Returning to Cliffs of Dover
 

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?

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.

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?

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.