Even then, once outdoors, the framerate dropped more noticeably. James was able to hit Ultra, at between 45-60 fps during the tutorial. On a GeForce GTX 980 Ti, i7-5960 and 16GB RAM, things were smoother-even at 2560x1440. High and Ultra settings, were, in his words, 'a slideshow', both indoors and out. On an AMD R9 Nano, i5-4690K and 16GB RAM, playing at 1920x1080, he noted that Medium was as high as he could get before feeling sick from the fluctuating framerates. The bright side is such issues have tended to be patched out.įinally, associate editor James Davenport tested on two rigs. id Tech has had plenty of streaming problems in the past. Tom also noticed some slow-loading textures.
For whatever reason, even reducing all graphics presets to Low didn't increase the speed. Tom reported audio and visual stuttering, and framerates of between 40 and 60 fps. UK web editor Tom Senior experienced much the same on GTX 970, 16GB RAM, Intel Core i5-2500K.
