Post 1.3 framerate increase?

[Fridgebadger]

Anyone seen a big framerate improvement since 1.3? I've seen people claiming a 15fps improvement, but I've got nuttin'.

I've got a dual quadcore, and before the patch only one core was doing all the work. Since the patch, it seems some of the work is spread out (though it's difficult to check because of the alt-tabbing issues the new patch has (re)introduced), but I'm not getting any improvement in fps during the battles. I'm running everything on ultra, and it's still stuck around 15-17.

Anyone else noticed a big improvement?

[AussieGiant]

Mate,

Do you have a quad core, or a dual core. I assume Dual. A dual quad is confusing.

I have a dual core overclocked from 2.4Ghz to 3.4Ghz, and I'm running an overclocked 8800GTX. I'm not running everything on Ultra because I too would be in the teens. My resolution is also 4:3 format at 1600x1200.

I've seen an increase on the campaign map from 26 to 34 fps to 40 to 45 fps. In the Land and Sea battles it's more variable but there is an increase for sure at least 5 to 10 fps. The increase is enough for me to consider increasing some of the settings or upping the AA or AF.

[Daveybaby]

If you have an older graphics card then its likely to be a bottleneck, so an increase in CPU power isnt going to much in the way of noticeable improvements in framerate.

[Fridgebadger]

Sorry, I'm no expert, but I think it is a dual quad-core (at least it's called that in some corners of the internet). As far as I can tell, it's got two Xeon quad-core processors - there are certainly 8 cores in device manager, and looking in the Performance tab in Task Manager, there's 8 little cpus beavering away.

I've got a 768Mb Quadro FX as well, which I know isn't a gaming card, but I can't see why I'm not getting more performance, specifically the rubbish framerate.

[AussieGiant]

Fridgebadger

You have a developers machine that seems to be made for programming not gaming. You will not get very good performance because 768Mb Quadro FX are designed for graphics creation, not playing games.

Daveybaby is correct. Most games are GPU bound, some should/could see a difference some may not depending on set ups.

[Fridgebadger]

Yeah, it's designed for 3d modelling and cad apps. Thought I'd be getting more than 17 fps though... (still perfectly playable at that rate, I find)

[Barkhorn1x]

I have a crappy CPU = AMD Athlon 64 AM2 3500+, but a nice card = EVGA 9800GT 1G 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express (2.0). And I gotta tell ya, battles are much smoother now on medium to high settings - Huge units - and none of that post processing crap. I am very pleasantly suprised.