Are specs good enough for HQ gaming at 60 FPS?

[DanyBoy90]

Hey guys, I just build my first PC a couple weeks and I'm having a blast with it. I don't know if it's good enough for HQ gaming as I just played Hollow Knight, and that game doesn't require very much power to run in good quality. Yesterday I tried Sniper Elite 4 and put it on High. It looks great, but when I run with the character the screen becomes a little blurry, specially shadows (black borders). I set the V-Sync on to get 60 steady fps but I don't know if the specs are not enough to run it on HQ. Anyone knows what it could be?

My build is


**CPU** | [AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor]
**Motherboard** | [MSI - B350M GAMING PRO Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard]
**Memory** | [Corsair - Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2666 Memory]
**Storage** | [Kingston - SSDNow UV400 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive]
**Storage** | [Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive]
**Video Card** | [Zotac - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB AMP! Edition Video Card]
**Case** | [Phanteks - ECLIPSE P400 TEMPERED GLASS ATX Mid Tower Case]
**Power Supply** | [Corsair - CX (2017) 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply]

Also, I use MSI afterburner to check that everything's OK (and it is).

PS: I will try to record some footage later if that helps.

 

[bjornl]

You should be fine. It is a decent system. Keep stuff in the background to a minimum (as in nothing would be best). Check your startup progams with Sysinternals Autoruns. Run malwarebytes anti-malware from time to time. Keep %temp% and %windir%\temp empty.

 

[DanyBoy90]

You should be fine. It is a decent system. Keep stuff in the background to a minimum (as in nothing would be best). Check your startup progams with Sysinternals Autoruns. Run malwarebytes anti-malware from time to time. Keep %temp% and %windir%\temp empty.

Thanks for the reply. Is there any way to check whats causing the blur on the screen? Also, I was thinking on streaming, would that be too much?

 

[bjornl]

You should be fine. It is a decent system. Keep stuff in the background to a minimum (as in nothing would be best). Check your startup progams with Sysinternals Autoruns. Run malwarebytes anti-malware from time to time. Keep %temp% and %windir%\temp empty.

Thanks for the reply. Is there any way to check whats causing the blur on the screen? Also, I was thinking on streaming, would that be too much?

Curse me and my evil skimming ways.

I didn't read your post closely enough and thought it was another more common "is my hardware good post", rather than is my hardware the cause of this odd problem.

I've only played Sniper Elite 3. I don't recall it having this feature but maybe 4 does. Check to see if there is motion blur, if so try turning that off.
Try adjusting the viewing distance next (one thing at a time).
Are you running the game in full-screen mode?


What are you running in the background? This is important for two reasons. It could interfere and it could use resources (ram) that your game needs.

Check what starts with your PC. Again because it might interfere. Use SysInternals Autoruns (a free DL).
Run HWmonitor just before you launch your game. Then game briefly. Alt-tab in to the background and see what your max values changed to.
Check your driver versions. Make sure you have the latest WHQL versions.

 

[DanyBoy90]

You should be fine. It is a decent system. Keep stuff in the background to a minimum (as in nothing would be best). Check your startup progams with Sysinternals Autoruns. Run malwarebytes anti-malware from time to time. Keep %temp% and %windir%\temp empty.

Thanks for the reply. Is there any way to check whats causing the blur on the screen? Also, I was thinking on streaming, would that be too much?

Curse me and my evil skimming ways.

I didn't read your post closely enough and thought it was another more common "is my hardware good post", rather than is my hardware the cause of this odd problem.

I've only played Sniper Elite 3. I don't recall it having this feature but maybe 4 does. Check to see if there is motion blur, if so try turning that off.
Try adjusting the viewing distance next (one thing at a time).
Are you running the game in full-screen mode?


What are you running in the background? This is important for two reasons. It could interfere and it could use resources (ram) that your game needs.

Check what starts with your PC. Again because it might interfere. Use SysInternals Autoruns (a free DL).
Run HWmonitor just before you launch your game. Then game briefly. Alt-tab in to the background and see what your max values changed to.
Check your driver versions. Make sure you have the latest WHQL versions.

Yup, I'm running the game in full screen mode. I forgot to mention that I play on a 40" TV instead of a monitor (maybe that's the problem).

I'm not running anything less except for steam (game's installed there) and I know for sure that the RAM is not the problem as I use MSI afterburner and the max capacity the RAMs get is ~4.5 gb in total (it's a dual core 2x4gb).

I will use SysInternals Autoruns as you mentioned to see if there's anything there. I will record some footage in a while because I know it's not clear what do I mean by blur, but it'specifically the shadows (specially black color) of the objects (trees,etc) are not steady when the character runs. Like frame rate drops without frame rate dropping (I know the FPS don't move because MSI afterburner)

 

[ScrewySqrl]

can you upload a screenshot?

 

[mitch074]

You should be fine. It is a decent system. Keep stuff in the background to a minimum (as in nothing would be best). Check your startup progams with Sysinternals Autoruns. Run malwarebytes anti-malware from time to time. Keep %temp% and %windir%\temp empty.

Thanks for the reply. Is there any way to check whats causing the blur on the screen? Also, I was thinking on streaming, would that be too much?

I would say that it's probably how it's supposed to look. You could try getting a different driver version for your GPU, just to make sure it's not Nvidia overoptimizing something.

As for streaming, your CPU should be able to handle it provided you're not using taxing settings.

 

[DanyBoy90]

can you upload a screenshot?

Here's a video showing 1 round of survival gameplay. I put the settings at the start to let you know what I have selected in terms of quality, etc. You can see what I'm talking about when looking at far away objects, like houses or trees. At the start and at the end (specially at the end) of the round I moved the camera kinda heavily to show how the game handles movement.

Here's the video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-A4Tnk1z0UNa8URL6COztmHSU_fpuGXQ/view

PS: It's my first time playing the game, don't judge by how bad I am xD.
PS2: I'm using a controller, that's why I move the way I move.

I would say that it's probably how it's supposed to look. You could try getting a different driver version for your GPU, just to make sure it's not Nvidia overoptimizing something.

As for streaming, your CPU should be able to handle it provided you're not using taxing settings.

I put a video above so you can see what I'm talking about. I don't know if checking other drivers would solve the problem. I downloaded the last Capture Card graphics when I set up the computer, but I'm quite a newbie in the PC community.

 

[ScrewySqrl]

will check it when I get home from work

 

[ScrewySqrl]

everthing looks ok to me.

it is possible your TV is not keeping up

 

[bjornl]

I looked at your video. Nothing jumps out as being out of sorts. Did you review the video yourself?

 

[cryoburner]

Yeah, it's possible that the television's pixel response times might be a bit slow for displaying content at 60fps. If the footage were reviewed on the same screen, it would of course appear the same as when playing, even if it wasn't something recorded in the footage. Do you know what model the television is? And have you used the same television for playing games on consoles or anything?

The only noticeable thing I saw was the game's built-in motion blur effect, but it doesn't sound like that's what you're seeing. Have you tried turning motion blur off in the game options to see whether that improves anything though?

And more importantly, what's up with that guy at 2:07 of the video? His comrades were just killed by sniper fire, and he clearly sees the sniper, but for some reason decides it would be a good idea to get out from behind cover to kneel in a grassy field before returning fire, then stays put while getting shot at three times. Someone clearly wasn't paying attention during training. >_>

 

[DanyBoy90]

everthing looks ok to me.

it is possible your TV is not keeping up

First of all, I wan't to thank you guys for the support in this subject. I don't know if the setup of the TV modifies the recording quality, but that would make no sense to me (no expert in the field) For example, from 1:12 to 1:18 the borders in the top of the building above the player are moving, that happens to a lot of the objects in the game. I just don't know if the setup is causing that or it's the components.

I looked at your video. Nothing jumps out as being out of sorts. Did you review the video yourself?

Yes, of course. It's the moving borders in the objects that troubles me. It's kind of a blur in the borders and it makes me wonder if I'm doing something wrong.

Yeah, it's possible that the television's pixel response times might be a bit slow for displaying content at 60fps. If the footage were reviewed on the same screen, it would of course appear the same as when playing, even if it wasn't something recorded in the footage. Do you know what model the television is? And have you used the same television for playing games on consoles or anything?

The only noticeable thing I saw was the game's built-in motion blur effect, but it doesn't sound like that's what you're seeing. Have you tried turning motion blur off in the game options to see whether that improves anything though?

And more importantly, what's up with that guy at 2:07 of the video? His comrades were just killed by sniper fire, and he clearly sees the sniper, but for some reason decides it would be a good idea to get out from behind cover to kneel in a grassy field before returning fire, then stays put while getting shot at three times. Someone clearly wasn't paying attention during training. >_>

The TV is a 40" Samsung LHD. It's kinda old, maybe 6 years. I use this TV for my gaming with my PS4 and Xbox all the time and everything's fine, it's just when I jump to PC gaming that realize this type of stuff. I will try setting off the motion blur settings, I don't know why it never occurred to me doing that. It's just the moving borders in the buildings and trees that makes me wonder if it's ok.

You made me lol too hard with the guy at 2:07, I didn't thought of that terrible move by the enemy soldier while playing the game.

 

[cryoburner]

Oh, by the "moving borders" I think you're referring to the aliasing artifacts. Generally, increasing "anti-aliasing" settings should help smooth out jagged edges of objects, but depending on how a game is designed and what method of anti-aliasing it uses, some of that can get through. It is quite noticeable here, now that you mention it, though I haven't played Sniper Elite 4 to know whether that might be common in that game. It looks to me like the shiny reflections of the setting sun and some other objects might not be getting anti-aliased properly. It's possible that adjusting the anti-aliasing setting in the game could improve that.

Doing a quick search though, it sounds like it might just be an issue with this particular game. One "professional" review I just found mentioned that "Sniper Elite 4’s anti-aliasing really sucks" and searching for "aliasing" in the Steam forum for the game brings up a number of results about people pointing out how bad the aliasing is. So you might just have to put up with it in this game. Whatever method the game uses for smoothing pixelated edges apparently doesn't work all that well, and it probably isn't any issue related to your hardware, unless you're seeing something else as well.

 

[DanyBoy90]

Oh, by the "moving borders" I think you're referring to the aliasing artifacts. Generally, increasing "anti-aliasing" settings should help smooth out jagged edges of objects, but depending on how a game is designed and what method of anti-aliasing it uses, some of that can get through. It is quite noticeable here, now that you mention it, though I haven't played Sniper Elite 4 to know whether that might be common in that game. It looks to me like the shiny reflections of the setting sun and some other objects might not be getting anti-aliased properly. It's possible that adjusting the anti-aliasing setting in the game could improve that.

Doing a quick search though, it sounds like it might just be an issue with this particular game. One "professional" review I just found mentioned that "Sniper Elite 4’s anti-aliasing really sucks" and searching for "aliasing" in the Steam forum for the game brings up a number of results about people pointing out how bad the aliasing is. So you might just have to put up with it in this game. Whatever method the game uses for smoothing pixelated edges apparently doesn't work all that well, and it probably isn't any issue related to your hardware, unless you're seeing something else as well.

OMG, really? That's awesome, I can handle this type of stuff in one game if the rest are not like that. I tried setting up anti-aliasing at high but didn't notice any difference. When I turn abruptly the camera it makes the background transition in a pretty annoying way but I believe now it's only the game. At least Hollow Knight looks perfect, but that doesn't mean too much because that game doesn't push the hardware to any limit. It's one the best games you can play btw, if you haven't. Well, I'll buy tomorrow Zombie Army Trilogy because it's on sale (made by the same developers) and see what happens.