Yeah, setting up with some things and stuff. I gotta make sure that it doesn't
really know what's coming because some of my stuff is going to be kind of uh
kind of fun surprise type things. I don't know how well I'm going
to be able to conceal this one. It sounds like Stormtrooper armor. Oh,
it's not Stormtrooper armor, but that's a very good idea. How inconspicuous do I
look? Okay, I'm ready whenever. Okay,
one, two.
Man, this is going to suck. Dragon Age Inquisition had a
pretty minor bug here or there, but there's nothing too difficult to get out
of and nothing that was necessarily game-breaking either. At least nothing
that I came across that was gamebreaking. What was interesting about
the game was that this included Mantle and the difficulties that come with
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benchmarking with Mantle. The first hurdle was found after I had finished
all of my NVIDIA testing using Fraps. Mantle doesn't exactly play nicely with
Fraps. And because of this, I had to toss all of my data and find a different
solution. You shot him in this game.
Just the tip just to see if it
hurts. Enter FCAT. When we're trying to record 4K, we found out that our capture
card doesn't support RGB input. Unfortunately, by the at the same time,
AMD cards didn't support YCBCR output.
Um, the case with NVIDIA was we didn't actually test it, so we didn't know if
they supported that. Uh what? But it didn't really matter
because they would both have to work regardless. And after all of this, the
final proverbial nail in the coffin was that the FCAT overlay required for
recording these frame times doesn't natively work in Mantle either, just
like the Fraps overlay doesn't as well. DICE actually hacked support for FCAT
into Battlefield 4, a solution that Boware as of this point has not included
in Dragon Age Inquisition.
We're done. Which brought us to our final
solution. Regrettably, we had to use the built-in benchmarking utility, which
unsurprisingly doesn't seem all that precise. And it runs through the same
canned sections of the game at a super speed and then spits out a minimum
average frame rate in about 40 seconds or less. The results of these tests
could v oh my goodness. uh it could vary anywhere from 0.5 to 2 FPS throughout
the benchmarks. Whereas usually with our own benchmarks, anything from above 0.1
to 0.2 is completely unacceptable.
How's your hand? I kind of smoked you with Oh, it's bleeding. Sorry. Oh, it's
fine, though, guys. No, it's fine. Keeping those issues in mind, our 1080p
results were quite linear. Something to note here is that while the 290X is
behind the 780 Ti in averages, it actually beat it in minimums by 0.1. But
still, it's important to note because losses in minimum FPS is much more
noticeable than anything else. The story with 4K was more or less
the same. But please note that I had settings quite hard to demonstrate the
uh ability for Dragon Age Inquisition to push your system. If running this is a
little bit difficult for you on your own, definitely just turn down the
performance a little or turn down the settings a little bit and your performance will be a lot better. Just
like with 1080p testing, the results were quite linear and the minimums for
AMD were actually noteworthy with 290X beating the 780 Ti by 0.6 in averages,
but by a whopping 2.2 in minimums.
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