Great Preformance from New Nvidia Drivers

[BH_woodstock]

what is the best settings for me?

right now i have everything set to high except buildings on medium and no grass

amd dual core 5400+
6 gb ram
gtx 460se 1gb vid card
Win 7 ultimate 64 bit

[Faucon]

my system is Intel Quad2 core Q 9450 2.66 gigs CPU, 4 gigs ram. and a Nvidia Geforce GTX 285 1 gig

My god... My system is AMD 4x3.1Ghz, 4Go RAM, Geforce GTX460 1Go.
And I'm far from your FPS (with medium settings), + I have shuttering and game crash all the time (except today but I dont know how I did that.........).

Have you some tips to improve my performances?

[NedLynch]

I honestly think that lowering resolution and settings can at the current state of the sim can only take you so far. What the best settings are for each simmer is best determined by adjusting settings and observing the impact, everyone's system is a bit different, not only due to system specs, but also due to what else might be running in the background, how cluttered your HDD is with age old stuff and so on.
At times, maybe every year or every other year a complete, clean reinstall of the OS solves many problems just like that.

But most importantly keep in mind that the graphics engine is being reworked right now, so untill that is completed and released in a patch I would not worry too much about desperately trying to tweak performance. I am pretty relaxed about the issue, sitting back and waiting what the anounced 50% performance increase after the reworked engine will look like.

[jayrc]

Originally Posted by Faucon

My god... My system is AMD 4x3.1Ghz, 4Go RAM, Geforce GTX460 1Go.
And I'm far from your FPS (with medium settings), + I have shuttering and game crash all the time (except today but I dont know how I did that.........).

Have you some tips to improve my performances?

Try lowering some settings, raising others, for instance change forest, building detail, building amount to low, this has helped me out alot, the sim still looks great too. Raise texture's to high, model detail high, land shading high, Also you could try overclocking your cpu and gpu, clearing your cache, adding more ram and turning off your page file(8gb ram only), turn off windows aero theme

[Faucon]

I've done all of that (I'm playing 1366x768 btw).
I'm cleaning up all hard disks and installing Seven 64 (until now I had x32, so it'll be better for my 4G RAM). And I got to learn somewhere how to overclock Have you any links, which explains how to do this correctly without risks?

[jayrc]

win 7 64 bit will help alot, (1360x768 ) here, I use msi afterburner for overclocking gpu, cpu is done through asus motheboard bios

[BH_woodstock]

be careful trying to overclock.I burnt a few sticks of ram that way.I thought i knew what i was doing from some info i got from researching how to overclock pc. I researched for days before i did it and honestly if u have never done it before and dont have a spare system or parts i would not try it.Wait for the patch before you do anything rash.

[priller26]

What nvidia drivers for win 7 64 bit can anyone recommend? I'm probably using the ones a few releases back, just always leery to keep running newer drivers, some games have serious issues with them.