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Post by bontainer on Jun 6, 2015 18:06:49 GMT
For me as a AMD user, the FX-4100 (x4, 3.6 Ghz) was slowly showing its age, so I upgraded to an 8 core FX-8350 with 4.2 Ghz.
In FC4 that brought me 5-10 frames and in GTA5 about the same. Especially the feel of the games is much smoother. I now can play on Ultra (HD 7870, 2GB) and really enjoy the game.
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Post by takeout1113 on Jun 6, 2015 19:26:20 GMT
Congrats, must be a big change, especially having those 8 cores@4.2Ghz available for present and future games to utilize if needed. I heard for those liking the GTA series, the GTA 5 is like FC4 vs FC3 step up.
EDIT: I DO NOT like the GTA series at all, just mentioned it as one of those using the cpu more intensively than some other more gpu centralized games. Violence against women is a vile thing in my book, and can sympathize in wanting to skip a lot of the scenes. Just wanted to make sure my mentioning it didn't be misunderstood as favoring the game. Peace.
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Post by bontainer on Jun 7, 2015 10:45:35 GMT
Yeah, GTA5 would be one of the best games ever made, but I spend most of the time really loathing the characters I have to play. For me this goes so far that i started to kill myself with hand grenades, just to get the "skip the mission" feature, that Rockstar luckily included. This way I can at least get around the missions where you have to slaughter dozens of people - literally.
On the one hand I can spend hours driving along mountain roads with the Harley - hearing my personalized radio station, on the other hand I only play game missions if I have to get money for something I need.
There are two Rockstar games I really liked, Red, Dead, Redemption, which is a marvel, and the mostly overlooked L.A. Noire, which is a masterpiece, showcasing the L.A. of 1946 in a police story. Just watch L.A. confidential and then play the game.
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Post by JRavens on Jun 8, 2015 1:46:53 GMT
Crap! I forgot I need to go back and play LA Noire. That was a great game too. I keep meaning to finish out RDR (got probably 75% through it), but now the boy child has the PS3 in his room (and I never have spare time anyways). They really do make some fantastic games. GTA 5 is just embraces it's own universe too much. It's rude and salacious purely for the shock value of doing so which is unfortunate The sheer volume of things to do and discover is staggering, but sadly most all of it is "wide not deep". Lots to do, but not a lot of it is very intricate or fleshed out... and just as in Far Cry you can never seem to take a casual walk without the world going to hell. It's as if the game can't stand it if you ignore the destruction and shootouts so it just interjects random chaos into your path (well probably not, but it does FEEL that way when you are playing).
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