Ahh! Major performance Troubles!

[Chip360]

Ok, I am sooooo fed up with this!

Im forkin out about 4 k's in december for a new rig,
and I used to consider what I have now as ok:

AMD Athlon 64 3000 + (1.81 GhZ)
Radeon X800 XL (slightly overclocked)
1 Gig Ram

Ill be buying twin 8800 Gtx's a Core 2 Duo ($980) and 3 gb ram..


I play ArmA with low freakin settings and view distance of about 1200. It runs ok, but when I fly around any of the forests or cities I lag out and throw my keyboard around the room...

I can play pretty much any game on High except for ArmA.

I expect that my new set-up will work, but my question is.. What can I cheaply upgrade on my machine now to tight me over till I fully upgrade?

Ps to Mods: I have tried everything in the tweaks threads and the ARmA becnchmark thread (my score was 1005 and I have the test saved)

[rowdied]

The new patch 1.08 and a 7600gt video card. Can be had for around $100 us, newegg... tigerdirect...etc... I have an Amd 3800 and a 7600gt 2 gig ram and can run it at a view distance of 2500 on high details with shadow and shading detail at normal.

[Chip360]

Hmm ,thankyou Ill look in to this

[-Puma-]

chip get ati 1950 or 1900 series card, currently 30 euros more than 7600gt, and the best part is u can use the card as a physics card in the future http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

http://ati.amd.com/technology/crossfire/physics/index.html

[xmongx]

Just a note on that 7600gt

I have one of those cards and arma runs o.k. with all on normal and shadows off
still get heavy lag from time to time though..the cards are cheap but youd probably be better off paying slightly more

[Sickboy]

I would certainly go for a Radeon X1950 or equilevant; good priced, and very nice performance.
Twin 8800's are NOT going to help your performance in ArmA btw... Most ppl have lost performance when enabling SLI http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif
Maybe in the future though http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

My Current System Specs and Performance (Might come in handy?):
Antec TruePower 600watt powersupply
Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus (Nvidia Nforce 650i + 590 Hybrid)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, both cores running on 3.3Ghz (default 2.4)
2GB DDR2-800 Running 4-4-4-8 1t timings (Corshair, 2x 1GB)
200GB, SATA-2 16mb Cache, 7200RPM - Windows XP Drive
500GB, SATA-2 16mb Cache, 7200RPM - Games Drive
200GB, SATA-2 16mb Cache, 7200RPM - Windows Vista Drive, used for Pagefile in XP
Asus Geforce 8800GTX 768MB Stock Speeds atm
22" Iiyama CRT, Running 1600x1200@100hz
Soundblaster X-Fi

Windows XP SP2, All Updates, latest drivers for Chipset, Videocard and Soundcard. Mainly from guru3d.com

Game Settings:
ArmA Czech, v1.08, Maxmem setting on 512
Video: VD: 5000, All Settings on Very High, except Antialiasing on Normal
Audio: Eax & Hardware Acceleration Enabled

SP Performance:
Usual FPS: ~35
Drops to: ~20, mainly in towns or scope
Highest: ~50

MP Performance:
Usual FPS: ~50
Drops to: ~30, mainly in towns or scope
Highest: ~don't remember

[Chip360]

Nice, and Ill look into that other card everyones talking about (I really need a cheap fix now, and I say cheap just because Im mustering up for the bug buy... So It will probably be a "giveaway to a friend" grafix card)