Ok, i'm getting fed up about this now.
I already had bad FPS in far cry 2 playing it on XP pro with settings on super high and resolution at 1280 x 1024.
I had arround 40 fps, sometimes it drops to 20 sometimes it raises to 6x
In all terms it was playable, but not smooth, not at all.
I eventually upgraded to vista now, and as I feared, this got worse Alot worse. I installed service pack 1, got the entire system auto updated. Installed the 8.10 hotfix catalyst and yes, my fps is even worse.
(note: I installed far cry 2 after installing the catalyst)
I can't enable HDR either (maybe thats because DX10 already adds it by itself, no idea)
I tried few settings:
Resolution is the same on all settings: 1280 x 1024.
Ultra high - 8x AA - bloom enabled : ~15 FPS
high - 0x AA - bloom disabled: ~40 FPS
Low - dx9 version (no hdr) - bloom disabled - 0x AA: ~65 FPS
Seriously, what the hell?
I know my cpu is bottlenecking my card, but is it really that bad to cause such performance.
People recommanded me to buy this 512MB card, and i'm feeling ripped off right now. other benchmarks on the net show stable performance with higher resolutions and settings at super high.
Maybe they used the 1024MB version of this card, but would that really make this big of a difference? Or maybe because i have an Asus EAH4870 (although someone out here told me there no difference)
Its pissing me off now. I spended 250 euro on this card, I expect(ed) alot better for this.
My current system:
- ASUS EAH4870 DDR5 512MB
- Kingston 4GB ddr2 pc 800
- Asus m2n-e
- AMD x2 4600+ core speed at 2.4 ghz (default)
- 650W antec power supply
I even oc'd my card using ati's overdrive and putted my gpu from 750 to 800 and my memory from 900 to 1000. still the same results.
I already had bad FPS in far cry 2 playing it on XP pro with settings on super high and resolution at 1280 x 1024.
I had arround 40 fps, sometimes it drops to 20 sometimes it raises to 6x
In all terms it was playable, but not smooth, not at all.
I eventually upgraded to vista now, and as I feared, this got worse Alot worse. I installed service pack 1, got the entire system auto updated. Installed the 8.10 hotfix catalyst and yes, my fps is even worse.
(note: I installed far cry 2 after installing the catalyst)
I can't enable HDR either (maybe thats because DX10 already adds it by itself, no idea)
I tried few settings:
Resolution is the same on all settings: 1280 x 1024.
Ultra high - 8x AA - bloom enabled : ~15 FPS
high - 0x AA - bloom disabled: ~40 FPS
Low - dx9 version (no hdr) - bloom disabled - 0x AA: ~65 FPS
Seriously, what the hell?
I know my cpu is bottlenecking my card, but is it really that bad to cause such performance.
People recommanded me to buy this 512MB card, and i'm feeling ripped off right now. other benchmarks on the net show stable performance with higher resolutions and settings at super high.
Maybe they used the 1024MB version of this card, but would that really make this big of a difference? Or maybe because i have an Asus EAH4870 (although someone out here told me there no difference)
Its pissing me off now. I spended 250 euro on this card, I expect(ed) alot better for this.
My current system:
- ASUS EAH4870 DDR5 512MB
- Kingston 4GB ddr2 pc 800
- Asus m2n-e
- AMD x2 4600+ core speed at 2.4 ghz (default)
- 650W antec power supply
I even oc'd my card using ati's overdrive and putted my gpu from 750 to 800 and my memory from 900 to 1000. still the same results.