ME4-WeAreHarbinger @me4harbinger no one from Bioware has still answered if DX12 or Vulkan is supported on PC ... very strange
Aaryn Flynn aarynflynn Sorry, we will. Working on those plans now
Crap, I was so focused on how much I can't afford a PS4 Pro, I didn't think about about how much I can't afford a new Windows 10 PC. This is assuming the best experience is on PS4 Pro or DX12.
Remember that picture of all the GTX 1080s? I thought that was all luxury stuff for devs, but I'm starting to worry a GTX 1080 might be the realistic minimum (what's usually called "Recommended").
Wow, yeah, that's not happening. BF1 recommended is 1060, a WAY weaker card. I ran BF1 with 980 in 4K on high preset 40 fps, which only says that BF1 is crazy good optimized, but it's still a reference, Frostbite guys helped BioWare.
Anyway, those 1080s are for the developers, you need that horsepower when you are creating and rendering stuff, dev machines are usually beastly.
Yeah, I was 94.7% kidding there. We're less than 50 days out to N7D, so the wait's almost over. (Unless BioWare wants to ninja-post another screenshot or two in the meanwhile... I'd be okay with that.)
Was trying to remember where else I'd heard "we're 50 days out" recently and it turns out N7 day is the day before the US presidential elections
I'm gonna be glued to Twitter for those few days when I'm not at work :/
Ditto, for those two very reasons.
US election might change the world. and ME:A will be a very important and iconic game for 2017
Remember that picture of all the GTX 1080s? I thought that was all luxury stuff for devs, but I'm starting to worry a GTX 1080 might be the realistic minimum (what's usually called "Recommended").
I doubt it.
Besides, I hope my GTX 970 will be enough for a while
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Interesting enough, the min specs for the BTF1 CPU exceeds my AMD 6300 CPU, though my graphics card is OK.
I hope ME:A is not so ambitious in hardware requirements.
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Besides, I hope my GTX 970 will be enough for a while
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Interesting enough, the min specs for the BTF1 CPU exceeds my AMD 6300 CPU, though my graphics card is OK.
I hope ME:A is not so ambitious in hardware requirements.
BF1 is a multiplayer game with 32v32 maps, it needs more CPU power than a third person action RPG, same as previous Battlefield games. Just take a look at DA:I requirements, it just says quad core at 2.5 GHz/2.0 GHz
Sartoz, what iteration of the 7770 gpu do you have
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Bought an ASUS HD 7770 Radeon card with 1GB GDDR5 running at 1020MHz.
Ran DA:I fine with the card ( with some Ultra, High, Medium and some OFF settings). I should have no problems running ME:A as I expect the game was designed for the Next Gen consoles. We'll see when the specs come out.
Morpheus: "know what happened happened and that it could not have happened in any other way".
The did mention a while back to look at things like BF, DAI to get some idea of system requirements, but yeah... we'll see if that still holds true when they release the final specs. If they employ hair physics and other graphics-intensive features, I can see the high end going up, definitely.
On the plus side - Frostbite is very efficient engine. Especially compared to say, REDengine or Horizon. So I don't expect the recommended req. to be too high.
Okay, I didn't catch the earlier reference to DAI specs. That's a bit reassuring.
Wow, yeah, that's not happening. BF1 recommended is 1060, a WAY weaker card. I ran BF1 with 980 in 4K on high preset 40 fps, which only says that BF1 is crazy good optimized, but it's still a reference, Frostbite guys helped BioWare.
Good suggestion looking at BF1 specs. Let's see, ...
The minimum spec:
OS: 64-bit Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 Processor (AMD): AMD FX-6350 Processor (Intel): Core i5 6600K Memory: 8GB RAM Graphics card (AMD): AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB Graphics card (Nvidia): Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB DirectX: 11.0 Compatible video card or equivalent Online Connection Requirements: 512 KBPS or faster Internet connection Hard-drive space: 50GB
The recommended spec:
OS: 64-bit Windows 10 or later Processor (AMD): AMD FX 8350 Wraith Processor (Intel): Intel Core i7 4790 or equivalent Memory: 16GB RAM Graphics card (AMD): AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB Graphics card (Nvidia): Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 3GB DirectX: 11.1 Compatible video card or equivalent Online Connection Requirements: 512 KBPS or faster Internet connection Available Disk Space: 50GB
My rig is one hierarchy tier below the recommended specs. My CPU is actually one tier below the minimum spec, but as noted, BF1 is a different kind of game, so it might not be anything to worry about.
Wellll ... except remember what happened with DAI and last-gen consoles? They were cut off from DLC. Could the same thing happen for MEA? Some essential DLC is PS4 Pro/Scorpio only? And what might that mean for PC specs?
As long as Win7 continues to be the second largest installed base on Steam, I'm not too worried about AAA games coming out as DX12 only. But once my Win7 cohort falls far enough behind Win10, sub 10% say (it's 36% now, to Win10's 50%+), going DX12 only might start looking financially viable.
Last Edit: Sept 21, 2016 18:00:21 GMT by PapaCharlie9
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Crap, I was so focused on how much I can't afford a PS4 Pro, I didn't think about about how much I can't afford a new Windows 10 PC. This is assuming the best experience is on PS4 Pro or DX12.
Remember that picture of all the GTX 1080s? I thought that was all luxury stuff for devs, but I'm starting to worry a GTX 1080 might be the realistic minimum (what's usually called "Recommended").
I highly doubt it, the GTX 10XX series was released just a few months ago, april if I remember correctly, and the high-end 1080 is above 700€... it would be a dick move to have those as "recomended". In my opinion, afterall I'm not willing to spend such amount of money on a card...
Also I've been looking for a new GPU to replace my GT 9800, which by the way is able to run DAI *LOL*, and the information I've collected so far indicates that the new GTX 1060 6GB offers just about a ~10% of better performance than a GTX 970 4GB, and the 1060 does not has SLI support. Also the RX 480 has a (lower but )comparable performance with the 1060.
I've also discovered that for a resolution of 1920x1080 ( which is my case ) a 2GB GPU is enough.
So, plenty of options for diferent budgets without having to go to the new GTX10XX...
Well, I have an AMD 8370, 16 gigs of RAM, and a R9 290 w/ 8 gigs of RAM on it. I can play most things set to ultra or high, but this is of course, with MSAA turned off. I can't really see a difference anyway. Typically, I get about 40-70-ish FPS... And most of the time the end up in the low 50's - low 60's range.
Oh yah, and I play at 1920x1080. Forget what all of those f'in' youtubers are telling you. Until they drop the prices of 4K TV's/monitors. No.
i really like pathfinder's setting but i REALLY don't like how focused on min/maxing the rules are. it's designed from the ground up by and for min/maxer's and autists. the rest of us normies have to play on crayon eater difficulty just to hit a target. j00t Fires Of Heaven www.firesofheaven.org/
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