Middle-earth - Shadow of Mordor Graphics Card Showdown

[nicklmg]

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Middle-earth - Shadow of Mordor marks the beginning of the 2014 Q4 rush for game releases, as well as the beginning of our new benchmarking methodology for game releases.

 

 

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[SuperPug]

Why are the GTX 780 and 780Ti not included?

[Lavachyste]

Yes, Why?? I have the 780Ti, I'd like to know how it perform...

[saunders1991]

It is possible to unlock the frame cap, I've got an average of around 130fps with 2 780s in sli. 

[saunders1991]

Under \USER NAME\Documents\WB Games\Shadow of Mordor\
Open file "render.cfg"
Edit line 6 to "Render.Setting.FrameRateLimit" "3.000000"
Then run the game.
I'm running average of about 135fps which is nice with my 120Hz BenQ monitor.
Settings all on ultra with textures on high.

Specs:
3770K @5GHzWatermelons
2 EVGA GTX780 Hydrocopper Cards in SLI
16GB RAM

[saunders1991]

I did not mean to call out 5GhzWatermelons there. It like autocompleted to his username for some reason.

[Mr crabcake]

Damn those textures, me and my 2GB 7850 + 7870 CF setup :unsure:

[XeiXen]

BUUUUUU

Where is 780ti/Titan/780 ?

Especially Titan since vram seems to be an issue

Did you guys thought we all switched to 980/970 overnight? Don't you think we would like to see how our CURRENT cards perform?



Edit: And just saw you used the 780ti in the ingame part of the video (or at least at the option settings part), so it is good enough to play but not good enough to include in the benchmarks? What is this nonsense?

[BiFii]

What the hell is going on in your heads? You definitely need to find a somehow consistent benchmark methodology.
Why do you suddenly stop overclocking the cards, why won't you include 780 TI and non TI in the benchmarks.
780 and 780 TI are the most important cards in my opinion, because they are dropping in price and you really want to see where the price to performance ratio lays compared to 900 series cards.
I am really confused by your choices..

[Guest]

That stealthy advertising though...

 

MIDDLE EARTH GRAPHICS COMPARISON

 

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[Instillingererno]

Yes, Why?? I have the 780Ti, I'd like to know how it perform...

I have the 780 ti aswell i it runs really well, all maxed

[Lavachyste]

I have the 780 ti aswell i it runs really well, all maxed

ok, thanks. unfortunately, or not, this is not the kind of game i'd like to play. 

[lbrwnie]

no 1440p benchmarks?

[Imperium]

I'm sure it runs fine on 780/780Ti with all features maxed-out, after all, the 980 is only 10%-15% better in benchmarks so far. I'm sure the feeling is with such a marginal advantage, why run 780/780Ti since they are yesterday's need compared to the new 970/980s.

[hiyayhi]

Great video, I am really looking forward to playing this game

[Commander Llama]

Yes, Why?? I have the 780Ti, I'd like to know how it perform...

 

It performs really well.

 

With max everything 2560x1440 but High textures, avg 70 fps.  Ultra textures are still avg 60 fps but they weren't bluffing about the VRAM I guess, because I get random drops to 30 fps.

[DtrollMC]

You guys said that there was a benchmarking option in the game. So why didn't you use that?

[nanox760]

That stealthy advertising though...

 

MIDDLE EARTH GRAPHICS COMPARISON

 

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Do you want it to be the other way around, because that will suck...I dont blame them, you need money to keep you going and if you can get a bit more for the future why not?

[Hans Power]

On my 1680x1050 native resolution there is literally no performance difference between medium and high textures on my GTX 760 2GB (mesh quality + vegetation range on ultra, everything else on high + infused FXAA). Running at 35-60FPS - I'm sure, though that my Phenom II X4 965 (3,7Ghz) is a bottleneck. Not sure about 1080p though cause the game doesn't recognize custom resolutions. For me at least it runs suprisingly well - always very playable and really, really pretty!

[SuperPug]

I did not mean to call out 5GhzWatermelons there. It like autocompleted to his username for some reason.

HAHA... Sooo are GHzWatermelons faster than normal Ghz or how does this work?

[Guest]

Very interesting, I didn't think that the 970 and 980 would suffer that much at higher resolutions. Kinda happy that I went with an R9 290 now. Just to make sure, this isn't an "optimized for Nvidia" or "optimized for AMD" game, right? Also, as soon as the ultra textures are ready for download it would be interesting to know if you actually need 6GB of VRAM for them, because that's kinda insane.

[Guest]

Do you want it to be the other way around, because that will suck...I dont blame them, you need money to keep you going and if you can get a bit more for the future why not?

I don't mind it. In fact, I support it! I just thought it was a funny place to put it.

[SkilledRebuilds]

SLI users who are keen to get both GPU's in play.

SAUCE: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2181377&p=39#r768

 

The F.E.A.R 3 profile works perfectly well for this game. I'm having both cards work at above 90% and the improvement is massive. It uses the cards very well (no idea why it was not sorted prior to release.... given its such a simple change).

Use NVidia inspector to create a new profile for shadowofmordor.exe (think that was it's name under the games x64 directory) and set the SLi bits to the FEAR3 profile.

With 2x GTX680's I'm now running on high/ultra for most settings at about 60FPS on a 1440p screen.

I use g-sync so can't give a direct opinion on how smooth it will be for most.

From the steam community website:

1)GO to Nvidia Inspector
2) Select Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor
3)Than go to Add application to current profile than brower and select Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor.exe.
4) Last and final select Fear 3 on SLI bits Compatibility bits(Dx1x) and than hit apply.

[Bonsuki]

I would have liked to see 1440p benchmarks for the 4gb cards. The 4k benchmark was a nice addition though.

[nicklmg]

I don't mind it. In fact, I support it! I just thought it was a funny place to put it.

We tried to get the shirt in time to show it off on our Mod24 recap video from last week but customs OP