PC Perfomance/Graphics Optimization?

[Ichibu]

for ref purposes since its bcome that kinda thread

i play at 1920x1080 @ 2xAA, high env, all other very high and get more than playable FPS everywhere. if i put env to very high i get a stutter every so often tho

i have HD 4870, Q8200 2.33ghz and 4gb RAM on Win 7 :)

[hayabusa03]

Me i have

Dual Core 2.2 Ghz

DDR2 2 Go

Nvidia G-Force 9400 GT 512 Mb

and i set evryting in Low and i steel have some dificulty in the driven school i can't get the lisence :(

[Lenman]

I just posted this in another thread, but it also fits here very well. This graph will show you which resolution and graphics settings you can use with which graphics card/processor. Copied from gamestar.de.

"Mittel" means medium graphics settings, "Sehr Hoch" means very high graphics settings.

 

EDIT: I'll just explain again how this is supposed to be used, to avoid confusion ;)

Look up your graphic card [1], processor (CPU) [2] and RAM [3]. You will be able to run the game using the settings corresponding to the color of your components. If graphic card and CPU are in different colors, the color of the CPU is decisive.

Yellow: You can run the game in a resolution of 1280x800 with graphics quality set to Medium.

Light green: You can run the game in a resolution of 1680x1050 with graphics quality set to Very High.

Dark green: You can run the game in a resolution of 1920x1080 with graphics quality set to Very High with 8xAntiAliasing (AA).

[H4milton]

^^Great post, my card is the light green range, i think that's medium :)

[RazorX63]

Sehr Hoch -> Very Good?

[CDMC]

Sehr Hoch -> Very Good?

"Sehr Hoch" means very high

[JeaneRace]

Intel Xeon E3110@2x3,6 GHz

AMD ATI HD5770

4GB DDR-1066 RAM

 

works fine on High-Settings in Windowed Mode on 1920x1080 [1080p Full-HD]

[Robban93]

-See my specs-

 

Runs at full res(1440x900) + 4AA and everything at Medium

 

30 to 45 fps.

[RX_37]

Oooh, im in the green zone :D ATI 4870 still delivers!

 

Sadly my CPU isn't as happy, but nevertheless it works quite well.

Didn't think the old AMD X2 6000+ series really would be That useless by today's standards :o

[Dime]

Is an N250GTS vid card gud enuff?:confused:

 

 

Im running with a Core2Duo E7500, 4GB DDR2 800mhz(Dual channel), GTS 250 512MB and windows 7 64bit. Runnin maxed out, Get a little lag now and again but the rest of the time its absoloutly fine :)

[Dan G]

Bimmer why don't you overclock that c2d a bit ? You are going to see a pretty good performance boost . ( my e4300 run on 3,2ghz on ep43ds3l )

 

How would I go about that? Is it safe for my PC?

[Ichibu]

a broad google search ("overclock" or so ) will tell u all u need but, if u dont know about OCing already i wouldnt recommend it. well it depends

 

the pros are, overclocking makes whatever u overclock faster (graphics card, cpu or ram)

the con is, if u dont do it right u can end up with an unstable system (crashing etc) or if u get it really wrong ur parts can like explode. well overheat and break any way

oh also even if u do get it right (its finding a balance of heat/performance with no instability) its sure to bring the lifespan of ur cpu down

 

if u have the money/were intending to upgrade ur CPU any way i say do it! the best that can happen is u get a much faster CPU the worst is it breaks

otherwise dont mess i say! ive messed a lot but never OCd (dont hav money to pay for any mistakes)

[H4milton]

it looks like TDU2 is more into graphics card than processor

[CDMC]

TDU2 don't support SLI... well normally... one GPU is ~98% other ~15%....

other games like GTAIV,Crysis loads gpu's the same %.. like GPU1 50% GPU2 50% and runs great...

 

i hope nvidia will release new drivers so that TDU2 can support sli properly.. or Atari/Eden releases patch that fixes this issue

[WROOM]

For all of you with "medium end" machines...don't use AA from within the game, it will choke your CPU, use AA or AF from the panel of your GPU, work like charm even on higher settings.

[wassa786]

I picked up my GTX280 for $120 shipped from Overclockers.net...

 

Works flawlessly, granted it is a used card but that was almost 5 months ago...

 

p.s. running a Q9505 and a GTX 280 with 4GB of DDR2 ram, I run 25-30 FPS at 1920x1080...on max settings.