Hi Folks
Lets take a mission such as "Battle.miz" as a reference. Why this one? because this mission is rather loaded with objects and ground activity, resembling a real scenario you might encounter as a real attack heli pilot during a small-scale war.
Sure, it's fun to hunt a 8 truck convoy protected by 2 SAM units, but IMHO, those kind of missions are too sterile, and not interesting enough.
So you got the idea, I am looking for a system who can handle this sim in battles consisting of tens of objects, just like I can in IL-2 now for example.
As a reference, on my rig, (E2180@3200, GT8800, 2Gb ram) on low setting, 1024x768 resolution, the frame rate goes down to 10fps in this mission when the Artillery starts rocking. This makes the mission virtually unplayable. the average when starting the mission is 20-25fps.
I wonder if the E8500 CPU (which might by safely OCed to 4200) can handle such a mission "properly"...
My very subjective "properly", means the very min frame rate > 20fps, avg frame rate >30fps at medium setting, High scenery, 1280x1024.
If that's the case I would seruisly consider getting one of those CPUs
Thanks ahead
David