How's the optimizing coming along?

[Flyby]

Good info everyone. Thanks a lot. A few more ?s First, yes, it's true that SLi does not double the amount of available ram, but I sure wish it did!
As for the SSD; other than quicker boot time, is there any benefit to a combat sim like CLOD? So far as I've been able to read (on tech sites) there hasn't been shown to be any benefit, but they don't test using CLOD. Seems that Ramdisk isn't much help either. Does that mean the sim needs even more optimizing to reduce stutters? What bottleneck causes the stutters? Are stutters also linked to the trees and the cities, and so can be called a "rendering issue"?
Adonys, it's impressive that you can run everything maxed out with a 1gb vram video card. I'll have to read up on that GPU.
Fall_Pink? I will try to configure towards as many features turned on as possible, so it's good to know that a quad will get utilized more efficiently. As for Vram, I think a 2gb gpu will give me a bit of breathing room in the short term.
thanks all! Great feedback, and sharing.
Flyby out

[Vengeanze]

Originally Posted by Flyby

Good info everyone. Thanks a lot. A few more ?s First, yes, it's true that SLi does not double the amount of available ram, but I sure wish it did!
As for the SSD; other than quicker boot time, is there any benefit to a combat sim like CLOD? So far as I've been able to read (on tech sites) there hasn't been shown to be any benefit, but they don't test using CLOD. Seems that Ramdisk isn't much help either. Does that mean the sim needs even more optimizing to reduce stutters? What bottleneck causes the stutters? Are stutters also linked to the trees and the cities, and so can be called a "rendering issue"?
Adonys, it's impressive that you can run everything maxed out with a 1gb vram video card. I'll have to read up on that GPU.
Fall_Pink? I will try to configure towards as many features turned on as possible, so it's good to know that a quad will get utilized more efficiently. As for Vram, I think a 2gb gpu will give me a bit of breathing room in the short term.
thanks all! Great feedback, and sharing.
Flyby out

Shadows off = less stutter which would indicate that micro stutter is a rendering issue.

[Fall_Pink?]

Flyby,

SDD and ramdisk won't help CoD if you already have enough internal memory (>= 4Gb) and the stutters are largely game engine (and sometimes sound) related.

A faster cpu or one with more than 4 cores currently does not help much. A core i5 2500 (or AMD equivalent) is more than enough for this game right now.

A fast video card however seems to help a lot, especially with all things turned on (grass and roads, high land shading etc, etc). This seems one of those games that eats video mem. like no other game before. 1 Gb can be enough, but if you can buy a card with 2 Gb for a few euro's more, I'd choose that one.

Rgs,
FP

[Flyby]

What about CLOD bogs your system down, especially those with the 560Ti? Smooth frames over London, with how many aircraft?
Fall_Pink, how can a 1gb GPU be enough if this sim is VRAM hungry? I'm not clear on what you mean. Are you suggesting that some options have to be set to a lower level? I'm asking what aspects of gameplay are hardest on VRAM. I used to think something like flying low over London at high speed might bring things to a crawl. But of course I'm just guessing. Meanwhile the AMD 6970 still looks good to me,
thanks all for the great feedback!
Flyby out

[Fall_Pink?]

"Fall_Pink, how can a 1gb GPU be enough if this sim is VRAM hungry? I'm not clear on what you mean. Are you suggesting that some options have to be set to a lower level? I'm asking what aspects of gameplay are hardest on VRAM. I used to think something like flying low over London at high speed might bring things to a crawl. But of course I'm just guessing. Meanwhile the AMD 6970 still looks good to me"

1 Gb is enough if you don't set graphic options to very high/orginal but just to high and lower some other stuff. Buildings details, roads and grass should also be lowered or turned off, but even then CoD still looks very good.

If you like to have all graphicoptions turned on and set to max, I'd recommend a fast 2 Gb vid card, 4 to 6 Gb ram and a reasonably high end quad core cpu e.g. i5 2500 or AMD equiv.

Rgs,
FP

[Flyby]

Thanks for the clarification. I suppose even a fast GPU with 2gb of VRAM doesn't have much headroom left when running CLOD with most vram-hungry options set very high (even with a very good CPU and 6gb of system ram)?
Flyby out