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well i was trying to find a playable framerate for the guy who was asking how 1920x1200 does on an 8800gt, and on my monitor it looked better with no AA but all the detail maxed out, of course on LCD it's a different story. I play at 1600x1000 2xAA w/transparency for that same reason you just mentioned, in addition to being able to use a much more comfortable refresh rate of 100hz (1920x1200@85hz is still flickery and I don't want to blow up my FW900).
Pick a Number and Get in Line! Cause first they have to nerf all the classes into oblivion and add voice to some of the NPCs outside of Tortage.... After that, maybe they can try to optimize game "performance" in time to be included in the first Expansion, which will give us more level 30+ and level 50+ quests.
a 1gb 4870 (AoC textures are huge) should be right up your alley i think. 4850 already beats the 9800gtx in almost every game (and it straight up demolishes it when 4xAA or more is applied), the 4870 with 20% faster clocks and almost double the memory bandwidth should be very very good for the money (CJ over at beyond3d says it beats the GTX 260 in some tests). NDA expires this week, we should see some numbers soon.
I went from 9800GX2 to 280GTX today, and wow what a difference in Age of Conan at 2560x1600. I got barely acceptable performance out of AoC with 9800GX2 and even that required turning down several graphics settings. Fps often spiked very often below 20 fps, especially in town/village areas.
With 280GTX I turned settings to high, upped view distance to 3500m and enabled bloom and the game runs with smooth 35-45 fps in most of the areas, with minor spikes down to 20-25 fps.
As a side note, Assassin's Creed, Hellgate London and especially Mass Effect run now perfectly too - I had performance issues in all of them with 9800GX2. 9800GX2 feels like an expensive mistake now, and I thought I had learned my lesson with 7950GX2.
the 1GB version might be a little longer since GDDR5 production just started and most of the chips will go to the 512 (thats what people are saying anyway), but the E8400 is the best cpu for this game, I never saw it use more than 40% of my quad except on loading screens.
I went from 9800GX2 to 280GTX today, and wow what a difference in Age of Conan at 2560x1600. I got barely acceptable performance out of AoC with 9800GX2 and even that required turning down several graphics settings. Fps often spiked very often below 20 fps, especially in town/village areas.
With 280GTX I turned settings to high, upped view distance to 3500m and enabled bloom and the game runs with smooth 35-45 fps in most of the areas, with minor spikes down to 20-25 fps.
As a side note, Assassin's Creed, Hellgate London and especially Mass Effect run now perfectly too - I had performance issues in all of them with 9800GX2. 9800GX2 feels like an expensive mistake now, and I thought I had learned my lesson with 7950GX2.
I went from 9800GX2 to 280GTX today, and wow what a difference in Age of Conan at 2560x1600. I got barely acceptable performance out of AoC with 9800GX2 and even that required turning down several graphics settings. Fps often spiked very often below 20 fps, especially in town/village areas.
With 280GTX I turned settings to high, upped view distance to 3500m and enabled bloom and the game runs with smooth 35-45 fps in most of the areas, with minor spikes down to 20-25 fps.
As a side note, Assassin's Creed, Hellgate London and especially Mass Effect run now perfectly too - I had performance issues in all of them with 9800GX2. 9800GX2 feels like an expensive mistake now, and I thought I had learned my lesson with 7950GX2.
because sli is a farce? AFR framerate numbers from benchmarks are meaningless, the latency and sync issues make the effective framerate (what you actually see while playing not the number) much less. This is why the 280 appears to run much faster than the X2 to many people who can see the microstuttering, besides sli doesn't do shit for AoC anyway, the 9800x2 is barely faster than one 8800gt.
I think he/she was just trying to show that the gpu utilization was hitting 80% and getting a decent fps well above what people with the 3800 series card are reporting regarding gpu util....
I don't think he was trying to out "FPS" you ... no fear your pwnage is safe
