Returning to Cliffs of Dover

[dhasdell]

The latest edition of PC Pilot carries a very positive article about Cliffs of Dover, so I thought I'd give it another try. After a very long download to reinstall, followed by second very long download for an update, I now have V 1.1 20362, although the article mentions 1.08. Now, although the game runs, the frame rate is much worse than on my previous computer, making it virtually unplayable.

PC Pilot says that "On a medium to high-end machine it's possible to run CoD at near maximum levels of detail, at a solid 40 or more frames per second." This certainly is not my experience on my Asus, with an i7-2600 @ 3.40GHz processor, 6Gb RAM and AMD Radeon HD 6470M graphics card with 1Gb onboard memory.

As a comparison, I can run FSX at a very smooth locked 30fps with most settings at very dense or better.

Any thoughts, please?

[Matt255]

The graphics card is the bottleneck.

It's too slow and doesn't have enough VRAM for highest settings (you need 2GB+ for that).

Not sure what your current settings are, so it's impossible to suggest anything. But you should be able to run it with a constant 30 FPS if you reduce some settings.

[dhasdell]

Thank you. The settings were all on the default medium, and I have tried lowering them without much improvement. You reckon the card itself is ok, if not ideal, and 2Gb would make a difference?

[JG52Krupi]

Did you delete the ubi splash screen ad on start up? This causes issues with ati cards.

FYI I fly with everything but the two buildings options (I have both in medium) on the highest setting and get a constant 60fps (vsync on) check sig for my rig details.