Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

The Joker said:
lol ^^

I gave in and bought the game, had a R200 voucher so not bad.
Will give it a proper run with a monster rig to get to the bottom of the insane gpu requirements.
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Hiya dude. Just the man in looking for! I am dying to play this game, but the obscene GPU requirements are making me stall. I only have a lowly GTX 560, which can barely handle LOW settings in this game :-(

What is most cost effective card you recommend for playing at HIGH setting? Is there anything better than R9 280x, in that price range?

Guys on carb selling mining rig cards for good price. Any reason to NOT go for one of those?
 
Hiro said:
Plz forgive off topic post below :

Hiya dude. Just the man in looking for! I am dying to play this game, but the obscene GPU requirements are making me stall. I only have a lowly GTX 560, which can barely handle LOW settings in this game :-(

What is most cost effective card you recommend for playing at HIGH setting? Is there anything better than R9 280x, in that price range?

Guys on carb selling mining rig cards for good price. Any reason to NOT go for one of those?
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Strange that you say your 560 can barely handle low. I downloaded a "test version" of this game while waiting for my PS4 copy and I get an average of 47FPS on medium settings on my 550Ti. I also only have a core 2 quad and not a i5 like the minimum requirements state. Game is very well optimised if you ask me. Had I known it would perform like this on my PC I would have bought the PC version instead of PS4 version.
 
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Hiro said:
Plz forgive off topic post below :

Hiya dude. Just the man in looking for! I am dying to play this game, but the obscene GPU requirements are making me stall. I only have a lowly GTX 560, which can barely handle LOW settings in this game :-(

What is most cost effective card you recommend for playing at HIGH setting? Is there anything better than R9 280x, in that price range?

Guys on carb selling mining rig cards for good price. Any reason to NOT go for one of those?
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What CPU do you have and also how much RAM does your PC have?
 
Hiro said:
Plz forgive off topic post below :

Hiya dude. Just the man in looking for! I am dying to play this game, but the obscene GPU requirements are making me stall. I only have a lowly GTX 560, which can barely handle LOW settings in this game :-(

What is most cost effective card you recommend for playing at HIGH setting? Is there anything better than R9 280x, in that price range?

Guys on carb selling mining rig cards for good price. Any reason to NOT go for one of those?
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Hey dude

I generally don't recommend buying mining cards but if you're on a strict budget I would recommend getting one but only once you've inspected the card, make sure to get the full packaging and if possible try to get the proof of purchase. Try getting a R9 280X if possible.

I saw you mentioning the R9 290 but I doubt there pricing will drop to your budget, even with the new price cuts from AMD, those prices will only be applied to the new cards being imported, so the old stock will have to be cleared 1st.
 
Hiro said:
Plz forgive off topic post below :

Hiya dude. Just the man in looking for! I am dying to play this game, but the obscene GPU requirements are making me stall. I only have a lowly GTX 560, which can barely handle LOW settings in this game :-(

What is most cost effective card you recommend for playing at HIGH setting? Is there anything better than R9 280x, in that price range?

Guys on carb selling mining rig cards for good price. Any reason to NOT go for one of those?
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Get an R9 280x if you can. This same man you asked advice from hooked me up with one and it's been handling pretty much everything I've thrown at it with ease. Except LA Noire, funny enough. With AA enabled it drops to sub-20 FPS sometimes, but as soon as I disable AA it jumps to 70+. I guess it's an optimization thing.
 
FarligOpptreden said:
Get an R9 280x if you can. This same man you asked advice from hooked me up with one and it's been handling pretty much everything I've thrown at it with ease. Except LA Noire, funny enough. With AA enabled it drops to sub-20 FPS sometimes, but as soon as I disable AA it jumps to 70+. I guess it's an optimization thing.
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Yip the R9 280X was one of the best cards of this generation.
As for the LA Niore thing, I think its just poorly optimized bud, I've had a few 280X cards and they maxed pretty much everything I played.
 
The Joker said:
Yip the R9 280X was one of the best cards of this generation.
As for the LA Niore thing, I think its just poorly optimized bud, I've had a few 280X cards and they maxed pretty much everything I played.
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Yeah I guessed as much. But it doesn't really bother me to be honest - still running in DX11 with everything maxed at 1080p is good enough for me... :) It is an oldish game primarily focussed on consoles, so I'd forgive it for being a sub-standard port.

Every other game I run maxed out with AA at a minimum of 40fps though, so no complaints here. :D
 
The Joker said:
Yip the R9 280X was one of the best cards of this generation.
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I will second or third that, my 280x that I got from you is handling Shadow of Mordor maxed out however some of the textures load in purple or yellow with the rain/lightning. No idea why, a patch will come out soon I reckon.
 
Running perfectly on my HD7850 2G, all settings on High, tesselation on at 1080p resolution and never dips below 50fps. Makes me wonder why I want to get a 970 end of the year... :/
 
Isengard said:
Running perfectly on my HD7850 2G, all settings on High, tesselation on at 1080p resolution and never dips below 50fps. Makes me wonder why I want to get a 970 end of the year... :/
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Because MOAR FRAMES.

BTW - very fitting username for this game.
 
So I'm about 17 hours into the game according to Steam and I've just hit 60% completed.

So far, I'm loving every bit of this game. One of my favourite features is when you go to execute a downed enemy and it can be interrupted by other orcs.
 
I'm about 12 hours in. I do have a few minor annoyances. For example I've really grown to despise the quicktime events, I'm using an Xbox controller for Windows, but I'm so used to the Playstation buttons that I often hit the wrong input. The knock-on effect of this (dying to the Orcs making them stronger) was I had one Orc Warchief that was almost impossible to beat and required me to pull off some silly tricks to take him down.

Other than that I think it's a fantastic game, great combat, looks very very nice and plays well. The story also gives some interesting insight into aspects of The Lord of the Rings that the books and movies don't go into.
 
Isengard said:
I'm about 12 hours in. I do have a few minor annoyances. For example I've really grown to despise the quicktime events, I'm using an Xbox controller for Windows, but I'm so used to the Playstation buttons that I often hit the wrong input. The knock-on effect of this (dying to the Orcs making them stronger) was I had one Orc Warchief that was almost impossible to beat and required me to pull off some silly tricks to take him down.

Other than that I think it's a fantastic game, great combat, looks very very nice and plays well. The story also gives some interesting insight into aspects of The Lord of the Rings that the books and movies don't go into.
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Ah I'm playing with m+kb so the quicktime events aren't a bother.

And I have one general but just always seems to be in the right place at the right time for him. I think he's power level 23 now because he attacks when I'm swamped with 3 other generals.
 
Yeah quicktime events suck with a controller. I have never been able to pull one off the second time you are about to die in a fight when the circle is smaller. On PC (with a kb & mouse) it's a non-issue, the higher framrate also seems to help for that.
 
Man this game is awesome! Just got the brand ability and used it to command my (warchief) nemesis' bodyguards to kill him while I just stood and watched. Afterwards I just walked up to the remains to grab my epic rune, didn't lift a finger during the fight. :D
 
So I just found a ghost. I killed a general and about an hour latter he rocks up again looking very pale and dead compared to our first fight. I was not in the mood so i shot him in the leg to pin him to the ground, wraith stun and then epic combo. Still it took awhile since I needed a quick time to counter one of his attacks before I could kill him. Then out of nowhere 4 caragors appear, so that ends our fight early as we are fighting together so we can kill each other.

So it was a fun fight.
 
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