Video card quandary

[Tacoma74]

Originally Posted by camel24hrs

While waiting on COD to come out I went out and got the Rise OF Flight:Iron Cross Edition. I do not know how simular COD will be to it but they both seem to have alot of eye candy and complex fm.

As video cards go with my Paliet 560ti 2 gig I am able to run 1920x1080 with all the eye candy turned up and it runs smoothly. FPS avg high 50s. From the forum post at their site and from my own experince, the amount of ram seems to make a big difference on how much you can turn up the eye candy.

As you load up the eye candy it tells you how much memory you are using up. And it gives you a warning when you get over 90% of video memory. With my 2 gig I use 53% with all the eye candy turned on. And I check MSI Afterburner after flying a mission and I actually use 1.380 gig of ram. So having just 1 gig of ram would be a hinderince in that flight sim.

Like I said I dont know how simular the two sims will be but all I am saying is if you are in the market for a new GPU my suggestion is to wait till COD comes out and see what we got.

Also RIse of flight seems more geared to using trackir. And while that is not a bad thing it makes it tough on an old school guy like me that uses cockpit views and padlock. I just hope that COD is more padlock view freindly.

Plus it is quite a steep adjustment from flying IL-2 to rise of flight. I hope it is not as tough going to COD.

Good info! Thanks man

[Heliocon]

I would very strongly suggest if you get a nvidia card get EVGA. They are honestly their cards are the best. They have a lifetime warranty and OCing does not void your warranty. They also have a 90 day stepup. So when I bought my 480gtx and then 1 month later nvidia surprise announced the 580gtx all I had to do was pay shipping and $15. I now have a 580gtx.

Also they have good ocing tools and forums.

[Thee_oddball]

Originally Posted by swiss

Wait for the results ppl get with different cards.

ditto, wait and see what results people get ,"a chain is as strong as its weakest link" I built a new system years ago and kept the old video card (fx5200) and the new backend doubled my FPS
I just built a new rig (to play bc2) and win7 is giving me a rating of 7.2/4 across the board with the exception of the HD (5.9) and it is a modest build
ASrock 870 extreme
Phenom X3 3.2ghz
kingston 1066 (4gb)
ATI 5750 (1gb)
Corsair 750 watt psu
win7 ultimate 64

I just reinstalled il2 (UP 2.01) And i am getting 225 avg fps at 1600x1200 rez with everything set to excellent .. what does that translate to? i hoping i can play CoD at high settings and a modest rez

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by Thee_oddball

ditto, wait and see what results people get ,"a chain is as strong as its weakest link" I built a new system years ago and kept the old video card (fx5200) and the new backend doubled my FPS
I just built a new rig (to play bc2) and win7 is giving me a rating of 7.2/4 across the board with the exception of the HD (5.9) and it is a modest build
ASrock 870 extreme
Phenom X3 3.2ghz
kingston 1066 (4gb)
ATI 5750 (1gb)
Corsair 750 watt psu
win7 ultimate 64

I just reinstalled il2 (UP 2.01) And i am getting 225 avg fps at 1600x1200 rez with everything set to excellent .. what does that translate to? i hoping i can play CoD at high settings and a modest rez

For the record I have a new pc as of a few months ago because my pc of 4 years got fried. Guess how? In the civ5 game menu which I forgot to quit and I fell asleep. Why? Because the devs never capped the max fps rate in the game menu...
Fail at probably 400fps in a menu (of civilization game...) fried my computer. It was embarrasing

[robtek]

If one has about 600 $ US to spare, this is the card to get!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/user/motherbo.../0/fjTB519cL9E

[JG52Uther]

Originally Posted by robtek

If one has about 600 $ US to spare, this is the card to get!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/user/motherbo.../0/fjTB519cL9E

I would want a whole computer for that price!

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by robtek

If one has about 600 $ US to spare, this is the card to get!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/user/motherbo.../0/fjTB519cL9E

Why do you keep pushing this particular card? Its not even a good one.

[robtek]

Oh, i don't see me "pushing" this card, as afaik thats the first and only post about it.
And its not good because????
Share your wisdom, please.

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by robtek

Oh, i don't see me "pushing" this card, as afaik thats the first and only post about it.
And its not good because????
Share your wisdom, please.

My bad robtek - I thought you were someone else (either the OP or a commenter on this thread: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=19104
Sorry for the mis-identification

The card is not so great as we see in the thread (its not bad or horrible per say, there just is "better" options imo).