Nah, those issues have largely been overcome in the drivers. Long gone are the days of terrible micro-stutter. (unless the game is broken like homefront )

TRI sli scales very well now and the FPS is quite steadily high on all the games I play, the only time It stutters is if I'm using 3 screen surround resolutions and I put the AA up too high, I can actually run out of VRAM, but otherwise it's smooth as silk.

In crysis 2 I get the same beautiful 90+ fps average, (with the lows being in the 70's) but the flickering shadows have put me off playing till it's fixed.

Nah, those issues have largely been overcome in the drivers.

Well. When I bought my 480 I think it was still the case that SLI frame rate varied wildly and the same thing with dual GPU cards like the 5970.

And lets face it Nvidia would say it was fixed. They also said Crysis 2 was DX11.

Nah, those issues have largely been overcome in the drivers. Long gone are the days of terrible micro-stutter. (unless the game is broken like homefront )

TRI sli scales very well now and the FPS is quite steadily high on all the games I play, the only time It stutters is if I'm using 3 screen surround resolutions and I put the AA up too high, I can actually run out of VRAM, but otherwise it's smooth as silk.

In crysis 2 I get the same beautiful 90+ fps average, (with the lows being in the 70's) but the flickering shadows have put me off playing till it's fixed.

Are you looking at a report or just watching the fps in the right hand corner? Just watching the corner display you won't even see the minimum fps it will be gone again too quick in fact any short dips below 30 and you are better off just watching the monitor. When I run Unigine for example the report always shows a frame rate dip that I never caught on the display during the actual run.

But yeah Crysis 2 I'm not surprised if your fps doesn't drop below 70 it's pretty lightweight on your system anyway. I've seen 1 guy on Youtube getting nearly 300fps in the MP demo,

Are you looking at a report or just watching the fps in the right hand corner?


Using my eyes. Microstutter is very visible and you can feel it when it's happening. 90FPS average feels and looks like 20 FPS when there's micro-stuttering going on.

You'd need to actually measure each individual frame time by milisecond to see the stutter in a graph , but I can tell by feel.

Come to think of it always look for the minimum fps if you can on any benchmark and totally disregard the average fps of sli or crossfire setups.

I agree. Also, those minimums are usually caused by the CPU being bottlenecked at a particular time by an objects or physics situation. Whereas a GPU bottleneck is usually a VERY steady and stable framerate, which doesn't often really suffer from huge drops in frame rates, like with a CPU bottleneck.

This is why I was locking my framerate to 40 with the max fps command. But I could also do more or less the same thing by going insane on the AA and AF to bottleneck it to a very stable 40fps. The framerate was very stable. It never went over 44 fps because of the GPU bottlneck, but it never went under 40 fps because that's where the CPU would be bottlenecked to at times of intense objects and physics. In other words, the perfect balance.

FPS below 60 is a fail IMO. 30 FPS is for console kiddies who think 1080p is something amazing and modern.

If FPS is below 60 its not 1080p. Then it's even not 720p because 720p are 60 fps at a resolution of 1680x1050 or so.

ha what a load of ****

30fps is fine for single player

60fps what u want for multiplayer

What's fine for you isn't fine for me or most people I know.

30 FPS is a miserable experience IMO, maybe not for an RTS game or something but never for a shooter.

my gtx 4601gb runs this over 40fps without breaking a sweet one of the best cards out there high performance and less money. Gtx 460 in sli runs the gtx480 in the ground and two gtx 460 are still cheaper than 1 gtx 480 and dare i say dx11 as well GTX 460 all the way.