Your specs and performance?

[Fercyful]

Thats my system from a similar post a few days ago. I have had a bit a cleanup and installed some newer catalyst drivers (forgot when I clean installed Vista). I have also disabled the Enviromental Effects (to get rid of the Monolith of Doom) and now have 35-40 Fps in 3d view and 170 Fps on the map screen even at 1024TC.

The E6600 is the best cpu on the market at its price IMHO (and others) and I regard my graphics card as the weak link in my system but I'm waiting for the DX10 cards to come down in price a bit.

thanks for the update... glad you get more FPS there... I still thinking in buying the E6600 + Asrock VSTA now

[Fercyful]

Originally Posted by KevinM

Well, it appears to me that having a Core 2 Duo chip (especially one of the slower ones) has no real advantage.

I have just installed this on my "general purpose" PC and it runs so much better.

On deck I get 42FPS (with exactly the same settings as above) and everything is as smooth as silk. With every option selected, the framerate drops to 26 (still playable) compared to 12 on my Games PC.

I guess I know which of my PCs I will be playing this on then !!

Kevin.

Please kevin at Pearl port what are your FPS at deck? (both computers please)
thanks!

[KevinM]

Originally Posted by Fercyful

Please kevin at Pearl port what are your FPS at deck? (both computers please)
thanks!

Is there a quick way to start up in Pearl Port ?

[Fercyful]

mmm... I think you need to start a new career but no problem you will don´t lost your other one I start at 1941 at pearl... that was my most FPS killer 15 FPS here at bridge... at soon I travel out of pearl I get 24 FPS... mmm

thanks for trying if you can.

[KevinM]

OK, just done my test on my two PCs...

General Purpose PC, at Pearl Port, on deck, 24FPS. That is with everything maxed, 1024x768 but no Post Process, Full Screen Glare, Light Shaft or EE.

If I select these 4 options, framerate drops to 18.

On my Games PC (yeah right !)

On deck at Pearl Port, I get 18FPS, dropping to 10FPS if I select the 4 frame-eating options.

Obviously, it pays to have a fast, single CPU rather than a (supposedly) efficient Dual CPU system...at least for the time being.

Maybe future patches will bring out the best in Core 2 Duo systems, but as it stands right now, a fast single CPU appears to be better.

My intention is to play it on my GP PC, with all sliders maxed and only Post Processing enabled out of the "big 4", as this makes the view look nicer (on my system) and only had a 1FPS hit.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,
Kevin.

[Fercyful]

hey Kevin!! VERY informative. thanks a lot for try all that for me

Obviously, it pays to have a fast, single CPU rather than a (supposedly) efficient Dual CPU system...at least for the time being.

I think that is the reason!

maybe with a E6600 things will go better but now I´m thinking twice in spend all that money for have maybe 5 more FPS than the ones I´m getting now wiht my Sempron 2800 (old 462!!) and 7800GS AGP... :hmm:

really appreciate your help!

cya!

[Nightmare]

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (stock speed)
Intel D975XBX2 Motherboard (BadAxe2)
Patriot eXtreme Performance 2GB DDR2 800
2 Western Digital Caviar 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s in RAID 0
EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB

I've got everything crank at 1280x1024. I see between 100-80 FPS in the boat and external camera, even in and around port. Worst frame rate I've seen so far was 68 FPS in the Battle of Midway mission while I watched with external camera.

[Fercyful]

Originally Posted by Linavitch

Thats my system from a similar post a few days ago. I have had a bit a cleanup and installed some newer catalyst drivers (forgot when I clean installed Vista). I have also disabled the Enviromental Effects (to get rid of the Monolith of Doom) and now have 35-40 Fps in 3d view and 170 Fps on the map screen even at 1024TC.

The E6600 is the best cpu on the market at its price IMHO (and others) and I regard my graphics card as the weak link in my system but I'm waiting for the DX10 cards to come down in price a bit.

please Linavitch can you try "Pearl port" at the beginning of the career with your configuration like KevinM did... You have almost the same rig that I´m planing to build (ASROCK VSTA + e6600) Here I have a 7800GS instead of your ATI 850... so if you try I will get an idea of how it will run on the Asrock at Pearl that have to be the most demanding part... Thank for your help!

[Brausepaul]

P4 2,8 GHz HT
800 MHz FSB
Radeon 9800 Pro
2 GB RAM

Performance is slow if not sloppy, I'm a little bit disappointed and hope that a fruther patch will help a little bit.

[Linavitch]

@Fercyful

Ok just done the test for you.

Pearl harbour. All graphics options on. External views average 25fps. Internal 100fps

Enviromental Off - External 30 fps.

The good thing about the vsta mobo (for me) is that it has both AGP and PCI-E GPU slots so I didn't have to upgrade my card along with my other bits. It also takes DDR1 and DDR2 ram (although you can't have both IIRC)

I'm sure I saw Argentina in your info but it soesn't show in the typing section but the Mobo and CPU cost me £230 off ebuyer.com in the UK. (and I think the CPU has gone down a tenner since I got it)

Hope this helps and good luck.

[Nightmare]

Originally Posted by Brausepaul

P4 2,8 GHz HT
800 MHz FSB
Radeon 9800 Pro
2 GB RAM

Performance is slow if not sloppy, I'm a little bit disappointed and hope that a fruther patch will help a little bit.

The video card is the weak link in your PC. The 9800 series is at least 2 generations behind everything.. A GeForce 7 series will clean that up nicely and they've come down in price and are inexpensive as far as video cards go. Newegg has a EVGA Geforce 8800 for $259 after a mail-in rebate! The only issue with the 8800 cards is you need one of the new fast CPU to really see the speed, otherwise your CPU becomes the bottleneck.

[Brausepaul]

Originally Posted by Nightmare

The video card is the weak link in your PC. The 9800 series is at least 2 generations behind everything.. A GeForce 7 series will clean that up nicely and they've come down in price and are inexpensive as far as video cards go. Newegg has a EVGA Geforce 8800 for $259 after a mail-in rebate! The only issue with the 8800 cards is you need one of the new fast CPU to really see the speed, otherwise your CPU becomes the bottleneck.

Well, I'd hate to spent more bucks for my system because it's aging in general anyway. I'm thinking of getting a completely new system anytime soon, I just didn't expect my performance to be THAT bad. Then again...a 7600 GS is € 100 only...and it is very silent (noise is a big factor for me).

[1mPHUNit0]

P4 D945 3.4Mhz 775 socket
Fsb 800mhz 2MB L2 cache
Asus P5PL2
2GB Ram DDr2 256
Nvidia GForce 7600GT PCIE 256

All graphic settings on max.
30-40 fps
Forceware 94.20

[phatmatt]

-Intel Pentium D Dual Core Processor 3.0GHz 930 LGA 775 FSB800 2MBx2
-1024mb (2x512mb) Kingston Hyper-X pc3200 ddr400 dual channel
-ATI Radeon X700PRO 256mb (AGP version)

Is ok most of the time, only lags a bit when the loading is finished then is alright. also lags a hell lot when i have the event camera on so i dont use it. other then that its all right. most settings are on high.

Also since im here im supposed to get a delivery soon with computer goodies and im supposed to get a 7600 in there, now i was asking myself should i change my X700 256mb AGP for a 7600 most likely PCI-E ? (everything else is unknown for the card atm). So my question is should i go with the 7600 over my X700?

BTW: i have both AGP8X and PCI-E ports on my motherboard aswell DDR and DDR2

[1mPHUNit0]

1GB more of ram and all it's ok