Best PC's for TS2012?

[Toripony]

I was thinking.... we hear a lot in the forums about problems with our games and software and alongside that we learn about systems where something in particular, such as TS'12, is not working well. What we don't hear much about are the success stories. Those of us looking at buying new systems might benefit from hearing from those of you who have average systems which are providing satisfactory performance (and have some headroom for coming improvements). Do you have a manufactured or self-built system that is performing well with TS2012? I for one would appreciate you taking a moment to share with us.

[Kali]

I would not be looking at buying a new pc when the game engine is less than a month into distribution! :) mine is running acceptably apart from the times it runs out of CPU ( which is practically every time I get fps issues ).

Intel i920 not really overclocked
6GB Corsair memory @ 1600Mhz
Asus 1GB ATi 4890 @ 920/1120Mhz
OCZ Vertex2 SSD
64bit Vista.

I tend not to use AA, but MLSA/MSAA doesn't appear to affect framerates at all. I have everything on full except TSX shadows which are on ( rather blocky and flickery ) medium. GPU use hardly ever goes near full, although as I've mentioned before I believe it's maxing out the shader processing.

[arizonachris]

LOL, guess there's not a whole lot of "success stories" out there. My rig is just adequate for now. Really really depends on the route and scenario. I don't see a whole lot of difference with TSX off or on. DOF is off, so is that Bloomin' bloom thing. With the frames locked at 60, I get anywhere from 50 frames to the dreaded 14 frames. Not really ran much except HSC, B-SB, a few of Rich Garber's routes (used to run a solid 60 frames, now average 30~35) Don's route and Tori's route. You are right, Tori, Roncevert takes a pretty big hit, but I still get in the 20's. Don't have NEC or Acela, no plans either for the near future.

Overall, the game is playable. I managed a while back to minimize the stutter with a RAID 0 setup (can't afford an SSD) I'd like to get another video card and run SLI. But losing my night job at the end of the month, I think I need to save for groceries, eh?

My rig:
Phenom II 940 Black Edition @ 3.8Ghz
4Gb G Skill 1066 RAM
EVGA GTX470SC
2x WD Black 500Gb drives in RAID 0
Realtek onboard sound

[micaelcorleone]

I just bought me a new system which was assembled to my wishes.
It'll be delivered tomorrow. Then I can tell you how good RW actually runs on it.

The sepcs:

Mainboard: Asrock Z68 PRO3
Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K (3300 MHz)
Processor Fan: Scythe Mugen 3
Graphics Card: MSI N570GTX Twin Frozr III (1280 MB at 320 Bit)
RAM: Corsair DIMM 4 GB DDR3-1600 (2 x 2GB)
SSD: OCZ Vertex2 E 2,5" SSD 60 GB
SATA: Western Digital WD1002FAEX 1 TB
Power Supply: Cooler Master Silent Pro M600 (600W)
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium

I hope that this will be sufficient to run RW at 30 fps most of the time.
"The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim" can come!

[glcbn]

My system is a few years old,but I'm having decent success with the RW update running Horseshoe. Usually my fps average around 33. It's difficult to get an accurate fps number with the RW counter because it is very erratic. Third party like FRAPS may work better,not sure though.
I have the AA slider off,TSX is on.In options everything is high,and the boxes are checked.1920x1200 resolution,full screen.

I have noticed though,I'll be running along and all of a sudden it will start to stutter and I'll notice the fps is rock steady at 15. When I change to a different camera its back to normal again.......strange. I can be in any camera and it will do this. It only does this once in awhile.

My main components:
Good old EVGA 680i mainboard P33 BIOS
Core 2 Duo E8400 O/C'ed running a bit over 4.0 GHz.
4 GB of Corsair DDR2 CM2x2048-6400C4DHX slightly O/C'ed running at 890 MHz. FSB is running at 1780 MHz
BFG Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 video card running stock speeds
All my hard drives are Seagate Barracuda SATA 7200 RPM.
Asus VW266H Widescreen LCD monitor running at 1920 x 1200 res.
Corsair Gamer 700W power supply

Greg

[PapaXpress]

I love the E8400. I had mine humming at 4.0 when I was running XP. When I upgraded to Win 7 I couldn't get it stable when overclocking.

[glcbn]

I love the E8400. I had mine humming at 4.0 when I was running XP. When I upgraded to Win 7 I couldn't get it stable when overclocking.

I had the E6600 when I was running XP. Overclocking the E8400 for me hasn't been a problem on Win 7.
Could be something with Win 7 your mobo doesn't like.


Greg

[kin3]

Check out these links for PC stuff.

http://www.tomshardware.com/

http://www.anandtech.com/

they have good articles and good forums and compare things side by side.

[hminky]

I had an 17-920 with Geforce 260 GTX:
Colton and Northern FreeRoam wouldn't run over 12 FPS
Bay of Quinte wouldn't run over 12 FPS

Changed to a Radeon 6950:
Colton and Northern FreeRoam - low 20's FPS
Bay of Quinte - low 20's

Over Clocked the I7-920 to 4 Ghz:
Colton and Northern FreeRoam - high 20's FPS
Bay of Quinte - low 20's

Upgraded to an I7-2600k:
Colton and Northern FreeRoam - high 30's FPs
Bay of Quinte - mid 20's

All the setting were at the highest, turning down the water detail to the lowest picks up a few FPS.

The Bay of Quinte FPS's changed little with the CPU changes after the video card upgrade, go figure.

I got the same incremental jumps with the TS12 optimized routes. Now I am getting 65 FPS the start of the HSC - Summer FreeRoam and 23 at 30th street station in NEC Free Roam.

The video card change got the biggest jump in the older routes.

Harold

[micaelcorleone]

I just bought me a new system which was assembled to my wishes.
It'll be delivered tomorrow. Then I can tell you how good RW actually runs on it.

The sepcs:

Mainboard: Asrock Z68 PRO3
Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K (3300 MHz)
Processor Fan: Scythe Mugen 3
Graphics Card: MSI N570GTX Twin Frozr III (1280 MB at 320 Bit)
RAM: Corsair DIMM 4 GB DDR3-1600 (2 x 2GB)
SSD: OCZ Vertex2 E 2,5" SSD 60 GB
SATA: Western Digital WD1002FAEX 1 TB
Power Supply: Cooler Master Silent Pro M600 (600W)
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium

I hope that this will be sufficient to run RW at 30 fps most of the time.
"The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim" can come!

OH HAPPY DAY!

42fps


49fps


Settings:
Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 (Full Screen)
Texture Filtering: Anisotropic x4
AA: SSAA 1x2
All graphic settings "Highest".
Low Detail Shadows, Adaptive Bloom, Depth of Filed are off.

On the NEC I get around 30 FPS most of the time.