Dual v Quad

[hockeywarrior]

Originally Posted by z0ttel

Hi Tim,

in my case, the best upgrade so far (w.r.t. COD) was to go from Windows XP to Windows 7 - seriously

Before waisting tons of money in a new system I would wait for the patches which will arrive in the next weeks and then decide what to upgrade first. To get a feeling what the limiting factors are you can use perfmon.exe and gpu-z to monitor CPU-, RAM-, GPU- and VRAM-consumption while playing the game. The component which reaches the 100% limit, needs to be replaced.

On my system, the game runs between 30 and 50fps smoothly (not over London).

What settings are you running? I have an i7 930 2.8 ghz (stock clock), GTX 260 896 MB graphics card, 6 gigs of DDR3 RAM, and Winds 7 and am getting awful performance, even though I should be doing better than you lol.

[335th_GRAthos]

In all honesty,

1.) True, it is too eraly to tell because some more patches are needed for this game to run well.

2.) As a matter of principle and common logic, following things you will have to do anyway:
- Install Win7 64bit - No point discussing WinXP performance with this game as it is definitively running better in DX10 (and not in DX9 which is WinXP limited to).

- Upgrade to Quad-core if you find a cheap CPU fitting in your existing motherboad, because new graphics drivers are able to handle multiple CPUs and the CoD game will be able to handle more than one CPU (within limits) therefore better having four cores than only two (besides Win7 has real core management, unlilke WinXP)

3.) Download the MOD that is available which give a tremendous improvement on the frame rate FPS by removing some "unecessary" (for the current state of pain and misery most users experience) graphics thus making the game playable in every PC.


I did points 1 and 2 myself, point 3 I can not comment upon as it was not necessary for me.

Happy Flying !

[Ivan Fooker]

I made the following tests:

Running an I7 920 on 2.67GHz leads to 28FPS max.
Overclocking it to 3.01GHz leads to 32max.
Overclocking to 3.4Ghz leads to 44max.
Running it on max possible overclocked with that cooler at 3.84 leads to 59Fps.

Running the game on a C2D @ 4.8Ghz leads to 80Fps max.

As my HD5870VaporX (clocked 1200mhz) is running in idle mode while running CoD at 400mhz, i suppose the gpu power in general is not the bottleneck atm. for users.

So i come to the conclusion that ,similar to Il2-Sturmovik ,a high Dual Core has a better performance on CoD than a Quad Core atm, which is less clocked.

Means atm the GPu isnt a bottleneck, as the game doesnt seem to be correct adressed to it.ThePU keeps hanging in idle mode.

[SEE]

Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

3.) Download the MOD that is available which give a tremendous improvement on the frame rate FPS by removing some "unecessary" (for the current state of pain and misery most users experience) graphics thus making the game playable in every PC. !

Been trawling the various threads with no luck, where are the details/location for these 'mods' and are these the ones that can only be used 'off-line' that Luthier referred to in his patch update?

[garengarch]

Originally Posted by SEE

Been trawling the various threads with no luck, where are the details/location for these 'mods' and are these the ones that can only be used 'off-line' that Luthier referred to in his patch update?

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph...ml#Post3265101

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by hockeywarrior

what settings are you running? I have an i7 930 2.8 ghz (stock clock), gtx 260 896 mb graphics card, 6 gigs of ddr3 ram, and winds 7 and am getting awful performance, even though i should be doing better than you lol.

lower your resolution

[335th_GRAthos]

The new patch (curretly beta version availble, final patch probably on Monday) solves a lot of these issues:

No need for the MOD as they put the option to lower the graphic settings in the menu.
Kudos to the guy who worked in order to make the MOD possible as he was the main motivator to make this official
(I am a great believer of "pressure groups")

Besides this, the game now uses well four CPUs so Quad-core is the CPU to have for this game!

~S~

[TonyD]

Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

...

Besides this, the game now uses well four CPUs so Quad-core is the CPU to have for this game!

~S~

+1

[15JG52_Brauer]

In fact it will use 6 cores - but from what I can tell does not use hyperthreading, so best bang for your buck may be a 2500k as a 2600k with hyperthreading may not help - certainly my cpu only uses 6 cores - the other 6 hyperthreads lay dormant (The only thing I have that uses them is for video encodding - then they work !!).

[KDN]

Hey Athos
Did you do any change on your conf.ini...along the following lines....
2 cores - 3
3 cores - 7
4 cores - 15
6 cores - 63
8 cores - 255
for the ProcessAffinityMask=?