ATI Catalyst 11.8 Is Out

[Blackdog_kt]

I'm still running 11.6 drivers (forgot to update last month) on this:
i7 920 @ stock 2.7 Ghz
Ati 4890 1GB
win7 x64
and a measly 3GB of RAM

It's a two year old, middle of the road PC and i get similar FPS to Jimbop with slightly lower minimums (FPS ranging between 30 and 60 except over London where i might get 25FPS), while running a higher resolution than he does (1680x1050) and in some cases higher detail settings than he does (i have forest on very low, land shading and model details on high, everything else on medium , grass/roads/shadows/vsync on, ssao off).

I think the problem is not lack of performance over the entire board but lack of consistency in performance between different PCs. Sometimes it's the different ways we setup our PCs that causes this, sometimes it's the fact that the code is "sensitive" to certain combinations of hardware and drivers.

I do expect the sim to work well for more people with the new graphics engine, but let's not assume the only way to run it adequately is with a monster, overclocked, 2-month old PC. It runs fine on mine and many others share similar experiences.