SOW System specs

[AKA_Tenn]

Originally Posted by lbuchele

I was talking to my older brother today about building a new system for SOW using a GTX 480.
He told me to think twice because the hot temperatures of this card and recommend me the ATI 5870 or 5970 (700USD!)
Well, it´s OK to me spending 700 bucks in a really fast VGA I reply to him, but Il2 always had an issue with ATI drivers, am I right?
I´m wondering if this time Oleg will do SOW Nvidia optmized too?
Because if not I´ll go the ATI road with ease.
Anyone has experience running ATI cards in Il2?

don't build a machine around IL2 anymore, the game is too old, if your going to build a machine within the next few months, do it because you play more games than just IL2 and want a machine that'll run the new directx10/11 stuff... otherwise wait for storm of war, (from the state of the screens/dev updates) looks like it'll be ready within a year or so.

ATI you get about 15% more performance per dollar, but the drivers aren't very good with openGL... pretty much any new game coming out will use directX, so thats perfectly fine... but IL2 uses openGL, so ATI cards have a few issues...

so basically... go with Nvidia if you play games that use physX hardware, or have money to blow on getting one of the cards that are faster than any of ATI's lineup... and go with ATI cause of way more performance for your dollar, and a lot quieter and runs cooler.