GeForce 9400 GT 1024MB for PhysX

With PhysX on High?

The bit with the tiles when you glide down and smash the guy and the tiles, you kept above 30 on that?

Guess the i7 is doing its job then?

 

DUnno if i7 has much effect with Physx enabled.
Damn I'm an idiot, I went on a deleting spree and I deleted both the Batman installer and the game folder
I wanted to try enabling High physics and disabling PhysX from NVCP to see how the i7 would hold up

 

I didn't think it would, my CPU barely goes over 60% usage ingame, but with just the 260 on its own, and PhysX on high, goes down to 17fps, with the new card doing PhysX lowest is 25.

Not an easy demo to get again, far too chunky, i might try that though.

 

im getting another 8800gt for this rig, will be handy for batman but tbh it doesnt need it as batman maxed @1680x1050 only drops to 40FPS in some places with physix on high

 

You on SLi 260s or what ?

 

no just 1 OC'd

 

How you manage that?

The i7 must have an effect on this game, with 1920x1080, PhysX high, 4xAA and everything else maxed i get between 15-60fps, though the average is more around 40, but dips down alot as soon as that tiles/hostage bit, though i am only on the 192SP version.

 

hmmmm, lol, i didnt try that tiles/hostage bit with physix on high( i only just tried it on high there an hour ago to check performance, but just for the steam/paper bits, ive completed the demo several times on normal though ).

Hold on ill try it again( lol, will probably run like crap after reading your post ), i tried with gpu accelerated physix off and was getting 23FPS lol

 

Try bataranging all the tiles to pieces too, tryed that and PC had a stroke lol, it was impressive as hell though.

 

after i took the guy down i fired loads of batarangs on the tiles splitting them and throwing them around everywhere, its cool, lol. It never dropped below 55FPS though

 

What settings ? Was in game physics on high and Physx in control panel off ?

 

lol, no Physix on, i tried with off in the nvidia control panel as i said above and it runs like crap lol
These are my settings:

 

Very nice results, same settings as i'm using except i run at 1920x1080, what Nvidia driver, and is that XP?

 

Cheers mate, no using Vista, with the old 186.18 drivers, but with the updated physix drivers.

Yours is probably running slower because of your res and 4xAA

 

Ah right, was because i didn't see the power management feature in the NVCP, might try the older ones, even though im one of the few with no problems with the 190.xx ones.

Definetly think i will get a i7 very soon though, oh just noticed the pillars at the beginning under the TV's are destructable, had fun destroying them, then kicking the desroyed stone and all the paper about.

 

I havnt tried the 190's yet, i might try them in a bit, ive very little patience for hassle though lol

youre probably better off with a Q9550, i get next to no difference in game performance between this i7 rig and my old rig with Q9550@4Ghz.
I must try the pillars lol, it is a bit of a gimick though although the cape looks well cool

Your dual core will be bottlenecking that 260, well at least my old E6400@3.55Ghz was with my 216SP 260

 

I like to mess about, so don't mind the hassle if anything goes wrong lol.

Yeah, all the PhysX stuff is very gimicky, but i'm a sucker for that kind of stuff, especially when i discovered it when i kicked someone off the wall, and it exploded in a cloud of dust and debris on impact.

Yeah, a Q9550 would probably be more appropriate as i i can get one reasonably cheap, and won't need to get a new board and ram like i will if i get the i7.

 

i didnt realise the 190's were whql now so im downloading them lol

id definately go for a q9550 in your situation, i only got this i7 cos i flogged my old stuff, started using my media centres p5k pro with a new Q9550 and mate of mine thought it overclocked so well he wanted it for what i paid for it, so needed a new mobo + ram + cpu. Altogether it cost me around 250euro to go i7,performance wise at the moment its not needed as my q9550 did everything i wanted, i just got i7 for the sake of not being stuck on 775 platform( i only upgrade every 2 years )

 

hmm im going to try batman and see how my rig holds up at 1920x1200

 

Cheers, will grab one as soon as i get the GF's birthday out the way next month lol.

Hopefully this cheap 9600GSO give me the same boost in the full Batman:AA and was gonna say Dark Void, but just saw thats been pushed to next year.