Game Unplayable

[TonyD]

Originally Posted by Bobb4

... My dual core 2.4 with 8800gt was battling with RoF...

I too tried RoF on a dual-core (Athlon-II 3.0GHz) and an 8800 and found it unplayable. I have since upgraded this machine to an Athlon-II X4, and passed the 8800 onto a nephew who was in dire need of something better than he had. I put an even older X1950pro 256MB (equivalent to a 7800) into this machine, and was astonished to find that the game was now playable, without having to reduce the resolution or turn too much of the eye-candy off. Obviously the quad-core cpu is making up for the graphics deficit, but I really didn’t think that it would make that much of a difference. The fact that RoF uses DX9 correctly also helps.

With the current work load that the dev’s have, they probably haven’t spent much time optimising the engine for DX9, but I’m sure this will come. I only bought RoF late last year, but from what I’ve read, it had very similar problems to those currently being experienced in CoD when it was released. If that’s anything to go by, they will sort it out, and most likely before the US release. If it still requires a quad-core at that stage, you may be right, but I (optimistically) don’t think so.

[SEE]

I'm gobsmacked at how well my minimum specs machine performs with CoD following the patches and the last beta. It was pretty awful on initial release.

I use the settings below and haven't had the problems some report with ATI cards.

1280 x 768 60hz
Model, Visual - high
Building, Land, Textures,Damage Decals,Landshading - Medium
Buildings amount - Low
Grass - on
Shadows, Roads - Off
AA - off
SSAO - Off
Clouds - Off

Room for improvements sure in terms of visuals, but playable!

Duel Core - 4GB - Win7/64 - GTS250

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by SEE

I'm gobsmacked at how well my minimum specs machine performs with CoD following the patches and the last beta. It was pretty awful on initial release.

I use the settings below and haven't had the problems some report with ATI cards.

1280 x 768 60hz
Model, Visual - high
Building, Land, Textures,Damage Decals,Landshading - Medium
Buildings amount - Low
Grass - on
Shadows, Roads - Off
AA - off
SSAO - Off
Clouds - Off

Room for improvements sure in terms of visuals, but playable!

Duel Core - 4GB - Win7/64 - GTS250

Why not turn off grass and turn on roads and buildings higher

[SEE]

Good thinking, haven't tried buldings higher or roads. I switch 'grass' on only for all missions that are ground starts as it looks too bland with 'grass' off. I still get 30fps on the deck which is fine for me. Having grass on doesn't seem to make a fat lot of difference to fps when I am up and away but wondering if increasing 'buildings' and roads will? I will try it.....