G70S
T9300 C2D O/c to 3GHZ
4GB RAM
W7
8700M GT SLI 2*512mb
I wasn't expecting much as I only just reach past the minimum and the hatred for my cards runs deep.
I added the demo EXE to the Dragon Age 2 SLI settings through Nvidia Inspector to allow the Demo to run using SLI otherwise you can only use AFR 2 and that is a few frames lower. With the SLI detector on I found that the game is only using 50% of the SLI facility and as Bioware have said the Demo results will differ from the final product I hope that SLI will give much better results.
My Benchmarks are:
Direct x 9 1440*900 16*10 - Medium Graphics - Occlusion ON - A/L 2x - SLI
Min: 25 Avg: 31 Max: 42 - Smooth fast gameplay - Laggy due to large changes in frame rate
Direct x 10 running as 1440*900 16*10 - Medium Graphics - Occlusion ON - A/L x2 - SLI
Min: 16 Avg: 21 Max: 27 - Smoother slower gameplay - No lag but low frames cause slow down
I noticed that at certain points in gameplay my frames would fire upto 350-500 and then drop back down to 30 once it was viewing a character model again. I found this caused lag jumping from such a high frame rate back down to normal and V-sync made no difference for me if anything dropped the frames drastically. Resolution changes between 720p and 900p made little difference.
I found that even though running on the Direct x 10 settings gave me lower frames they were more stable than the Direct 9 frames output. I think mainly because the frames jumped up and down so much on DX9 that it caused lag because on DX10 I found it much smoother although slow at times due to the low frame rate, this in itself made it feel more like DAO though
It took the speed out of the game. I also noticed that when magic was cast in DX9 it caused my frames to drop a lot lower than it did in DX10. Im happy that I am going to be able to play this on my current setup and will probably wait until Witcher 2 before thinking about picking up a DX11 laptop as the graphics look smart enough without DX11 on DA2.
Would be really interested to see other mobility benchmarks.
Modifié par Dallers, 26 février 2011 - 11:44 .
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