Friday 2010-10-15 Dev. update and Discussion

Originally Posted by F19_lacrits

But who knows, I sure don't and Oleg ain't telling at this stage.
Further, getting two new Fermi GF104 GTX460's and running them in SLI provides you more GPU horsepower than getting one GF100 GTX480.

If you want to upgrade for SoW I suggest wait until there are some reviews out and it's at least been flown by a good bunch of the community before deciding how to spend your upgrade money.. It could turn out that CPU and RAM is more important than having the highest end GPU.. Who knows?

What I'm getting at is that SLI/Multiple card setups are really only logical for people with multiple monitors or people playing on 30" Dell screens at full resolution. You get more horsepower out of two cards, but you waste a lot of money and efficiency if you're playing on a typical monitor at regular resolutions. If you get the two G460's you spend "x" amount, if you wait 4 months you'll be able to get a card for that same amount or less, that will run the game better (at regular resolution on a single display).

Anyways, I'm going to wait about 6 months after the game is released (buy it on the first day still) and then build my system to play it. Given the way the market goes, waiting 1/2 a year is usually enough for a new flagship line of cards to be released and the previous "front-runners" who can still run the game all maxed out to drop in price dramatically.

When I play SOW I want it to look as good as it possibly can (at 1600x900 resolution).

[ARGH]

like i said, i built this i7 / gtx 480 rig for the future games. i watercooled it's components with a corsaid H50 on cpu and the new Coolit OMNI on the gpu for silent running because i do not like loud systems. it's also sporting a mild overclock on the cpu and gpu.

i built this system specifically for final fantasy 14 (too bad the game sucks right now, jesus!) and storm of war. it completely maxes out final fantasy 14 including 16x AA, Dof & AO enabled.







the graphical fidelity of this game pretty much the same as wings of prey, although it will have more geometry and better damage model. i know wings of prey can almost be maxed out with a 260 GTX and the GTX 480 is over twice as fast so i am confident that it should max the game out. maybe oleg will state what the recommended system specs will be to play the game in ultra to high settings at 1080p?....

[swiss]

Can't remember asking him for any pictures either.

[Qpassa]

Originally Posted by swiss

Can't remember asking him for any pictures either.

lol, this thread is for talking about dev update, but a water cooled pc? wtf?

[Hunden]

Nice rig, I woudn't worry about what some say. They can't help it they ride the short bus.

[Robert]

Nice set up, ARGH. I especially like that case and am interested in what you think of the vertical fans. Who makes it? Thanks.

[albx]

guys need to show their babes

[philip.ed]

Oleg, great speech, a tune of land-of-hope-and-glory in the background and it would be quite stirring.

Oleg; it's interesting what you say about the colours changing throughout the day.
have you ever looked into this, out of curiosity?

http://www.windwardmark.net/products.php?page=windlight

[janpitor]

Originally Posted by ARGH

like i said, i built this i7 / gtx 480 rig for the future games. i watercooled it's components with a corsaid H50 on cpu and the new Coolit OMNI on the gpu for silent running because i do not like loud systems. it's also sporting a mild overclock on the cpu and gpu.

i built this system specifically for final fantasy 14 (too bad the game sucks right now, jesus!) and storm of war. it completely maxes out final fantasy 14 including 16x AA, Dof & AO enabled.

the graphical fidelity of this game pretty much the same as wings of prey, although it will have more geometry and better damage model. i know wings of prey can almost be maxed out with a 260 GTX and the GTX 480 is over twice as fast so i am confident that it should max the game out. maybe oleg will state what the recommended system specs will be to play the game in ultra to high settings at 1080p?....

I´m rather sure the water cooling is a bit overkill without serious overclock. I have i5 750 clocked to 4GHz on air (noctua nh-D14) and GTX480 in a very well ventilated case http://elements.thermaltake.com/ (the model with side fan). I have the upper fan set on 5V instead of 12V to lower RPM. With such configuration it is no more noisy than a mid range notebook. And yes, it can max out Rise of flight with mostly 60fps and 50-56fps over very large cities. and also fly pmdg J41 over 40-50fps

[Trumper]

If it is not a rude question what sort of price range are you looking at for that please?