bannoman0100 :
im looking at getting a 4870 soon but want to know what quality and resolutions it will handle on games like crisis to know wether or not i need to spend more money or wait for the x2 model. Has anyone seen or done benchies for the 4870 in any recent games?
I would like to see them, thanks
Hey,
I just got my 4870 this afternoon (in the uk), put her in, installed drivers, restarted, fired up fraps and then, well, of course, crysis!
Ive got a 2.8ghz e6300 cpu, 2gb ddr2-800, 250gb samsung HD, 750w psu, windows xp, crysis v1.21,
On windows xp, so its dx9, at my max res. of 1400x900, I can run all on high and have 2xAA comfortably at all points throughout the game - yes, inlcuding the snow level too. Cutscenes and using the binoculars bring the fps to around 20 sometimes and around 25fps most of the time. In game it averages around 30fps, very occasionally dropping to around or just under 25fps. I tested at a few save points throughout the game (ive completed it), looking at early on, then the level AFTER you have to rescue the woman and take out some tanks for ther first time, (so thats the 3rd level), also at the level when your in and around a quarry trying to get access to the mountain and the excavation site, also during the snow level and finally on the carrier fighting the sub-boss and final boss.
Ive settled on all on high from the game, no AA, then using the xp hack to put object quality, water, game effects and post-processing to very high. For post processing though I dissabled edge detect AA and motion blur (i just dont like motion blur) in that cvar group. I also forced 16xAF from catalyst control center. It looks frankly unbelievably good.
Again going through alot of save points (lol I spent hours just messing about watching fraps go up and down) I can say with this config (still at 1400x900 by the way) that the game plays brilliantly. It only dips below 25fps on rare occasions, averaging a strong 30-35 fps. In hours of testing it only goes under 25fps a handful of times due to the graphical strain, but on my system sadly the loading pauses can drag it under for a few seconds then it recovers again. If I had a faster cpu and HD I believe very high shadows and very high shaders would play very well, but for me it means alot of loading pauses and general sluggishness, and damn it I bought a highend card so sluggishness won't be tolerated
By the way very high shaders does very little for image quality imho. I preffered very high shadows and seeing damn realistic shadows on the forest floor and just about everywhere. The curious thing about the 4870 is that the frame rates don't die in the second half of the game, unlike with my 7900gt, which played fairly well until the alien ship, then instantly went into the teens fps wise (at MUCH reduced settings than the 4870 of course). I went through paradise lost (the snow level) today with my radeon (with the high/very high config and the 4xaa all on dx9 high config) and I dont think it ever went below 28fps except for obvious loading pauses. Thats with the drivers from the CD. I'll try the 'hotfix' drivers tomorrow.
Im just shocked at how fast this card is. Even more so when it appears 4-5 times more powerful in crysis than my 7900gt oc'd to 700mhz core and 850mhz memory. Where the 7900 got 12 fps in the snow level, at the same crappy settings the 4870 got 55-60. Also, it can only get quite alot faster in its lifetime as new and better drivers come along.
In short, at 1400x900 or 1280x1024 (both almost the same number of pixels) all on high in #DX9# with 2xAA or 'hacked' mixture of high and very high settings is smooth and very very enjoyable with this card. A faster intel dual core than mine and a faster hard drive would get you almost all hacked to very high imho. Future drivers should make all hacked very high and 2xAA possible I should think. (in at least 6 months though, these things take time)
Hope that helps.
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