Calmed down, just saved myself over $500.00 USD

[mortoma]

After coming close to shelling out over $500.00 for a Nvidia 580GTX superclocked, I decided to stick with my ancient 285GTX for a while just to see how COD will run. I can actually afford to pay that but seriously I think it might be overkill until I see how COD runs. The DX11 capability of the 500 series would be a waste but I do like how the 500 series runs much cooler than the the 200 series cards. But that's not a good enough reason alone to pop $500 for a 580! Even if I were a millionaire it would be silly to just throw away that much money. Too bad but I'm no millionaire anyway! http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

A 285 runs DX10 and since I upgraded my stick and pedals to USB ( finally ) I can now play flight sims in Windows 7 and take advantage of DX10. I have been until now, running in 32-bit XP to use my old gameport stuff.

So for people pre-upgrading, you might take a deep breath and wait like I just decided to do. And besides, I paid a lot for my copy of Win 7 and have hardly used it. But just for the fun of it I plan to see how well COD runs ( and how it looks ) in Win XP 32-bit in DX9 since I plan to keep XP for a while. Will be a fun comparison.

Upgrading to CH USB stick and pedals already just cost me $180.00 besides!! For now I'll save that $500 for the upcoming $5.00/gallon gasoline. And we all know it's coming.......probably by summertime.

[M_Gunz]

And besides, the chances that the newer video card (or other upgrade) will cost more months from now is pretty small.

I have friends who talk about buying a new system a piece at a time over a year or more. Bad idea. The price of parts has steadily dropped (except for the late-80's when imported memory chips got a high import tax slapped on them and the price about doubled) so why spend money months ahead when the same or better will be cheaper by the time you're ready to assemble the pieces?

If you're going to ride the bleeding edge cost-wise then at least be using the parts you bought!

[Jaws2002]

Windows 7 64bit is the way to go for a gaming rig. It can use everything in that box more efficiently than a 32bit system.

[Falcke]

I figure it's a CPU depended game. There's a certain ceiling with GPUs that is easily reached, where it simply does not practically pay off anymore to have the biggest card there is.

CPU limits however can always be pushed in these kind of games, just keep increasing the amount of airplanes and other objects and you'll reach a limit eventually regardless of how good your CPU is.

[Heavy_Weather]

Windows 7 64bit is definitely the way to go if you have it. The GTX 460 is a sweet card for the current price. I just installed one and can run at 1920x1080 without any tearing. The card runs at 23C right out of the box and it comes with some great software for tweaking. I actually had to back my TrackIR down from aggressive mode to normal.

[waffen-79]

I currently have a nVidia 8600GT 512mb, as you can see, unable to run most games, let alone IL-2:COD

but due to my limited budget I planning to get a single nVidia GTX460 1GB, hoping that'd be enough

[biggs222]

Originally posted by waffen-79:
I currently have a nVidia 8600GT 512mb, as you can see, unable to run most games, let alone IL-2:COD

but due to my limited budget I planning to get a single nVidia GTX460 1GB, hoping that'd be enough

I was thinking that too but i found the 560ti, got some good reviews and when OCed its on par with the 570.
spend the 20 bucks extra and get the 560ti

[mortoma]

Originally posted by Falcke:
I figure it's a CPU depended game. There's a certain ceiling with GPUs that is easily reached, where it simply does not practically pay off anymore to have the biggest card there is.

CPU limits however can always be pushed in these kind of games, just keep increasing the amount of airplanes and other objects and you'll reach a limit eventually regardless of how good your CPU is. I disagree, COD is not IL2, there will be far more detail and polygons to display. It will be necessary to have both a decent CPU and a powerful video card if you want to run at high AA and high resolution. The ceiling where higher powered video cards no longer helped IL2 was reached a long time ago. It stopped about at the Nvidia Geforce 8800/9800 era. But this a totally different ball game. I now am thinking I'll go ahead and get that 580GTX superclocked, but I'll only get it when I find my 285GTX will not be enough to give me the detail and eye candy I want from COD. If I can't average over 50FPS at the detail level and res. I want, I'll get that 580. I figure it's gonna happen eventually. I'd bet on my getting that card now.

[Flying_Pencil]

Switched to Geico? :P http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[mortoma]

Originally posted by Jaws2002:
Windows 7 64bit is the way to go for a gaming rig. It can use everything in that box more efficiently than a 32bit system. Of course I'll run it in 64 bit Windoze 7!! I have 6 gigs of ram and I'll need most of that for COD. I just want to see what happens in XP 32 is all.