PC Gaming Screenshot Thread V.3.5: CGI-Quality Revamp!

[lestatdark]

Slimebeast said:

lestatdark said:

Slimebeast said:

lestatdark said:

Slimebeast said:
lestat and the rest of you, do you still play Diablo 3? And how about Heroes 5 and Heroes 6, are you into those games and if so, what's your opinion?

I'm also planning to invest in Civ 4 or Civ 5 if I get into PC gaming again in the coming year. And Rome Total War 2 and the new Mount & Blade.

I played D3 until June, got all my characters into Act III Inferno but decided that I didn't want to spend a bajillion gold in the AU just to be able to afford gear for Act IV Inferno. 

Also, as CGI said, some games just perform rather poorly on ATI cards, due to poor optimization, especially on the more recent GPUs. Oblivion and Morrowind are just some examples. 

I have almost 100 mods for Skyrim, though at the moment i'm using about 40. ENB are a series of enhanced shaders and effects that have been released for some games, like Skyrim, GTA IV and ME3. They add a lot of amazing effects, like Bokeh Depth of Field, SSAO + SSIL, ambient lightning and so on, and are very easy to customize. On page 5 (if you have the 50 posts per page option) of this thread you can see how Skyrim is currently looking with my setup.

Wow, absolutely amazing! I love the effects, and the lighting. It's like a different game, a next gen game.

What specs on your machine and what framerates do you achieve in outdoors scenes with these mods?

It's a laptop actually, i7 2,9 ghz, ATI radeon 6770m 2 GB (overclocked shaders) and 8 gb ram. I usually get 30 - 40 FPS outdoors (even on large battles) and only drop down into the 20 fps mark on cities with large architectures like Markarth or Solitude. 

Sounds like just good enough performance for my tastes, but what on earth does the 6770M compare to? Let's say a 7850, is it much slower or just the odd 10 or 20% slower?

And those performance numbers are with those very mods in the screenshots?

You can't compare laptop GPU's with actual PCs, since they're usually at half clock speed. My GPU has been overclocked by a friend of mine that works at HP, so it's about 50% of the factory clocks, which would put it near a 6750 PC GPU, so that's why I have a bit more performance. 

And yes, it's with those mods and that configuration.