Call Of Duty: Ghosts Graphics Performance: 17 Cards, Tested

[felipetga]

Guess that Wii U could handle it and even run on the original Wii. Heck, I even enjoyed COD: MW3 on the Wii with my son!

 

[_BigHead_]

thanks for all the graphs that stop at 60 fps i guess? Whats that about, lol. seems kind of silly to not show the entire graphs data locations.....

 

[Avro Arrow]

Two things:
1 - To Silverblue
Silverblue, if the game doesn't use more than 6 cores, you won't see a performance difference between the FX-6300 and FX-8350 (at the same clock speeds). That's the reason the FX-6300 is such a great gaming CPU. It's exactly what you need and it's only $120. As for the performance difference between Intel and AMD, AMD's extra cores promise greater longevity. The Phenom II X4 was off of tomshardware's best gaming CPUs for the money for at least 3 years. Once the games started leveraging more cores, suddenly the PH2X4 was on the list again. It performed better in the newer games than it did in the older ones. As games start to leverage more and more cores, the AMD CPUs, while maybe never hitting the top of the performance charts (like anyone who has a clue cares about that anyway), will deliver smooth and playable framerates for longer than their Intel counterpart. Think about it, people still game with Phenom II X4's. That Deneb (stars) architecture came out in 2008! It still works pretty damn well too in my Llano-based laptop for playing Skyrim. You have to judge an architecture on its merits more to the end of its lifetime because you never know what the intention of the CPU is. Would you rather have the brute power of the Ford Mustang, only to have it die on you after a number of years or would you rather have the not as fast but useful for much longer Scion FR-S?

 

[_Vass]

this game is in the race for being the worst ported game ever. so buggy it's a shame!

 

[Avro Arrow]

Next thing:

To BuckNutty - How can you trick a game into playing a mode that it doesn't have? This game is DX11-only. They don't have a DX9 or DX10 mode that they have locked. It just plain doesn't exist. Your GeForce 210 wouldn't have run this game anyway, regardless of DX version. It wouldn't run it because it's a crappy card that is less powerful than even one of your GTS 250s. You'll have to get a DX11 card of considerable power (HD 7770 or better most likely) to play this game.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Next thing:

To BuckNutty - How can you trick a game into playing a mode that it doesn't have? This game is DX11-only. They don't have a DX9 or DX10 mode that they have locked. It just plain doesn't exist. Your GeForce 210 wouldn't have run this game anyway, regardless of DX version. It wouldn't run it because it's a crappy card that is less powerful than even one of your GTS 250s. You'll have to get a DX11 card of considerable power (HD 7770 or better most likely) to play this game.

 

[therogerwilco]

Where's the 780 and 780 ti Tom?! Nobody cares about the 6xx series or the 7990... (even if it's for perspective)

 

[silverblue]

Avro Arrow

It'd be nice to have confirmation about it, and whether it's based on floating point or integer resources. It's entirely likely that, if this is indeed the case, the fourth core in an i5 may also be unused. There certainly isn't a doubling of performance between the i3 and i5, which could very well be proof.

Adding an i7 as well as perhaps SB-E could help with this.

 

[jryder]

It would be nice if Tom's would acknowledge the existence of Haswell processors. Enthusiasts have been buying them for 6 months now for new builds. So it makes sense to use them in benchmarks even if you don't feel the 5 - 10% improvement over Ivy Bridge would make it worth an upgrade.

 

[bucknutty]

Next thing:

To BuckNutty - How can you trick a game into playing a mode that it doesn't have? This game is DX11-only. They don't have a DX9 or DX10 mode that they have locked. It just plain doesn't exist. Your GeForce 210 wouldn't have run this game anyway, regardless of DX version. It wouldn't run it because it's a crappy card that is less powerful than even one of your GTS 250s. You'll have to get a DX11 card of considerable power (HD 7770 or better most likely) to play this game.

I don't have a GeForce 210. In the article they said they tried to run the game on a 210 and it did not launch but they gave no explanation as to why. I explained why.

I did not say it was possible to run a DX 11 game on DX10 hardware, I do not know if there is DX 9 code in the game,(however I am guessing it might be possible because at least 1 version of the game runs on xbox360 which uses a variant of DX 9.) I was simply trying to ask the community if they have seen a "third party" try to "fix" a DX11 game to run on one of the older APIs.

Why do people have to be so negative? Think positive!

 

[Christopher Shaffer]

The single-player story is the element that strays furthest from previous Call of Duty games. Infinity Ward must have guessed that gamers are tired of fighting Germans, Russians, Asians, and Middle Eastern countries. So, this time around, the bad guys are South American.

While I am an avid BF player, long ago converted from COD, I have to point out an error with this statement.

In MW2, the enemy was actually shown to be of American decent, as well. While there were certainly Russian, Chinese and various Middle Easter enemies, there were certain individuals within our own government and military who assisted in the attack on the US.

While this game is far from realistic, the idea that a large nuclear device, detonated in the atmosphere above the US would result in an EMP and near-nationwide is not and is actually a emergency scenario that has been considered by the Pentagon and the military. It is this actual act in the game that has the unfortunate assistance of rogue US soldiers.

An extremely similar plot line is found in Splinter Cell: Conviction.

 

[smeezekitty]

Why bother with a low end pre-DX11 GPU?
AMD has lots of nice low end offerings (6450-7750) that are fully DX11 compatible.

 

[Novuake]

As expected, the usual ported junk that looks horrible and STILL runs horrible.

Getting real tired of your #@$% Activision.

 

[hfitch]

quote The Geforce 210 would not launch the game because it can not run DX11. Ghosts is DX11 only. My older gamming system is a q9650 with 3 GTS250s in 3 way sli. It wont launch the game. Any one know of a hack to trick this game into running in DX9 or DX10?

Yes upgrade your hardware its time. I know you like your 3 way sli but your hardware has run it's course. I just upgraded mine about 6 months ago from 2 nvidia 295's to one 680. I was tired of not being able to play dx11 games. I love the card I have. I will probably sli it next month or so.

 

[squirrelboy]

i have an odd issue in multiplayer. on some parts of maps my framerate drops from 90 to sub-50. meanwhile my gpu and cpu usage stay the same: http://i.imgur.com/JgJQAzy.png (this is on octane, walking onto the main street)
Sniping also more than halves my framerate, i assume because it renders the game twice.

So i did some testing in a private match, tried lowest and highest settings:
http://i.imgur.com/6yDpH5R.jpg
it LOOKS like a classic bottleneck. However, not a single part of my pc is maxed out.
(note: since making this, drivers updated twice (331.92 now) and the game had a few updates. I still have this issue though)

 

[bucknutty]

quote The Geforce 210 would not launch the game because it can not run DX11. Ghosts is DX11 only. My older gamming system is a q9650 with 3 GTS250s in 3 way sli. It wont launch the game. Any one know of a hack to trick this game into running in DX9 or DX10?

Yes upgrade your hardware its time. I know you like your 3 way sli but your hardware has run it's course. I just upgraded mine about 6 months ago from 2 nvidia 295's to one 680. I was tired of not being able to play dx11 games. I love the card I have. I will probably sli it next month or so.

I have a bunch of computers. 3 of them have DX11 GPUs. The one I described does not. Its only used when my brothers come over for random game nights, so its not worth it for me to buy something to run this game. Its really more of a curiosity if a 3rd party has tried to adjust a game to run an older API.

 

[jrizzz]

glad to finally see a 7950 in a benchmark

 

[Lutfij]

Well that's very interesting! The news of the game asking for so much ram was true. The real problem is the engine is yet the same old M@ engine, nothing special but then again the call of duty series is supposed t be fun and not special.

^haven't had the time to try it out but eager to.

As always, very good article.
Keep going

 

[BlankInsanity]

as you can see.. Infinity Ward or Treyarch or whoever made this game needs the step their game up in terms of graphics and diversity. even old cards can play it above 60fps

 

[animeman59]

. I'm running an FX-8350, a GTX 780, and 32GB of RAM,

A mediocre-CPU with a top end GPU and too much RAM? I FOUND YOUR PROBLEM!

You do know that people use computers for things other than gaming, right? Go back to /r/buildapc for an education, boy.

 

[bemused_fred]

You do know that people use computers for things other than gaming, right? Go back to /r/buildapc for an education, boy.

Leddit? No thanks.

And if your computer isn't built for gaming, then why are you complaining when it gets poor performance in games? Seems like the cause of that is pretty self-evident.

 

[smeezekitty]

"Too much" RAM doesn't negatively impact performance. That hasn't been the case for >15 years
And yeah stay away from reddit unless you like idiots by the shipload.

 

[bemused_fred]

"Too much" RAM doesn't negatively impact performance. That hasn't been the case for >15 years
And yeah stay away from reddit unless you like idiots by the shipload.

I suppose "more RAM than you need" would have been a better phrasing....

 

[iam2thecrowe]

Been playing this game on PC ever since it's release, and I gotta say, this is probably one of the worst performing games that I've ever seen. I'm running an FX-8350, a GTX 780, and 32GB of RAM, and this game will still dip below 45fps. I don't care what anyone says, but CoD and IW6 should be running with no issues on a rig like that. It's a little suspicious when I can get 60fps consistent on a game like Battlefield 4 with max settings, but CoD:Ghosts stutters like Porky Pig. Even Metro: Last Light runs better than CoD:Ghosts!

This game is horribly optimized and buggy. People on Steam forums have been complaining about game-breaking bugs from day one, and there's still issues that haven't been answered for, yet. Like the one in Squad Mode where you can't use any of your squad members in a game, except for the first one. Or the earlier bug where people couldn't even create their first soldier, because they didn't have 3 squad points to unlock it, hence locking them out of multiplayer.

Skip out on this game. Infinity Ward obviously doesn't care about the PC market, and their horrible release just further solidifies that fact. Spend your money on a MP shooter that doesn't insult it's audience.

it's your cpu. most games arent optimized beyond 2, 3 or 4 cores. fast 4 core is still best for gaming, your 8 core is wasted. Everyone knows this. Should have bought an i5 instead of your 8350 for gaming purposes.

 

[f-14]

"against the evil (and technically superior) South American Federation. Oh, and the U.S. put up a 100-foot concrete wall along the border to protect what's left of the country, so illegal immigration is no longer an issue."

based on just that comment alone it sounds like illegal immigration is the entire issue, HA HA.i don't play anything made for consoles. after seeing how the first medal of honor was crippled for console users to be able to play i knew any game that was playable on a console was defecation headed to the 'john'