***ENVY 14 Gaming Lounge***

[Phongy]

For the person who asked about l4d2...I can run it on max settings (maxed out AA and AF) with 30-50fps depending on the map.

[MagusDraco]

yeah. I mean my fps seems to hover around 30-35 to somtimes 25 at high but hell. it seems much more playable than before for whatever reason.

*shrugs* works for me. Might drop to medium shaders if I need to if things get problematic in big armies and stuff.

[Phongy]

What does catalyst AI do? I just tried disabling it and running sc2 but now my game keeps going to a black screen after a few minutes with the music still going.

EDIT: Enabled AI again and my game still crashes to a black screen...could my gpu just be a lemon?

EDITEDIT: Ack, it's happening in Batman AA too...

TripleEDIT: Happening in all my games :[

[werd]

is it normal that even in counter-strike 1.6 I can't even get 100fps when I look into some smoke? My 4year old desktop can handle 100fps constant in that game.

[MagusDraco]

*shrugs*

smoke always screwed my computer over no matter what the graphics card.


it may just depend on the mode you're playing CS in (direct x may just not like the smoke or open gl could be pissed if you're on that)



in other news that powerplay bug is annoying but at least you can turn powerplay off, hit apply, turn it back on, hit apply and it'll be fixed til you unplug the laptop again

[asdad123]

So I downloaded the Mafia 2 Demo and saw it had a benchmark in it. Here are the results.


450/800

1280x720
Low Settings - Avg FPS 34.8
High Settings - Avg FPS 34.3

1600x900
Low Settings - Avg FPS 25.7
High Settings - Avg FPS 25.2

OCed to 525/950

1280x720
Low Settings - Avg FPS 39.6
High Settings - Avg FPS 38.9

1600x900
Low Settings - Avg FPS 29.7
High Settings - Avg FPS 29.1

Game looks surprisingly good at low settings too

[scishock]

So I downloaded the Mafia 2 Demo and saw it had a benchmark in it. Here are the results.


450/800

1280x720
Low Settings - Avg FPS 34.8
High Settings - Avg FPS 34.3

1600x900
Low Settings - Avg FPS 25.7
High Settings - Avg FPS 25.2

OCed to 525/950

1280x720
Low Settings - Avg FPS 39.6
High Settings - Avg FPS 38.9

1600x900
Low Settings - Avg FPS 29.7
High Settings - Avg FPS 29.1

Game looks surprisingly good at low settings too

mind running that at 550/800?

[Phongy]

Had to clean reinstall...the black screen crashing problem went away. Anyone have an idea of what could of caused it?

[asdad123]

mind running that at 550/800?

I would but anything over 525 and my graphics card isnt stable and crashes. I ran it at 525/800 though and here are the results

1280x720
Low - Avg FPS 37.5
High - Avg FPS 37.0

1600x900
Low - Avg FPS 27.7
High - Avg FPS 27.1

550/800 should be around there. Maybe like half a FPS/1 FPS more

[DrPterodactyl]

so...*shrugs* anyway to play in a windowed fullscreen mode?

for tf2, put this in your launch options:
"-windowed -noborder -width 1600 -height 900"
without quotations of course.

I actually get a slight performance boost (strange, right?) and it's easier to alt-tab out.