Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
You can have the best graphics card money can buy!
But if you don`t have good latency/ping your card is worthless against an opponent who has a mediocre graphics card but has superior ping!!
A good card will NOT equalize the playing field against somebody who has superior latency/ping!!
Thats gaming101!!!!!
OMG, seriously do you actually know what you are talking about ..
for example BF2,
What the game server actually does is send packets of data of coordinates and instructions for all the none static objects (i.e. vehicles, players, particles , everything except for the map itself) that is its only purpose, and also some other small amounts of data, to your computer.
BF2 then compiles that information on your computer and produces a none AI generated game, when playing this game your computer GFX/CPU will only render the area in which you can actually see.
So coordinates are sent to your comp from the game server, for the position and actions of all players vehicles, blown up particles within an area of the map which your GFX card is rendering, you will find that you will have an option within BF2 to reduce the area in which you can see, and this is where it will become more foggy in the distance (lowering produces more FPS). And also the game server will send information with regards to text that appears on the screen, and also the information that goes on the map in the top right hand corner of the screen.
right ok..
real world comparison go online and game each other this really stresses a system
but you will find that both AMD and Intel are equal to that task. As both systems will be limited by your connection speed.
WRONG!! .. so if i go online with my AMD and you go online with your Intel, this is going to be a good basis for performance comparison between the two
😕, obviously not because the only variable is not going to be connection speed !!!!!!!
what if we both wanted to test the performance of our comps, by upping the resolution and AA/AF and in game graphic quality, and we played on a server in which we had the same ping, and the ping was low.
Q: If you decided to up the Resolution to test CPU, and then up the eye candy to test the GFX card, and you did the same on both comps same settings etc (Intel and AMD) would you still be limited by the connection speed ping latency what ever, if the connection is fine???
A: HELL NO!!!
Sheesh .. **shakes head** .. and I?ve played BF2 on a ping of about 430ms and it still played fine (32 player map), its not the connection speed which denotes computer performance when playing online games.
What i am trying to say, is that if the connection is fine for both comps you are then limited by the performance of the PC, for any given settings.
