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JustJohn



Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

IncognitoHFX wrote:
CoD4 runs very well on very little. At home I'm running at 2GHZ AMD (non-dual core) with 1GB of RAM and a GeForce8600GT video card.
... but CoD4 runs beautifully no matter how intense the firefight--and this is with all of the settings maxed out (except you can only have the real high def textures with Vista + DirectX 10 which I don't have).


I find this difficult to believe, unless the 8600 is significantly better than I've been led to believe. I was told they perform on par with something like a 6800.
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eamo



Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JustJohn wrote:
IncognitoHFX wrote:
CoD4 runs very well on very little. At home I'm running at 2GHZ AMD (non-dual core) with 1GB of RAM and a GeForce8600GT video card.
... but CoD4 runs beautifully no matter how intense the firefight--and this is with all of the settings maxed out (except you can only have the real high def textures with Vista + DirectX 10 which I don't have).


I find this difficult to believe, unless the 8600 is significantly better than I've been led to believe. I was told they perform on par with something like a 6800.


The 8600GT would be closer to the 7800GT.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html?modelx=33&model1=859&model2=722&chart=318

It all depends on what settings you use. You could get away with playing CoD4, with low settings, on as little as a 6800GT.
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JustJohn



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmm, I remember seeing some tests where the 7900 STOMPED the 8600, and the 7900 is basically a tweaked out 7800. Can't be that much difference between the two.
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IncognitoHFX



Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon

PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JustJohn wrote:
IncognitoHFX wrote:
CoD4 runs very well on very little. At home I'm running at 2GHZ AMD (non-dual core) with 1GB of RAM and a GeForce8600GT video card.
... but CoD4 runs beautifully no matter how intense the firefight--and this is with all of the settings maxed out (except you can only have the real high def textures with Vista + DirectX 10 which I don't have).


I find this difficult to believe, unless the 8600 is significantly better than I've been led to believe. I was told they perform on par with something like a 6800.


I don't know what to tell you Shocked I played it last night for a couple of hours with all of the settings on high, the antialiasing on 2x at 1024x768 with everything turned up to "High". Never dropped below 30fps and there was no system lag whatsoever.
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chevro1et



Joined: 01 Feb 2007
Location: Busan, ROK

PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

IncognitoHFX wrote:
JustJohn wrote:
IncognitoHFX wrote:
CoD4 runs very well on very little. At home I'm running at 2GHZ AMD (non-dual core) with 1GB of RAM and a GeForce8600GT video card.
... but CoD4 runs beautifully no matter how intense the firefight--and this is with all of the settings maxed out (except you can only have the real high def textures with Vista + DirectX 10 which I don't have).


I find this difficult to believe, unless the 8600 is significantly better than I've been led to believe. I was told they perform on par with something like a 6800.


I don't know what to tell you Shocked I played it last night for a couple of hours with all of the settings on high, the antialiasing on 2x at 1024x768 with everything turned up to "High". Never dropped below 30fps and there was no system lag whatsoever.


At that res, it sounds about right to me.
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IncognitoHFX



Joined: 06 May 2007
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

chevro1et wrote:
IncognitoHFX wrote:
JustJohn wrote:
IncognitoHFX wrote:
CoD4 runs very well on very little. At home I'm running at 2GHZ AMD (non-dual core) with 1GB of RAM and a GeForce8600GT video card.
... but CoD4 runs beautifully no matter how intense the firefight--and this is with all of the settings maxed out (except you can only have the real high def textures with Vista + DirectX 10 which I don't have).


I find this difficult to believe, unless the 8600 is significantly better than I've been led to believe. I was told they perform on par with something like a 6800.


I don't know what to tell you Shocked I played it last night for a couple of hours with all of the settings on high, the antialiasing on 2x at 1024x768 with everything turned up to "High". Never dropped below 30fps and there was no system lag whatsoever.


At that res, it sounds about right to me.


I can play it at 1280x1024 if I want. I just don't see much of a difference with the anti-aliasing turned on. I like my extra 5fps.
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hanguker



Joined: 16 Mar 2005
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've got an 8600GT (factory O/C) and it smokes COD4 @ 1280.

The 8600 cards got a bad rap because they didn't perform as well as expected (people had REALLY high expectations for 150K at the time), but they still perform pretty freaking good!
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JustJohn



Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alright, well 1024x768 30+ frames a second sounds about like what I would have expected actually.

I guess I assumed you meant high res 60fps or something. That's what happens when you assume.
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IncognitoHFX



Joined: 06 May 2007
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JustJohn wrote:
Alright, well 1024x768 30+ frames a second sounds about like what I would have expected actually.

I guess I assumed you meant high res 60fps or something. That's what happens when you assume.


It's perfectly playable. My FPS is fine, and nothing would consistute "slowdown" or "laggy play".

Let's talk about Crysis. I can run that one at medium settings without any significant slowdown, spare when I am looking at the entire island at once.
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Demophobe



Joined: 17 May 2004

PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

IncognitoHFX wrote:


I can play it at 1280x1024 if I want. I just don't see much of a difference with the anti-aliasing turned on. I like my extra 5fps.


With that engine, it would look better to turn of AA, turn on AF and play at 1280. You may even get away with turning up some of the texture details. FSAA on the 8600 pummels framerates on both the 256 and 512MB models thanks to the crippled bus.
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