The Crystal Ball

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

My machine is far lower in spec than the one Sven has and I can run the game just fine on fairly high settings. (Not going to fire up the game right now to check them all but I have SSAO on as well as grass, roads, etc...) And I am running at 1920 X 1080 resolution.

Core2Duo E8500 @ 3.5ghz

6 gigs DDR 2

Win7Pro 64bit.

EVGA GTX 570 Superclocked 1.280 gig VRAM

Soundblaster Fatality Gamer sound card.

Gigabyte EP45-UD3R mobo

i installed and tried to run CoD about 4 months ago on my intel i5 @ 3.5 ghz (dual core only), 4 gb ram and ati 5770 (1 gb vram) video card and it was pretty much unplayable with most settings at medium (rez 1920 x 1200 on a 27' dell).

comparing that to what it looks like on a friends pc with i5-2500k with 8 gb ram and a 2gb vram recent nvidea card, the difference was huge, he had fairly decent game play (but still some micro stutters over land and big cities, or when having grass on etc). he also still had occasionally some ctdt and lockups

have you noticed a major level of improvement on your system in the last 4 months to the point it now runs that well for you ? (on your mid level pc, which is similar to mine). i have kept a monthly eye on the main forums to see what improvements people are reporting from recent patches, and have mostly still seen similar complaints (with maybe a 30% improvement in performance, which still doesnt make it worthwhile retrying on my system imo).

to have a decent chance to run it i think i need at least a quad core (even if at similar speed to my current cpu), a 2gb or more video card, and about 8 gb of ram. thats a big upgrade for something that should run ok on my current pc if they solve the main bugs.

[Insuber]

Zap, did you disable the ubi splash video? Some ATI cards are clocked down to 600 MHz by that .avi.

Cheers,
Insuber

Originally Posted by zapatista

i installed and tried to run CoD about 4 months ago on my intel i5 @ 3.5 ghz (dual core only), 4 gb ram and ati 5770 (1 gb vram) video card and it was pretty much unplayable with most settings at medium (rez 1920 x 1200 on a 27' dell).

comparing that to what it looks like on a friends pc with i5-2500k with 8 gb ram and a 2gb vram recent nvidea card, the difference was huge, he had fairly decent game play (but still some micro stutters over land and big cities, or when having grass on etc). he also still had occasionally some ctdt and lockups

have you noticed a major level of improvement on your system in the last 4 months to the point it now runs that well for you ? (on your mid level pc, which is similar to mine). i have kept a monthly eye on the main forums to see what improvements people are reporting from recent patches, and have mostly still seen similar complaints (with maybe a 30% improvement in performance, which still doesnt make it worthwhile retrying on my system imo).

to have a decent chance to run it i think i need at least a quad core (even if at similar speed to my current cpu), a 2gb or more video card, and about 8 gb of ram. thats a big upgrade for something that should run ok on my current pc if they solve the main bugs.

You say you installed CLOD a few months ago but below in this post you say you haven't purchased the game?? Which one is it or have you got a touch of the Luthiers??

Originally Posted by zapatista

CoD still sells at full price in most countries. or you got a url for a bargain bin international sale where it is at 10 $ ? (if you do, i'll buy it now )

i did read the forums before buying it, and hence....... still havnt bought it ! my system is similar to yours (weak point being the 1 gb vram card), and having read the forums since its original release, and there STILL are still to many problems to expect a working product "out of the box". i simply dont have weeks of time to waste and try to twiddle with the fiddly bits to get it running wel enough to the point i can actually enjoy it. its almost there now, but not quite yet. having high hopes for the next patch if they rework the gfx engine as planned to get a decent boost in looks and speed. if all goes according to luthiers intentions, Santa might bring me some CoD (pun intended)

[albx]

Originally Posted by Crane

You say you installed CLOD a few months ago but below in this post you say you haven't purchased the game?? Which one is it or have you got a touch of the Luthiers??

zapatista, zapatista.... don't say you have a pirated version maybe???

[klem]

Originally Posted by zapatista

i installed and tried to run CoD about 4 months ago on my intel i5 @ 3.5 ghz (dual core only), 4 gb ram and ati 5770 (1 gb vram) video card and it was pretty much unplayable with most settings at medium (rez 1920 x 1200 on a 27' dell).

comparing that to what it looks like on a friends pc with i5-2500k with 8 gb ram and a 2gb vram recent nvidea card, the difference was huge, he had fairly decent game play (but still some micro stutters over land and big cities, or when having grass on etc). he also still had occasionally some ctdt and lockups

have you noticed a major level of improvement on your system in the last 4 months to the point it now runs that well for you ? (on your mid level pc, which is similar to mine). i have kept a monthly eye on the main forums to see what improvements people are reporting from recent patches, and have mostly still seen similar complaints (with maybe a 30% improvement in performance, which still doesnt make it worthwhile retrying on my system imo).

to have a decent chance to run it i think i need at least a quad core (even if at similar speed to my current cpu), a 2gb or more video card, and about 8 gb of ram. thats a big upgrade for something that should run ok on my current pc if they solve the main bugs.

You might be surprised now. The CPU doesn't seem to be a bottleneck in CoD, unlike IL-2 '46. My quad core i7 950 runs at around 30% usage. Your RAM may be borderline in the sense that I see around 2.8Gb when in the cockpit but the memory leak makes it climb to 5.2+ Gb over about 1.5 hours when it crashes so you may crash a little earlier. And as insuber says, kill that Ubi logo.