Upgraded My Computer. Kinda Disappointed.

[superfly27]

Well, we all make mistakes.

I think the trick is looking at benchmarks until your face turns blue. (OK, just an exageration.)

But, seriously, when I asked some people once why there wasn't much of a difference between some video cards on UT2004 benchmarks on xbitlabs, people told me at that resolution, it's just a CPU test. They told me to look at the higher resolution benchmarks and even with AA on to see how the more expensive cards really shine.

OK, so I noticed all video cards show decrease in frame rates when you look at those benchmarks although the more expensive ones decrease very little compared to the cheaper ones. But, notice where the X700 Pro is compared to the 6800 Ultra etc. That card now is at Tigerdirect.com for $90 US. (Don't know why Tigerdirect.ca has it at $135 CDN, the exchange rate is not that high.) Almost insane the difference in price between that card and the 6800 Ultra.

The good news though is fans of UT might get a surprise when UT2007 comes out. The geforce 8 line allegedly will handle UT2007 very well. I think this implies that UT2007 will not rely so much on the CPU as much as UT2004.

 

[bleeb]

hmm... try extreme cooling dawg....

 

[ncasebee]

I'd still rather be playing on this system However. It's still not good enough, but it's alot better. I don't know

 

[ronnn]

I think the rate of change has slowed - so new upgrades are disapointing when compared to a few years ago. I just upgraded my agp vid card - as I was too cheap to go the complete upgrade. Cpu's just don't seem that much faster in the last 2 years.

 

[ncasebee]

Processing CPU power is definately where the lag is. With the coming age of "dual core" we will never see the games that were developed for single threads really shine. Why can't they make faster processors? I've read that both AMD and INTEL are no longer making faster single core processors? So how are they going to get any faster? Sticking two faster chips in a single proc, that isn't effecient is it? Instead of just one we put in two? Shouldn't that draw twice the power, and twice the heat. I don't get it.

 

[Muscles]

ncasebee, push out a little more performance by overclocking. You should have no trouble getting it to around 2.8 ghz. Other than that, your new system is going to last you for a long time because I don't think amd or intel is going to be putting out any faster processors for awhile.....

 

[Sforsyth]

get another GB or ram

 

[ncasebee]

Yeah, I might look into ocing it a bit and definately getting another gig of ram down the road. It just really frustrates. I LOVE how developers put graphical settings in a game that can't be run at the time of release, or anytime soon. With Everquest 2, One Generation later still can't run extreme. Look at DOOM3, Even the 512 MB Video Cards that were "supposed" to run the high mode, ended up being no different than the 256mb ones. Or so I remember.

Why not label the "Extreme" graphics mode, "Extremely sloppy code/Never Gonna happen" mode. I think that would be more appropriate.

The Source and Ut2004 engines are CPU hungry.

 

[superfly27]

I know. It's very peculiar.
That's one of the reasons I may even wait a year AFTER UT2007 comes out to upgrade.
At least in that case, you have UT2004 and UT99 you can play.