Anyone play Age of Conan with a 8800m GTX?

I'm considering buying a 5793.

Just wondering if anyone has played AoC using a 8800m GTX and what kind of performance they're getting.

Resolution, frame rate, texture quality, that sort of thing.

Thanks

 

in wuxga resolution it struggled with high pre-sets and bloom off in single gpu mode. with sli enabled it was smooth as butter. i could run it with bloom in sli mode as well and played fairly well with the slowdown here and there depening on the situation. bloom really hurts performance form what i saw.

i would say you will be running it medium settings with one card and high settings with sli.

 

Wow,just medium with 1 8800M GTX? so it`s more demanding than Crysis?
Well,live and learn.

 

i bet at wxga or even WSXGA you could get away with higher.

Is it not difficult to judge though as lot of the holdup could just be from lag? it is an online game after all.

 

im pretty sure it can do better than medium cause looking at other threads you can get medium with a m8600gt

 

yes, i thought medium was very strange for this type of laptop. i have heard of people seamlessly playing this game on high with this crad in the beta...... although there was a little driver issue and they had to play in windowed mode for some reason.

 

the game is very well optimized for sli. my framerates almost double on average so that allows me to run a very smooth game in wuxga with pre-set high settings. i can even turn on bloom and still have respectable framerates on average. with single card it struggled at too many places (would dip in the teens in tortage starter town if i recall correctly) and once i figured out that sli works in the game i just kept enabled.

having said that, i do not think the game is very well coded and they took some shortcuts to get as much performance out of their engine as possible. one such detail that i found pathetic is that all of the vegitation are 2D animated sprites. reminded me of playing the original DOOM game back in the 486 days and watching the dead bodies on the floor rotate with you since they are 2D.

i un-installed the game after a few days becaise it was simply bad and poorly implemented with no risk vs. reward system so i cannot help you guys out further with the performance of it.

 

Would you mind posting pics?

 

Is it really more demanding than Crysis?

 

That`s what they say, although 8600M GT users claim to play it on med smoothly.
So, Argh, any screenies and fps?

 

i un-installed it and did not take any screens. i never really cared to fully explored the performance of the game because sli allowed me to play it smooth so naturally frame rates were never on my mind.

i am tempted to re-instal it and take some screens with fraps on for you guys. the install is over 2 hours, though ...25 gigs

 

WOW. That`s a turn off for me, no way can I have that much patience

 

I don't really think this game is more taxing than Crysis. If you can run it smooth with 8800M GTX sli maxed its not more taxing than Crysis. Crysis won't run smooth on very high + 1920 x 1200 on anything less than quad 9800 GX2 or 9800 GTX Sli (and thats without AA, AF). Look up 'maxishine' to see the quad GX2 sli setup on the Crysis bench. And when I say smooth... I mean 40+ FPS average. And we all know that those setups obliterates 8800M GTX SLI's soul.

I think AOC is just unoptimized thats why its running slow. Especially because the graphics aren't anything great. Nice for an MMO but in general most UE3 based games destroy it much less Crysis.

 

well yeah 4 gpu's should obliterate 2 gpu's.

but the 9800 gtx is pretty much the same as the 8800 gtx so that can't run it very high either.

 

Extra res really wipes out a gpus power... 1900 vs 1600 is hardly a visual improvement but kills framerates.

 

having never played aoc, i can't really speak with any sort of authority on how well it would run..so please take what i say with a grain of salt. however, i do use my 5793 (specs in sig) to run two other MMOs. FFXI is by no means a stress test for any modern-day rig, so it's not worth discussing. lord of the rings online, however, does have demanding graphics. I run the game at 1920x1200 with 4x AA. dx10-exclusive features (dynamic shadows and distant landscape lighting) are disabled because of they heavy hit on performance that comes with them. Aside from those two features, however, all other settings are completely maxed out.

At these settings, my rig gets frame rates in the mid 30s-low40s in most environments. depending on the presence of large amounts of other character models, involving environmental graphics etc, it can drop lower. I mention lotro specifically (as opposed to offline games), because it does bring the argument of network lag into consideration as well..just as an earlier post mentioned would be something to think about with AoC.

It's hard to judge based on screenshots alone, but I don't think AoC's graphics are that much more demanding than LotRO's. they are definately more impressive, but not by a collossal margin. Barring driver issues, optimization, and the like, i don't see why the 8800 should not be able to run the game respectably at higher settings. Again, I don't really intend to ever play the game, so there's no way I can say for sure..just offering what insight i can with regard to the experiences i have had.

 

By obliterate I was hinting at the additional point that a desktop 8800 or 9800GTX is MUCH faster than a mobile 8800. So not only is the notebook outnumbered, it is outnumbered by better fighters as well.

 

That game is 25Gigs.

 

Yea, 25 gigs, and you need a really good network connection

 

I thought 6gb was a lot 25GB,it must be something in the game.

 

My flight simulator (X-Plane) has 60GB and that's without any scenery packs or add-ons