Far Cry 2 Benchmarks / Unbelievable gains

[Face2Face]

JPB
Whats up man, Hey i download the new driver and saw a little improvement. My FPS are nothing like yours, but again i am kinda CPU limited. Playing the game is a lot smoother though, and now it is somewhat playable with 2X and 4X AA. I still play without AA for the best frame rates possible.

 

[xxceler8]

If you ask me in this game, and COD, the image quality is noticable lower. I would say much lower.

Of course maybe it is just more visible on my system, due to the 52 inch LCD monitor.


on a 9800gtx OC'd, don't think I can claim a 11% increase as the drivers state. (CPU: OC Q6600)

 

[JPB]

Sup Greenhell6 Yea, it is more likely your cache holding your cpu back like we investigated. You should really get that quad or the *E8400* or something like that. You would notice a huge difference then.

I usually play at 1920x1080 but for the time being, I am running 1440x900. Which of course now I am running Ultra Quality in Far Cry 2 with 4xAA

 

[JPB]

Originally posted by: Greenhell6
JPB
Whats up man, Hey i download the new driver and saw a little improvement. My FPS are nothing like yours, but again i am kinda CPU limited. Playing the game is a lot smoother though, and now it is somewhat playable with 2X and 4X AA. I still play without AA for the best frame rates possible.

Greenhell6. Can you rerun all the exact same tests that we compared in the other thread and post them here ? I would like to see your difference as well.

 

[nemesismk2]

Some impressive results

 

[Face2Face]

It's not even worth it man. I saw 1-3 FPS increase on ultra High quality. I would man, but it takes forever!!! I Hope to have a Q6600 by the end of this year. Would Farcry 2 take advantage of all 4 cores?? I know crysis does....

 

[chizow]

Originally posted by: Greenhell6
It's not even worth it man. I saw 1-3 FPS increase on ultra High quality. I would man, but it takes forever!!! I Hope to have a Q6600 by the end of this year. Would Farcry 2 take advantage of all 4 cores?? I know crysis does....

Newer games will certainly benefit from faster CPUs and more cores, but the others are probably correct diagnosing the problem as the small L2 cache on that E2180.

COD4 + GRiD - Intel CPU Clock for Clock Comparison @ 2GHz

COD5 - 12 Intel and AMD CPUs

Far Cry 2 - various speeds

Left 4 Dead - various speeds massive differences here.

So ya, modern games require faster CPUs just as much as faster GPUs. I'd expect this trend to continue until better multi-threaded/hyperthreading support is implemented and/or hardware physics acceleration becomes the standard.

 

[MustangSVT]

I am really surprised. I was using 180.42 beta so I didnt think it would do me any good. Well, riva tuner and EVGA precision didnt play well together so I had to reinstall the drivers so I installed the new ones. WOW Now I am getting 40~50 avg fps ! before I used to 20~40 avg fps.! (mostly around 30).

Very interesting. 1680x1050 all highest except shadow on medium and no AA. 8800gs and c2d @ 3ghz. 4gb ram with WinXP pro.