Not really a good point. lets wait at least a month's worth of patching then see how the game performs.

The real point is, I can play rise of flight with medium graphics and have silk smooth gameplay over land. with my Nvidia GTS 8800 512MB. I can't go no where near that with ClOd.. I do agree I need a way better graphics card. But I don't buy the idea "your gfx card needs 2GB of vram to play this game"

Not to mention, the 4870 is a dual core 2gb card. So that kinda doesn't help

Exactly, Each core == 1GB VRam ,

Some HD 4870 2Go are just one core. Mine is. There is a difference between the 4870 X2 (2x1Go, for 2 cores) and the 4870 2Go (1 core). ;)

I started CloD with an Nvidia GTX 285 (1GB VRAM) and then swapped to a 2GB AMD 6970 card. Obviously, the Nvidia card was slower (although after the second patch it was actually very playable). I don't remember seeing any graphics problems with the Nvidia card but there are a number with the 6970 (blue lines on the horizon and occasional black lines on the terrain). Not show stoppers, but annoying still the same.

I guess they developed the game on Nvidia cards.

I agree they are annyoing , however I like my 6970. It's my first ati card in a long time. So im pretty happy with it. Give it time , the kinks will be worked out!

Yeah - the ATi bugs are very obvious and everyone has them so I guess they will get fixed soon. The performance in terms of frame rate is very good. I have to say that the 6970 is great in RoF as well.

If you run a smaller monitor, you'd probably not be able to use 2 gigs of VRAAM. The card which would give you better performance at 1280 X 1024 would not necessarily be the best at higher resolutions, which is where you need more video memory. Clock speeds may be more important at lower res.

I gotta say. I've been switching between ATI and Nvidia for 3 yrs now. I was an avid ATI fan but everytime I go green, it's mean. Everytime I go red, it's dead.

I've lost the faith. I'm staying with Nvidia. I just never get any problems.

~S~

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