20 FPS more on Spit with ATI 4870 !
 

Almost 20 FPS more for me since i deactivated the mirror ! ( 1 Spit, over water, no other action/objects) As said by someone else, it helps a lot but when it was for 5 FPS for him, it's almost 20 for me ! I had noticed that my fps was downing a lot when i was looking ahead, and then noticed that it was downing even when there were only blue sky plus a small (even very small) part of the rear mirror...

In more, this "famous" rear mirror is totally buggy and crappy atm ! :-P :rolleyes:

How do you disable mirrors?

M

Is your 4870 a 1 GB model? If so, can you help me out by running some benches, see here:
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=20438

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I'm running 4870 1GB also. Even though this is an older card than 5 series, tends to get better performance than 5870, 5770 etc. Look at passmark results. Should perform very well on the low\med settings.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

The only thing, im having problems getting the AA to work, in catalyst control and in the game settings, i have heard a few other people saying the AA is not working for them, i will take a look at the other threads to see if there is a way to force it etc.

Thanks

Our card keeps pace with a lot of the newer ones, and ive only a 512 model

No, sorry, mine is a 2 Go Vapor-X one. (A card that i no longer find on the market nor in the benchmarks...)

Personally, i experienced an about 10-20 FPS less with AAx8, comparing in no AA. But i didn't see any graphic improves. I even found that my graphics were better without !! (looking at the glass roof's structure...) So obviously i deactivated it too.. :rolleyes:

4870 seems to be a very good middle aged stuff, i found some benchmarks that were using it as a reference (even if it's outclassed now by new cards...)