Question is: What if anything would I gain, going to the 4850/4870 or 4890 in Lomac/F

[nerves]

Question is: What if anything would I gain, going from my 4670 (1gig) and avg. 38 fps to the 4850/4870 or 4890 in Lomac/FC/bs?

[nerves]

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[Kuky]

Since game is CPU limited you will not get any MIN FPS but you will get inscrease in MAX (and slight increase in AVG) FPS. You will be able to get better looking graphics as you'l be able to use AA (Anti-Aliasing which will remove pixel jaggies) and AF (Anisotropic Filtering which will make textures much better looking as they will be sharper and with more detail when looking from an angle)

[nerves]

Thaml you.

 

I am running at 4AA and 16AF to maintain those 38 AVG FPS.

 

Now theat significanlty drops to the low 20's with rocket's!!!

[Flyby]

Question is: What if anything would I gain, going from my 4670 (1gig) and avg. 38 fps to the 4850/4870 or 4890 in Lomac/FC/bs?

what is your system spec?

now go here and look at the this comparison I found for you: http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=579&card2=564

 

now read this article (check out the page for Flight Simulator X) : http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTY0NCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

 

IMO, you'll benefit from the better (of the 2) GPU once you have a processor that can relieve the CPU bottleneck. I've often seen it reported that cpu-intensive flight sims do well on dual or quad cores when the cpu is ticking along at 3.6ghz or better (but not much better). Hope this helps.

Flyby out

ps what screen resolution are you running? Do you need to worry about jaggies?

Edited May 21, 2009 by Flyby

[nerves]

what is your system spec?

now go here and look at the this comparison I found for you: http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=579&card2=564

 

now read this article (check out the page for Flight Simulator X) : http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTY0NCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

 

IMO, you'll benefit from the better (of the 2) GPU once you have a processor that can relieve the CPU bottleneck. I've often seen it reported that cpu-intensive flight sims do well on dual or quad cores when the cpu is ticking along at 3.6ghz or better (but not much better). Hope this helps.

Flyby out

ps what screen resolution are you running? Do you need to worry about jaggies?

 

 

Thanks for the article;

 

AMD Phenom II x3 710 Tri-core 2.6 Ghz (no oc)

Gigabyte AM3 790 Mobo

6 Gig Corsair DDR3 1066

Vista 64 (ultimate)

Seagate 32m cache 1 TB 7200 rpm HD

ATI Radeo HD 4670 (1 gig) (OC to max)

Sound Blaster X-f1 Fatality

Dell 24" LCD

Track IR

Saitek x52

 

I run at 1900x1200 with 4AAx16 AF (dropping to 1600x1200 gains 1 fps)

[Acedy]

I have made some Fraps benchmarks when I moved from my 7950GT 512MB to the HD4870 1GB. In LOFC the average FPS increased by 18%. The HD is a powerful card for general gaming, but I cannot recommend it if you're mainly into flight sims. In fact LOFC was the only sim I tested where I saw improvements, FSX showed the same FPS like my old card, IL-2 and Falcon even less, and EECH doesn't run at all anymore. Although I didn't it try again yet with newer drivers. :mad:

Edited May 21, 2009 by Acedy

[Maximus_G]

nerves,

maybe you'll find this helpful.

[nerves]

I have made some Fraps benchmarks when I moved from my 7950GT 512MB to the HD4870 1GB. In LOFC the average FPS increased by 18%. The HD is a powerful card for general gaming, but I cannot recommend it if you're mainly into flight sims. In fact LOFC was the only sim I tested where I saw improvements, FSX showed the same FPS like my old card, IL-2 and Falcon even less, and EECH doesn't run at all anymore. Although I didn't it try again yet with newer drivers. :mad:

 

 

Thank you (ALL)!!!

 

 

this is the information /I was looking for and great start for some research.

[Flyby]

hey Nerves are you gonna unlock that fourth core?

[T.Goat]

I have made some Fraps benchmarks when I moved from my 7950GT 512MB to the HD4870 1GB. In LOFC the average FPS increased by 18%. The HD is a powerful card for general gaming, but I cannot recommend it if you're mainly into flight sims. In fact LOFC was the only sim I tested where I saw improvements, FSX showed the same FPS like my old card, IL-2 and Falcon even less, and EECH doesn't run at all anymore. Although I didn't it try again yet with newer drivers. :mad:

 

Sounds like your CPU limited if there was no increase from 7950 to 4870, what CPU do you have?

[nerves]

hey Nerves are you gonna unlock that fourth core?

no....I have the Heka version and it didn't work. I tried.

[Acedy]

Sounds like your CPU limited if there was no increase from 7950 to 4870, what CPU do you have?

 

C2D E6850. Yes, it is a factor, but not a sufficient explanation in the cases where performance actually decreased.

[T.Goat]

How much did it decrease by? Are you hitting V-Sync or something? Drivers cleaned out correctly?

 

OT: I just realized that I'm the 5 post n00b vs the Mod/ED team... :S