Ram helps?

[deathcoffin]

Im having 2 gigs of ram right now and im planning to upgrade it to 4 gigs of rams in total in order to smooth out performance in gameplay but i wanna know does it really help or what else should i go for?

 

Heres my system specifications:

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AMD athlon x2 duo-core 4.4ghz

Nforce4 ultra board

Nvidia Geforce 7900 GTX

2 gigs of some ram i cant remember the name

 

Above is a poll for you guys to help me out!!!:thumbup:

[Jay]

Well, I'm havin' 1,5 Gig so can't vote but doesn't matter ;)

BTW I think more than 2 Gig won't be such improvement regarding smoothness of gameplay than for example moving from 1 to 2 Gig or so...

[JaBoG32_Prinzartus]

I discovered quite good improvement from switching from athlon XP mobile 3000+ to Pentium D805!

 

Grafix is also very important;

 

But I tend to say, that 512 MB Ram is to few, 1Gig should do it. Cant say if there is huge improvement if one has 1,5 or 2 Gigs. I doubt it.

[Jay]

When I upgraded from 512 MB to 1 Gig, there was some stuttering from time to time, after upgrade to 1,5 Gig, all stuttering is over regardless of how long I play. So 1,5 Gig seems to be the threshold. Of course, there are many applications which can benefit from larger amount of RAM but for LO 1,5 Gig (or 2 Gig max.) seems to be enough.

[Lightning]

After upgrading from 1 GB to 2 GB there was a real gain in loading times... and stutter was gone.

 

Especially when you decide to change the plane in a mission lets say from an

F-15 to an A-10...the loading time you need for gamestart is really reduced.

 

But i doubt that more than 2 GB of RAM will bring more performance.

 

greetings

GSG_9_LIGHTNING

[deathcoffin]

What about processors? Are my processor good enough for lockon? Say smootheness wise. Its quite smooth during gameplay from what i see when i set everything on high but i wanna make it smoother(silky smooth). So what should i go for the upgrades?

[Lightning]

I have the mother of all CPU´s the AMD 64 FX-57 !

 

The best choice for Lock On because the game is CPU limited ... there is no faster CPU yet (as far as i know) .. the AMD 64 FX-60 is a dual core ( LOMAC does not support Dualcore ) and it is also slower than the FX-57 in Operation Frequency.

 

I dont know what Intels answer was to this peace of Art.

 

In combination with my Geforce 7800 GTX graphics card i can run 1024X768 pixels at 100 Hz with 8 X Anisotropic-Filter and 8 X Anti-Aliasing.

And i do get Framerates between 30 and 90 depending on the action and textures ... cities do really drop fps to 30.... water, mountains and the sky mostly are shown at mostly 70-90 fps.

The worst case is if i do a gunstrafe with my A-10 over a tank column ( causing lots of smoke and explosions ) fps even drops to below 20 ... but only for 2 seconds... then again raising to 30 and higher

 

I always use best picture quality setting and its quite perfect ! :thumbup:

If you choose speedsettings in your display driver you can even have higher fps but the quality is getting worse ... flickering and you get the stairs effect s :(

 

I also use MODMAN 5 with some real nice mods to get better framerates ... you should give that a try too !

 

greetings

GSG_9_LIGHTNING :)