my HD5970 experience

skunksmash said:

an easy way to describe how fluid it is..... when your on the outskirts of the map (on the freeway) & the FPS go through the roof, that's what its like ALL THE TIME

Nice. At what settings are they? Highest/Very High etc?

smarteyeball said:

skunksmash said:

an easy way to describe how fluid it is..... when your on the outskirts of the map (on the freeway) & the FPS go through the roof, that's what its like ALL THE TIME

Nice. At what settings are they? Highest/Very High etc?

ALL MAXED OUT on the quality settings..... :)

unfortunately though the game only detects 998mb of VRAM rather than the 2048mb that's on the card, its gotta be crossfire related, but if i could access that my draw distance & the others (cant remember what they are now) would be @ 100%

but even with 998mb the game cant get any quicker....

skunksmash said:

smarteyeball said:

skunksmash said:

an easy way to describe how fluid it is..... when your on the outskirts of the map (on the freeway) & the FPS go through the roof, that's what its like ALL THE TIME

Nice. At what settings are they? Highest/Very High etc?

ALL MAXED OUT on the quality settings..... :)

unfortunately though the game only detects 998mb of VRAM rather than the 2048mb that's on the card, its gotta be crossfire related, but if i could access that my draw distance & the others (cant remember what they are now) would be @ 100%

but even with 998mb the game cant get any quicker....

It's because your card has 1024MB for each core, and with Crossfire/SLI, it doesn't add them together, so games/applications still only see 1024MB, like with my 2 8800s, GTA only seems 512MB.

And I'm not exactly 100% sure how VRAM is used in Crossfire/SLI, though I won't go in to a long explanation about it here

But still, nothing to worry about when you're hitting them FPS.

Nice card skunk well worth it wasn't it?
also...... the few 300 benchmarks i've seen.... that showed it to be as fast as the 5970.... all turned out to be faked so um.... don't count your chickens before they hatch

skunksmash said:

smarteyeball said:

skunksmash said:

an easy way to describe how fluid it is..... when your on the outskirts of the map (on the freeway) & the FPS go through the roof, that's what its like ALL THE TIME

Nice. At what settings are they? Highest/Very High etc?

ALL MAXED OUT on the quality settings..... :)

unfortunately though the game only detects 998mb of VRAM rather than the 2048mb that's on the card, its gotta be crossfire related, but if i could access that my draw distance & the others (cant remember what they are now) would be @ 100%

All I can say is w00t

Unfortunately is does answer the one niggling question about the 2GB of Vram on that card actually being usable.

I suspected it wouldn't be

Awesome card SkunkSmash!! Now what's the deal with that ugly 310? Come On Nvidia.