K @4.3 GHz o/c
GPU: Nvidia GTX 580 1.5GB VRAM o/c @ 925Mhz 2120Mhz Memory 1.115V
Main Display: Dell U2410 1920x1200,
Game settings and this is important to anyone that bothers to read this...
most important to gain FPS if you are scaling above 200 is turn in game MLAA setting OFF.
I saw a solid 10 to 15FPS boost (depending on scaling used) when that is off and the games MLAA is total
garbage anyway and does zero far as I can see above scales of 200, especially 300 and up.
DOF off as who needs distance bluring with 59 year old eyes.
Color Correction off might help too but the main one is MLAA OFF.
In Nvidia settings it is pretty much standard global as no settings there seem to effect the game much in regards
to anti aliasing , it is in game scaling that is what works.
So, here we are in August 2014 and the GTX 580, granted overclocked, is seemingly doing just as well
as a fancy GTX 780.
Boggle. I guess I can wait for the 800 series and see if Nvidia suckers me in on 'upgrading'.
I can't complain I paid as much for my 580 a few years ago as the 780's cost now, perhaps a bit less.
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