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[Bill Lumbar]

Roland, on 19 December 2014 - 10:40 AM, said:

Here's some actual real information for folks regarding graphics card hardware and its impact on gaming.
http://www.tomshardw...ths,3694-5.html

Good read and that about sums it up.

[cSand]

Bill Lumbar, on 19 December 2014 - 10:28 AM, said:

I am not sure if it really even comes down to what any game uses at this point.... but more to do with how a game is optimized under the hood/engine. I have went from 512 mb cards to 1 gb to 2 gb and now my current 7970 3 gb card. I have played many different games, Several like DOW and DOW II, Aliens vs. Predator, and MWO, I have noticed a very noticeable difference in fps, and smoothness while playing the game after upgrading to the 6870 2 gb card. Other games I play, not so much once I got past any card with 1 gb of ram. My XFX 6870 2gb will play this game, and gets me about a 25-35 avg fps tops.... this of coarse is before MWO did the 64-bit switch, so I haven't tried it out yet on my other rigs.


yep.....I run on a Hanns-g 1900x1200 resolution.... and it plays a huge part on how many FPS you will get from your given card. Higher resolution played, the more taxing it is on the graphics card.

Ahh yes nice to see another rockin the 16:10

16:9 is just too narrow!

[Bill Lumbar]

cSand, on 19 December 2014 - 10:53 AM, said:

Ahh yes nice to see another rockin the 16:10

16:9 is just too narrow!

At some point... if this game ever gets its $hit together..... I will be building a full sim pit... 3 displays, and all the nice little buttons and cockpit buttons to fully make this feel like a real Sim game. Sigh.....one day......

[cSand]

Bill Lumbar, on 19 December 2014 - 11:19 AM, said:

At some point... if this game ever gets its $hit together..... I will be building a full sim pit... 3 displays, and all the nice little buttons and cockpit buttons to fully make this feel like a real Sim game. Sigh.....one day......

I look forward to some pics sir

[LORD TSARKON]

HELP

I have Intel i3-2125 CPU @ 3.30 GHz with 8 GB RAM GPU Nvidia GTX 260 64 bit OS

Will this 64 Bit Client even help me?> I would like a more Computer savvy person chime in...

Thanks in advanced

[Bill Lumbar]

cSand, on 19 December 2014 - 11:23 AM, said:

I look forward to some pics sir

I will post them when that day comes...... God....I really hope that day comes!

[Superslicks]

One thing I have noticed using 64bit client, Is my fan speeds have now dropped
regards
josh

[Bill Lumbar]

LORD TSARKON, on 19 December 2014 - 11:46 AM, said:

HELP

I have Intel i3-2125 CPU @ 3.30 GHz with 8 GB RAM GPU Nvidia GTX 260 64 bit OS

Will this 64 Bit Client even help me?> I would like a more Computer savvy person chime in...

Thanks in advanced

You may see some improvements with your system, but I believe your CPU and your GTX 260 might limit your gains. Your 260 is a weak link in your system for sure. Try it, and give us some info on Fps before and after you try the 64 bit client. I look forward to see your results. I might just fire up my Intel Q9550 at 4 ghz and 8 gbs of ddr2 1066 ram with my 6870 2 gb card and see what gains I get out of it with the 64-bit client. Game was still very playable at mid- high settings with that setup, Should be interesting to see if it improves non the less.

[Bill Lumbar]

Superslicks, on 19 December 2014 - 11:48 AM, said:

One thing I have noticed using 64bit client, Is my fan speeds have now dropped
regards
josh

Dropped on your graphics card or your Cpu? I am running water cooling..... haven't noticed the flow dropping yet,

[cSand]

Superslicks, on 19 December 2014 - 11:48 AM, said:

One thing I have noticed using 64bit client, Is my fan speeds have now dropped
regards
josh

That's pretty wierd man, lol

[Darzok]

I think we can expect it to now be 64 bits of files now and not 32 we will double the game so i expect every one to be happy with 50% more game.

[cSand]

Darzok, on 19 December 2014 - 12:25 PM, said:

I think we can expect it to now be 64 bits of files now and not 32 we will double the game so i expect every one to be happy with 50% more game.

mind blown

[EgoSlayer]

girl on fire, on 19 December 2014 - 09:56 AM, said:

I heard that very few games ever use more than 1GB of VRAM is this true?

When CW first dropped I was seeing MWO using all 3GB of memory on my video card, and was getting frequent crashes to desktop. Dropping down the detail a bit and using DX11 it was stable and using 2.7 to 2.9GB. Newest patch seems to be even better on memory usage even back to my old settings.

But in my FPS testing on the 32-bit vs 64-bit client in testing grounds I am seeing a 3-4FPS loss in the 64-bit client. But the FPS is better than the previous patch by about 10FPS, and DX11 is faster than DX9. I am GPU bound though, my CPU is pretty lightly loaded, even in CW matches.

[Wildstreak]

Tried the 64 Bit client.
Saw no impact.
I know some said do not look at frame rates though I did. Thing is even ignoring that, I still saw nothing that indicated some improvement.
Going to send a DxDiag with 2 Omicrons, one for 64 Bit & one for 32 Bit to Support to see what they make of it and maybe if improvements are needed they might see that.

[Bill Lumbar]

Merchant, on 19 December 2014 - 12:51 PM, said:

Tried the 64 Bit client.
Saw no impact.
I know some said do not look at frame rates though I did. Thing is even ignoring that, I still saw nothing that indicated some improvement.
Going to send a DxDiag with 2 Omicrons, one for 64 Bit & one for 32 Bit to Support to see what they make of it and maybe if improvements are needed they might see that.

What are your system specs?

[cSand]

I think people are overestimating the performance boost here

Do no expect to see any kind of increase switching from 32 to 64 bit

You may, depending on certain specs of your system, but the likeliest case is that you will notice nothing at all


just saying

[monk]

I recently had to switch to DX11 due to the memory allocation bug introduced with CW. In the past DX11 was brutal on my machine even though it ought not be. With this 64bit client, however, things are smoother than before the new client was released. My FPS also seems to have stabilized and slightly improved with the combination as well. If I could only get crossfire working properly so I could properly utilize my other 6950 I'd be happy as a lark. I'm enjoying all the updates to MWO lately, but it would be fantastic to get an optimization pass sometime. =P

Edited by monk, 19 December 2014 - 01:02 PM.

[Mothykins]

cSand, on 19 December 2014 - 01:00 PM, said:

I think people are overestimating the performance boost here

Do no expect to see any kind of increase switching from 32 to 64 bit

You may, depending on certain specs of your system, but the likeliest case is that you will notice nothing at all


just saying

Yeah. I don't know what happened, I had the gains I posted, then all of a sudden I'm getting heavily throttled. :I

As the same time, I'm thinking THAT is my Graphics card. I have no clue what's wrong with it, but it loses drivers and FILLS its memory more andmore the longer the computer stays running, until it crashes looking at images in Opera.

[Roadkill]

cSand, on 19 December 2014 - 10:53 AM, said:

Ahh yes nice to see another rockin the 16:10

16:9 is just too narrow!

Word. Mine's also 1920 x 1200. Just can't stand the really widescreen shape for a computer monitor.

Would love to upgrade to a nice 2560 x 1600 monitor... *sigh*

[Bill Lumbar]

Roadkill, on 19 December 2014 - 01:15 PM, said:

Word. Mine's also 1920 x 1200. Just can't stand the really widescreen shape for a computer monitor.

Would love to upgrade to a nice 2560 x 1600 monitor... *sigh*

Well up till a few months ago I was rockin it out to a Old school Apple 30" HD display. I have to admit, I loved it. I picked It and a Intel Mac pro tower up off a guy up near Madison WI after responding to his craiglist ad. He had a audio studio and one day in the middle of an edit, the Mac shut down, wouldn't power back on. He took it to an Apple store, and they told him it was most likely the Motherboard was bad. He said they wanted to charge him like $800 to fix it, but they couldn't get to it right away. He was in a hurry and picked up a new 27" IMac.

Both the monitor and tower was in mint condition. I told him when I showed up that I didn't think it was the Motherboard and bet him it was the stock Nvidia card that went bad. He had both the 30" HD display and the tower listed for $400 bucks. As it turned out, he told me he didn't care, he already upgraded to the Imac. He even told me he would take $350 for it since I drove so far to get it and was for real. (I guess three others didn't show up to get it after telling him they would)

I sold the tower after upgrading the Xeon's in it, and put a brand new Apple 5870 into it. Turned out that alone netted me about $700 bucks after the upgrades I put into it. I kept the monitor much longer then the tower, because of my hackintosh build. Just a few month ago I let it go and gave up all that 2560x1600 goodness up and went back down to 1900x1200. Its amazing how another $800 bucks can make you part with it though. I guess I will just have to live with the lower spec monitor for now. But man, I really miss that Apple 30" at times!