My old 8800GTX melted/fizzled and I decided to bite the bullet and go for a card which could also serve as a heater for my icy room
Sadly the performance under the GTX480 - supposedly (on average ;-) the fastest single GPU solution avalable - is as bad as my 8800GTX. There are now also odd blocky shadow artifacts (looks like the shadow is very coarsely sampled, regardless of quality setting). I understand if the game is CPU limited (is it?) upgrading my card should not have made much difference…but the rendering quality has taken a knock and its is less smooth than it was before. I have a Nvidia GTX275 at work and that is much much smoother (of course, that system has a quad-core CPU, while my home one has a Core2 Duo 2.6, but multi-threading in game engines is still not widely used so I'd be surprised if that was the reason) … but even if nothing is streaming from the HDD, the game is still jerky. I suppose I may have some legacy driver issues, but all my other games are fine. I have 4GB of memory and I'm running Windows 7 x64. Any ideas? In the past I upped the process priority of the game exe (by one notch) , but that often led to a crash on exit, and that is not helping as much as it used to.
Sadly the performance under the GTX480 - supposedly (on average ;-) the fastest single GPU solution avalable - is as bad as my 8800GTX. There are now also odd blocky shadow artifacts (looks like the shadow is very coarsely sampled, regardless of quality setting). I understand if the game is CPU limited (is it?) upgrading my card should not have made much difference…but the rendering quality has taken a knock and its is less smooth than it was before. I have a Nvidia GTX275 at work and that is much much smoother (of course, that system has a quad-core CPU, while my home one has a Core2 Duo 2.6, but multi-threading in game engines is still not widely used so I'd be surprised if that was the reason) … but even if nothing is streaming from the HDD, the game is still jerky. I suppose I may have some legacy driver issues, but all my other games are fine. I have 4GB of memory and I'm running Windows 7 x64. Any ideas? In the past I upped the process priority of the game exe (by one notch) , but that often led to a crash on exit, and that is not helping as much as it used to.