never settle amd 12.11 game bundles

[Chickenfeed]

dont worry got myself a 7970 yesterday and on everytihng max (but didnt try full physics yet) 100+ fps all the time

EDIT: tried it physics maxed and still 100+ fps with 3770 stock.

Just out of curiosity where did you test this? I ask because with my 680s and on my 670 system, physx is considerably slower running on the cpu only. I'm guessing you didn't use a demanding area of the game. In some sections of the game, playing with 4 players amongst all the various elemental effects, explosions and such, things can easily drop into the 30fps range even with gpu physx.

[kromosto]

Just out of curiosity where did you test this? I ask because with my 680s and on my 670 system, physx is considerably slower running on the cpu only. I'm guessing you didn't use a demanding area of the game. In some sections of the game, playing with 4 players amongst all the various elemental effects, explosions and such, things can easily drop into the 30fps range even with gpu physx.

yes just a general test of single player and i am at the beginning of the game mission 5th or 6th and you are right after enabling full physics nearly no frame drop made me suspicious too, i am investigating if it really poweruped the physics or just it shows like it in the menu.

with 4 players everything may be different of course but in single if there will be frame drops to 30fps from 100+ i think it means bad coded game.

[Soultaker52]

yes just a general test of single player and i am at the beginning of the game mission 5th or 6th and you are right after enabling full physics nearly no frame drop made me suspicious too, i am investigating if it really poweruped the physics or just it shows like it in the menu.

with 4 players everything may be different of course but in single if there will be frame drops to 30fps from 100+ i think it means bad coded game.

In some areas, you'll be perfectly fine with CPU physx, but for some of the more intense stuff even my GTX 680 drops down to 30, like Chickenfeed was saying. It's all about where you play and the overall framerate. In intense firefights with slag and corrosive flying about, toss in some singularity grenades too. Stuff can get pretty hectic, lol. I've had my 680 since release though, so no hard feelings there, but if this had happened back then... Oh many I probably would have been all over it. Also, make sure you restart the game after enabling physx, otherwise it won't properly enable.

[Lanek]

There's nothing to wait about CPU Physx in B2 ... with medium Physx ( by the cpu ), you can play normally ... but if you use high.. no way .. it use the old PhysX engine, and it seems the Physx CPU code is using the same threads who is used by other threads for other parts of the engine.. basically it reduce directly the performance due to the fact, it will use threads who are normally used for other instructions and task by the cpu.. and will need wait thoses tasks have been send for start..

Dont bother with CPU Physx on this game, it is totally innefficent, not coded, not accelerated with the last API of Nvidia, and is totally irrelevant. if i was a coder, i will say this is surely the worst implementation never been made.

And dont expect update, are they will never been made.. The API CPU PhysX is working on his own, as it was the alpha 1 .. not even an update in future will take it in account. ( Dont expect they solve graphic corruption, or performance or whatever for Physx by the CPU .. lets alone performance )

[kromosto]

although i still havent seen a dramatic fps drop what i understand is it will be unplayable after some time. ok so cpu physics at high is totally none sense in this game but with gpu physics does it have huge fps drops also?

[Soultaker52]

although i still havent seen a dramatic fps drop what i understand is it will be unplayable after some time. ok so cpu physics at high is totally none sense in this game but with gpu physics does it have huge fps drops also?

Not really. Lowest I've ever seen is 33ish (EVGA Precision X reads my framerate with the target speed). Though I haven't payed much attention to it, as it's usually really smooth. With the GPU physx it pretty much stays rather smooth unless there's A LOT of stuff going on. I mean a LOT. You could always try to set up a hybrid physx if you have a decent Nvidia card laying around, and see how that treats it. I haven't really kept up with how that project is moving these days... Though it seems we're getting a bit off topic here. Fantastic showing by AMD is fantastic. I'm just hoping Nvidia gives me some lovin' like that too.

[Starscream]

Only RDC and TopAchat (same house) got the bundle in France Starscream.

Thanx for the info. Atleast a few European stores that wil add it.
Alternate might also start adding the games sometime at the start of November.

[kromosto]

Though it seems we're getting a bit off topic here. Fantastic showing by AMD is fantastic. I'm just hoping Nvidia gives me some lovin' like that too.

situation became weird for me after the release of 680. GCN had the computing power advantage and on some tests it was better then 680 but on others it was way beyond. i thought it was the opposite because of something going on about 680 but it turned out that AMD just didnt know how to use its gpu's raw power until now.

[=[PULSAR]=]

I got my new reference 7970 for a total of $281 after instant $50 off and another 5% off from my CC for ordering from TD and then I sold some games to bring it down to $281, still have a couple of the game keys unused lol.

The only game worth a damn with this new bundle is sleeping dogs which is really good actually, and possibly hitman. UBI and DICE/EA can die in fire.

Which 7970 was it?

[Rattle]

Visiontek reference 7970 with 3 year warranty from tiger direct. I had a 680 sold it for profit, had a 7970 before that too, after going back it's amazing how much better the drivers have gotten. very close in performance to a 680 sometimes faster even.

[tbone8ty]

7800 series bundles are available at the egg

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16800995141


drivers are much better....this bods well for GCN+ in 8000 series

[bearcatrp]

How does one go about selling these game bundles, if its possible? I bought a 7950 but am not a gamer. Is there a code or something thats issued to go download? Are these locked to the purchaser?

[tbone8ty]

i think u go to amd's game website and get them

[LightSpeed]

Just got a 7950 and 6 games + 20% off MOH. This deal is seriously epic

[bearcatrp]

i think u go to amd's game website and get them

Thanks. Will try to sell it once I figure out how newegg has this setup to download. Hopefully some kind of code I can pass on to the seller. Newegg shows 160 dollars value but haven't a clue how much it's really worth to sell. If someone is interested, shoot me an offer.

[Lanek]

Maybe just a pure rumor, but a HD7890 "Thaiti LE" could well be on the go for mid november/december, similar of what we had expect appear as a HD 7930 back in the start of this year, but applying the same technic of Nvidia by pushing it in the midrange card lineup ( as is the GTX660 TI using GK104 ).

The card based on Thaiti core should pack 1536 SP and end faster of a 7870 OC.
Still the question is to know if the card will pack 1.5-3gb or a more exotic 2gb memory setup ( exotic due to the memory controller of Thaiti sku who is a 384bits bus ) .

http://www.3dcenter.org/news/tahiti-...ember-antreten

http://translate.google.com/translat...7800-modell%2F

http://www.arabpcworld.com/?p=21448

Could well be the case, even if i will not bet my house on it.
This will permit to AMD to clean Thaiti cores before launch the HD8970-8950, the end of the year and christmas holliday approach, and like we will not see a midrange HD8870 before 4-5months ( maybe even more ) stay on good place against Nvidia competition cards.

This short term decision look too a bit strange, as AMD have lower price and offer good bundle for the HD7000 series, and so there's not really a need for a card like that.

[LightSpeed]

I do think AMD will release a 7890, as they have in the past few generations. I wonder when the 8xxx series will launch though, I hope its not anytime soon as ill just feel bad getting this 7950 which seems to be a golden chip aside from being a cracking deal

[tbone8ty]

8000 series will be released in march 2013

IMO

[tbone8ty]

curious if farcry3 code can be used for steam???

hrmmm

[Nelly]

Not sure if it's the same in USA, but here in the UK - Nvidia are on the band wagon now lol, offering Borderlands II and Assassin's Creed III with most GTX 660, 670, 680's.

Just got a 7950 and 6 games + 20% off MOH. This deal is seriously epic

MSI 7950 Twin Frozr III OC V2 3072MB? I was tempted when it dropped down to (GBP) 239.99, back at 259.99 now, still a great deal.

[LightSpeed]

MSI 7950 Twin Frozr III OC V2 3072MB? I was tempted when it dropped down to (GBP) 239.99, back at 259.99 now, still a great deal.

Nah, grabbed the XFX 7950 DD from dabs for 216, comes to 211.5 with cashback from TCB. The cooler isnt great but ill put it on water anyway and the chip as I mentioned before is great which is what i was looking for. All in all, quite satisfied.

259.99 seems a bit steep, should drop to previous levels before the deal expires IMO.

[tbone8ty]

so whats the deal with the far cry 3 code AMD gives you in this bundle? can i play the game on steam?

[BuBBle.D]

Most likely over uPlay. So no steam.

[Lanek]

so whats the deal with the far cry 3 code AMD gives you in this bundle? can i play the game on steam?

Whatver you have steam or Uplay version, when you launch the game from Steam, it open an overlay Uplay as it is used for rewards , achievement, save synchro etc.. its not really a problem for be honest..
( I had Uplay installed first, maybe different otherwise, but i doubt it )

[tbone8ty]

i just tried to use my 20% discount promo code for medal of honor warfighter and it doesn't work, im assuming its because its already of sale for $40??? lol

anybody have this problem?