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Originally Posted by Rattlehead
It does look gorgeous, doesn't it? 
Sadly, there is no way in hell my humble PC could cope at those settings. Upgrade time? |
I wouldn't upgrade until the performance optimizations are complete and there's a clear path that will lead to definite results. I'd need to know what hardware will let me play at what settings and then decide what those settings are worth buying hardware for.
On maxed out graphics settings I've seen single digit frame-rates over cities. That means, even if optimizations end up doubling frame-rates over those areas, it still won't be playable, only giving a maximum of 20fps. If SLI gets fixed and it scales 100%, then that, combined with the optimizations, could give me 30-40fps, maybe. But I don't want to go SLI. So I'll have to decide what settings I want to turn down, (probably about 10-15 fps worth.)
Playing maxed out, in all locations, with an i7 920 @3.8GHz and a GTX580 just isn't going to be an option by the look of it. Not that I expected it to be...
Sorry, just thinking out loud. I guess what I'm saying is, we're all in the same boat, as I think even when it's fully optimized by the developers, CloDo will humble all our PC's for a couple of years yet. You can only optimize so much before you have to accept the sheer amount of stuff you're dealing with will have to dictate what kind of performance you can get. No news there.