Performance

[EvilleJedi]

Please post your system info and any performance issues you run into

 

 

basic template

 

Processor:

Memory:

Video card:

video memory:

resolution played at

Antialiasing level:

ansiotropic level:

 

 

always can go into more detail but this is the important stuff for me anyway

 

my old system was

 

procesor: A64 3000+ (2250mhz)

ram:      1 gig DDR 400 ram

Video:    ATI 9800 pro 128mb

resolution: 1600x1200

Antialiasing: off

Ansio level: off

 

 

explosions lagged, shadows needed to be turned off at all costs

 

upgraded this week to

procesor: A64 3000+ (2250mhz)

ram:      2 gig DDR 400 ram

Video:    nvidia 7900 GS 256 mb

resolution: 1600x1200

Antialiasing: 4x

Ansio level: 8x

 

not completely lag free, but really really close even in huge battles (lets call this the recommended config heh)

[Evaders99]

Eville got a new system, nice

 

I got a new system from the Thanksgiving deals, excellant stuff from Fry's. Though it is a desktop I normally keep at home, so I will try Warlords on it as soon as I can. New computer cost me only $500 (except for DVD drive and Hard Drive)

 

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 (overclocked slightly to 2.2 Ghz)

Memory: 2 GB DDR2 533

Video card: Nvidia 7900 GS (eVGA .. stock specs I believe)

video memory: 256 MB

resolution played at: (fill in later)

Antialiasing level:

ansiotropic level:

[EvilleJedi]

heh evga makes a nice card heh, $149 at newegg

[Freek]

Processor: AMD 64 3500+

Memory: 2x512 DDR3200 DualChannel

Video card: Nvidia Geforce 6600GT Agp8X

video memory: 128MB

resolution played at 1280x960

Antialiasing level: 2x

ansiotropic level: 2x

 

Plays fine with some lag when the battles get massive.

[Evaders99]

After all the rebates, it was $120. An excellant deal considering the on-label price was $250. eVGA also has a lifetime warranty and their contest to win back the cost of the card.

 

The only thing I'm annoyed about was the MSI motherboard that was bundled with the CPU. Can't figure out how to change the CPU core voltage, otherwise I would seriously try and max it out to the near 2.8 Ghz they've gotten the E6400 to clock.

[Freek]

Me, I'm just waiting until Vista and the DX10 cards get cheaper

[dojoyoda_warlords]

Processor: Pentium IV 2GHZ

Memory: 2GB

Video card: Radeon 9600XT

video memory: 256mb

resolution played at: 1024 x 768

Antialiasing level: off

ansiotropic level: off

 

I bought this sucker in 2000, did some minor upgrading. It's a real dinosaur now. Hopefully buying a new system next year....bring on SLI.....

[Evaders99]

SLI generally isn't worth it for the price. If you spend that much money, just go and get the next higher single card. It will perform better than the SLI dual setup usually. (Of course, if you want to go all out and get the latest 8800 GTX .. and then SLI that baby... sinking $$$ down the drain)

[dojoyoda_warlords]

wouldn't it be nice?

 

Two 8800's against my current clunker would be like a race between a jet and a monocycle being ridden by a one legged man.

 

*sighs* money, money, money........

[Darth Malice]

atm im using a

 

P4 2.8ghz

1.5megs of ddr ram ( 233mhz i believe, my computers like 4years old)

256meg Geforce 6600 x8 agp

res: 1024x768

Antialiasing level: x8s

ansiotropic level: x4

 

works fine however with the constant building and the death models its starts to lag alot, man i wish i had PCIe

Edited January 24, 2007 by Darth Malice

[ViceroyZen]

Processor: P4 2.4 Ghz Hyperthreaded

Memory: 1.25 GB DDR

Video card: nVidia GeForce 6800 GS/XT

video memory: 256mb

resolution: 1280 x 1024

Antialiasing level: on

ansiotropic level: on

 

Everything works nicely, even when I see my precious Munificents, Recusants, Providences, and Trade Fed Cruisers bite the dust. ^^

[Darth Malice]

  Evaders99 said:

SLI generally isn't worth it for the price. If you spend that much money, just go and get the next higher single card. It will perform better than the SLI dual setup usually. (Of course, if you want to go all out and get the latest 8800 GTX .. and then SLI that baby... sinking $$$ down the drain)

 

not sure how possible that is with a 8800 due to size(i guess it depends on your motherboard), besides the 8800 GTX is far to overpriced, you might as well get a BFG Tech GeForce 8800 GTS OC 640MBPCI Express, its about 150 cheaper and only slightly less powerful, its core clock is 550 while GTX is 600 and its shader clock is 1300 compared to 1400 on the GTX. I think im gona get one of these when i build my new computer, really gona put my old 6600 to shame ( its not even half as powerful)

[skyblazer]

p4 1.7gbhz

1gb of ram

radeon 9550 256mb

1280 x 1024

Antialiasing level normally just on 2x but ive set it upto 6x and notice pretty much no difference.

ansiotropic level is 16x

 

FPS zoomed out is around 40fps, zoomed all the way in 10fps, zoomed mid way in around 20fps.

[Evaders99]

It is possible to do 8800 in SLI..

http://www.techreport.com/onearticle.x/11686

[Darth Malice]

yeah i know it can do do SLI, what i meant was actually having big enough space on your motherboard to do it that article was however very interesting, seems its not worth getting the GTX for SLI, you may as well get the cheaper one which only performs slightly less, still i think the GTX is a much better buy, i think im gona be getting a GTX now, i was going to get a pre-overclocked GTS, man i was really shocked by the performace difference  (as in single card mode, looks like the GTX peaks with current drivers).

 

BTW, i changed my views on it being overpriced for myself anyways as hopefully i should be getting a new rig within a week or so

[aztec]

My system

 

Processor:AMD 3200+

Memory:1024 MB dual channel

Video card: ATI X1950GT

video memory:512 MB

resolution played at 1024x768

Antialiasing level:6x

ansiotropic level:16x

;D