Why GFX card with more RAM?

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by icarus

Not much better and at 1920 x 1200 it shimmers badly which is really very ugly. I can get it to stop but I have to turn so much down its a joke. Remember, its not fps its stuttering.

My video card is handling it with memory and GPU headroom when monitored. My CPU is not overtaxed either. I think Nervous is right. I think it is coded badly and the only fix will be the rewrite. I have thought all along that this game was poorly coded, which is born out by the fact they are rewriting it. I'm just glad they are, because the stuttering and shimmering are very annoying.

Its definitely not coded all bad as I can run COD on HIGH everything else ON @1920x1080 with good frame rates over London, with no stutters, but I do experience some shimmering. Baring the shimmering it looks very good.
That said it certainly would benefit from a graphics rewrite and code optimizations, although this is par for the course when a sim is released unfinished. Especially when code optimizations are one of the last things done before release on a finished sim.

[icarus]

Originally Posted by Chivas

Its definitely not coded all bad as I can run COD on HIGH everything else ON @1920x1080 with good frame rates over London, with no stutters, but I do experience some shimmering. Baring the shimmering it looks very good.
That said it certainly would benefit from a graphics rewrite and code optimizations, although this is par for the course when a sim is released unfinished. Especially when code optimizations are one of the last things done before release on a finished sim.

If I run it at your settings I get great fps, but it stutters and looks really bad shimmering. It needs optimizing, but If its not coded badly and it runs fine, why on earth would they rewrite the graphics engine? Of course its coded badly or they would not go to all that trouble. NervousEnergy is right.

You probably don't notice the shimmering as much because you are using a TV. It looks WAY worse on a 30" monitor because the screen is higher quality.

You make it sound like most sims are release unfinished. They are not. Bugs yes, unfinished with no AA and AF no way. Its not my rig, my rig runs everything famously. This is messed up and it looks like I'll have to wait for the patch to get it to run well.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by icarus

If I run it at your settings I get great fps, but it stutters and looks really bad shimmering. It needs optimizing, but If its not coded badly and it runs fine, why on earth would they rewrite the graphics engine? Of course its coded badly or they would not go to all that trouble. NervousEnergy is right.

You probably don't notice the shimmering as much because you are using a TV. It looks WAY worse on a 30" monitor because the screen is higher quality.

You make it sound like most sims are release unfinished. They are not. Bugs yes, unfinished with no AA and AF no way. Its not my rig, my rig runs everything famously. This is messed up and it looks like I'll have to wait for the patch to get it to run well.

I never said it didn't need optimizing, I just said its not as bad as you suggest. If it was I wouldn't be able to run the sim with everything set high with decent frame rates. Also sims are released unfinished and buggy all the time, and never get fixed. Atleast the COD developer acknowledges the problems, and are doing their best to fix them. I am impressed with what has been accompished so far , even in its clearly unfinished state, and there is good chance the sim will be very good when its finished and optimized.