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XFX HD 6870 1GB

Curious know if anyone else is using this graphics card on train sim 2012

what settings do you play on and is it smooth?

Exact same card as im using....

Frame rates are smooth.......Most settings on high......passenger on low...water on medium.....NO SHADOWS....it will run with shadows turned on , but you have to have settings set to high or highest, otherwise the shadows flicker
but the FPS hit is HUGE....

More that happy with this card , will run WCML & Woodhead no bother, However it all depends on your other components..
Im using an Asus MB 8 Gb Ram Intel i5 OC to 4.2 and i use a dedicated SSD Drive for RW only.....and my opinion is that these things make the game a lot smoother, and the game and scenarios load a lot quicker than using
a normal sata hard drive....

RW is a strange beast when it comes to graphic performance, (game code , dx9 etc etc but i wont go into that )....

The xfx 6870 will run any other game maxed out and not even struggle, ( well it has/does for me )
The Nvidia camp will i expect have something to say , but for me , The XFX 6870 was an excellent purchase.
Hope that helps
Brian

tofwings wrote:Exact same card as im using....

Frame rates are smooth.......Most settings on high......passenger on low...water on medium.....NO SHADOWS....it will run with shadows turned on , but you have to have settings set to high or highest, otherwise the shadows flicker
but the FPS hit is HUGE....

More that happy with this card , will run WCML & Woodhead no bother, However it all depends on your other components..
Im using an Asus MB 8 Gb Ram Intel i5 OC to 4.2 and i use a dedicated SSD Drive for RW only.....and my opinion is that these things make the game a lot smoother, and the game and scenarios load a lot quicker than using
a normal sata hard drive....

RW is a strange beast when it comes to graphic performance, (game code , dx9 etc etc but i wont go into that )....

The xfx 6870 will run any other game maxed out and not even struggle, ( well it has/does for me )
The Nvidia camp will i expect have something to say , but for me , The XFX 6870 was an excellent purchase.
Hope that helps
Brian

Thanks Brian

That helps a lot!

I can't comment on that particular card but I've been very impressed with the 2GB model of the HD 6950 I purchased a couple of months ago for around £170. The extra GB of graphics memory seems to make quite a big difference and may well be why I get better performance in RW with most options set to high / highest (Edit: TSX mode, with shadows on high) than others do with similarly modest systems:

Might be worth having a look around to see if you can find it for a decent price, I bought mine from ebuyer.com but it's currently on sale there for £200

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @ 2.93Ghz - overclocked to 3.2Ghz
Motherboard: ASUS P5KPL-AM IN/GB
PSU: 600W Be Quiet! Straight Power E8
Memory: 4Gb DDR2 @ 366Mhz
GPU: HIS Radeon HD 6950 with 2Gb GDDR5 memory.
Sound: SoundBlaster Live! 24-bit PCI card (getting on a bit but perfectly clear sound)

JB

OOhhh 2 GB Might have a look at one of those......it would be nice to run with shadows on high and get the full effect...

Thanks jivebunny, any news on release date of your extended route, ?

Brian

Thing is, I'm running everything on full ( bar AA - MSAAx4 is the only one I can stand ) on my relatively ancient 4890 - fps suffers somewhat in busy areas, but turning shadows off there didn't seem to make any difference anyway. RW really is an odd beast.

Still can't pick a new card, I guess I can wait a bit longer...

Kariban wrote:Thing is, I'm running everything on full ( bar AA - MSAAx4 is the only one I can stand ) on my relatively ancient 4890 - fps suffers somewhat in busy areas, but turning shadows off there didn't seem to make any difference anyway. RW really is an odd beast.

Still can't pick a new card, I guess I can wait a bit longer...

Yep, my ancient 4870x2 is running it pretty well with everything maxed also, it keeps my office nice and toasty too...

Hello,

I recommend to not buy a new graphics card only for RW3. This application uses primarily CPU.
I recently buy a GTX560 2gb card and I have the same fps that with my old card.

The rest of games improved too much but not this One. For this I recommend buy a new graphics card if you want mote improvements for others applications, but not for this one.

Maybe in RW4...

Regards.

cehidal wrote: I recommend to not buy a new graphics card only for RW3. This application uses primarily CPU.
I recently buy a GTX560 2gb card and I have the same fps that with my old card.

It certainly does use a lot of CPU, but it all depends what card you already have whether it is worth upgrading or not.

For what its worth I just did a complete upgrade on my machine (was previously a single core socket 939 Athlon 64 with AGP HD 3650) to a core i3 2120 and an HD 7770, and I'm pretty pleased with the results - I get about 20fps on the NEC & hard bits of the WCML, and 40-50fps at the start of Autumn leaves. This is at 1280x1024, AA set to the third notch from the left (4x MLAA I think) TSX on and in-game settings set to high (including high shadows). This is a lot better than I was getting with TSX off and no shadows on the old machine, so I'm happy.