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CPU Results: The E8400 appears to tie the Q6600 at 1280x1024 but beats the Q6600 at 1680x1050 (using AA, very high settings, etc).
High End GPU Results: A 260 SLI beats a 4870 X2 but, the 4870 beats a 260. IMO, this may change with future driver releases (Cat 8.10 results are unknown at this time).
Midrange GPU Results: the 4850 beats the 9800 GTX+ @ 1680x1050 w/4xAA is used. At 1280 I would have liked to see results at 1280x1024 at 4xAA instead of 0xaa and 2xAA.
Great news, looks like my 8800GT @ 9800GTX+ clocks and E6300 @3.15 GHz will suffice for yet another slew of new releases!
so quadcore is still not optimized?
The "review" was done at too high a setting to truly determine how much this game takes advantage of quadcore. If they would have used a faster GPU like the 4870x2, then we would have a better idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manicdan
But, the C2Q 6600 delivers equivalent performance of a dual core that is clocked 600mhz higher (and with more cache), so something is going on.
A 25% gain, so not far off from the 30% Ubisoft claimed one would get from a quad.
I reckon the remaining 5% would come from using a Yorkfield rather than a Kentsfield.
where is the gtx280 in all of this!
Farcry is "the way its meant to be played" BS right?
the x2 bench fails its with a q6600 266fsb huge IO bottle neck for xfire
obviously, this game is developed for x360, 3 year old hardware... graphics haven't changed for the last while because of this... with only a couple exceptions.Quote:
Originally Posted by munim
Looks like they used a QX9650 @ 3.0GHz with a 4870 X2. IMO, that QX9650 should have been OC to at least 3.60GHz.Quote:
Originally Posted by zanzabar
Definitely need a much faster CPU to stop the 4870X2 being bottlenecked. I was still gaining an extra 2fps in Crysis going from 3.6-3.8 on my Q9450, which shows it was still being bottlenecked.
Shame they used Cat 8.9 Drivers. The 8.10s give an extra boost in performance aswell.
I think both Nvidia and ATI need to optimize their drivers for this game.
why do you think that when the engine has been around for a while nowQuote:
Originally Posted by Carfax
The Dunia engine used in Far Cry 2 as far as I know, is completely new.Quote:
Originally Posted by franksnb
lol look at 4670 it nearly reaches 8800gt
Yea, but ATI has more work to do. Look at the 4850... it's all over the place!Quote:
Originally Posted by Carfax
Yay... looks like my rig will not need any upgrades! Long live the conroe!
I sense this will be the final justification to upgrade to a 4870 and a, err, modern motherboard to get the most out of my quad...
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why do you think that when the engine has been around for a while now
Yes this is true. It has nothing to do with any other companies' engine. Its a new engine from UbisoftQuote:
Originally Posted by Carfax
8800gt equalling the 9800gtx+ at one point and the hd3870 beating a hd4850. Newer drivers definitely need to come out before making proper comparisons. When is the game out?
22nd of October I believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by ghost101
Looks good too, doubt it will live up to expectations, but nothing does these days :ROTF:
or 16x12 at 2xAAQuote:
At 1280 I would have liked to see results at 1280x1024 at 4xAA instead of 0xaa and 2xAA.
I hope drivers improve performance greatly since non of them are above 60 fps on good settings.
It's like Crysis as far as fps split between the low, high settings. Lower you don't gain very much, higher you can lose a lot.
Wonder if this game will play like crysis to with 30 fps average being good enough for single player and online if this is as good as it gets.
Hmm, looks like you need around a 3GHz C2D (or Q6600) and a GTX260 or 4870 for smooth gameplay @ 1680 x 1050, or a 8800GT or 4850 @ 1280 x 1024. Somewhat steep requirements but nothing we didn't come to expect from Crytek.
Somewhat disappointing showings by the GTX260 and Phenom IMO, I expected more from both.
crytek? this game is from ubisoft...Quote:
Originally Posted by Epsilon84
the only thing from crytek is the name.
LOL yeah I meant from the guys that made Crysis + Far Cry. Generally their games push existing hardware to the limit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spectrobozo