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Witcher 2 on base 27 with added Ram and Fusion

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Wakeywarrior

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I'm playing Witcher 2 in OSX on my base 27 inch (didn't want to pay £320 more to upgrade to higher version and add on 680 which is what it costs in UK for what will be sparodic gaming) and it plays pretty good. I have it on high settings, but the resolution at 1280 x 720- no problems with it at all. The lack of RAM on the card only makes a difference if you go for native resolution. It looks fine at 1280x720.

So anyone worried about gaming on base 27 inch iMac- don't- unless you want the most demanding games on the native resolution.

I have Fusion and upgraded the RAM to 24GB- don't think the RAM makes much if any difference to performance of Witcher 2 though.
 
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loki101

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The difference between 1440p and 720p is substantial. Obviously there is nothing wrong with enjoying the game at a low resolution! I can't wait till my iMac arrives on Monday, Witcher 2 is one of the first games I bought in anticipation (I am going to have quite a few games to play through this year).
 
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messiry

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Jan 2, 2013
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Wakeywarrior said:
I'm playing Witcher 2 in OSX on my base 27 inch (didn't want to pay £320 more to upgrade to higher version and add on 680 which is what it costs in UK for what will be sparodic gaming) and it plays pretty good. I have it on high settings, but the resolution at 1280 x 720- no problems with it at all. The lack of RAM on the card only makes a difference if you go for native resolution. It looks fine at 1280x720.

So anyone worried about gaming on base 27 inch iMac- don't- unless you want the most demanding games on the native resolution.

I have Fusion and upgraded the RAM to 24GB- don't think the RAM makes much if any difference to performance of Witcher 2 though.
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which GPU do you have, is it the 660m or the 675MX?
 
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Dduval

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Nov 12, 2012
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I'm playing the mac native version on my rig in my sig at 1080p at medium settings, HD 6970 1gb ram, runs great and looks great...awesome game as well.
 
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swarleystinson

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Aug 12, 2010
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Dduval said:
I'm playing the mac native version on my rig in my sig at 1080p at medium settings, HD 6970 1gb ram, runs great and looks great...awesome game as well.
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What kind of fps are you getting? It ran like crap for me on my 6970m 2GB. I had the i7 also. I tried lowering all kinds of settings and I couldn't get it much above low 30s fps. It would immediately dip when exploring.

I just sold it for the new 680mx :).
 
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Wakeywarrior

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Oct 14, 2012
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messiry said:
which GPU do you have, is it the 660m or the 675MX?
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660. Just ran Dirt 2 on native res and it looks really good, much better than say a PS3, it was getting 99fps.

Will have to bootcamp, suspect it will run the likes of BF3 good at medium settings native res.
 
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Dduval

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Nov 12, 2012
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swarleystinson said:
What kind of fps are you getting? It ran like crap for me on my 6970m 2GB. I had the i7 also. I tried lowering all kinds of settings and I couldn't get it much above low 30s fps. It would immediately dip when exploring.

I just sold it for the new 680mx :).
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All i had to to do was disable ubersampling and anti-aliasing and motion blur...
 
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