Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
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One of the highest-rated games of 2014, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is an excellent open-world adventure and uses the LithTech Jupiter EX to deliver eye-catching visuals. Putting the strain on these mid-to-high-end cards, we test with Ultra quality settings at FHD and QHD, and notch things down to Very High quality for 4K UHD.
If there's a game that will trip-up the GTX 970's unorthodox memory configuration, it's Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. This is a title that puts plenty of onus on frame buffer and GTX 970 struggles to maintain 60fps at 2,560x1,440.