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Dead Rising 3 requirements kinda steep

Minimum System Requirements:

OS: Windows 7 64-bit edition, Windows 8 64-bit edition
Processor: Intel Core i3-3220 @ 3.30GHz (or Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83GHz) / AMD Phenom II X4 945 @ 3.00 GHz or higher
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Hard Drive: 30 GB free
Video Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 570 / AMD Radeon 7870 or higher
DirectX: Version 11
Controller: Keyboard (international and standard), Mouse (up to 4 buttons), Xbox 360 PC compatible controller or compatible gamepad
Connection: Broadband internet connection and Steam account required

Recommended System Requirements:

OS: Windows 7 64-bit edition, Windows 8 64-bit edition
Processor: Intel Core i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz or AMD equivalent
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Hard Drive: 30 GB free
Video Card: NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 670 2GB / AMD Radeon 7970 2GB
DirectX: Version 11.1 or greater

this seems to be the trend with these 'next gen' ports
 
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Dead Rising 3 requirements kinda steep



this seems to be the trend with these 'next gen' ports
I don't really understand why these requirements are so steep. The PS4 and XBONE don't even have good graphics cards or anything like that. This bad optimization on the PC is gonna kill us brehs :to:

My new rig can barely play watchdogs on ultra in 3 monitors at 45fps (that might just be the game, but I dunno). What's 2 years gonna look like? Here I thought 2 780tis would murder everything. I guess not.

When "real" next gen games come out, what are we gonna have to have? $3000 Titan Zs? shyt's depressing brehs.
 

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I don't really understand why these requirements are so steep. The PS4 and XBONE don't even have good graphics cards or anything like that. This bad optimization on the PC is gonna kill us brehs :to:

My new rig can barely play watchdogs on ultra in 3 monitors at 45fps (that might just be the game, but I dunno). What's 2 years gonna look like? Here I thought 2 780tis would murder everything. I guess not.

When "real" next gen games come out, what are we gonna have to have? $3000 Titan Zs? shyt's depressing brehs.


Nvidia will release optimized drivers for these games, every updated they drop is geared towards making newer games perform better.
 

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Nvidia is good with the drivers, true.

But needing a 670 for dead rising 3? That's absurd. This is an xb1 game we're talking about. I just don't get it
I had to step it up :manny:

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So I've done tests with my Steam games and three different builds (all AMD, Intel+Nvidia, Mix&Match) and I can firmly say there is some weird FPS drop with Windows 8/8.1 compared to 7. Some emulators are also slower as well. I think it might just be an issue with DirectX 9 though I haven't been able to pinpoint it.

I don't have a super beast rig but the numbers are telling the story.
 

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So I've done tests with my Steam games and three different builds (all AMD, Intel+Nvidia, Mix&Match) and I can firmly say there is some weird FPS drop with Windows 8/8.1 compared to 7. Some emulators are also slower as well. I think it might just be an issue with DirectX 9 though I haven't been able to pinpoint it.

I don't have a super beast rig but the numbers are telling the story.
There's WAY too many variables for determining performance when it comes to emulators. it can vary amongst different builds, different plugin versions, which direct x you have, what game you're playing and whatnot.
 

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I don't really understand why these requirements are so steep. The PS4 and XBONE don't even have good graphics cards or anything like that. This bad optimization on the PC is gonna kill us brehs :to:

My new rig can barely play watchdogs on ultra in 3 monitors at 45fps (that might just be the game, but I dunno). What's 2 years gonna look like? Here I thought 2 780tis would murder everything. I guess not.

When "real" next gen games come out, what are we gonna have to have? $3000 Titan Zs? shyt's depressing brehs.

Maybe these games are already "real" next gen, and all of you forum engineers that claim to know what hardware "should" be able to do are way off base.

It's easy to look at a screenshot of the games and say they don't look much better than "last gen" games. But in reality there is A LOT more going on in these games. It takes a lot of processing power to simulate wind and physics like watchdogs does, it also take a lot of power to have hundreds of A.I. on screen at once like dead rising.

Due to diminishing returns it takes a hell of a lot of power just for marginal gains. You PC dudes thought y'all would squeak by this gen with that old ass hardware:ufdup:
 

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Maybe these games are already "real" next gen, and all of you forum engineers that claim to know what hardware "should" be able to do are way off base.

It's easy to look at a screenshot of the games and say they don't look much better than "last gen" games. But in reality there is A LOT more going on in these games. It takes a lot of processing power to simulate wind and physics like watchdogs does, it also take a lot of power to have hundreds of A.I. on screen at once like dead rising.

Due to diminishing returns it takes a hell of a lot of power just for marginal gains. You PC dudes thought y'all would squeak by this gen with that old ass hardware:ufdup:
:dwillhuh: Dude is playing Watchdogs on three HD monitors at 45fps..... I don't think he's hardly "squeezing" by. Sometimes the game itself isn't really optimized. Your PC and what you told me contradicts what you're saying here since your hardware is barely squeezing by according to PC elitists yet you're getting much better performance and IQ for watchdogs compared to the console versions(XB1/PS4).

I got an I5 2320. I lowered the textures to medium and now I can run everything on ultra with no stuttering. I think there's something wrong with the vram usage no matter how much you have. I was still getting stuttering on low, at high textures.
That's the issue right there. Nikkas with 5GB TITANS LE cards were getting stuttering. It's clearly a game issue and not hardware.

I'm using the high preset, textures on high. MSAA 4X, Vsync on

mostly staying above 40 fps :ehh:

still get some stuttering while driving, thinking about overclocking
An I5-2320 and your GPU and you're getting this performance is pretty good.
 
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:snoop: Dude is playing Watchdogs on three HD monitors at 45fps..... I don't think he's hardly "squeezing" by. Sometimes the game itself isn't really optimized. Your PC and what you told me contradicts what you're saying here since your hardware is barely squeezing by according to PC elitists yet you're getting much better performance and IQ for watchdogs compared to the console versions(XB1/PS4).
It is squeaking by compared to the performace I get in other games that don't have the advanced wind/water/physics.

That's the issue right there. Nikkas with 5GB TITANS LE cards were getting stuttering. It's clearly a game issue and not hardware.
The stuttering is a problem that can be fixed. But that still doesn't change the fact that you need a lot more power to do the things that "next gen" games are doing even if there isn't a huge jump in visuals.


An I5-2320 and your GPU and you're getting this performance is pretty good.
Yeah it's good, but it won't be for long.
 
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