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    whats your ideas for my rig?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by skidilydidily, Mar 15, 2010.

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    skidilydidily Newbie

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    hi all.. just signed upto the site been snooping around it for a while but only just got round to joining,, what can i do to get the nest outa my setup for playing games? or how do you think it will handle some upcoming games like metro 2033. thanks for your time :)
     
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    Star Forge Quaggan's Creed Redux!

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    Medium Settings on 1024x768 resolution. I heard Metro 2033 is pretty much a rig-killer like Crysis (except it is better optimized so slightly better I think). I think you also should stick with DirectX 9.0c and don't go DX 10.
     
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    skidilydidily Newbie

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    ahh ok thanks for your reply... i kinda thought it might be able to run it good given its all set in closed areas and not massive wide open areas like stalker call of prypiat which my set up runs ok on medium high, how about gta 4 will my cpu hack that? could my card play it also? i really dont understand all this benchmarks stuff :confused:
     
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    nhat2991 Notebook Consultant

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    I manage to finish GTA4 on a [email protected] 2GB ram and an aging go 7900GS on low so yours should be alright
     
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    skidilydidily Newbie

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    ok thanks i shall give it a try, altho i dont think i would like to play it on low i am quite guilty of just wacking settings on the highest available and hoping for the best haha, i know i cant do that with all games and i have to drop them, But if i have to drop them all to low i would probily just not play the game.

    this is what happened with crysis, i could play most on medium but when it got to hairy bits it would lag, instead of just putting all on low i decided to not play it and moved onto bioshock 2 i believe.. ( yea i didnt even play crysis till about 2 months ago )... which runs pretty damn good all high with dx10 1366x768
     
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