Ugh, video card suggestions?

misha1967 · 04-10-12, 01:22 AM

Another note: If you get an nVidia card and update the drivers to, say, v285, the installer will tell you that your drivers are outdated because it requires a minimum of v193 or something.

The problem being that the installer only checks the last two digits, which is quite hilarious, actually. Apparently whichever monkey coded that installer never thought that nVidia would go into the 200s with driver version

Just ignore that warning.

ADMIRALTIA · 04-10-12, 04:28 AM

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Originally Posted by misha1967

Another note: If you get an nVidia card and update the drivers to, say, v285, the installer will tell you that your drivers are outdated because it requires a minimum of v193 or something.

The problem being that the installer only checks the last two digits, which is quite hilarious, actually. Apparently whichever monkey coded that installer never thought that nVidia would go into the 200s with driver version

Just ignore that warning.

The guy who coded the installer was apparently in the bottom of his class at programming school.

The people who debugged the game were in the bottom of programming school.

The People who make mods are at the top of programming school.

GT182 · 04-10-12, 10:08 AM

I'm running a Zotac 8800GT 1GB GFX card and SH5 runs fine even with higher settings. So most older GFX cards will work.

misha1967 · 04-19-12, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by GT182

I'm running a Zotac 8800GT 1GB GFX card and SH5 runs fine even with higher settings. So most older GFX cards will work.

I suspected as much, having upgraded from an nVidia 260 to 570 (quite a jump) and didn't see much difference. Some, to be sure, but the thing is that SH5 is rather "unusual" in placing a lot of load on the CPU but not a whole lot on the GPU (relatively speaking, and I've also learned that nVidia have, in later generations, unloaded a lot of the work that was previously done by the GPU on the CPU as CPUs are getting bored doing nothing). So I found that my bottleneck is really the CPU. Currently waiting for my new rig with a much better CPU to confirm, and then my new 570 will really show me what it can do

GT182 · 04-23-12, 07:56 PM

Misha, I'm only running a 2.81GB i5 Quadcore CPU with 2 matched cards with 2GBs each of DDR3 memory by Crucial. Along with the 8800GT everything looks and plays great. Most of my sims are running on the high settings of each simulation, and some are even maxed out. I would also think the driver version has an even bigger influence than the graphics card itself.

04-10-12, 01:22 AM	#1
misha1967 Commander Join Date: May 2004 Location: Texas, USA Posts: 470 Downloads: 78 Uploads: 0	Another note: If you get an nVidia card and update the drivers to, say, v285, the installer will tell you that your drivers are outdated because it requires a minimum of v193 or something. The problem being that the installer only checks the last two digits, which is quite hilarious, actually. Apparently whichever monkey coded that installer never thought that nVidia would go into the 200s with driver version Just ignore that warning. __________________ Ansonsten, Herr Lutter, ist alles in Butter Liqui-cooled Intel i2550K @ 4.2 GHz, 8 Gb RAM, GTX 970 GPU

04-10-12, 10:08 AM	#3
GT182 Ocean Warrior Join Date: May 2005 Location: New Castle of Delaware Posts: 3,231 Downloads: 658 Uploads: 0	I'm running a Zotac 8800GT 1GB GFX card and SH5 runs fine even with higher settings. So most older GFX cards will work. __________________ Gary No Borders, No Language, No Culture =s No Country I'm a Deplorable, and proud of it.

04-23-12, 07:56 PM	#5
GT182 Ocean Warrior Join Date: May 2005 Location: New Castle of Delaware Posts: 3,231 Downloads: 658 Uploads: 0	Misha, I'm only running a 2.81GB i5 Quadcore CPU with 2 matched cards with 2GBs each of DDR3 memory by Crucial. Along with the 8800GT everything looks and plays great. Most of my sims are running on the high settings of each simulation, and some are even maxed out. I would also think the driver version has an even bigger influence than the graphics card itself. __________________ Gary No Borders, No Language, No Culture =s No Country I'm a Deplorable, and proud of it.