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I'm not giving my money to scalpers. My 560 Ti 448 is being a trooper at 1440p, the only game it can't play smoothly is Metro. I'm just playing the less demanding games in my backlog, I have plenty.
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Agreed posted:Taking a lot of willpower not to just buy one right now but gently caress scalpers. The official eVGA shop tends to have some in stock for MSRP. Like right now it has the base GTX 670 for $399, though all the other 670 models are sold out.
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May 19, 2012 07:28
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Newegg had a ton in stock just yesterday. I really don't think they're hard to find.
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May 19, 2012 07:30
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poo poo, EVGA's is in stock right now on Newegg.
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May 19, 2012 07:31
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The difference here between AMD and NVIDIA is that AMD's 7970 was pushed down a notch by NVIDIA's new cards.. ... Whereas NVIDIA cannibalised 680 sales with the 670. Still, it's good for those who waited a bit.
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May 19, 2012 10:07
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Factory Factory posted:DX11.1 isn't going to be a huge release, mostly behind-the-scenes stuff for performance and API integration. It will include stereoscopic 3D support, though, so, hypothetically, every game will get S3D without fiddly vendor-specific implementations.  .
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May 19, 2012 14:38
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Anybody having issues with the 12.4 Catalyst? On my HD 5870 I've noticed two things. First, my CCC settings are completely ignored by games that previously didn't ignore them. I have 33 games installed and I tested on a fair chunk of them, and none of them have the settings applied. Second, my shadows are hosed in every game. If they're not flickering all the time then they do this. Notice the striping. It's very visible on his face and neck. This isn't a lovely JPG; the BMP looks the same. I've ruled out any hardware issues; everything runs as smoothly as it ever did, and I decided to Furmark while I was out for a few hours today. No issues.
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May 19, 2012 18:38
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That particular example is because of the way they do shadows in TW2 iirc. Happens on my GTX 580, too. No idea what's up with the drivers not overriding correctly, that's such an off-and-on thing with both companies' control panels that I've abandoned the control panel entirely and just use nVidiaInspector to force things at a deeper level than the control panel.
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May 19, 2012 18:57
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Aws posted:Anybody having issues with the 12.4 Catalyst? On my HD 5870 I've noticed two things. First, my CCC settings are completely ignored by games that previously didn't ignore them. I have 33 games installed and I tested on a fair chunk of them, and none of them have the settings applied.
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May 19, 2012 19:13
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Aws posted:Anybody having issues with the 12.4 Catalyst? On my HD 5870 I've noticed two things. First, my CCC settings are completely ignored by games that previously didn't ignore them. I have 33 games installed and I tested on a fair chunk of them, and none of them have the settings applied. Second, my shadows are hosed in every game. If they're not flickering all the time then they do this. I showed this post to a friend of mine who works with Nvidia on driver development and testing, just to see what he said. The hashing pattern on the TW2 screenshot is dithering done on the shadow map by the game to approximate soft edges. As for the shadow flickering, that could be a number of things and a short example video would be better for him to see what might be happening. But if you get the artifacting in more than just TW2 it might be bad VRAM, since that usually results in fixed pattern artifacting.
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May 19, 2012 19:20
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Agreed posted:That particular example is because of the way they do shadows in TW2 iirc. Happens on my GTX 580, too. Alereon posted:Are you setting a profile for each game? If you don't then the default profile (which may not be your global settings) will apply. Dotcom656 posted:I showed this post to a friend of mine who works with Nvidia on driver development and testing, just to see what he said. I'm going to downgrade to 12.3 to rule out bad VRAM.
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May 19, 2012 19:44
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Aws posted:Nope. Just a single global profile.
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May 19, 2012 19:51
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Avoided blowing a load of money on a 680 and bought a second ASUS HD5850 for £80/$125. That should tide my hardware itch over long enough, at least until Haswell is released.
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I thought it might be interesting to post a Geforce GTX 670 trip report from the perspective of a long-time ATI and then AMD user. I bought an EVGA GTX 670 2GB, non-superclocked version, which is basically a stock card with some minimal tweaks to the fan and the exhaust venting: The first thing that struck me was that, out of the box, image quality is TERRIBLE. I noticed a lot of texture shimmering and thin lines were mangled badly by antialiasing. After spending a few minutes digging through the nVidia Control Panel to disable all their optimizations and Gamma Correction for Antialiasing, quality came up to what I was expecting. Coverage Sample AntiAliasing (CSAA) is loving amazing. 16X CSAA (4 geometry samples and 12 coverage samples) looks drat near flawless and isn't too much slower than 4X MSAA. I can play less demanding games in 32X CSAA (8 geometry samples and 24 coverage samples), which looks amazing. I can't wait for more demanding games to come out with support for TXAA. Noise levels are a lot better than I was expecting, even when I maxed out the TDP. Definitely not something I'd notice with headphones, and I think it's actually quieter at idle than my Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 which had a reasonably quiet stock cooler. The blower had a bit of bearing whine when I first booted up after installing the card. I was worried that I might have to RMA it, but it stopped within about a minute and I haven't heard it since, so I think it's fine. Overclocking is more difficult than it would seem at first due to Boost and the TDP cap. It's hard to test your overclock, as heavy load will hit the TDP cap before the boost cap, so it won't test the higher clockspeeds. This results in overclocks that passed torture tests fine failing under more moderate gaming where there's TDP headroom for it to boost higher. I've also found memory overclocking to have a larger performance impact than expected. Reviews are correct that it doesn't have much impact on average framerates, but it raises minimum framerates and makes valleys in framerate graphs shallower. Metro 2033 is still a goddamned hog, though
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May 19, 2012 21:02
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Downgraded to 12.3. Issue is still there. I tried the per-application profile, and it doesn't change anything. I'm stumped. There's not a whole lot for me to do. A year ago, I started writing down changes I make to anything on my computer (because I like to gently caress with things and I learned this is a really helpful thing to do) and this time it's really not my fault. Oh well. I guess I'll wait and see what happens. This is so exciting. Nothing has broken for so long; it takes me back to 2002 when my trusty 9700 would overheat in my lovely case and I couldn't afford anything better, so I had to keep the case open and blow a giant floor fan into my case. Ah, nostalgia.
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May 19, 2012 21:02
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Alereon posted:I thought it might be interesting to post a Geforce GTX 670 trip report from the perspective of a long-time ATI and then AMD user.
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May 19, 2012 21:06
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Aws posted:As a longtime ATI/AMD user, how would you compare nvidia's control panel with AMD?
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May 19, 2012 22:03
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Anyone else having hard locking issues in Metro 2033 with a GTX 670? I'm running 301.34 drivers, and about 30 seconds after starting the game (or rather 10 seconds after all splash screens end) the game just hard locks. Everything freezes and I cant move my mouse cursor. I can bring up task manager and end the process and that's about it. EDIT: Just pulled up metro again (I didn't end the process this second time) and its working now. Not sure what that's all about. EDIT 2: Restarted the game to apply some graphics changes and its still acting weird. Maybe it hates my extended desktop? Dotcom656 fucked around with this message at 23:12 on May 19, 2012 |
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May 19, 2012 23:07
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Alereon posted:In terms of managing settings, especially per-game settings, nVidia's is far better. I have noticed more UI bugs, things like the control panel not knowing which setting I'm hovered over, linked settings not updating properly, and other weirdness in nVidia's conrol panel, but I am using a beta driver (301.34). AMD's panel scaling options seem better and more effective, even though they do require you to be in a non-native resolution to expose them. I haven't done much with the other settings, though the Digital Vibrance option Desktop Color Settings was an easy and effective way to make my older secondary display look less washed out. You have to get nVidiaInspector. It allows for much more robust management of game profiles, including the ability to override certain flags and thus enable different types of AA, or allow SSAO, etc., in games that wouldn't support them with stock settings. It also gives you access to every nVidia AA mode, including supersampling AA as well as sparse-grid supersampling options that you can adjust to taste for the perfect balance of performance and incredible appearance. On modern games on my GTX 580 I usually run, at 1080p, 8xCSAA + 2x or 4x Sparse Grid supersampling, and it is image quality heaven. But you can do a lot of things there, and while it does assume some knowledge on the part of the user, it gives you a great deal of power as well to tweak your games' and adjust profiles... Very powerful tool, I get so much out of my card thanks to it and I can only imagine with a 670/680 you'd get so much more.
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Does anyone else with a GTX 670 get terrible performance with diablo 3 at 2560x1440? I was thinking there was something wrong with my PC at first because Fraps wouldn't open at all. (It turns out you have to change your PC date to may 17th to make it work.) But this coupled with Metro hard locking is making me wonder if something is broken on my end.
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Dotcom656 posted:Anyone else having hard locking issues in Metro 2033 with a GTX 670? I'm running 301.34 drivers, and about 30 seconds after starting the game (or rather 10 seconds after all splash screens end) the game just hard locks. Everything freezes and I cant move my mouse cursor. I can bring up task manager and end the process and that's about it. Agreed posted:You have to get nVidiaInspector. It allows for much more robust management of game profiles, including the ability to override certain flags and thus enable different types of AA, or allow SSAO, etc., in games that wouldn't support them with stock settings. It also gives you access to every nVidia AA mode, including supersampling AA as well as sparse-grid supersampling options that you can adjust to taste for the perfect balance of performance and incredible appearance.
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Alereon posted:What card do you have? That sounds like the issue the EVGA GTX 670 SuperClocked cards were recalled for. That's exactly what happens to me when I have the card overclocked too high. MSI reference GTX670 with a slight factory overclock. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127675 That card for a specific link.
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Alereon what settings did you fiddle with? I notice the texture shimmering on my 680 and wouldn't mind cleaning that up a bit.
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For one, set the basic setting to High Quality on the Performance<------->Quality slider to disable image-compromising optimizations. Also, consider manually using nVidiaInspector to use at least 2xSGSSAA (below the regular AA options, and not the same thing as transparency Multisampling, the one below it) - it really helps with shimmer, especially in deferred rendering engines, in my experience.
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So I'm thinking of buying a PC as a my main gaming/emulator/media center device and I really like the look and size of the Alienware x51. Only thing I'm worried about is the upgrade potential for the GPU in a year or two. With UE4 right around the corner, I don't want to lock myself out by buying now. I don't know a whole lot about GPU trends, but should we expect midsized/midtier versions of the 680 technology in the next year?
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Kinkajou posted:So I'm thinking of buying a PC as a my main gaming/emulator/media center device and I really like the look and size of the Alienware x51. Only thing I'm worried about is the upgrade potential for the GPU in a year or two. With UE4 right around the corner, I don't want to lock myself out by buying now. I don't know a whole lot about GPU trends, but should we expect midsized/midtier versions of the 680 technology in the next year? You can get a lot more bang for your buck by building your own PC,But to answer your question the GTX 660 should be here in the next 3 months, and that's the mainstream performance card.
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N.B. you have to order the GTX 555 version of the X51 to get a 330W power brick, which can juuuuuust handle a non-overclocked GeForce 670, which has a 170W TDP/141W PowerTune target. You might prefer checking out Star War Sex Parrot's posts in the system building thread about the SilverStone Sugo-based mini-ITX box he built; it's a similar volume to a console, though not a similar shape the way an X51 is. -- E: Hey guess what! Nvidia is repackaging the lovely Fermi cards as GeForce 600 series! Again! GeForce GT 610
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May 20, 2012 03:45
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What the gently caress is even the point of releasing this mess? To rip people off when they could be using Intel HD graphics for free?
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HalloKitty posted:What the gently caress is even the point of releasing this mess? To rip people off when they could be using Intel HD graphics for free? Yes? This is a marketing change. Marketing isn't about telling a consumer what his most prudent or efficient choice. Its about offering as many temptations as possible to fish money from them, if not attempting to persuade them in the absence of or in the face of more economically sound wisdom.
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It's for people who want to take their old beige boxes and let them watch HD video, supposedly. Though I'd more generally say it's to clear out old stock.
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Bought a 670 last week, have yet to play a game with it. Hopefully I'll get a chance tonight and I'll have a look at nvidianinspector too. Metro2033 sounds like the go to test game?
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Lord, Metro2033. I discovered - hey, not only do we have quote linking, but we've got reply drafts and character counters? - I discovered that the big performance hog to a Radeon 6850 CF setup was depth of field, of all things, and that the game ran very smoothly once I turned that off. I also discovered that my graphics overclock is stable for Furmark but not for Metro. Good lord, that game.  Whatever your video card, it will have the poo poo kicked out of it by Metro 2033.
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Factory Factory posted:Lord, Metro2033. I discovered - hey, not only do we have quote linking, but we've got reply drafts and character counters? - I discovered that the big performance hog to a Radeon 6850 CF setup was depth of field, of all things, and that the game ran very smoothly once I turned that off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCVREJyyZWA
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Factory Factory posted:I also discovered that my graphics overclock is stable for Furmark but not for Metro. Good lord, that game. Have you not done the fun stuff of going through and seeing whether it's stable for DX9, DX10, and DX11 at the same clocks? That's where it gets good! And by good of course I mean 
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DX9: yes DX10: yes DX11 with advanced DoF: yes DX11 without ADoF and decent framerates: nnnnnope.
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That's half the fun of overclocking GPUs, since every game engine is basically a huge quagmire of hacks that skirt or just outright ignore some pretty significant standards, and drivers get released all the time specifically to sort of address those hacked-in elements and can grab ludicrous performance gains out of games. E.g. something wrong with Skyrim's "Gamebryo PLUS" shadows and nVidia's Fermi architecture (especially higher end cards, where you'd have the horsepower to turn 'em up in the first place), and especially indoors for some reason - a new driver gave between 30% and 40% performance improvement. That's hilarious, isn't it? Pre-driver, might as well be using a GTX 280, post-driver oh that's where my performance ought to be. And since they're all special flowers, the way they ask your card to behave can be pretty dramatically different. For example, I'm stable at 920mhz in DX10 in Metro 2033, or at 925mhz in DX11 in Crysis 2 (930mhz in DX11 Crysis 2!), or 920mhz in DX10 or DX11 in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. CoP with Atmosfear 3 and Absolute Nature plus third-party shaders... I can crank it up to 960mhz for some hot texture transcoding action in RAGE without any crashing or artifacts (edit: so we're clear, I'm pretty sure memory bandwidth has a lot to do with texture transcoding speed as well, so don't ignore that if you like RAGE and are still playing it despite the sad lack of continued support from id), and ~950mhz or so for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SHoC in DX9. Lovely stuff, engines. Unreal 4 looks really cool, but I'm up idtech's rear end because I feel like they have a ton of creativity and they (were, at least, pre-layoffs) working really closely with FXAA development to try to bring crazy good image quality potentially even to current-gen consoles. Identified the softness and figuring out how to do a "free" MSAA pass to resolve leftover aliasing... Cool stuff. But I'm sure development will continue regardless. MLAA's been coming along, AMD/ATI may have been one-upped but at least they didn't just sit around moping about it. Agreed fucked around with this message at 11:57 on May 21, 2012 |
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Factory Factory posted:I also discovered that my graphics overclock is stable for Furmark but not for Metro. Good lord, that game.
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3Dmark11 and UNIGINE Heaven are the real stability testing tools for overclocking cards because between the two of them, they actually manage to pretty much do everything in DX10/DX11 in ways that games MIGHT ACTUALLY USE (holy poo poo, a relevant 3Dmark?? Where did the good old days of pointless e-peen go? Don't worry, it's not perfect, it's just a hell of a lot more useful than it used to be). I don't even bother with Furmark or OCCT or EVGA OC Scanner X, bunch of total bollocks that will as Alereon rightly points out simply show you the power throttling safety features of your card unless you're using modified firmware (and hopefully after-market cooling, because otherwise you're going to cook your card or cards). Fire up 3Dmark11 for a few runs on Performance mode for quickest results there - it's a bit of a chore since you have to do it manually, but if you can make it through the whole run ten times, you're *probably* stable. Or, let UNIGINE Heaven 3.0 go on its merry loop and you'll find out real quick what kind of stability your overclock has. Heaven is my favorite, both because they've consistently sorta one-upped Futuremark for relevance despite it being a freeware product; because there's no manual dicking around required, it auto-loops through a scene where every camera hard change is testing/showing off something new and DX11, so if you want to, feel free to just let it run for awhile and if you come back to a driver crash you know to reduce clocks; and you can monitor it to see if you've got shader artifacts, geometry issues, etc. and help narrow down what isn't working right. Of course then you go play fancy games and it turns out that you need to dial clocks back some more somewhere because stress test utilities are only useful to a point... It's just a further point than Furmark, I guess.
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Yeah, well, I'm also two-loops-of-Unigine Heaven stable, too. Frickin' Metro.
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Linux 3.4 dropped today, its relevance to this thread is that it brings some support for newer GPUs.quote:1.2. GPU drivers LKML Human Readable
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