Smoky Posted September 1, 2011 Posted September 1, 2011 (edited) I don't post a whole lot. Mostly I lurk and ask cockpit building questions. But this graphics card is so effective for DCS sims I felt compelled to post about it. Installed a new video card last night. eVGA GTX 580 3GB They are out of stock through the usual outlets but ebay stores have them available at retail price so I was able to pick one up from ebay seller styletechgroup. Even arrived overnight for $10. All I have to say is this is the biggest performance leap from an upgrade that I have ever seen. I feel like I am really taking advantage of the Core i7 Extreme now. And this is running a single card, as opposed to the dual GTX 295 setup I was running previously. Frame rates have increased by 50% overall and doubled in some games. I use a projector so I'm running 1920x1080, which is nothing compared to the widescreen gaming going on these days but it means a huge savings and translation to rendering horsepower. Playing iRacing I have all settings max'd out and am getting 130fps+ with a grid of 10 cars on screen. Playing DCS: A10 I have all settings max'd, MFD screens @ 1024 every frame, HDR set to normal, trees/clutter (distance cues) set to 50%, mirrors on, and I'm still averaging 120fps+ without fail. With the previous setup I could maybe get 30-40fps with those settings, and 90fps with reduced trees, MFD resolution, etc. I don't think a second card is necessary unless you are running multi monitors. And I've given up on SLI. Next year we get new motherboards and CPUs that support PCI 3.0. The new video boards will come out and, somehow, double the pipelines, throughput, etc of the board I am using now. All new technology that I will let settle before digging into (I learned my lesson with DX10). This board will no doubt get me through the buggy growing pains of using a new bus until gaming dev's start taking advantage of it. My only regret is not buying one in April when it was first released. Edited September 1, 2011 by Smoky
Eddie Posted September 1, 2011 Posted September 1, 2011 You should turn things up a bit. I only have the 570 and have ALL setting maxed out (including mirrors) as well as a few lua tweaks to increase visible range and many high res texture mods, and I'm running at 50-60fps. And that's at 1920x1200 as well. ;)
kharne Posted September 11, 2011 Posted September 11, 2011 Smoky - What CPU do you have? Eddie - How much memory does your GTX 570 have? I'm about to upgrade :)
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