[TonyD]

It really irks me when posters on various forums slag CoD because they cannot run it on high settings on dated hardware, ‘… like they can with IL2 1946’ Good grief, Verhängnis, that sim is a decade old and shouldn’t be used as a comparison at all. If you spend some time reading up on this forum you will find people with similar hardware to yours that have managed to get it to run acceptably, with the correct settings.

As stated by others above, trying to run the texture detail on ‘Original’ with your setup is never going to work, and SSAO is a big fps killer too. A bit of time spent tweaking can definitely yield results, although to expect miracles with your hardware, being as it only just meets the minimum spec as far as graphics cards go, is unrealistic. With a bit of research you will learn that a GeForce 9800 is architecturally little more than a re-named 8800, and is currently more than 3 generations old.

I am not disappointed with CoD at all, as with all the updates and optimised settings I can run it with decent graphic quality, even on my hardly-new system. I do agree that the minimum spec is somewhat optimistic currently, but this may improve with further updates. Upgrading your hardware is probably still your best choice, as then you will be able to enjoy it closer to what was intended.

Rant over.