Looking for players who compete in 3A games at high resolution?
Looking for players who compete in 3A games at high resolution?
Even though my old computer was outdated, it still exceeded the recommended requirements—often surpassing Origin’s minimum settings. That means it could run Black Flag smoothly at around 40 frames per second. This makes me question the accuracy of Ubi’s specifications on Steam.
It varies by battlefield. Many stopped not because they disliked it, but due to poor scaling. NVIDIA has dropped support. Using it offers no benefit and introduces issues.
Two GPUs perform worse than a single one. It’s unclear if AC requires two or just one, as some games use around 1.2 while others like Minecraft use just one. I purchased this for 3D modeling and it works fine there. However, I’m disappointed with most of the other components except the CPU, motherboard, and GPUs.
That's right! Linus from Assassin's Creed Black Flag talked about it in one of his videos.
Your configuration looks perfect for 3D work. It’s one of the few setups that truly benefits from that hardware. Unlike the games, it doesn’t support SLI and instead uses NVLink. It’s built for systems with more than 4-8 cores, so even if your Threadripper’s individual cores are slow, it still performs well. For a title like Black Flag, you won’t need two 2080 Ti graphics cards anyway. Even at maximum settings, my 980 Ti maintains a consistent 60fps at 1440p with only about 80% utilization. A single 2080 Ti should handle 4K without trouble.
I regularly tackle AAA games in 4K resolution. My hardware includes an i7 8086k with all cores cranked to 5GHz and an EVGA 2080 Ti XC clocked around 1965MHz most of the time. It’s not the top-tier rig, but it handled smooth gameplay consistently above 60 FPS at full frame rate. My collection also features other older Assassin Creed titles that run more smoothly than AC:O. I managed to play Black Flag in 4K without any hiccups. With SLI configurations, only the VRAM on the first card gets utilized—something that didn’t pose a problem for me back then when my setup used a GTX 1080 Ti in SLI, since my games often exceeded 10GBs and used 4 and 8K textures. I also had a GTX 980 Ti in a SLI build in 2015, and at that time I bought my first 4K monitor. In 2014, I played at 1080p without any issues with a GTX 980 paired with an i7 2600K. I’m planning to download Black Flag now and will report back on its performance. It’s just one of those fun projects I enjoy.
However, GTA V requires around 22GB of VRAM. Appreciate you checking it out!
My graphics cards have just 11GB of VRAM, and SLI only uses the memory from the first card, so I can't test beyond that. I don’t own GTA V, but if it’s very affordable I’d be fine with it for testing. I also have RDR 2, which performs about 100MB more at 4K compared to 1440p.
I tested Black Flag at 4K and noticed the 2080 Ti handled it smoothly. When I tried to run it at higher settings, the frame rate stayed steady even though vsync was turned off in the game, Nvidia control panel, and G-sync on my OLED TV. It’s unusual since the GPU used more power without affecting the frame rate. I also have Unity installed but haven’t played it recently. Since I’m currently isolated, I’d be happy to install it for a comparison if you’d like.