Planetside 2

[The_wand_mirror]

I've played it a while already, it's pretty fun. And free...

 

[Nuclear]

If it wasn't so CPU hungry it might be playable, but my standards are way too high for playing anything under 60 FPS.

 

[Aeroblyctos]

I wonder if Planetside 2 will have the same fate as Tribes Ascend.

 

[The_wand_mirror]

If it wasn't so CPU hungry it might be playable, but my standards are way too high for playing anything under 60 FPS.

I guess you don't have an xbox 360 then with far cry 3 =p

But i have an i7 860 and a 7950 3GB and it still doesn't run at 60 fps more like 42-55 or something. You cannot play this game at a constant 60 fps, at least not at the moment and if it is possible somewhere in the future then it will require a monster rig, preferably with a monster cpu. Thing is that it's just a bit overambitious judging today's hardware capabilities.

 

[Cihparg]

I'm afraid your CPU isn't the very best for gaming.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7+860+@+2.80GHz

There's plenty of CPU's that are half the price, not overclocked and yet faring better on Benchmarking.

 

[The_wand_mirror]

Ehm, that is a CPU Benchmarking program? You cannot compare that to gaming, and yes i know it's not high-end anymore or anything but i got it for 150 euros somewhere when i generally still was priced at 220 or something so... I'm not as rich as some people here might think =p

 

[Nuclear]

I got 2500K and GTX 580, in empty areas, very smooth. But the very minute the battle breaks fps goes around 30 which doesn't please me. Also the micro-transactions have been really pissing me off, everywhere it urges you to throw some money at it.

 

[The_wand_mirror]

Mh yeah my videocard does beat yours, you have more pixel rate but that doesn't really matter as mine is 28nm and has a lot more in several different areas.

http://www.hwcompare.com/11592/geforce-gtx-580-3gb-vs-radeon-hd-7950-3gb/

And i don't even know if you have 3gb, and mine is stock-overclocked at 950/1250.

Planetside 2 is probably the most resource intensive game to date, i doubt they could do a lot more optimization really.

 

[Swazi Spring]

I briefly played the first PlanetSide, it was a lot of fun, though I joined in when the servers were mostly empty. I look forward to playing PlanetSide 2 when I get a new computer.

 

[Nuclear]

I'm convinced it's not really about GPU. When viewing beautiful scenery everything runs very smoothly, but in the battle FPS decreases quite a bit even when I'm not looking at the explosions and the action.

 

[The_wand_mirror]

Well i still get 42-48 fps in battle and it does actually drop below that on rare occasions but i am not sure. Then again i have a i7 860 and not a 3rd generation one.

 

[Edhel-dur]

I'm still on my Core 2 Quad, 2GB RAM, GeForce 8600 GTS.

Oh the glory days.

 

[The_wand_mirror]

I never had a core 2 quad i skipped straight from my e8400 dualcore to this i7 when i saw it one sale somewhere for €150.

I mean i like to brag that i have these things but it's not like i have them because i have that much money =p

 

[Edhel-dur]

Oh, I bought it 6 years ago, i3 didn't exist yet, neither did Windows7. I was running WindowsXP, all games were running on the highest settings, now... well I have to replace everything really, and make sure my PC doesn't die before that.

 

[The_wand_mirror]

You will be pretty much alright though when you buy a €600-800 rig now and superfine with a ~€1200. Considering most modern PC's are already said to be equal or better than the next generation xbox. Pure PC games like Star Citizen though and this game, i don't know...