New rig
 

Well after much dithering I ordered my parts last week. I opted for a single very big IPS monitor rather than struggle with a triple monitor setup as I would then have had to buy another Graphics card and fight with SLI etc.

New PC is up and running

Silverstone Fortress 2
GeForce GTX 580 3072MB GDDR5
Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Intel Z68 DDR3
OCZ Agility 3 120GB SSD
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz
Corsair Professional 1050W PSU
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz
Corsair Hydro H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler

Hazro 27" Monitor 2560x1440 resolution

At the native resolution CLOD is smooth as glass with everything on highest settings and AAx2 but with Shadows off. The performance hit from shadows and their fugglyness isn't worth it. Clouds still drag down performance.

As my desk isn't built and my stick/peddles not installed yet I am just starting quick missions and putting the plane in autopilot to gauge performance. With these settings even the london mission is smooth.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised....but somehow I am :-P

Nice rig you have there. I'll be installing a GTX 580 with 3GB Ram in my machine this week. I am somehow positive this will boost the min fps in flyable regions and keep the stuttering at bay :cool:

Nice system. How is that H80 working for you?

Friggin public masturbation. :evil:

Well, atleast my comp is better looking. :-D

Ooooooo - yummy! Nice purchases!! Let us know what the next patch does for your set up!

:cool:

Badger

Nice rig Emil, congrats!

If you have some time, please post how much VRAM your card is using when you fly over London or at the countryside...

Good to hear that smooth game is after all, possible at high resolutions :)

~S~

It's amazing especially considering I accidentally scraped some of the heat sink paste on to my carpet and as I don't have any more I smeared it to fill in the missing bits :p

Idling at 31 deg and under full load it hasn't got higher than 46 deg.

Flying the quick mission sight seeing over London max usage was 2,1 GB. texture original, all settings on highest, 2x AA, 16xAF, grass, roads, shadows on, clouds on, mirror off. 1920x1080 resolution.

Average fps ~30, not a single stutter using the GTX 580 with 3 GB Ram.

I turn off shadows as the fps tends to drop lower than I would like on the london map but then the res of that monitor is enormous

580 GTX 3 GB RAM...respect!!!