All good in my eyes. in creating a new game engine, if you guys get this thing working in tip top shape, i cant want to see what it can do in the future.
Intel has higher per-core performance, while AMD gives you more cores for less money. Generally that means, that unless a game has very good multithreading, Intel will always be faster. Sadly, PS2 has terrible multithreading and there hasn't been done anything about that so far. And unless they announce otherwise, I doubt it'll happen, since it's a lot more work than modelling a new gun and taking 7 bucks for that.
I just built a computer using the FX-8350 and a new GTX-570 card (most AMD motherboards do not support 3.0 graphics card socket, so the new 660 would not be optimized all the way). But the 570 is a lot cheaper. I get around 70 FPS and some times as high as 90. It was working extremely fine for 6 months until the last Merge Download, so now I have to reboot every hour.
Are you talking about pci- 3.0? 2.0 is not going to bottle neck a 660 or a 680/7970 for that matter. 3.0 shines in multiple card setups (2-4 cards) and for any single card solutions the difference will be negligible if at all. Hope this helps so that no one upgrades needlessly just for pci 3.0.
If frame rates are just too low, check back later. We'll still be kickin and frame rate will be higher. Shrugging. Why? Because i have a job and can afford to upgrade my COMPUTER If u have an issue with framrate. Simply upgrade. Not hard to do. Step 1. Get job Step 2. Buy Hardware for your shizzle. Look at that. a 2 step process for increasing your framrate. Life's a garden. Dig it.
Clever post! Really clever! this is my setup: i7 2600k @ 4,5ghz 2x 670GTX SLI 8 gigs ram Crucial m4 SSD What is it that i have to upgrade? Oh btw after GU4 i run thet game at 20-25fps in large battles. Before i had like 35, which is not acceptable, too.
It actually introduced performance issues. SOE is working on it. I cant wait for the optmization GU sometime this year. GPU need to be much more used for this game. PS : here is the link to GU4 performance issues : http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/fps-drop-after-gu4.103469/page-17
Right now it feels like SOE is just adding patches to add more stuff for people to by. I doubt we'll ever get a proper optimization patch unless the community keeps pushing. This just sounds like the kind of PR ******** companies like EA spew.
In fairness with WoW you rarely will see that many entities in one place... and when you did (like a massive raid on Stormwind) it brought framerates to a crawl. There are far more things to track here as well. Every bullet and moving object is something that has to be tracked and transmitted frame by frame. With WoW all that was tracked was player location and which spell was being cast on whom. Cut em a little slack, they fixed the frame rate issues with the last update over about a week and a half if I recall.
I'm suffering issues too like the rest of you and I have a rig that probably shouldn't be! (AMD anthlon II x4 4.0GHZ, GTX 650Ti 2gb, 8gb ram, 600w psu etc.) I have faith in these guys, they seem far more devoted to the community's cry for help. Give them time, its an MMO with Crysis graphics, probably alot more going on under the hood than most of us could even envisage.
