Hi everyone.
I just got a new Sony KD43X8000E 4K HDR TV today. NZ retailers are having massive TV sales this week. Sony RRP price is NZ$1699 for the TV + NZ$129 for delivery and installation (table, not wall, for me). However got it from an authorized retailer in NZ for NZ$1258 including delivery and installation, so saved over $500 for it which I'm happy about. Picture quality is great! And it has an anti-reflective display, an ISP panel with wide viewing angle, and it has pretty good blacks too! once you've tinkered with the settings. Photo Vivid mode works for me.
Anyways, I reinstalled Afterburner and fully updated it, and found out something amazing....
Has Frontier been further optimizing this game in recent updates? I think they have.
I tried playing my sandbox park map, which has 5k people, over 50 staff, and 22 rides. All with these settings:
- 3840x2160 resolution, full screen.
- Ultra Preset settings, with shadow quality on low and water quality on ultra.
And am averaging 26-30fps! In 4k! Which Sony and Samsung indicate is 3840x2160.
According to MSI Afterburner, my CPU while 4k playing this game, all my CPU cores are being properly utilized! (all 4 cores 8 threads are utilized averaging 70%), RAM used averages 6.5GB, GPU usage averages 56% and CPU overall usage is 70%.
Last year I noticed with 1080p gaming with this game, only one of my CPU cores was like 60% utilized, all the other cores were only 20% utilized. But with 4k gaming, this game actually makes the effort to utilize all 8 processors in my CPU.
I thought I would need a GTX 1080Ti and i7-8700k to do 4k for this game.
Congrats to Frontier for this. We may think they're not optimizing the game with these updates but it looks like they could be. I've been with this game since it was in Alpha (Early Bird). And there's been a great deal of optimizing since then.
Regarding 4k, graphics look better, but not really by too much. Anything above 20fps is playable I'd say. [happy]
Edit:
Just opened Windows 10 Task Manager. My CPU isn't even breaking a sweat. Sitting on 56% utilized on 3.98Ghz, not even doing 4.2Ghz which is what the i7-6700k can do. Guess it pays off having a CPU with a good clock speed.
I just got a new Sony KD43X8000E 4K HDR TV today. NZ retailers are having massive TV sales this week. Sony RRP price is NZ$1699 for the TV + NZ$129 for delivery and installation (table, not wall, for me). However got it from an authorized retailer in NZ for NZ$1258 including delivery and installation, so saved over $500 for it which I'm happy about. Picture quality is great! And it has an anti-reflective display, an ISP panel with wide viewing angle, and it has pretty good blacks too! once you've tinkered with the settings. Photo Vivid mode works for me.
Anyways, I reinstalled Afterburner and fully updated it, and found out something amazing....
Has Frontier been further optimizing this game in recent updates? I think they have.
I tried playing my sandbox park map, which has 5k people, over 50 staff, and 22 rides. All with these settings:
- 3840x2160 resolution, full screen.
- Ultra Preset settings, with shadow quality on low and water quality on ultra.
And am averaging 26-30fps! In 4k! Which Sony and Samsung indicate is 3840x2160.
According to MSI Afterburner, my CPU while 4k playing this game, all my CPU cores are being properly utilized! (all 4 cores 8 threads are utilized averaging 70%), RAM used averages 6.5GB, GPU usage averages 56% and CPU overall usage is 70%.
Last year I noticed with 1080p gaming with this game, only one of my CPU cores was like 60% utilized, all the other cores were only 20% utilized. But with 4k gaming, this game actually makes the effort to utilize all 8 processors in my CPU.
I thought I would need a GTX 1080Ti and i7-8700k to do 4k for this game.
Congrats to Frontier for this. We may think they're not optimizing the game with these updates but it looks like they could be. I've been with this game since it was in Alpha (Early Bird). And there's been a great deal of optimizing since then.
Regarding 4k, graphics look better, but not really by too much. Anything above 20fps is playable I'd say. [happy]
Edit:
Just opened Windows 10 Task Manager. My CPU isn't even breaking a sweat. Sitting on 56% utilized on 3.98Ghz, not even doing 4.2Ghz which is what the i7-6700k can do. Guess it pays off having a CPU with a good clock speed.
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