DCS: A-10C Warthog PC config

[RSharpe]

5970 seems to fit the bill just fine to me. If not, get 2. Should be more than enough power. Not sure a 4ghz i7 is enough for that much GPU though. Probably going to need chilled water or phase or something exotic to keep up with the GPUs.

 

We'll see. Since both Nvidia and AMD are releasing a bunch of new high end cards in the next few months, I'm going to hold off for now. Doubtless there will always be better hardware released, and new releases will only drive down prices for the old cards. I wonder when the DCS code will be finally optimized.

[Succellus]

About Sli there s an issue, it works only if soft was written for it.... When not, it can even hamper the game won t know what to do with 2 gpu.

 

So take it with a grain of salt unless someone gives the OK it works.

 

About hardware dont look at balance so hard just be sure that you got no piece of hard or config that is a dead weight to the overall system.

Edited November 4, 2010 by Succellus

[Steel Jaw]

Someone from ED (I'm not saying who) rather scoffed at SLI so I would not count upon it being encoded.

[Succellus]

Someone from ED (I'm not saying who) rather scoffed at SLI so I would not count upon it being encoded.

 

 

I remember scoffing about BS, can t remember about WT.

[popov54]

I just wanted to give an update to you guys about my discovery.

 

I purchased a G.Skill SSD and also upgraded to Windows 7 and am now running A-10c at double the frames.

 

No CPU (E8500 @3.1)overclock, no GFX (HD4850) overclock, and ONLY 2gb or RAM!

Windows 7 is probably the most worthwhile upgrade you should do if you aren't already running it, and I'm an XP diehard.

 

I ran the win7 experience eval and my system got a 6.5 with that cpu, 5.5 for RAM, and 7.7 for Hard drive (SSD), but the most surprising thing was my GFX. It got a 7.4. Not sure if the new ATI driver is the cause or the OS, but it is confirmed by A-10C performance. It is smoooth except when the Sun enters the screen, then the frames lag. In fact I have gotten such a boost in FPS that I can now run 19x12, textures high,tssaa,HDR,8xAA,512 pit res, and shadows High at the same frames that I had when I disabled all that stuff @ 12x10 res, Pre-win 7 and SSD.

 

I am running 40 FPS with the above settings, but can hit 55 FPS if I just turn off HDR!

 

So Long story short I am a happy camper. Now I am in no hurry to buy a new GFX or CPU. RAM is my weak link and that's cheap. The SSD has also made my computing experience so much better all by itself. Oh and I did run A-10 with win XP on the SSD and the sim's performance improved dramatically. But the SSD was $200. Win7 was only $85, you decide what's best for your setup. Hope this helps someone out there.

 

Cheers-

Edited November 4, 2010 by popov54
fps numbers added

[y2kiah]

Make sure you guys are running GameBooster before you fire up the sim too. I've noticed it does improve smoothness a bit on my Win7 machine.

[Kula66]

There is always a bottle neck and buying new components only moves it onto something else. Including you.

[tusler]

OMG,

I am running this on a E6600 (2.4ghz) oc'd to 2.8 with 4 gig of ram and a gtx 460 video card with textures on high and other settings on medium and it runs great.

Now if I could learn to pilot...well thats another story

[power5]

I just wanted to give an update to you guys about my discovery.

 

I purchased a G.Skill SSD and also upgraded to Windows 7 and am now running A-10c at double the frames.

 

No CPU (E8500 @3.1)overclock, no GFX (HD4850) overclock, and ONLY 2gb or RAM!

Windows 7 is probably the most worthwhile upgrade you should do if you aren't already running it, and I'm an XP diehard.

 

I ran the win7 experience eval and my system got a 6.5 with that cpu, 5.5 for RAM, and 7.7 for Hard drive (SSD), but the most surprising thing was my GFX. It got a 7.4. Not sure if the new ATI driver is the cause or the OS, but it is confirmed by A-10C performance. It is smoooth except when the Sun enters the screen, then the frames lag. In fact I have gotten such a boost in FPS that I can now run 19x12, textures high,tssaa,HDR,8xAA,512 pit res, and shadows High at the same frames that I had when I disabled all that stuff @ 12x10 res, Pre-win 7 and SSD.

 

I am running 40 FPS with the above settings, but can hit 55 FPS if I just turn off HDR!

 

So Long story short I am a happy camper. Now I am in no hurry to buy a new GFX or CPU. RAM is my weak link and that's cheap. The SSD has also made my computing experience so much better all by itself. Oh and I did run A-10 with win XP on the SSD and the sim's performance improved dramatically. But the SSD was $200. Win7 was only $85, you decide what's best for your setup. Hope this helps someone out there.

 

Cheers-

 

Fresh install of Wn will help also. Not just win7. If you are getting 40fps with high textures, scenes, vis, shadows, water, HDR, TSAA, MSAA, I am extremely impressed anyway.

 

We need to start a simple benchmark. If someone could record a track that works and has some high stress areas and some low, then we could all run it and post our different results. I would think that should be pretty simple.