what are these adapter cards you speak of? i need to upgrade my gpu. it's a xfx hd5750.
End of rope. What to upgrade?
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Graphic adapter
Graphic card
Video adapter
Video card
If you want to be nitpicky...
Anyways, a better (video device) in the 100-200$ range should improve your performance a great deal. I wouldn't expect much of a gain if you upgraded your CPU, as per my own experience.
PS: I really like the HIS IceQ series of ATI adapters. My 5770 has worked remarkably well for being 120$ new and already being a year old. It's also remarkably quiet.
PSPS: I'm glad to hear the CPU upgrade went well. 6 cores is pretty extreme, but you should get some benefit with multitasking.
Graphic card
Video adapter
Video card
If you want to be nitpicky...
Anyways, a better (video device) in the 100-200$ range should improve your performance a great deal. I wouldn't expect much of a gain if you upgraded your CPU, as per my own experience.
PS: I really like the HIS IceQ series of ATI adapters. My 5770 has worked remarkably well for being 120$ new and already being a year old. It's also remarkably quiet.
PSPS: I'm glad to hear the CPU upgrade went well. 6 cores is pretty extreme, but you should get some benefit with multitasking.
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I'm not sure why everyone seems to think the CPU is the problem here when it is clearly the video card. I play this game just fine on my Athlon II X4 640 with 4GB of RAM (on an AM2+ motherboard with DDR2 just like the OP). The card he has isn't even an older high end card, it's an older lower end card.
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Best bang to buck now for AMD video cards is a 6850. Two of them gives you 580 level performance for ~220$ on sale.
I would suggest hunting around and finding either a 6850 around 100-115 or a 6870 for $130-150. Get one first and see how well that floats yer boat.
( And yes its definitely your card , not the CPU )
Reading over the earlier bits in the post here. The extra ram of the 6870 probably wont help as much as more power. I would recommend 1 Gb 6870's or 6850's in CF.
Then make sure the CF is working properly, if not use Radeon pro to force the CF.
I would suggest hunting around and finding either a 6850 around 100-115 or a 6870 for $130-150. Get one first and see how well that floats yer boat.
( And yes its definitely your card , not the CPU )
Reading over the earlier bits in the post here. The extra ram of the 6870 probably wont help as much as more power. I would recommend 1 Gb 6870's or 6850's in CF.
Then make sure the CF is working properly, if not use Radeon pro to force the CF.
I'll chime in and again and say that 6770/6770 cards are awesome. I got my brothers old 5770 when he upgraded and it performs really, really well if you are on a tight budget. Pretty much the cheapest "gaming" card that you wouldn't be wasting money on.
I have a 965 BE and wanted to volunteer this information. Never really checked my fps in game as it always felt smooth to me. Anyway I just did on Grain Elevator map. My rig:
965BE
Asus mobo
8 gig ram
crappy 9800GT green edition
Win 7 64bit
As playing from the German start I got a solid 35 fps outdoors and up to 45-50 indoors. This was at high preset with no tweaking at all.
Hope this info helps
EDIT: Lol just seen you already made processor choice (missed the entire page 2 of the thread by mistake oops). For sure my graphics card is bottle necking my system, I suspect the same is true of yours. For example BF 3 takes only 60% of my cpu but my GPU is maxed out 100% of the time.
If I had the cash at the time I would also have taken the hexacore from AMD. Still would over a Bulldozer too.
965BE
Asus mobo
8 gig ram
crappy 9800GT green edition
Win 7 64bit
As playing from the German start I got a solid 35 fps outdoors and up to 45-50 indoors. This was at high preset with no tweaking at all.
Hope this info helps
EDIT: Lol just seen you already made processor choice (missed the entire page 2 of the thread by mistake oops). For sure my graphics card is bottle necking my system, I suspect the same is true of yours. For example BF 3 takes only 60% of my cpu but my GPU is maxed out 100% of the time.
If I had the cash at the time I would also have taken the hexacore from AMD. Still would over a Bulldozer too.
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i would personally advise against upgrading just for this game, considering how you get good performance with everything else; but thats just me.
then either your computer works fine or you don't mind bad grapghic quality or you gave up on the game. if he's got the money and he wants a better ro2 experience, i say have at it! go get a great graphics card! we only go around this merry-go round once!
If you can manage it, get 2GB - that will definitely future-proof the system. Rage only looks "how it should(tm)" with 2GB of RAM for example, anything less and, in my opinion, it looks less impressive than most UE3 games - for example Bulletstorm, which is gorgeous
This is directly related to having enough RAM for the textures.However, saying that - I have a GTX 470 with 1280MB, and it does a great job in most games. RO2 looks great on High, but sometimes suffers from FPS drops - mostly I'm 40+, so it's not too bad. Skyrim runs nicely too, on High rather than Very High settings.
One thing to concentrate on - if your CPU clock speed is less than the memory speed of the GPU, you won't get 100% from the GPU. For example my 470 RAM runs somewhere around the 3300 Mhz mark - but my CPU is currently clocked at 3Ghz (3000 Mhz) - so I am not getting full performance, but it's still impressive. I upgraded system RAM to 8GB recently, and now I know the new stuff is stable, I'll be OC'ing my CPU to 3.4 to make sure I get 100% from the 470
One thing to concentrate on - if your CPU clock speed is less than the memory speed of the GPU, you won't get 100% from the GPU. For example my 470 RAM runs somewhere around the 3300 Mhz mark - but my CPU is currently clocked at 3Ghz (3000 Mhz) - so I am not getting full performance, but it's still impressive. I upgraded system RAM to 8GB recently, and now I know the new stuff is stable, I'll be OC'ing my CPU to 3.4 to make sure I get 100% from the 470
Sorry dude, but the VRAM clock has nothing to do with the CPU clock.
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Just get a new video card. The best price/ performance deal might be a Sapphire 6870 for 140