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Originally Posted by SEE
1. Is CloD one of the exceptional tiltles that requires more than 1Gb even for a modest resolution and why?
2. There seems to be an industry practice of using identical chipsets but by disabling or changing a peformance parameter (i.e No of shaders, reducing clock speeds, etc) marketing a budget version. I.e a Nvidea GTX 2GB 560 is slightly cheaper than the 560ti version yet bench tests show only a 5% reduction in performance across the most demanding games which can be adressed by oc'ing. Would someone looking to upgrade on a budget be better going for the better chipset with lower RAM or the budget version with more RAM?
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1. CloD has probably one of the highest visibility ranges multiplied by the highest texture details in gaming history multiplied by extreme number of texture surfaces. This is a next-gen game. That is why next-gen videocards come with 3GB vram (e.g. HD7970).
As I mentioned in another thread
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Originally Posted by Ataros
From my experience with ArmA2 visibility distance can bring any hardware to its knees. Most of the servers limit it to 3-4 km only to provide decent FPS while game allows 10 km max. And this is a 2 year-old game.
What is the visibility distance in CloD? When visibility radius is increased amount of required CPU and GPU calculations grows exponentially. This is a big issue.
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It is not supposed to run well on a 1GB card in resolutions higher than 1400x900 according to my estimates.
2. Better chipset is faster than more ram in general unless you run resolution higher than full HD. E.g. imo gtx580 3gb > gtx580 1.5gb > gtx560 2gb. Not sure how to rank gtx570 2.5gb.
However when I bought a cheap $200 video card 2 years ago I went for 2 gb version because extra 1 gb costed only about $20-30 and I am glad I did it since it runs CloD reasonably well after system optimisation. I am saving cash to get a 3GB version of gtx580 or hd7970 or hd7950 for BoM depending on their price/performance ratio and possible driver bugs.