ATI Catalyst 11.8 Is Out

[Jonk]

Originally Posted by jimbop

I get the following FRAPS report from a dogfight (in cockpit, full real except anthropomorphic and icons) with the below settings. I don't think framerate has a serious problem - could do with further optimisation which hopefully is coming soon but not a serious problem.

Min 46
Max 53 (note vsync enabled)
Avg 49.989

Lol, from the guy with an overclocked high end machine. That's like a person driving a Prius and saying gas prices don't suck......

[jimbop]

Originally Posted by Jonk

Lol, from the guy with an overclocked high end machine. That's like a person driving a Prius and saying gas prices don't suck......

Point taken but I should clarify that when this test was run the CPU and GPU were both at stock clocks. I don't think a gtx480 is necessarily a top shelf card any more although still quick?

[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.