Anyone having problems using a AMD R9 200 series graphics card with Planit Coaster?

[SongSungBlue]

Anyone having problems using a AMD R9 200 series graphics card with Planit Coaster? Everthing in my PC meets or exceeds Planit coaster Suggested Requirments except my R9 200 Series with 2 gig memory card. Before plopping down the cash on this game I was wondering if anybody had experianced problems using this mid level card? THX

[Denim Chicken]

Well, there's quit a range in performance difference in the R9 200 series. Depends on which model you have. I'm running with an R9 290 4GB and it seems to run it fine on high settings. My system starts to chug when the park gets large and complex, but it's my aging CPU maxing out causing it (Phenom II 6-core 1090T).

I think the R9 270X (the slower of the 200 series) falls below the minimum requirements, which is a Radeon HD 7850, while the 280s and 290s are slightly above it.

[SongSungBlue]

Originally posted by Denim Chicken:

Well, there's quit a range in performance difference in the R9 200 series. Depends on which model you have. I'm running with an R9 290 4GB and it seems to run it fine on high settings. My system starts to chug when the park gets large and complex, but it's my aging CPU maxing out causing it (Phenom II 6-core 1090T).

I think the R9 270X (the slower of the 200 series) falls below the minimum requirements, which is a Radeon HD 7850, while the 280s and 290s are slightly above it.

Well my card is labled as a R9 200 Series and I looked it up and there is a diffrene between the R9 200 and the R9 200 series ( what I'm not sure) I find it confusing as you would think series specifies a rainge of numbers but not in AMD's case apperently. at any rate wouldn't the R9 200 be better then the 7850?
Just FYI (if it makes any diffrence) I am also running a AMD(fx) 8350 8 core proccessor with 32gig memory and a 64bit win10 OS. Also when you say "Lot's of people" does that mean 500 or like 5,000? My computer would lag on Cities Skylines when I'd get over a 50,000 population.and I seen so many You-Tube videos of people that had lag isssues with Planet Coaster that caused me to resurch this before buying.

[Denim Chicken]

There isn't an R9 200. It's a set ranging from R9 270 up to R9 295X2.
Here's a list of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Radeon_Rx_200_series#Radeon_R9_270X

I think anything in this series will probably run it okay. The R9 270 actually performs a little worse than the HD 7850, even though it is newer, and you would probably have to turn the settings down.

With my system, I start out about 60 fps with a blank park (with the R9 290). But this is on high settings. These can be tweaked to your liking. I prefer high quality at the expense of fps. With about 1,500 people and about 14 rides (1 coaster and two water rides), this drops to about 30fps. Average GPU measured 70% with GPU-Z, but my CPU is pretty stressed at about 90% - 100% on all six cores. Unfortunately this game is pretty CPU intensive and my CPU is under powered for it.

Memory isn't such a concern, as it's only using a few GB at most.

[MinionJoe]

Originally posted by Denim Chicken:

I think anything in this series will probably run it okay. The R9 270 actually performs a little worse than the HD 7850, even though it is newer, and you would probably have to turn the settings down.

The information I found says the same thing, but the difference isn't very significant:

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R9-270X-vs-Radeon-HD-7850

But then I found other information that said the 270X was quite a bit better:

http://www.hwcompare.com/15679/radeon-hd-7850-vs-radeon-r9-270x/

I'm tempted to go ahead and pick up Planet Coaster during the sale since I have a 270X and can test it, but if I had to refund it, I probably wouldn't get the money back until after the winter sale was over.

[SongSungBlue]

Originally posted by MinionJoe:

Originally posted by Denim Chicken:

I think anything in this series will probably run it okay. The R9 270 actually performs a little worse than the HD 7850, even though it is newer, and you would probably have to turn the settings down.

The information I found says the same thing, but the difference isn't very significant:

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R9-270X-vs-Radeon-HD-7850

But then I found other information that said the 270X was quite a bit better:

http://www.hwcompare.com/15679/radeon-hd-7850-vs-radeon-r9-270x/

I'm tempted to go ahead and pick up Planet Coaster during the sale since I have a 270X and can test it, but if I had to refund it, I probably wouldn't get the money back until after the winter sale was over.

Originally posted by MinionJoe:

Originally posted by Denim Chicken:

I think anything in this series will probably run it okay. The R9 270 actually performs a little worse than the HD 7850, even though it is newer, and you would probably have to turn the settings down.

The information I found says the same thing, but the difference isn't very significant:

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R9-270X-vs-Radeon-HD-7850

But then I found other information that said the 270X was quite a bit better:

http://www.hwcompare.com/15679/radeon-hd-7850-vs-radeon-r9-270x/

I'm tempted to go ahead and pick up Planet Coaster during the sale since I have a 270X and can test it, but if I had to refund it, I probably wouldn't get the money back until after the winter sale was over.

...but if we wait a year it will probably be a $16 game by then. just look at how expensive Kerbel was a year ago compaired to now. I appretiat the feed back on this delema. I was going through some old paperwork and am pretty sure that I have an R9 285. After this ordeal the next computer I have built I'll keep the parts list framed on the wall someplace. I desided not to get planit coaster or any other game for that matter and start saving for a newer PC. I have a feeling that a year from now most all PC games will be in VR and this PC does't support it. Besides I have 31 games in my library already and 1/4 of them don't work that well after they progress some. It's amazing how fast these newer games are outdateing computers these days.