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Originally Posted by ingsoc84
Hello.if you look at my specs below, will installing a gtx 580 with 3 gigs of ram give me a noticable improvement in performance/fps on high/original settings? Thanks in advance
p.s. I've also pushed my cpu up to 3.6....I know its way slower than the intels out there running at 4.2, I just dont know if those that can play the game very well can do so because of much higher cpu speeds, or vram memory. thanks.
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Hi ingsoc,
You have AMD PhenonII 6core 3.3 OC to 3.5/ 16gigs Corsair Vengeance 1600/ Geforce GTX570 1.28 Vram/Win 7 Pro 64bit/Samsung 23" 1920x1280
I would not bother to spend the money for a GTX580 3Gb since you may not notice so much difference to the GTX570 you already have.
It also depends on what you want to do. If you like strolling around watching the nice landscape at full graphics detail then probably it is worthwhile to buy te GTX580 3Gb.
If on the other side you want to dogfight, then you do not have eyes for the landscape but for the enemy planes then, your GTX570 1,3Gb is good enough.
I have two of the same card, I run the game in single GTX570 mode and I am waiting for the next generation of NV because the GTX580 does not have enough performance for the game for me.
Some tips:
I do not knwo how fast the harddisk you have the CoD game upon, is. Since you have a lot of RAM, I would suggest to read about how to created a RAMDRIVE and play the game from there in oprder to minimize any stutters (that is what I do)
The link wiht the explanations is at:
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=20228
If you want to see how CoD looks with full details, watch Tuckie's youtube video, it is the best example and comparison I have ever seen (and in HD) {thanks Tuckie!}
For your GTX570 here are some settings that may help you:
(except for the resolution which you need to keep at lower settings) you should be getting 60+fps
Except for the lack of grass which makes take off and landing very sad looking, I have not felt any decrease in graphics quality while dogfighting (I do not spend too much time looking at the ground details though so I am not an expert).
What is more important, I have no longer fps drops when dogfithting low above towns with many aiplanes around. Before I had drops down to 18fps mainly due to the Grass and Buildings details but now I have 50fps low above cities and that is good enough and I am too busy to look at graphic ground details when hell is behind me...
And just to show the fps and graphics quality with MeshShowLod=1 <-this is an fps killer:
Happy flying!
~S~