I have just compleetd my build today based around 4.5GHZ overcocked 2550K, a new Asus GTX 670, a ROG Z68 board and 16GB of RAM and I STILL can't play this game with all settings maxed! A PC that has cost over a thousand pounds to assemble with a state of the art £350 traphics card and it can't play a 2 yr old game...is it a case of poor optimisation as this setup pisses all over BF 3 and Crysis 2. (gaming @ 1080p)
It's a known problem with current drivers and Metro 2033. It was developed with the 480/580 in mind, so less shaders, much higher speeds. Given a driver update or two; it'll be maxable once more. True gamer gets it with his 680 4GB SLi, but didn't get it with his 580 SLI, driver issue.
It's mostly playable at full detail, on my machine, just a few places below 25fps. That engine has always caused issues with most hardware.
I found the game quite boring. Tunnel shooting is generally boring. A game like that should run very well on even a 460 since we're not talking vast open spaces like Crysis.
The major reasons it performs badly are due to additional DX11 effects when run, and the DoF etc. It's a very good looking game, and has generally excellent textures. Feathers, the size of a game's environment usually has no impact on performance. Project CARS runs acceptably well at full settings with 8x AA, yet has massive settings and looks good. It's all about cutting the corners where it's not noticeable. In Metro, as the tunnels mean a close-up experience, everything has to be well detailed and no real corners can be cut, no model swapping or anything else.
Fantastic game - one of my all-time faves. Do stick with it. I had a 580 and it was fine, then I went 27" and had to add another card, so it is a bit of a beast of a game.
I have played quite far into it and may complete it. The story gets quite dumb further in and the acting b-movie.
My rig plays it maxed out. Surely there is something wrong at your end. @ Feathers. The game is genius. It has a solid story line which intrigued me to keep going.
I'm gad i'm not the only one. I installed it a total of three times, giving it a chance to show itself to me over and over, but every time, I got to the part where you first venture above ground (not in the opening part, I mean after the handcart tunnel run) and then thought "God this is boring" and quit. Same place every time, same emotion every time. It's like I hit an invisible wall made of "meh".
funny how some people myself included think that its a great atmoshphere that builds welkl while others couldnt care less bit of a marmite one
Metro and Doom 3 for me both had the same effect. I wanted to like, I listened to all the praise/hype/worship and found the game boring. So it gets interesting later on? Well I want a game that's interesting from the start. I tried to like metro several times. It was the same with Doom 3 although I loved the scare factor in that game. There was another tunnel crawler with lots of water and time manipulation. Forget the name but that also bored me. Whenever I play a game that has caves and tunnels I think FFS, now I have to get through the boring tunnel section to get to the interesting part again. Was the same with so many games where you go from outside to tunnel crawling. Metro was by far the worst because pretty much all you get are dark tunnels.
The problem with Doom3 was it was far too samey throughout. The Hell level was excellent but I couldn't always trudge through enough of the rest of the game to get that far. Metro did actually have enough variety at the right moments to keep it interesting. That first open air level was a bit too much for me at first (even though I love Crysis and Far cry) but it still remains a very atmospheric experience with quite a few different types of gameplay throughout.
Are you sure you went into the Direct X 11 settings and enabled them? There is an in built bennchmark tool which I ran and I averaged 30.57 FPS and compared to the GTX 670 review here:- http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1925/10/ I out scored the EVGA SC version which has higher clocks (It averaged 30.33 FPS) (Not started the overclocking on this just yet)