Dragon Age: Origins HD4890 Gameplay

[urmomisfineinbed]

This game runs on Nvidia physx so ofc Nvidia is better for it. still get a stupid amount of FPS on it with my 5870

[SuperRoosterman]

ati rulez....... babey

[GameSiphon]

I'm running this game pretty well with a HD4890 myself, but sometimes I drop below 60 to as low as 40. Could it be because I have a dualcore? How much would a quad help you think?

[DarkEch0o]

Depends, I found out that if you leave the Anti-aliasing forcing via the control center on, the game's AA is ignored and then it looks all jagged. (I thnk it's only on Windows7, dunno about other systems)

At any rate, does that FPS drop happen in heavily populated areas? Let's say in the Brecilian forest, is the FPS constantly at 40FPS? Or does it happen only in some areas? If the FPS is always low in populated areas, then it's the processor, since it has to handle a lot of individual NPCs.

[GameSiphon]

Drops in places like Denerim, Grey Warden camp and the town Morrigan leads you to. It also drops in bigger scaled combat.

[DarkEch0o]

Mine dropped in Grey Warden camp and where there's too much detail for the card to handle (with V-sync on) but that happens rarely. So I guess it's the dual core.

[GameSiphon]

@DarkEch0o

Well, VSync either caps the FPS at the refresh rate of the monitor or half of the refresh rate of the monitor if the framerate drops below the refresh rate. ( Lol, I just made a mindfuck :p )

[DarkEch0o]

Yeah, and since most monitors have 60hz, the FPS is always 60 with V-sync ... (Of course, not with a low-end rig.) But it also slows the game down in some scenes, as said, somewhere where's too much detail for the card to handle with V-sync on.

[cannnonfoddder]

I have a question for an upcoming build, with the intention of no upgrading: AUS $229 HD 4890 or a $189 HD 5770? I'm leaning towards a HD 4890 for performance...

[DarkEch0o]

Well, depends .... 5770 really is roughtly an equivalent of HD4870, it has more steam processor or something like that, twice more than the 4xxx series but scratch the DX10 support and the HD4890 is a lot more powerful.

[MaDkiLLaV2]

I'm planning to get this card to play Aion, do you recommend it?

[DarkEch0o]

Yeah, it's a really good card - especially when you buy one from Sapphire. I don't have any problems running newest games on highest detail with AA and FullHD with 60fps. (except Crysis of course.) I'd really recommend it if you don't have money to spend on the newest series of¨HD5xxx

[richdanks]

id go with a gtx 260 over the 4890 it performs alot better i can run any game including crysis maxed out with it

[Mindereak]

This isnt true, 4890 is a lot better, the direcet rival is GTX275 and i think GTX275 is better then GTX260 :p

[DarkEch0o]

Dude, I can run Crysis maxed out too. 8D The problem is that Crysis has been optimized for nVidia cards so ATI cards don't perform at Crysis so awesomely but still beats the 30fps at maxed out.

[Mindereak]

yeah but i meant to say that 4890 si better than gtx260 in all games except for some games optimized for Nvidia, but 4890 is still a lot better.

[MaDkiLLaV2]

sapphire vapor x oc comes 870/1050Mhz, i'd like to make mine like urs, does it bring a overclocking utility so i can oc a bit more like urs?

[DarkEch0o]

It's an ATI Card so it has the ATI Control Center which allows you to overclock your card - and even has an option to control the fan on your card or you can leave that to the AI which adjust the speed of the fan according to the temperature. The Control Center even has a little utility that allows you to test the stability of the overclock you made. I can OC mine up to 960/1110Mhz but i'm starting to notice fragments, Atomic and Toxic versions from Sapphire can be OC'd higher.

[DarkEch0o]

Fraps

[MaDkiLLaV2]

did you OC your GPU urself?

or did you buy it like that?

if so where did u buy it?

[DarkEch0o]

I OC'd it myself - Sapphire sells a good overlocked cards like HD4890 Vapor-x edition or the Atomic edition, the core can be overclocked to 1GHZ!! in these edition.

[Mindereak]

There is also the Toxic Edition which is overclocked ;)

[DarkEch0o]

Isn't that what I've said? xD

[NewOrder2013]

i love this game!

[Jukalaboo]

xp or vista ? or 7?

[DarkEch0o]

Windows7

[OjStudios]

This game was awesome, one of the best rpg's of this era.

Good graphicscard btw ;)

[DarkEch0o]

Agreed, dunno what people have against it - it's from Bioware and that speaks for itself. Amazing story, best graphics seen in an RPG so far. I'd say even better than in Mass Effect, it had good graphics but the pixelation of the texture just sucked and destroyed the beauty of it.

[OjStudios]

Let's hope that Mass Effect 2 doesn't have those problems.

[JUDDPOWNSYOU]

better than Oblivion?

[DarkEch0o]

Well, generally ... not really. You have giant freedom in Oblivion along with a good story. Dragon Age has amazing story, graphics, features but there is not such freedom and world as in Oblivion.

[CheatGamers]

This was the first rpg game that i liked. nice vid.