Help with Age of Conan framerates...

[Jumpem]

At 1920x1200, I am getting 15-30 fps with every option set to high, except antialiasing down to 8Q from 16Q.

My PC is a e6600 (2.4GHz) and an 8800GTX. Will I see any benefit from a faster processor, or am I simply video card limited?

 

[cdmccool]

Video card limited.

Have you turned Bloom off?

 

[Jumpem]

Originally posted by: cdmccool
Video card limited.

Have you turned Bloom off?

Thanks, and no.

I guess I'll look at the new Nvidia card coming in a bit.

 

[natty1]

doesn't that processor overclock easily to 3.0? you should start with that

 

[Jumpem]

Originally posted by: natty1
doesn't that processor overclock easily to 3.0? you should start with that

I had it at 3.6 stable for a while.

 

[Cuular]

If your processor is at 2.4Ghz then that is the bottleneck right now.

For the most part I play eq2. And when I OC'd my 2.4 up to 3.0 it increased the framerate almost the exact same percent as the CPU power was increased. The sweet spot seemed to be around 3.0Ghz for eq2. Above that the FPS improvement dropped way off. So OC the proc a little and see how much your frame rate goes up.

And my graphics card is the same as yours 8800GTX

Edited: for graphics card type.

 

[ctark]

Dont listen to these people saying your processor is the bottleneck. Infact THG just did a review and pretty much busted the myth of the processor being the bottleneck. Its all about graphics power if you want to make a significant jump in framerates

 

[AzN]

You are using 8Q AA @ 1920 which can tax your GPU fillrate and bandwidth. Try 4x.

You are definitely not bottlenecked by processor.

 

[Keysplayr]

That is strange. Right on the box it says:

Minimum System Requirements:
WinXP SP2 or Vista, 1GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 6600, 128MB Video Memory, Intel Pentium 4 3GHz or equiv. And a whopping 32GB of Hard drive space.

Recommended System Requirements:
WinXP SP2 or Vista, 2GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 7900GTX or equiv., 512MB Video Memory, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz or better, and a whopping 32GB of hard drive space.

Doesn't seem to have outlandish requirements, except for that massive amount of hard drive space.

Have you tried defragging your hard drive(s)??? Sounds simple, but if this game utilizes that much HDD space, then it might be
a good idea to defrag.

I just got the game myself, so I'll try 'er out.

 

[Jumpem]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
That is strange. Right on the box it says:

Minimum System Requirements:
WinXP SP2 or Vista, 1GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 6600, 128MB Video Memory, Intel Pentium 4 3GHz or equiv. And a whopping 32GB of Hard drive space.

Recommended System Requirements:
WinXP SP2 or Vista, 2GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 7900GTX or equiv., 512MB Video Memory, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz or better, and a whopping 32GB of hard drive space.

Doesn't seem to have outlandish requirements, except for that massive amount of hard drive space.

Have you tried defragging your hard drive(s)??? Sounds simple, but if this game utilizes that much HDD space, then it might be
a good idea to defrag.

I just got the game myself, so I'll try 'er out.

My drive defrags every night. I can get decent framerates if I use their predefined "High" setting. If you go in bt hand and max everything else they drop.

 

[Throckmorton]

8Q anti alasing? Is that like 8x? What's the point of such a high setting?

 

[Kuzi]

Just turn AA off, you're at 1920x1200, smooth gameplay is more important than a slight improvement in graphics quality while running the game like a slide show.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton
8Q anti alasing? Is that like 8x?

No, according to nVidia (the last I heard), it's supposed to give the next higher AA level (which would be 16X, in this case) worth of eye candy, with only a 50% higher performance hit. So, it looks as if he's running 16x AA, but he's only having the performance degradation of 12x AA.

What's the point of such a high setting?

Making his game run as slowly as possible, obviously.

 

[Jumpem]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton
8Q anti alasing? Is that like 8x? What's the point of such a high setting?

The in-game video settings have 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, 8Q, and 16Q.

 

[Modelworks]

I ran some test during beta of AOC.
The most it used on my dual core @ 3.3Ghz was 65-70%.
8800GTS card at 1600x1200

That was with the game limited to one core.

 

[Sylvanas]

8XQ is a ridiculous level of AA to be using at 1920x1200.....IMO you only really need 2xAA @ 1920x1200, I doubt you can tell the difference when actually playing the game.

 

[AzN]

Try 8x CSAA or just 4xAA. It takes less performance hit. 8xQ and 16xQ really eats frame rates.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

I love playing BF2 @ 1920x1200 16xQMSAA