I bought a 7600GT apg from Newegg for my system >
3.0 barton , 1 gig 3200 ddr ram , 7200rpm WD HD , Winxp sp2 , 450watt ps
I went from a FX5700LE to a 6600 in Dec. (plane jane card , NO GT or nothing) card and seen some improvement , the game "looked" better plus a few fps differace . I then sold that card to a friend and and got the one I have now three weeks agon .
I really didn't see much improvement at all , I can "NOW" run the my PC one step up from "Best Proformace" with the same FPS that I did before . I tryed 4 aa , and Quality and it really looked NICE ( sobs ) but soon as I got near 4 to 5 planes and ground the fps fell and I could feel (see) the game slow .
I run the game at
1024 by 768 , 1024 textures
I have the box check to preload textures , and don't have ANY of the downloadable skins .
I got 75 to 45 fps with all three video cards , but the 6600 and up looks better .
I am thinking that it's cpu bottlenecked .
I got this question though , why can you see the slow down at over 30 fps ??? Is the game hitting the HD or ? I just notice this in AH , only really happens when you come to ground range .