Post your PC setup .

[pseudolobster]

To this day, I'm still a firm believed that it's because of an uber crappy engine. If they let Valve do the Cryengine, you'd get many more FPS out of that game with less GPU processing power.

I think it's the trees more than anything. I get double the framerates in Far Cry 2, even though it uses the same engine. The only difference is the palm trees and foliage etc. Sure, the engine probably isn't as efficient as it could be, but I think it's mostly the models and textures in crysis that make it so slow.

AMD Phenom II X4 965 OC to 3.6ghz (Id go higher but lack proper cooling)

I had a 965 for a few days and wasn't all that impressed with it.. It's really just a pre-overclocked 955 for like $40 more. They're both equally stable at 3.6ghz on stock cooling, so I figured I'd save the $40. Still a great processor, cheaper than an intel Q8200, and way, way faster, yet the 965 didn't strike me as any better than the 955 for the extra money.

 

[DJNY]

I love this cod4 sniper mission
One of my top5 pc games ever!!


Prozessor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz
Memory (RAM) 2,00 GB
Grafik NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT
Grafik (Spiele) 1023 MB insgesamt verfügbarer Grafikspeicher

It´s a nearly 3 years old Vaio FZ11Z, it was about $2500 but I bought it because it was the first one with a blu-ray burner I was very happy that hd lost the fight against br...

Nowadays I would NEVER invest so much in a Laptop again! Lasers are the future

 

[Traveller]

A little more gaming goodness... this time mixed in with our "local" hobby...

I fired up an "old" game (2/2009), FEAR 2: Project Origin the other day, seeing as it was still installed on my rig and I needed to make room for AvP 2010...

Click on the images for the full-res versions:

Oh man, this one burns balloons and more!


That must be at least half a watt of 532!!!

 

[Asherz]

Looks more like 515nm, maybe it's after the new diodes have been produced upto half a watt?

 

[Traveller]

I don't believe it... they even added a "dazzled" effect :bowdown:

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Don't dazzle me bro... or I'll frag your a$$!

 

[Traveller]

but yes COD Modern Warfare 2...

Just played it a second time, the game's really good. I would say Infinty Ward is one of the best developers out there! I think I own all of their games...

CoD 2003 / CoD United Offensive 2004 / CoD2 2005 / CoD4 (MW) 2007 / CoD WaW 2008 / CoD MW2 2009!
And of course I also own their Medal of Honor games, before they split with 2015/EA. MoH:Allied Assult (2002) was a ground-breaking game. I left the MoH series with Pacific Assult, which was the first EA-only MoH, IIRC.

Not only is the action non-stop, but they managed to create a very believable world with "standard" gaming HW at the time of each game's release. I think MoH:AA's Omaha beach assault level was the only scene that brought my againg PC to it's knees but ever since then, they have been generating some very efficient code... :bowdown:

Valve is my favorite developer hands down. But then comes a fantastic group of runner ups, including 2K, bethesda, Bioware, Blizzard, Bungee, Crytek, Epic, GRIN, Id, Infinity Ward, Monolith, Red Storm, Remedy, Rockstar North and Ubisoft Montreal.


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To this day, I'm still a firm believed that it's because of an uber crappy engine. If they let Valve do the Cryengine, you'd get many more FPS out of that game with less GPU processing power.

FWIW, at least Crysis has something to show for all it's processing requirements. One of the game-series that ticks me off the most efficiency-wise is Rockstar's GTA series. Don't get me wrong, the games themselves are landmarks, but considering what they render per scene (very little), they take the cake for bad coding, imo.

As an example, here's a few screens from GTA4 - compare it to COD-WM2 above (run on the same PC of course) - and you will see what I mean...

 

[pHeneX]

4 Fans with each 4 Blue LED's and 4 CCFLs and this is what you get
Some Specs:
Core i7 860 @ 3.2GHz
8GB OCZ DDR3 1600
HD4870 @ 850/1100MHz
Asus P7P55D Evo

Not that good but enough for me
Btw, best mouse i've ever had:

 

[XCreedX]

That's a bad ass mouse. I have used razer products for years. I still use the Razer copperhead and it's the best mouse I have ever used. Never had any issues with it at all.

BTW, nice setup i7 is a beast processor.

 

[Cyparagon]

^Is the ass mouse related to the tit mouse?

 

[Carl Witcombe]

Here's my setup

Antec 1200 Case
AMD Phennom II 965 BE 4x3.2Ghz Cores
Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P Motherboard
Aerocool Touch Fan Controller 2000
8Gb DDR3 Memory (2x4GB Dual) (I know 32b only uses 4Gb max)
2x HD4890 ATI XFire 2x2Gb DDR5 Graphics
Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
Creative GigaWorks S750 700W 7.1 Speakers
1x BLURay Writter
1x Pioneer DVDRW
Windows Vista Ultimate 32b(installed) & 64b
Phillips 23" WideScreen HD Ready LCD Monitor

Favourite Game X3 Terran Conflict, Operation FlashPoint

Generally used for Games, Reflex XTR Model Flight Simulator

My other setup is an Acer 3050 Series Laptop, nothing special mainly used for Assembly Language Programming, Internet browsing and anything else I need to do.

 

[Ezcal]

Lenovo ThinkPad T61:

Core 2 Duo T9300
4GB RAM
New 250GB 7200rpm Hard Drive
nVidia Quadro NVS 140M

Two+ years old and still going strong. I love this laptop.

 

[weidmark]

Macbook Pro. 2.53GHz i5, 8GB RAM, Nvidia GT330M, 512GB SSD. Running OSX and Windows 7.
All this and i get 6 hours of battery life

Apple - MacBook Pro - Meet the MacBook Pro laptop family.

Love it

 

[Traveller]

Lenovo ThinkPad...

Macbook Pro....

Nice and all, but a little bit on the :tired: side...

 

[Hungryafricanboy]

4U server rackmount for a case
Corsair 620HX PSU
Gigabyte EP35C DS3R
4GB of Mushkin 1600 @ 7-7-6-18
Intel E8400 @3.66 GHZ, 9x multiplier 400MHz FSB
Zalman 9700 HSF
Asus 4890
WD Caviar Black AALS 640 GB for C
2x 1TB Samsung spinpoint
Dell 1080p monitor

I'm thinking about upgrading to a GTX 480 when prices fall, or maybe a mid tier 6000 series? The 6870 doesn't seem like it'd be fast enough to justify an upgrade. I thought about upgrading my MB (LGA 1366, intel bastards changing to socket ever year...) and CPU so I could gain another PCIe slot then getting another 4890 for about $100 to pretty much double my performance on high res 8xAA games but I decided that DX11 support and shader 5.0 would be more important, thus GTX 4xx or 5xxx series seems to be a good option.

 

[Traveller]

Asus 4890 ... Dell 1080p monitor

I'm thinking about upgrading to a GTX 480 when prices fall, or maybe a mid tier 6000 series? The 6870 doesn't seem like it'd be fast enough to justify an upgrade....

Nice rig :beer:
I'm still using my now outdated 9800 GTX but to tell you the truth, I'm in no hurry to upgrade to today's technology. I'm currently playing Splinter Cell Conviction, played Bioshock2, Batman Aracam Asylum, COD MW2, AvP and all run fine. Of course I am playing at 1680x1050, 0AA, 4xAnistotrophic filtering and the games average around 40fps.

So yeah, if you want to play them at 1080p or higher with 16AA at 60fps then upgrading may be worthwhile. Me, I'm going to wait for Crysis 2 and upgrade accordingly

p.s. Here's a benchmark list from Tom's for 1680x1050. The 4890 is way up there and you will have to consider Crossfire or SLI in order to double your performance...

 

[Traveller]

I'm thinking about upgrading to a GTX 480 when prices fall...

Well then, prices should start to drop pretty soon, now that the 580GTX is the new BADTORO....

GeForce GTX 580
EVGA | Articles | EVGA GTX 580

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