A stupid test.

[Buchon]

About overclocking, the main goal of any overclock attempt is stability, its not good enough with load Windows and jump into the desktop because your CPU can be unstable under a big load of process, it can go into Windows and run low demanding programs and then crash on the high demanding ones, that´s why the overclockers runs burning tests for hours, to reach a 100% stable overclock.

you seems to know about this so I'm not saying this to you but to the audience for everyone sake.



What is for sure is that the performance of your computer is strange, I have better results with my ancient and burned dual core and my cheaper ATI 5870, I had a quick fly over your places and this is what I got


First all this is my configuration at 1920x1200 :



* Note that AA is off because I´m using SMAA :

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?p=409386

It is enabled in his preset SMAA_PRESET_CLOD_HIGH.


Screenshots :









But not all was well ...








The result is better than yours, it still low FPS but good enough for my hardware, and the only crash I had is the one in the picture.

I can have nice fights just avoiding London, over usual landscape 30-40 FPS at low altitude and without problems over the chanel (over 50 FPS).

Im happy with this performance, its good enough to have some clashes but I'm building a new rig, new board and quad-core CPU, and also looking for a 3GB videocard too


Hope you get your problems sorted, cheers ...

[RickRuski]

Guess some should read FS~Phat's article in the technical posts about settings and ram usage. I have a system much lower in performance than most but use Sli. I have included some screen shots low down near Tower Bridge similar to the posts here along with screens of my video settings. I have only a 19" monitor so my resolution is 1280 x 960. As you will see there can be a major difference in performance by turning down some (not all) settings.
See my sig for system. I'm also using Nvidia inspector and have experimented with Sli set up.

As you will see from the screens of London in the top RH corner the V/ram is at full use but the rest of the system is well balanced . My cards are from different stables and the Asus has always run cooler than the EVGA.

[Wolf_Rider]

Is Collision Detection a big factor (CPU cycles being burnt) in the low FPS?
Another popular sim has a situation where the player can look at some areas of a town and have their 60fps, but to look at another area, the fps plummets. Noted that some of the buildings are solids.