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Skipbo · 04-17-07, 09:59 PM

I have a 7900GS and am getting very good results with it. Bought it for $140 a few weeks ago along with an extra Gig of RAM, a sound card, and a new PS to get ready for SHIIV. Have had the slider settings maxed out and all boxes checked on the graffics options and getting 20+ FPS on remote camera viewing the Battle of Midway which is pretty intensive stuff. Have AA at 4x and AF at 8x currently. Really no problems with stuttering or ships that don't run smoothly. Am upgraded to 1.2 as of this morning. I am planning on experimenting with light shafts, caustic effect, volumetric fog, the developer settings in main.cfg, etc. and seeing if I get any appreciable FPS increase by shutting some of them down, but really wouldn't have to do so.

Here's a chart from a video card website that does benchmarking (I certainly am not an expert on them) and it show the 7900GS as about 6x as fast on several benchmarks (not SHIV of course) as the ATI600Pro that I replaced. From my FPS rates, I think that's about right for the increases I got.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphi...=571&chart=198

By the way, I'm enjoying this forum a lot. I'm an old SHI guy who worked with Jim Atkins some on the old SilentHunter.com website and SubGuy on his SH website content and am very thankful that the Pacific Theater is back. The developers and modders are doing a remarkable job - really impressive to me since I sat out SHII and SHIII.

04-17-07, 09:59 PM	#2
Skipbo Sailor man Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Southern Indiana Posts: 46 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	7900GS I have a 7900GS and am getting very good results with it. Bought it for $140 a few weeks ago along with an extra Gig of RAM, a sound card, and a new PS to get ready for SHIIV. Have had the slider settings maxed out and all boxes checked on the graffics options and getting 20+ FPS on remote camera viewing the Battle of Midway which is pretty intensive stuff. Have AA at 4x and AF at 8x currently. Really no problems with stuttering or ships that don't run smoothly. Am upgraded to 1.2 as of this morning. I am planning on experimenting with light shafts, caustic effect, volumetric fog, the developer settings in main.cfg, etc. and seeing if I get any appreciable FPS increase by shutting some of them down, but really wouldn't have to do so. Here's a chart from a video card website that does benchmarking (I certainly am not an expert on them) and it show the 7900GS as about 6x as fast on several benchmarks (not SHIV of course) as the ATI600Pro that I replaced. From my FPS rates, I think that's about right for the increases I got. http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphi...=571&chart=198 By the way, I'm enjoying this forum a lot. I'm an old SHI guy who worked with Jim Atkins some on the old SilentHunter.com website and SubGuy on his SH website content and am very thankful that the Pacific Theater is back. The developers and modders are doing a remarkable job - really impressive to me since I sat out SHII and SHIII. Last edited by Skipbo; 04-17-07 at 10:17 PM.