Mid-Range system, questions etc.

[MugiSNK]

Hello everyone.

I'm wondering if anyone here has a mid-range system like I do.
Does anyone have a working conf.ini file ready for these systems? I want to run it as smooth as Wings of Prey runs for me, and I will play windowed since that is my preference. I know it probably won't run smooth enough as WoP due to the performance issues etc. I can run Wings of Prey: Ultra High settings, no Anti-Aliasing, 16× anisotropy with a steady 40-50 FPS. System specs in sig.

Any input will be appreciated.

Thanks

[Avimimus]

You should be able to run it (according to reports) - but expect to have to turn the settings down considerably. WoP is an order of magnitude less complex...

I don't have a copy yet. So, we'll see...

[Mr_Zooly]

Phenom 2 x4 965 @ 3.4Gb
GTX470 1280Mb
8Gb ddr2 mem
FPS = 1, there must be a problem somewhere but i'll be damned if I can find it.

[JG52Uther]

Specs as my sig,its probably considered low range thise days.
Over water,in a 109 cockpit,I get over 25 fps.
There are many settings you can turn down to improve performance,and threads on the forum already about them.

[MugiSNK]

Originally Posted by JG52Uther

Specs as my sig,its probably considered low range thise days.
Over water,in a 109 cockpit,I get over 25 fps.
There are many settings you can turn down to improve performance,and threads on the forum already about them.

Thanks. And I know about those threads, but I only see gaming PC's at those.
According to Smit's post, I really hope they are going to fix this performance issue. I just can't stand how games can go perfect. on graphics, and then still run slower then i.e. Crysis 2. Games like Arma 1 and Arma 2

My brother is a happy owner of an awesome PC, he can run Crysis 2 literally everything maxed, but he can't play Arma 2 on max. That's like really weird since Crysis 2 is the game that stresses PCs most.

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by MugiSNK

Thanks. And I know about those threads, but I only see gaming PC's at those.
According to Smit's post, I really hope they are going to fix this performance issue. I just can't stand how games can go perfect. on graphics, and then still run slower then i.e. Crysis 2. Games like Arma 1 and Arma 2

My brother is a happy owner of an awesome PC, he can run Crysis 2 literally everything maxed, but he can't play Arma 2 on max. That's like really weird since Crysis 2 is the game that stresses PCs most.

Some of that may be poor game coding and more physics code running

[Blackdog_kt]

Most graphic intensive games that are used as benchmarks (like Crysis for example) are not well-suited to simulator benchmarking.

The reason is that the fundamental differences in the gameplay are reflected in totally different processing demands: they run much smaller maps, they don't need multi-layered AI that has to take advantage of 3 dimensions to be of any challenge, they don't need to model as many different parameters for what the player controls, etc.

That being said, i too would be interested to know how to maximize performance on mid-range rigs. I use an i7 920 at stock speeds (2.7Ghz) on an Asus P6T deluxe motherboard, 3GB of DDR3 RAM in a triple channel kit (i skipped vista and installed XP when i built it so no use going for a lot of RAM, i now run win7 64 however) and an Ati 4890 1GB.

I'm not really keen on overclocking the CPU for a variety of reasons and i really can't afford a DX11 GPU upgrade. I might bump up the RAM a bit though and since i have a second triple channel capable bank, it would make sense to go for 6 GB. That will have to wait until the first round of optimization patches and some community feedback, but it's a cheap and worthwhile upgrade overall.

In the grand scheme of things i'm not really worried since i don't expect to run this on high settings, more like medium to high and tweaking it to get 30-40 FPS across the board to maintain playability.

The only thing that's causing me concern is the 4890. Since the game runs in DX10, does anyone know how a 4890 1GB fares when compared to a mid-range DX11 card running DX10? I seem to remember the first DX11 GPUs (eg, 57xx,56xx) actually being slower than the late generation DX10 cards like the 4890, but with so many people running GTX 460/470/equivalent 5xx and similar Ati/AMD models i need some frame of reference to those GPUs to roughly know what to expect.
Any ideas?

[PzMeyer]

Originally Posted by MugiSNK

Hello everyone.

I'm wondering if anyone here has a mid-range system like I do.
Does anyone have a working conf.ini file ready for these systems? I want to run it as smooth as Wings of Prey runs for me, and I will play windowed since that is my preference. I know it probably won't run smooth enough as WoP due to the performance issues etc. I can run Wings of Prey: Ultra High settings, no Anti-Aliasing, 16× anisotropy with a steady 40-50 FPS. System specs in sig.

Any input will be appreciated.

Thanks

TBH i dont think your system is midrange in terms of being a gaming machine. Its more like low-end. Pls dont take this as an insult. I hope you can run it good on your system.
I think there is some problem with the gameengine, since people with newest I7 CPU and GTX570/580 or HD6950/6970 got all the same poor perfomance especially over land. I just wait for my DL to finish (27 mins to go) and i can report what FPS i get since i think my systemspecs are very common.

[MugiSNK]

Originally Posted by PzMeyer

TBH i dont think your system is midrange in terms of being a gaming machine. Its more like low-end. Pls dont take this as an insult. I hope you can run it good on your system.
I think there is some problem with the gameengine, since people with newest I7 CPU and GTX570/580 or HD6950/6970 got all the same poor perfomance especially over land. I just wait for my DL to finish (27 mins to go) and i can report what FPS i get since i think my systemspecs are very common.

I know. But the ranges constantly change. If you compare systems from 2 years ago and from now, you can almost say I run on a mid-range system. At least, that's what my local PC experts say.

Thanks for posting and checking your FPS range.

I think I'm building a custom PC this year. Limited on money. That's the only downside of being under-aged.

[carguy_]

Originally Posted by Smit

im beginning to worry myself, i have a 4870 and ive just completed crysis 2 on near full settings fullhd, and yet by looks of it il2 cod will laugh at it. fingers crossed it works ok.

Please don`t mention Crysis2. Small maps, textures, no dx11 and whatnot. It`s even worse than Crysis.

And no, Radeon 4870 is not low end, no matter how you put it. Having a Quad core and recommended memory, we should be perfectly able to play the game @medium @~40fps. There are virtually no games that require a Gf460GTX card just to run properly.
Even on lowest settings, this game should always look 4x better than 1946 or it is broken.

And no, this is a PC exclusive game. We have a conf.ini, we have HUGE options to make a good compromise.