And here she is fellas!

[3Sqn_Fudd]

Nvidia 8800gtx.... Welll.... maybe

 

http://xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20061023142704.html

 

2 power dongles...ewwwwww. and they're in a ridiculous position I might add.

 

What kind of frames do you think this would add to Lomac? 8fps is my guess.

[Kuky]

er... for Lock On faster CPU will give you more frame rate then GPU because the bottleneck is the CPU...

[Pilotasso]

LOL not even me have the PC configured JUST for LOMAC. Having said that, I will never buy a card as noisy and power hungry as this one.

[Bendak]

er... for Lock On faster CPU will give you more frame rate then GPU because the bottleneck is the CPU...

 

Indeed!!

 

I was flying with AA and AF off to save some frames, and when i turned it on, i noticed that i had better quality graphics with no fps loose.

 

I changed to AF16x and AA4x. Great graphic improvment, no fps loss. :thumbup:

[3Sqn_Fudd]

er... for Lock On faster CPU will give you more frame rate then GPU because the bottleneck is the CPU...

 

Kuky... I know this, which is why I speculated that the gain would be 8fps. Yes the CPU is a bottleneck but it's not a wall. I gave it 8 because it may be a very good jump in raw power, and that would have effects in LOMAC.

 

At any rate I think I'm with Pilotasso on this one... 2x PCI-E connections... bleh!

[Kuky]

naaa mate, your minimum frame rate will not change becuase it's all the CPU, your average? yeah probbaly a bit, but especially if you had a much worse video card before to begin with... then you will see an increase in frame rate.. but again not the minimum... bin there, done that ;)

[3Sqn_Fudd]

naaa mate, your minimum frame rate will not change becuase it's all the CPU, your average? yeah probbaly a bit, but especially if you had a much worse video card before to begin with... then you will see an increase in frame rate.. but again not the minimum... bin there, done that ;)

 

Ok... the contention is, a newer graphics card (say a move from a 7900gt to an 8800gtx) in the exact same sytem would extend the average fps upwards, but have no effect on the minimum fps. From a gpu/mipmap/Dx8/blahblahblah level how does that work exactly? When does a GPU start to just not matter for fps?

[Kuky]

all the AA and AF is done my the GPU and to most extend (in lock on) it is affected by the resolution and graphics effect coded in. Today GPU capability already exceeds what the CPU can supply... in terms of large number of non-graphical calculations such as objects in game, FM etc.

 

So yes, getting a really fast video card will enable you running the game at high resolution, with high sampling of AA and AF and still have good framerate, however flying over a city is really stressfull and overloading for CPU and this is what governs lowest frame rate (again, at least in lock on).

 

CPU is No1, GPU and RAM No2/3 so to speak :D