I just ordered a new power supply (Corsair 550) and new GPU (HIS ICEQ+ 4870 512MB). These items replaced my 300w PSU and 2600XT.
The old system ran the demo of the game at a playable rate without AA enabled and setting some graphics to medium instead fo high. I didn't test for frame rates though.
Nonetheless, I'm quite excited to get the new PSU and GPU. Then I found this:
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,691470/Lynnfield-im-Test-Benchmarks-des-Intel-Core-i5-750-und-Core-i7-860-in-Anno-1404/CPU/Test/
It's in german but the chart is read able. It appears that in this test they tried to see how much CPUs limited performance in this game. My CPU (E6550) is very similarly spec'd to the E6600. I am not an overclocker either (Have a Dell 530).
So I guess my new GPU is bottlenecked by the CPU? Would the worse case of 15 minimum FPS and 17.3 AVG FPS be that bad? Their test setup was also on Vista 64-bit. I have Vista 32-bit with 4 Gig of ram (assuming 3gig addressable after installing the new GPU).
Outside of the worse case, it seems looking at benchmarks I should see best case averages around 45 FPS and typical averages around 30 FPS with the following settings:
1680x1050
Direct X 10
All setting High
4xAA/16xAF
Does anyone have the game with similar system specs to me that can verify what I should be able to expect?
The old system ran the demo of the game at a playable rate without AA enabled and setting some graphics to medium instead fo high. I didn't test for frame rates though.
Nonetheless, I'm quite excited to get the new PSU and GPU. Then I found this:
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,691470/Lynnfield-im-Test-Benchmarks-des-Intel-Core-i5-750-und-Core-i7-860-in-Anno-1404/CPU/Test/
It's in german but the chart is read able. It appears that in this test they tried to see how much CPUs limited performance in this game. My CPU (E6550) is very similarly spec'd to the E6600. I am not an overclocker either (Have a Dell 530).
So I guess my new GPU is bottlenecked by the CPU? Would the worse case of 15 minimum FPS and 17.3 AVG FPS be that bad? Their test setup was also on Vista 64-bit. I have Vista 32-bit with 4 Gig of ram (assuming 3gig addressable after installing the new GPU).
Outside of the worse case, it seems looking at benchmarks I should see best case averages around 45 FPS and typical averages around 30 FPS with the following settings:
1680x1050
Direct X 10
All setting High
4xAA/16xAF
Does anyone have the game with similar system specs to me that can verify what I should be able to expect?
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