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Originally Posted by AARPRazorbacks

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system:

MOBO- Gigabyte GA-EP45_UD3P.
CPU-Intel core Duo E8600 @ 3.33GHz.
Ram 4GB.
PSU-(Duel power supply.
500 and 550 watt on the GPU.
550 watt on MOBO and SSD.
500 watt on HDD and CD/DVD player)
GPU-Video card GTX 470 1280 MB GDDR5.
Internal SSD- Crucial M4 CT064M4SSD2 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive
Internal HD-Seagate Barracuda SATA2 1TB/TO 32MB 7200RPM.
External HD-Seagate USB2.00 500 GB 7200RPM.
OS-(Duel partition on Internal HDD.
Windows XP Pro 32bit.
Windows 7 PRO 64 bit.)


CFS3 and Expansions,FSX on XP 32 bit HDD-Seagate Barracuda SATA2 1TB/TO 32MB 7200RPM.
CLoD and RoF in W-7 Pro 64 bit HDD-Seagate Barracuda SATA2 1TB/TO 32MB 7200RPM.
CLoD and RoF in W-7 Pro 64 bit SSD- Crucial M4 CT064M4SSD2 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive


MSWFF Pro 2.
2 saitek x52 throttles.
Saitek Pro Flight PZ35 Rudder Pedals
Monitor- HP-19, HP-24 or a VIZIO 42in screen.
Turtle Beach Gaming Headset and Mic.
TIR5.
Fraps.
Systems Windows 7 Experience Index rate of 6.7 base with SSD-- 5.9 base with HDD


With this score I'm able to fly CLod very well. I was able to fly CLod at base 5.9 HDD. Not as good as 6.7 base SDD but still very playable.

I use MS Windows 7 64 bit as a OS on my PC. CLod is MS Windows based.

We all are using MS Windows XP, Vista 64 bit or Windows 7 64 bit to play this sim.

Does MS know what there doing? I would think so!

If by posting my results of Windows 7 Experience Index helps the CLoD team make This sim more playable on more PC's.Then thats a good thing.

Windows Experience Index is already on Vista and 7 and being used by PC games and Hardware developers to help people know wither or not thy can use there product on there PC. If there hardware or software is MS windows base.

There was a poster on another flight sim forum ask what FPS he would get with his system in CLoD. I told him if he had Windows 7 Experience Index to run that. then post his Base score and I could tell him what to expect form CLoD on this system. That EZ.

The original initiative in this thread is naturally good, the problem is that you get 7.8 in graphics score for your GTX470, and I get 7.9 for my GTX580. Then those cards must be almost exactly as fast? And my son gets 7.4 on his GTX275... That rig is my old one that was swapped to get CloD running The new one has more than double average fps than the old one which the score does not show at all. A score of 7.4 on a scale to 7.9 must be good enough if a ring with 7.8 runs it great?

So - therefore I can conclude that the ones axing Windows Experience are right as it is to "crude" for high performance gaming - but the original initiative is right. I started a thread in the tech section where I tried to do a comparison between different combination on the same settings when I was upgrading, and if a lot of guys with different rigs did the exact same benchmark - in the actual game, we would get a small database where people could see how their rig would work in CloD, and the devs could see where there are problems with specific combinations?

My old thread while upgrading where I tried to get all settings the same etc and compare my old rig and my new one, with and interesting twist of having the new GTX580 in my old Core2Duo rig which gave almost nothing... Did not expect that myself!

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=22448

The main problem is that when new patches arrive that improves performance, the old tests has to be re run... And that's where it gets tiresome. But if 25 of us regular posters here could rerun a test in "Black Death" with the exact same settings and resolution, I would be very interested to read that at least as a developer or buyer!