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good fps on old machine!
kmsgoalie
Member Posts: 24
ok well i have a pentium D 2.8ghz (x2), 2 gig ddr2 ram, 512mb 8600gt vid card, running 32bit xp home.
i just got an extra gig of ram today ( from 1 to 2 gigs) and it made a HUGE difference. at this point in the game i would say 2gigs is a minimum to make the game playable.
i can get around 30-40 fps outside of town and around 20fps in town with settings on low, shader 2.0, no shadows, no water reflections, no grass, and the view range at about 1000m.
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That seems a pretty new graphic card to me, and fps figures are pointless without indicating the resolution - 1680x1050 versus 1024x768 would make a massive difference. I think the issues are bugs in the way the game configures against specific cards anyway - seems as though this graphics card is ok.
2G of ram should be a minimum for everyone, just because it's cheap and it makes a huge difference to everything.
You will see that you can turn your graphics quality a lot higher. The processor is the bottleneck of your system, and as such your framerates depend on it.
I have a p4 3 ghz (it's truly slow) and that's the ultimate bottleneck. I have a HD 3850, meaning I have most setting ons max with 8x aa 16x af, the works 1280*1024, and I get 30-35 in outdoor/indoor and 15~ in cities.
I get roughly the same with all settings low and at 1024*768