CPU question

[Rattlehead]

Originally Posted by Alasdair

Hey Guys. I have just ordered this sim after many months of looking forward to it! Basic question is can I run it with my core 2 duo E4600 cpu? I have 4 gigs ram and am going to buy a GTX460 gpu. What sort of performance can I expect from this setup? Thanks

Hard to say, especially at the moment.

I'm also running a dual core (E6850 stock speed) with 4 gig Ram and a Radeon 5870. OS is Win 7 32-bit.

Performance isn't too bad...40-60 fps over water at 1920x1080.
Over land, with buildings on low, building detail on low,forest off, land shading on low, decals on high, effects on high, models on high I get 25-40 fps. (But with some stutter.)
Unfortunately, over London the framerates drop to unplayable levels.

I also run shadows and mirrors on. Pre-patch.
This is flying alone.

With other planes, say 12 versus 9 or something like that, the performance is okay over land or sea until bombers start taking hits, then the frames take a nose dive.
But just flying around it's fine.

Of course, performance seems to differ wildly even on identical machines, so it's very hard to say.