they say they've improved the frame rates "in the bunker" and by bunker i'm guessing they mean the sub pens... if anyone can clear this up for us

'Preciate that... I guess I could go in and pilfer my son's box and swap out his 4gb of ram for my 2gb... as he's off to college. I wonder if he'd notice when he comes home next weekend...

I know before posting this that it's not likely, but I still figure I'll ask a Hail Mary question:

would it be possible for me to run this game with my Macbook Pro?

2.26Khz Intel Core 2 Duo
Windows 7 Professional 32 bit
2 gigs SDRAM
and, the :( part...
nVidia 9400M.

My PC:

AMD Phenom Quad Core 2,3 GHz
4 GB Ram
Vista 64 home
ATI 3650, 512 MB

Any guess?

@CCIP,
would also like to read about your experience with your 2nd PC. I think my video card is a little weak.. and wonder how a 8600 will perform....
I´m planning to play at 1024x768..

Alright, will test it in a bit.

What has come to my attention though is people reporting poor-ish performance on nvidia cards. Can anyone confirm this?

Game runs great on my ATI, but in some of the more grumbling threads I've seen people hint at it not running so well and listing nvidia cards in their system.

Again, I can confirm that the game performs excellently on my 5770 and I cannot fault its' optimisation on a brand-new mid-range ATI card at least.

Tested on the new 196.75 drivers. Shadows still drop the fps to mid-teens in interiors. Exteriors are fine.

Well, unfortunately I have to scrap my test - my drivers are a bit out of date (185 series) and I can tell that the game does not like this. I don't want to change the drivers since I have a couple of older sims on that PC (FS9 and Falcon 4.0) which are rather finicky about nvidia driver updates so it takes a while for me to find a good version that those games will not hate.

The game does run though, but I think you will be looking at mid-20s as far as FPS, with detail on low or mid-low.

However I would hold off for a moment and wait until there's some definite feedback here about potential nvidia driver issues. It does look like this game was built mainly on ATI (it was definitely true of SHIII, which had the silly UZO bug on release) so its optimization for nvidia cards could potentially be a lot poorer.

Re: patch 1.01

The devs' promise of improving bunker framerates is indeed fulfilled with this patch - now doing about 40fps in there. The rest of the game seems to be performing about same as in my first post, which is just fine. No changes in TC performance - still quite slow around ports/convoys, so it's only really workable near those up to about 512x.

(sorry for my bad english, i´m from spain)

@galanti & everyone on this forum

IMPORTANTE !!! nVidia has REMOVED latest driver ForceWare 196.75 because of problem with the fan of the graphic card.

Take care and downgrade to 196.21.

http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/top...a-card-killer/