Building myself new rig, who has smooth gameplay?
 

Hi!

I am in the process of building myself a new rig. My old one is closing in on 5 years. It is a good machine, but it can't be upgraded to the specs needed for CoD.

Browsing this forum, I see some has good FPS and little to no stutter on medium level machines, while others report the game unplayable even on high end computers. It seems to me there are some combinations of motherboards, videocards and CPUs that this game simply rub the wrong way. I have no doubt the game will become playable eventually (as it does run under some conditions) and I expect most of the problems to be ironed out in the long run. In the mean time I'd like to swim with the current rather than against it, investing in a computer that works well with the game.

So good Gentry, would those of you who have smooth gameplay care to post their machine specs and game settings?

I have very smooth gameplay with only the patch installed (not the keygety nossao en lowtex stuff) lowest I get is around 20 flying over london.

Everything maxed out on the settings, resolution at 1360 x 768 (highest res my monitor supports)

My system is a:

i5-2500k overclocked to 4.5 GHZ
Radeon HD6970 only overclocked a tiny bit
8 Gig Kingston DDR-3 @ 1600mhz
MSI p67a-gd65 b3 Motherboard

That is a nice setup, you haven't been skimping on the parts!

Keep 'em coming!

Upgraded especially to run this to be honest :P (I´m terrible like that, can´t stand not being able to run something decent, Maddox should get a percentage of Hardware sales for the amount of people they forced to upgrade)

All in all it set me back around 750$ but I´m set for the next few years I hope and I needed to upgrade sooner or later anyway.

EDIT: Bang for bucks I think this is one of the better setups you can build. Although I might consider swapping out the HD6970 for a Gefore 580GTX.
You wont need a 2600k processor since Hyperthreading isn´t used by any game right now, make sure to get the K version of the 2500 though so you can overclock it in combination with a P67 chipset mobo. HD6970 has plenty of VRAM and power and can also be overclocked fairly easy if needed.

It's a bit up in the air at the moment, as you know. What sort of detail level are you aiming for, and at what resolution?

Actually I'm looking for a combination of parts that work with CoD rather than for a particular resolution or detail level. I have noticed that many of the people complaining were using NVidia graphics cards, so I'm looking for another card. I have nothing against NVidia (my old machine has an NVidia card, and it has never given me reason to complain), but to me at lesst it seems CoD and NVidia isn't a good combination. My idea is that if a few people who have the game running well post their specks, I might get an idea about what setups are working.

All people having >20 fps over London are using mediocre resolutions like 720p.

My GTX570 has good fps at that resolution, too. Hurts the eyes on a 24" though.

Strange The Nvidia part that is My setup.
System spec win7 32 P8P67 EVO I5 2500k 4 Ghz
Nvidia GTX 560 ti 1GB 4GB 1333 kingston Scyte Mugen2 cooler
I'm at 1440x900 and have everything except the planes with are as high as I can get them on medium.
FPS reported is generaly 60 -->> 80 over land more over water.
But It is not lag free everything moves smooth enough but soem times at iregular intervals i get IL2 typ freezes.
Not to manny actually it plays like forgotten battles on my rig.
Cheers

Niels

Thanks, Tintifaxl!

i7-2500K @4Ghz+
4-8gb RAM
gtx570 (too little vram though), 580-1.5 or 3gb(better), ati6950-2gb, 6970-2gb

You can mod 6950 bios to get 6970 as far as I know. But ati users have many complaints too. Wait for the next drivers issue to know who gives better support to CoD. Betta drivers from NV work well according to rumors (see performance link in my sig).

Even 580 or 6970 give only 40-50 fps, with drops over London at native monitor res. We'll have better cards available by the end of the year I think.

I was thinking the same thing. In two to three months people will have a much clearer picture of what sort of system to aim for.

Runs very well for me since I swapped out the motherboard and processor for what I have now (see my sig)

I'm getting 40 - 50 fps over land (average that is)
60 - 70 fps over sea (again that's average)

Had a six on six dogfight last night over the sea..it was pegged on 90fps for most of the session.

I run at a modest 1280x720 to suit my projector tho'

I also auto tuned the Phenom and it's reporting 3.7Ghz

Thank you, Lensman, that's just the kind of data I'm after!

Cabinet: Silverstone raven 02
Motherboard:Asus Crosshair Folmula IV
PSU: Cooler master Silent gold 1000w
CPU: Amd 1090t clocked to 6 x 3.9ghz /w Coolit vantage alc cpu cooler
Memory: Kingston Hyper x 2333mhz 1.65v 8gb (4x2gb) running at 2000mhz
Hdd1 c:\ OCZ Revodrive 120gb
Hdd2 d:\ 2x WD raptor 10000rpm 600gb in raid 0
GPU: Gainward 580GTX with accelerato xtreme plus cooler oced to 900/2100
Dvd: sony optiarc &%¤%& something

20-30 fps over london med alt på max... blir nok bedre med fremtidige patcher

Apart from the graphich card, of witch i cant get for at least 2weeks, i now have the same spec as you, just set it up today, but i have to use a couple of nvidia geforce 9600 gso's :grin:
nearly there though :)

No problem...I should have added:

All video settings on 'High'. Grass, Forest and Roads all on.

Do noty forget...
 

Do not forget one aspect the price, there for I do always say to a customer, take the newest one and then take one step bask. never take the last bigest and most expensive.:grin:

That's my philosophy too. When you move towards the newer and newer equipment, you get to a point where where you start paying for novelty rather than performance. The trick is to hit the point where you get the best performance you can get without having to pay extra for it being new and hot.

This is the whole thing i just dont get about this game at the mo...

60-70fps average :eek:

i get 20-30fps over water! & 15-20fps over Land

my reolsolution however is 1920x1200..

Model Detail HIGH
Visual effects HIGH
Dmg decals HIGH
Buildings detail MED
land detail LOW
Forest OFF
building amount LOW
land shading MED
grass ON
shadows ON
roads ON

Now my spec compared to yours

PhenomX6 1055t O/C to 3.5 >>>>AMD PHENOM II X6 1090T 3.2GHZ 9MB Cache Black Edition
4 gig crucial Ram >>>>Corsair XMS3 8GB (4x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz
ATI 5770 slightly overclocked 1G GPU >>>>NVIDEA GeForce GTX470
Gigabyte Mbo USB 7.1 >>>>ASUS-M4A89GTD-PRO/USB3
Win7 32 bit >>>>OCZ 120GB SSD. Windows 7 64bit

So apart from a slightly better CPU which this game doesnt use atm and more RAM again isnt used much and having 64bit os instead of my 32bit there isnt alot in it yet your getting nearly 2.5/3 times the amount of FPS increase..

i just wished we could pinpoint where the problem lies with performance, theres so much of a different variety and contrast

Hi
90 to 100fps over water
60 to 80 f0ps over land
40 to 60 fps over citys
all settings in RoF as high as they can go
Nvidia contol panel not touched
The game runs silky smooth for me
Now heres the big one. This is a GAMING computer hence no CRAP installed.No other software installed other than what is required to run games.
I have another cheap and you can pick them up cheap computer for doing daily tasks

Asus Rampage III Formula
INTEL CORE i7 950 Quad Core
6 GBs of Corsair Dominator ram
MSI GTX580
Run of the mill sata hard drives
Windows 7 64 Bit

Same situation here...just done this rebuild and nothing else on the SSD except COD and Win 7

Those are very nice numbers! How are you doing with multiple planes in the air?

I have noticed quite a few of those reporting good FPS are using Rampage (II or III) cards. It may be I need to shell out for one.

These are not cards but motherboards.

And here you have your culprit. Tone it down to 1280x720 and you'll get good performance, too. That's the little detail the folks forget to post, when they are stating their uber fps. :cool:

Hence I have a mate help building me the machine, and he knows computers...

I have taken the liberty of quoting JG14_Jagr from another thread: