OysterOfDoom Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 I was wondering what type of settings tend to be more CPU intensive vs. GPU intensive. Any ideas about which nVidia seetings I should set? I was originally attracted to quality over performance, but I'm am starting to swing the other way. As a new PC gamer, I was wondering what other things I should know. Asus g73swResolution 1600X900Processor Name Intel Core i7-2630QMProcessor Speed 2 GHzRAM 8 GBGraphics Card nVidia GeForce GTX 460MGraphics Memory 1024 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoofhearted4 Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 your processor has to go higher then 2ghz! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OysterOfDoom Posted June 29, 2011 Author Share Posted June 29, 2011 your processor has to go higher then 2ghz! /it is a sandy bridge i7. I thought that was good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoofhearted4 Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 nvm didnt realize it was for laptops. 2.2ghz for a laptop isnt that great, but it has turbo boost up to 3.3 which is really good and has hyperthreading and all that, though the price is kinda high, but ya nvm your OP wasnt about your CPU, sorry for side tracking... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OysterOfDoom Posted June 29, 2011 Author Share Posted June 29, 2011 your processor has to go higher then 2ghz! /it is a sandy bridge i7. I thought that was good. My OP was a little about my processor. I just want to know what settings I can increase and which I should decrease. Crysis 2 ran so well on extreme (and pretty well on a lot of the newly released ultra settings) that I got spoiled on what my laptop could do (it must have been well optimized). Shogun 2 slowed during opponents turns and I thought witcher 2 ran well at high settings until I dropped them down and improved my fps dramatically. It seems AA, sampling, and shadows are tough on my system, but I don't really know much about pc gaming. I was under the impression that my sandy bridge i7 was relatively better than my gtx 460m and wanted to up CPU intensive settings and lower graphics card intensive settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dthumb Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 It seems AA, sampling, and shadows are tough on my system, but I don't really know much about pc gaming.You might want to turn off SSAO as well, heard that it eats almost as much FPS as ubersampling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghogiel Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 It seems AA, sampling, and shadows are tough on my system, but I don't really know much about pc gaming.Those are all GPU based processes. CPU runs physics, AI, and a whole lot of other stuff, basically the game engine, player input, I guess network code, and also some graphics processes are unloaded to the cpu. possibly some parts of animation too. Most are hard to get at via options to improve performance. You can't turn off or down most of what I just listed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OysterOfDoom Posted June 30, 2011 Author Share Posted June 30, 2011 It seems AA, sampling, and shadows are tough on my system, but I don't really know much about pc gaming.You might want to turn off SSAO as well, heard that it eats almost as much FPS as ubersampling.Yeah, that is pretty much what I thought. I usually turn off sampling and SSAO, but most other things can be run at really high levels. I'm already feeling that want for the latest graphics card, etc. That's the nice thing about consoles- they are what they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitualBlack Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 (edited) A 2630QM is more than enough to play any current games on. 2 ghz x4 (I suppose it doesn't truely add up to 8 ghz as I believe some scaling is involved but I cant remember) + it turbos up to 2.9 ghz. You shouldn't worry about the processor too much when it comes to gaming because games only use so much. If you were into really heavy applications (professional level stuff) you may have wanted to go a bit higher with the processor but it shouldn't matter that much. That is a pretty good laptop and since it is 900p it already isn't as gpu demanding as higher resolutions so that actually helps you out. The 460m can get some pretty respectable laptop benchmarks as it can play almost every game out there on high and even a few of the new demanding ones on ultra :thumbsup: . If you run into some frame rate issue you can always adjust a few settings. Reduce textures from ultra to high, make water reflections simple, reduce AA, model detail ect. Tinker with it a bit until you have it perfect to you. On my old desktop I can put up with lag to have a bit nicer graphics, but some people can't stand lag. Its all preference. Enjoy your new laptop :happy: Edited July 1, 2011 by tttttt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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