Upgrade advice!

[89ShadowUK]

Hey guys!

So I'm currently running RO2 on the following specs;

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
4GB DDR3 Ram
ATi Radeon 5850 1GB GPU
AMD Athlon 64 x2 2.8GHz CPU (I know..)

I'm running the game on Medium/Low with roughly 30 Fps, drops to around 17 at times, such as the first spawn of a map, and artillery.

I was thinking, now that I've come into a little bit of money, that I may upgrade a little bit, thing is, I can't really spend TOO much doing so. So I figured the main thing to upgrade would be my CPU really; so I was looking into some bundles, and found this;

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-047-OP&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1858

Just wondered if anyone was running RO2 on a Phenom of any sort, I've been looking at them, and they're definatly cheaper than most i5s and almost all i7 CPUs, but would going from my AMD Athlon 2.8GHz Dual, to a 3.20GHz Quad Phenom improve performance much? Enough to be worth the

 

[Dirtybandit]

My 955 @ 3.6 does not run this game very well I get roller-coaster fps from 30 to 100 on my rig. I would wait for them to fix the game

 

[89ShadowUK]

Does it drop any lower than 30 Fps? And how well does it handle modern games? WHat sort of settings etc?

It's not just for RO2 you see, I have trouble with most games releasing at the moment.

 

[PUTZ]

Then a simple cpu upgrade should be good. You already have a decent video card and os. Though, you might also need a new motherboard...

 

[Dirtybandit]

Does it drop any lower than 30 Fps? And how well does it handle modern games? WHat sort of settings etc?

It's not just for RO2 you see, I have trouble with most games releasing at the moment.

You will be fine, just you let your know if you want to overclock that cpu you cant its not the BE version. My cpu runs just fine on every game but this one. But that should be fixed sooner or later

 

[Das Bose]

Try and stretch to an intel quad/mobo combo and just re-use your ram and GPU. You should average 50 FPS on high.

If you have to go amd, performance will be considerably worse.

 

[anthonyda]

The best upgrade is to wait for a patch ...