What Games are you playing right now? [2]

I agree with the sentiment, CountMike. Actually I believe BFV will have a campaign/single player. COD Black Ops 4 won't. I'm more than disappointed in that.


I just preloaded Shadow of the Tomb Raider. That's definitely mucho single player. And it was "ONLY" a 25 GB preload. But from what I hear the "Ray Tracing patch" for SOTTR will come later. Don't know how big that will be but always difficult to manage download limits if you have them, especially when patches, updates are thrown out that you don't want or need.

I believe Nvidia's resolution scaling is simply a multiplier, so for me it's 1920 by 1080 at 150% which would mean it's rendering the game at 2880 by 1620 and then downsampling that to my native 1080p resolution. Typical 1440p is 2560 by 1440 so that 150% resolution scale is a significant performance hit. Yes, I settled at 125% which is something slightly less than traditional 1440p.

Describe stutters? Annoying LOL. I don't mind if the FPS drops a bit as long as the game play is smooth but it's the occasional stutter or pause for a split second that I try to avoid at all cost.


Sometimes I will look at what Nvidia's GFE recommends for a lower graphic setting for the particular game by moving the slider one tick or two below optimal. In my case with my 1080p monitor one tick lower is a recommendation to drop the resolution scale to 125%.

If you want to see the stuttering, look closely (from about the 1.50 minute point) at this video as the FPS quickly drop from 120 to 111 to 57 and then 35. Stutters. Man, the game is using almost all my vram but also all my system ram. Typically stutters can occur when all vram is being used.





BTW, not to spoil anything but this is the part where they are all giving you a pep talk for the final boss fight where I get my butt kicked. I will say some of the cut scenes are interesting. Don't know how they come up with this stuff.

The last number on the third line of the OSD is showing you the system ram usage. At around minute 2 of that video you see vram usage of 10,598MB, vram clock which is typically 5508MHZ and then system ram usage which is 15,724MB. I have 16GB of system ram.

That point for me was the worst stutter in the entire game and it happened when moving from cut scene (120FPS) quickly down to game mode. No other games don't do that from what I recollect unless I have another game that uses full blow game works and a 150% resolution scale. Maybe Ghost Recon Wildlands but I don't remember.

specialkone said:

I just preloaded Shadow of the Tomb Raider. That's definitely mucho single player. And it was "ONLY" a 25 GB preload. But from what I hear the "Ray Tracing patch" for SOTTR will come later. Don't know how big that will be but always difficult to manage download limits if you have them, especially when patches, updates are thrown out that you don't want or need.

I've been thinking about picking that up, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to finish it before Assassin's Creed comes out, which I'd then try to finish before Red Dead 2 comes out. Would you do me a favor and let me know your thoughts on it after you've played it for a bit? I really enjoyed Rise of the Tomb Raider, so I'm kind of looking for a reason to get Shadow as well.

Hey, good to hear from you blackrose. Missed you, buddy. Sure I'll let you know how SOTTR is. I only bought the basic edition so my game doesn't unlock on the 12th. Have to wait for the 14th. I hate when they do that kind of stuff.