Hardware Loading IL-2/BoBSow?

[EZ1]

I am running with an I7 920 OCed to 3.4 GHz and a 285 GTX with 2 monitors. I run at IL-2 at 1920x1200. With this setup I can crank my game settings up pretty high. The game looks great and get frame rates around 50-60 (VSync ON) nearly 100% of the time. However, there is a case where my frame rate will drop to the lower teens every time. I just have to make a low pass over certain large cities. Good examples are the cities of Caen and La Havre on the Normandy map. I can buzz any other town or airfield on that map and not even see a blip in my frame rate. I can monitor my CPU usage on my second monitor and watch the bar for the core on which IL-2 is running go right to the top as my frame rate drops to the bottom when I buzz either of those cites. By the way, adjusting AA, or any other settings in the NCP has no effect on this--its all game controlled. So what is so different about those cities?

I'm not too concerned about this in IL-2 as I am rarely affected by this during online play.

So what about BoBSoW? It is supposed to have things like blowing fields grass and changing clouds. What kind of impact it that kind of thing going to have on our hardware setups?

[SaQSoN]

I'd estimate the difference as 70:1. But it's purely my speculation.

[Thunderbolt56]

Originally Posted by SaQSoN

I'd estimate the difference as 70:1. But it's purely my speculation.

Wha? Translation please.

[SaQSoN]

Well, since people talk here mostly about IL-2 and BoB... It should have been obvious, that I was talking about difference between IL-2 and BoB, replying to the last sentence of EZ1's post.

[flyingbullseye]

In all reality it should all come down to how well Oleg codes the sim. If he pulls a MS then don't expect to play it with all the bells and whistles for many many years to come, if he does what he did for the original sim I'm sure the OP will be fine by and large. Hopefully by this time next year we should be getting the system specs for it so until that time its all just speculation.

Flyingbullseye

[Luffe]

Originally Posted by Thunderbolt56

Wha? Translation please.

Ou-yay ow-knay at-whay o-tay o-day.

[13th Hsqn Protos]

'If' and 'when' the new engine ever gets released I think it is reasonable to expect much better performance on new hardware along with support for multi cpu.

I have a 940 AMD quadcore at 3.8 ghz on a 1066 bus with a 4850x2 crossfire mode.
12500 points in Vantage = still get into teens on some demos. Its game engine limitations.

The new engine is 'supposed' to be optimized. We shall see.

Its 'one' of the reasons that the game has been delayed so long. That and Oleg wants an MMO .......

[Codex]

Originally Posted by 13th Hsqn Protos

...Its game engine limitations.
The new engine is 'supposed' to be optimized. We shall see.

Zinga!!!

Don't care if you've got a CPU and GFX card running at 6Ghz on a liquid nitrogen cooling system, if the code is not optimised you're going to get frames in the same range as the temperature of the coolant.

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by Codex

Zinga!!!

Don't care if you've got a CPU and GFX card running at 6Ghz on a liquid nitrogen cooling system, if the code is not optimised you're going to get frames in the same range as the temperature of the coolant.

77 FPS would be fine for me.

Apparently, nitrogen is not an effective coolant:

Despite its reputation, liquid nitrogen's efficiency as a coolant is limited by the fact that it boils immediately on contact with a warmer object, enveloping the object in insulating nitrogen gas.

[K_Freddie]

If you consider a boiling point of -195.79 °C or -320.3342 °F very hot.. then yes, I'd agree with that quote.

Not to mention that the surrounding gas temperature is not going to be that much higher.