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8800GT - Upgrade for COD4 1600 X 1200

30+ FPS is fine for casual gameplay and hence most casual gamers won't see any reason for higher...

For those who player games online and to a reasonably high level of play then anything under 60fps is holding them back...

The whole thing about what the human eye can detect is a dangerous subject :P in studies it was shown that fighter pilots could detect changes that only happened in 2ms (or 500fps) and a large majority of the population can detect changes that only last 1/200th of a second or around 200fps...
 
So the 4870 sounds like a good candidate then. Does anyone have any early clocking potential for these cards? The 8800GT's are amazing clockers - How are the 4870's?
 
Can anyone tell me how to measure avg, max and low fps for a session in COD4? Is there a benchmarking run as in Crisis
 
J.D said:
You can also bring up the console ( hit the key under Escape ) then type \cg_drawFPS 1 (choices are 0,1,2,or 3 where 0 = off) this will show game framerates. You can also use Fraps.
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Yep already sorted that one :D Will try the link though :)
 
well i play at 1600x1200 and i average 100-125 thats with a 4850

heres my settings

1600x1200
4xaa
glow on
spec man on
everything is on except shadows.

always get 100 almost constant never dips below 80 unless very frantic.heres screenshot on my server with nearly 60 on server.fps top corner.

 
Cheers mate.

Followed guide here. I recorded under nomal low res and then under 1680 X 1050.

I assume that when you do into console, the area which says for example:

10145 Frames, 87.3 seconds, 116.2 FPS.

It's talking about average FPS? If so, then that means that there is very little difference between 1024*768 and 1600 * 1050 :eek:

I do however have the FPS capped at 125 which will of cause be effecting the overall average.
 
The 4850 is worth it if you can get £80 for your gt imo I had an 8800gt clocked to 750/1850/2000 and to be honest I still couldn't really touch or activate AA and AF in quite a few games without noticing especially GRID which although I got 48 fps 16x af BUT NO AA that was not the minimum framerate and quite often would go a bit choppy and slowdown the 8800 gt is definitely starting to be at it's limit on 1680-1050 with new games.
 
You have to look at the bigger picture too where in many games the 4850 and 4870 are a massive boost.
 
http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/14990/9

Big Wayne look again. I wouldn't believe the review sites unless you had the 4870 yourself. My friend has two 4870s and I'll be going up his later or tomorrow, so I'll see first hand. After we built his new system we did try Call of Duty 4 out with Crossfire and at 1920x1200 on a 3.6Ghz E6850, 4gb RAM on a DFI-TR2 X48 it was between 100 and 250 FPS in the couple of minutes on the first level on the ship. Sadly we had only finished the messing around at night so there wasn't much time for testing.
 
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beh* said:
Thats what i thought :confused: I choose 125 as it is one of the magic numbers that give you an advantage during online play - hence the low res.

Basically, i want to be able to maintain that advantage whilst also playing at a higher res.
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I play on-line @ 1920 x 1200 on my Dell 24" I have a G92 8800GTS. Max settings
and I get between 40 and 70 FPS. It doesn't affect my performance that much as I'm nearly always top or in the top 3. I just love the eye candy at full settings................cannot wait for the 4870x2 ;)

We have a dedicated box if anyone is up for a game tonight.

=VTA= COD4 Hardcore server

91.192.210.85:32000

* 32 PLAYER *
 
Ok, thanks guys.

Two more questions:

When looking on my settings on the previous page, which ones could i increase without seeing too much impact at that res?

Does everyone here use Gamespy arcade? I can't seem to get it to work on vista 64 usingthe free version :confused:
 
if you get a 4870 you should be able to turn up all the settings to max, AA to at least 4x, and AF to 16x and still maintain a 95FPS ++ average
 
gurusan said:
nope sorry, no idea. I just use the CoD4 server browser
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Yeah same lol. But you can store faviours etc :(

Update: I just did a time demo with some of the settings up and got 93 average (i wish it would include max and low) for 1680 * 1050 and 109 for 1400 * 900.
 
what res? i'm pretty sure it will be unplayable. Anything below 100 average is not really acceptable to me.
 
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