Dual v Quad

[Peril]

Originally Posted by kingpinda

At the moment its better to have a fast dualcore than a slightly slower quadcore. since the game is not optimized (yet) for multi-cores.

I myself have the e8400. If you find you lack cpu speed simply buy a better cooler for 20 dollars and OC your cpu. our cpus should be able to run 4ghz fine on air with maybe a slight voltage increase. I have it at stock now though. cpu is not the bottleneck in this case. The game is.

Having just upgraded from a Core 2 Duo to an i5 I can vouch for this bit. I think my Core 2 Duo was actually better/faster/smoother in CoD.

[Ataros]

Overclock your cpu and try my settings (in sig). Try these mods if you are not happy with performance http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=21048

Video card is more important in this game if you run more then 1280 resolution.

[Rattlehead]

I'm not totally convinced a fast CPU makes any real difference in this game or indeed in any other graphically intensive game, especially at higher resolutions like 1900x1080. At that point, in my experience, the game becomes GPU bound.

For games optimized for mutlicore CPUs it's nice to have a quad core though, but until this game is optimized for that a dual core is fine.

I'm running a dual core myself and am enjoying smooth framerates (40+ at 1000m or higher) over land with all settings on high or medium. But then again I think my graphics card is taking most of the load anyway. (5870)

Put it this way, I'd rather have a fast graphics card than a fast Cpu for this game if you plan on running at high resolutions.

[Tim1981]

Thanks for the help, I only tried playing for a bit last night and my frame rates are terrible over land.

I think I might need to try those mods to make it playable.I have every thing on low apart from a couple that are on medium.