I got two copies because I thought it was good enough.
I got two copies because I thought it was good enough.
All in all, I was able to get the PC release for just at $40 and picked up the xbox copy for $60. So hundred bucks later, and I can now seemingly enjoy the game. Was it worth it? Probably, I put in more than enough hours into BOII that I feel BOIII will buy me the same amount of time on both systems. But for right now, I have to say avoid this release on PC at least a couple more weeks. Copying the game to my laptop right now with a 980M and i7 4710 OC'd to 3.757ghz to see what we can acheive. The Beta killed on my laptop running at 60 fps cap (screen refresh) on full settings with no hiccups. . . oh well, at least Fall out 4 is releasing tonight at midnight. Glad I put back some money for November releases, looks like i'll wait till christmas for Battlefront since I cant justify spending that as well.
DanilKotoff
01-21-2016, 04:05 AM #1Yep, exactly as stated. The PC release was bought because, hey that's how I enjoy playing. I bought a new top tier laptop just to enjoy Witcher 3 on the go as well as GTA V, and so of course, PC was where it had to be. The downside is, the optimization that everyone has been whispering about is real... Not only that but even with a 15mb/s internet connection read on speedtest I get server disconnects just like in black ops II on my PC. SLI on my desktop has been a burden in BOIII, while it handled the beta flawless and the beta ran INCREDIBLE for me, it just seemed broken in the real release. I went ahead and downloaded all the latest drivers for everything on my custom built PC. I went through and disabled SLI to see if it worked better, and my frame rates dropped by about 10 (144 to 134 very roughly) but some of the dragging feelings went away. Nevertheless, brother-in-law came over last night and we maximized the BO III window across both of my monitors and set to play some split screen. Playing at native resolutions (3890 x 1080 or whatever) multiplayer ran like crap. 20 fps with everything left as normal for a single monitor that was getting 144... CPU shows 100% loads at 4.8ghz but the GPU is only running around 40% use in SLI again during this time. We switched to Zombies and immediately the frame rate went up, but then server issues occurred and kicked us out midgame. Went into campaign, and now we were able to run the split screen setup at native resolutions and still maintain 50-60 fps?? Blows my mind how bad this game is prepared for PC. . . So here was my solution, go buy it for xbox one since the ps4 version is broken a bit as well. And I did, and it was a blast. Later in the evening, however, I went back to the PC version and had nvidia experience optimize the settings, and whatever setting it had turned down (I believe it was enhanced overlays) made the world of difference and the game hasn't crashed since All in all, I was able to get the PC release for just at $40 and picked up the xbox copy for $60. So hundred bucks later, and I can now seemingly enjoy the game. Was it worth it? Probably, I put in more than enough hours into BOII that I feel BOIII will buy me the same amount of time on both systems. But for right now, I have to say avoid this release on PC at least a couple more weeks. Copying the game to my laptop right now with a 980M and i7 4710 OC'd to 3.757ghz to see what we can acheive. The Beta killed on my laptop running at 60 fps cap (screen refresh) on full settings with no hiccups. . . oh well, at least Fall out 4 is releasing tonight at midnight. Glad I put back some money for November releases, looks like i'll wait till christmas for Battlefront since I cant justify spending that as well.
Lewiswilson4
01-22-2016, 04:04 AM #3The game wasn't worth the price because some players reported issues with performance on lower specifications. Running it on older hardware caused problems, while smoother results were seen with more memory.
redstonersven
01-29-2016, 05:35 AM #4Operating on a 24GB system with my PC for HD video production and handling large files in PS is typical. My laptop has 16GB of HyperX RAM, which should handle the workload without issues. It might feel inefficient, but I stay consistently engaged with Call of Duty—it's the only game I regularly play throughout the year. So far this year, the next major effort was Witcher 3 (over 30 hours with room for expansions).