Will I be able to 4K 60FPS with...?

[Slayer Seraph]

GTX 980 SLI?
I won't be able to play with my PC for a while, because my house is under renovations. So I simply can't test it.
Ordered a new TV after many years, and as TVs now are all 4K basically,I found myself in the 4K boat.
I don't want to upgrade my GPU or build a new gaming PC yet. And since I am mostly going to play on the PS4 PRO atm with some PC games (like this back log game) in between- I just hope it plays well enough with 980 SLI at 4k.
Perhaps I can scale down a few settings?

If not, well I can always play on 1440 or something else on the 4K screen and it should still look better than 1080p on a native 1080 TV right? (With TV's upscaling I guess?).

Is anyone playing with 980 SLI and 4K or 4K DSR? I want to have a steady 60fps experience. How I shiuld tweak the game? Without compromising visual quality too much.
CPU is i5-3570K. 16 GB DDR 3 RAM.

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[Thought about upgrading to Zolta 2080 or Zolta 2080 Ti when it comes out. Possibly without replacing my current system.
Especially since most good games this year are on the PS4, and there aren't any real demanding PC games coming soon for 1-2 years, it seems].

[Slayer Seraph]

I mean, might end up buying a 1080Ti to support 4K 60+fps (TV supports 120MHz native), but I much rather wait patiently, and prolong my next upgrade for Zolta, if I can run games for now with my current setup at a smooth playable level.
Don't mind lowering a few unnoticeable graphics settings to gain 60fps.
Need feedback from other gamers. Thanks

[Raigavin]

Originally posted by Ransom Seraph:

How I shiuld tweak the game? Without compromising visual quality too much.

Decrease shadow quality, remove Ambient Occlusion.

[rokkijani]

Hello!

I play with 1080 gtx and 6800k. 4k reso and my settings are high/med and 60 fps. I believe you won't have to put settings much down (if at all) to play it with your tv and 4k. :)

[Djsuha]

I guess video cards ok for DS3 ... I5 3570k Bottleneck at 4k probably .... And i have doubt u can take 60fps coz of CPU ... ( but ofcourse need to test CPU )
So ; i would question about CPU before Video Card .

[rokkijani]

Oh, cpu. Well, you just have to test it with different settings/reso. Anyway I think you can settle with nice settings and game will look just fine (much better than consoles) and run 60 fps.

[Slayer Seraph]

Originally posted by Raigavin:

Originally posted by Ransom Seraph:

How I shiuld tweak the game? Without compromising visual quality too much.

Decrease shadow quality, remove Ambient Occlusion.

Might as well remove Anti-Aliasing - because 4K eliminates that need. Right?Thanks for the advice.

Originally posted by Djsuha:

I guess video cards ok for DS3 ... I5 3570k Bottleneck at 4k probably .... And i have doubt u can take 60fps coz of CPU ... ( but ofcourse need to test CPU )
So ; i would question about CPU before Video Card .

Um.. I dunno about that, surely it will bottleneck a bit. But I googled i5-3570K bottleneck with cards like the brand new 1080Ti - and everyone says there will be no bottleneck in almost every game, or very little bottleneck in select few games.
Not sure where Dark Souls 3 stands. Heard it's not optimized and needlessly CPU heavy.

Originally posted by rokkijani:

Oh, cpu. Well, you just have to test it with different settings/reso. Anyway I think you can settle with nice settings and game will look just fine (much better than consoles) and run 60 fps.

Found this Benchmark chart from an article taken 1 year ago:
4K:
http://gamegpu.com/images/stories/Test_GPU/MMO/DARK_SOULS_III/test/ds3_3840.jpg
1440p:
http://gamegpu.com/images/stories/Test_GPU/MMO/DARK_SOULS_III/test/ds3_2560.jpg
Which makes me wonder if I can really dial down a few graphical settings to reach steady 60fps @4K with my SLI 980. It seems within the realm of possibility, according to what you guys.

Alternatively - do you think 1440p will look good on my 4K TV? What about 1080p?
I read some comments saying 1440p and 1080p looks blurry on 4KTVs, while others say 1440p look amazing on 4K TVs and 1080p looks great due to 1:1 pixel mapping match. So I am a bit confused.
My incoming new 4K TV is an LG screen, and I heard before that LG has some good upscaling, so it might work.
Has anyone tested that?

[Slayer Seraph]

Read a few tweak guides. Sounds like I might need to remove Motion Blur and DoF altogether. And lower Shadows a bit. Disable AA too probably. Maybe lower something else not too noticeable. Hope this works.
Found someone here on Steam saying he managed to get 980SLI 4K 60FPS. Wish I could test it already lol.

[White Prime]

Originally posted by Ransom Seraph:

GTX 980 SLI?
I won't be able to play with my PC for a while, because my house is under renovations. So I simply can't test it.
Ordered a new TV after many years, and as TVs now are all 4K basically,I found myself in the 4K boat.
I don't want to upgrade my GPU or build a new gaming PC yet. And since I am mostly going to play on the PS4 PRO atm with some PC games (like this back log game) in between- I just hope it plays well enough with 980 SLI at 4k.
Perhaps I can scale down a few settings?

If not, well I can always play on 1440 or something else on the 4K screen and it should still look better than 1080p on a native 1080 TV right? (With TV's upscaling I guess?).

Is anyone playing with 980 SLI and 4K or 4K DSR? I want to have a steady 60fps experience. How I shiuld tweak the game? Without compromising visual quality too much.
CPU is i5-3570K. 16 GB DDR 3 RAM.

--
[Thought about upgrading to Zolta 2080 or Zolta 2080 Ti when it comes out. Possibly without replacing my current system.
Especially since most good games this year are on the PS4, and there aren't any real demanding PC games coming soon for 1-2 years, it seems].

When you do upgrade, get a Ryzen. It's perfect for what you're wanting.

[Raigavin]

Originally posted by Ransom Seraph:

Originally posted by Raigavin:

Decrease shadow quality, remove Ambient Occlusion.

Might as well remove Anti-Aliasing - because 4K eliminates that need. Right?Thanks for the advice.

What a way to take an advice?
Why do you even ask then?

[Slayer Seraph]

Originally posted by Raigavin:

Originally posted by Ransom Seraph:

Might as well remove Anti-Aliasing - because 4K eliminates that need. Right?Thanks for the advice.

What a way to take an advice?
Why do you even ask then?

What do you mean?
I asked, and your info helped. Hence why I thanked you.
Later I suggested removing AA as well. Of course if you don't think that will help, you could simply said so. It was a question & assumption.
Said "might as well" as in "it will also help to..".
Perhaps you misinterpreted my comment?
At any rate, wouldn't removing AO altogether severely lower image quality?

[Slayer Seraph]

Originally posted by White Prime:

When you do upgrade, get a Ryzen. It's perfect for what you're wanting.

How so?
Why would a Ryzen be better than an i7-7700K or something higher?
Which Ryzen model are we talking about? Thx
Afterall when I do upgrade my CPU I will have to replace everything and build a new OC from scratch. (Mobo,RAM, etc)

[Raigavin]

Originally posted by Ransom Seraph:

Originally posted by Raigavin:

What a way to take an advice?
Why do you even ask then?

What do you mean?
I asked, and your info helped. Hence why I thanked you.
Later I suggested removing AA as well. Of course if you don't think that will help, you could simply said so. It was a question & assumption.
Said "might as well" as in "it will also help to..".
Perhaps you misinterpreted my comment?
At any rate, wouldn't removing AO altogether severely lower image quality?

Disabling AO will not have a sever imact on the image quality, its just a subtle effect which takes a modest amount of processing power.

You can disable it and play the game, you won't find it that much of a difference when you are moving the camera constantly.

[Slayer Seraph]

Originally posted by Raigavin:

Originally posted by Ransom Seraph:

What do you mean?
I asked, and your info helped. Hence why I thanked you.
Later I suggested removing AA as well. Of course if you don't think that will help, you could simply said so. It was a question & assumption.
Said "might as well" as in "it will also help to..".
Perhaps you misinterpreted my comment?
At any rate, wouldn't removing AO altogether severely lower image quality?

Disabling AO will not have a sever imact on the image quality, its just a subtle effect which takes a modest amount of processing power.

You can disable it and play the game, you won't find it that much of a difference when you are moving the camera constantly.

I see, thank you.
What do you guys think, there's currently a 10% discount on a local store here in Israel, the store itself has the lowest prices on the israeli market basically.
I can order a 1080Ti now with that discount, buy a whole new rig now, or wait and do nothing for now - and upgrade sometime in the future (the GPU or just the card).
Just pondering these ideas.

[Big Hat Logan]

The i5 3570 is fast enough for steady 60 fps. But for 980 SLI i have no idea.

[White Prime]

Originally posted by Ransom Seraph:

Originally posted by White Prime:

When you do upgrade, get a Ryzen. It's perfect for what you're wanting.

How so?
Why would a Ryzen be better than an i7-7700K or something higher?
Which Ryzen model are we talking about? Thx
Afterall when I do upgrade my CPU I will have to replace everything and build a new OC from scratch. (Mobo,RAM, etc)

The 8 core Ryzen. 1700 or 1700X. In benchmarks, it's the best in 4K gaming. And a lot cheaper than Intel.