GTX 980/i7 & TS2015

[Mr395008]

I have an i5 4690K and an MSI GTX970 on an MSI Z97 motherboard and it more than copes with TS.

Keith

That's the ones I'm looking at. Great to hear.

[ttjph]

So I've been doing some research and I'm starting to think the i7 I wanted isn't needed, maybe thinking of getting i5 3.5ghz and getting GTX970 instead. Decisions Decisions!

If you're looking to save budget, I'm happy to recommend the Pentium G3258 (~£50).

Its single-thread speed is well up there, so it's great for current TS; and it uses Socket 1150, so if more cores are needed in the future for TS:UE then there are plenty of i5 and i7 options to choose from (probably from Ebay by then, in my case!) - but it's also said to overclock well, which should put off the need to upgrade for a while longer.

[Mr395008]

Placed my order. Decided on the EVGA GTX 970SC, Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5 motherboard, Intel Core i5 4690K processor and 250GB SSD. Now, is it Thursday yet?

[gptech]

..... Now, is it Thursday yet?

It's Friday now....how's the new toy?

[Trev123]

Yes 11:45am to be precise.

[longbow]

Yours has almost identical specs to my new Win10 PC, so I'd be interested to hear what sort of FPS you get. With everything set to max and an elderly 1680x1050 monitor, I'm seeing high 20's/low 30s on Weardale and Soldier Summit.

[Mr395008]

..... Now, is it Thursday yet?

It's Friday now....how's the new toy?

Ha! You know I probably spent a good 8 hours building, installing software... then came the SIX hour download for TS2015 thanks to my amazing broadband from Sky. Looking forward to testing it all today

[zeoacer]

I'm running;

* Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X79-UD3
* 3.20 (over clocked to 3.60) gigahertz Intel Core i7-3930K
* 32GB DDR3 RAM
* 2X 512GB SSD - These boosted my performance up quiet a bit on the Windows Performance as I found the old HDD's after a few years would fail, been running these for 2 years now and touch wood, no issues or performance decrease.
* EVGA Super Over Clocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 3 Way SLI W/ LG NV 3 Way Surround Monitors - I've not encountered a game, as of yet, that can't handle what I've thrown at these, I've only had these since April, the only issue so far is that my case only allows 3, even though the motherboard can handle 4, which has resulted in some performance issue as the cards tend to cook each other as the games are all set to Ultra or Epic settings.

I'm not sure how FRAPS works but according to the Frame Rate Calculator I'm getting around 100 Frames Per Second in the London area and 120 Frames Per Second in the Country Side or less built up areas, but my monitor can only refresh at 60 FPS so I'm a bit bottled necked on that front but I can't fault the 980's, a well built solid card, of course I've just noticed that you have ordered the gear but I would say for sure that a 970/80 or Titan will keep you going for a good few years, a friend of my mine has brought the EVGA 970 GTX and he loves it, currently running on Dual Screen.

[Mr395008]

Yours has almost identical specs to my new Win10 PC, so I'd be interested to hear what sort of FPS you get. With everything set to max and an elderly 1680x1050 monitor, I'm seeing high 20's/low 30s on Weardale and Soldier Summit.

I've just given London - Peterborough using high settings and I'm getting 50/60FPS. I've not got Weardale but can give Soldier Summit a try, if you wish?

[longbow]

Please do. Try the start of the 2 part passenger career scenario, driving in exterior view.

[gptech]

With everything set to max.......

What level of AA and do you have Procedural Flora etc turned on and is V-Sync enabled?

I'm running a slightly lower spec'd machine; i5-2500/GTX 960 (2GB vRAM)/8 GB RAM at 1920x1080 with 2x2SSAA applied and hit a constant 30fps sat in the cab of the class 25 at the start of the Darlington to Durham Career scenario. V-sync and triple buffering are on, so the fps could be higher but forced down to sync with the monitor.
I'd expect you should see higher rates, but the question then is why do you need to?---are you getting obvious pauses, jerky game play, screen tearing?

[longbow]

Thanks. Everything available in the Display Settings menu is on max. I don't know where V-sync and triple buffering are controlled.

I don't need more FPS, I'm just looking to optimise my set-up.

[gptech]

I don't know where V-sync and triple buffering are controlled.

They're in the nVidia Control Panel and by default aren't enabled so it's very unlikely you're using them. If you're not seeing annoying screen tearing (which they help to reduce/eliminate) when panning the camera around you don't need them on so they're not an essential setting.

I'd take the view that if your screen in game looks fine, the game runs fine, and you have no major issues then your setup is already as optimised as it needs to be--sure, you could spend a week or so getting everything to be *perfect* (an undefinable quality I know, but *perfect* may mean just an increase of 5 fps) but I'd rather spend that week playing the game than tweaking the system.
Your choice of course, tweaking is rather fun, but like all fun things taking it to the extreme can take all the fun out of it!

[andynwt]

* 32GB DDR3 RAM

[Mr395008]

Please do. Try the start of the 2 part passenger career scenario, driving in exterior view.

Exterior view I've been getting between 32 - 39 FPS.