Medium Detail, No Anti-Aliasing
Let’s begin with medium-detail benchmarks. This is a good starting point because the game is visually appealing, but doesn't exact a debilitating load on your graphics card.
Even the GeForce GT 430 and Radeon HD 5570 achieve a minimum frame rate of at least 30 FPS at 1080p. Those are great results for such entry-level discrete cards. Of the add-in boards we tested, only the Radeon HD 6450 is too slow to run the game at 1280x1024 on medium detail settings.
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Ive been a fan of the Elderscroll series for years i look forward to playing this!
A bit disappointing to see the 2 threads thing, no doubt the console versions are much better optimized.
Looks like I'm both CPU and GPU limited with Phenom x4 and ATI 4870.
Looks like I'm both CPU and GPU limited with Phenom x4 and ATI 4870.
Well with a Athlon II x3 450 and an AMD 4850 512mb GPU w/6 gb's of DDR2 it seems to work fine. The game has picked "Ultra" settings when launching the game the first time. I haven't seen all of the settings that the game has selected, but the game looks pretty good and is running quite well. I haven't run any FRAPS on it, but it seems to be about 30-40 FPS, from what I can tell, which is good enough for me
Oh and forgot to mention that the game is running at 1920 x 1080 resolution (unless the game adjusted to something different). I'm trying to play and post, so I'm a bit distracted to say the least. I'll post back if something changes
O well, was hoping to see the 560ti and 6950 tested as those are the two cards I was going to choose between.
O well, was hoping to see the 560ti and 6950 tested as those are the two cards I was going to choose between.
Just look at 6850/GTX460 and 6970/GTX 570. The 560 Ti and 6950 will be in the middle of those, closer to the higher end though.
Bethesda disappoints PC gamers again! It's very sad that Bethesda chooses to optimize the consoles and leaves PC with a basic port with a little extra detail. I'm not saying it's not a great game because it is, but the thought of what it could have been if Bethesda put a little extra effort into the PC makes me sick!
Bethesda=Activision. Dice blows em both away!
I havent played this yet, due to a pending CPU upgrade (somehow i doubt my athlon x2 5600+ (2,8ghz) is enough for much.
But even if this game doesn't quite push the top cards, you gotta commend them for the great scaling! Some of the worst console ports doesn't even HAVE graphics settings, in other games the settings make little difference in the hardware needed, and based on these screenshots (if rather small, larger ones please!) the game looks almost as good if you turn the settings down some.
Man looks really castrated so it can work on xbox/ps3. Too bad, 5 year old graphics are lame.
I havent played this yet, due to a pending CPU upgrade (somehow i doubt my athlon x2 5600+ (2,8ghz) is enough for much.
I bet you that CPU is plenty to push something like a 4850 with reasonable resolution and quality. I mean my old Core 2 Duo with a 2600XT managed to hack Fallout 3 fairly well at appropriate resolutions and quality settings.
so, will i see another wave of thug wearing daedric armor as i progressed in level like Oblivion?
So does the 6850...barely, but it does...
What about memory usage? I've been curious to see what effect BF3 and Skyrim would have on that 1GB vs 2GB 6950 article...
Would be good if we could just get charts for both games with max VRAM usage for cards with memory greater than 1GB for ultra and high settings at various resolutions...i know my 9600GT goes up to 800MB with BF3 set mostly to medium at 1024x768...
Well with a Athlon II x3 450 and an AMD 4850 512mb GPU w/6 gb's of DDR2 it seems to work fine.
Sounds promising, even if I'll have to push it to 1920x1200.
I can do without AA but I'd like the action to stay smooth even (and especially) when crowded by opponents.
Wait a minute........I'm confused!
Is this that new Scrolls game being made by Notch?
Was vsync enabled or disabled for this test?
I think Skyrim enables it by default and you have to either turn it off in an .ini file or force it off with the graphics driver.
Hmm seeing that a 6670 is right between the 240 and 5770 it should be playable at the settings I'm looking toward.. Leaning more and more toward upgrading my GPU.
I wonder why the game gives such a little difference between 2 and more cores on AMD CPU's but it seems to use 4 SB cores.