My initial impressions are it looks great and it will be awsome!
My system:
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Name: SiSoftware Sandra Professional Unicode (Win32
x86)
Version: 2003.7.9.73
Done By: Cris Mans
Done On: Thursday, October 16, 2003
Done At: 12:24:05 PM
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< Processor >
Model: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz
Speed: 2.64GHz
Performance Rating: PR3507 (estimated)
SMT Support: 2 Unit(s)
Type: Standard
L2 On-board Cache: 512kB ECC Synchronous ATC
< Mainboard >
Bus(es): ISA AGP PCI IMB USB i2c/SMBus
MP Support: 1 CPU(s)
MP APIC: Yes
System BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. V1.5
Mainboard: MICRO-STAR INC. MS-6728
Total Memory: 511MB DDR-SDRAM
< Chipset 1 >
Model: Micro-Star International Co Ltd (MSI) 82865G\
PE\P Processor to I/O Controller
Front Side Bus Speed: 4x 203MHz (812MHz data rate)
Total Memory: 512MB DDR-SDRAM
Memory Bus Speed: 2x 203MHz (406MHz data rate)
< Video System >
Adapter: RADEON 9800 PRO 128mb
Adapter: RADEON 9800 PRO 128mb - Secondary
< Physical Storage Devices >
Hard Disk: Maxtor 6E030L0 (28.6GB)
CD-ROM/DVD: LITEON CD-ROM LTN526D (CD 52X Rd)
< Logical Storage Devices >
Hard Disk (C:): 28.6GB (13.1GB, 46% Free) (NTFS)
sofii_1 (D:): 560MB (0MB, 0% Free) (CDFS)
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I ran some test with my video card set at 6x anti-aliasing, 16x antistropic filtering with texture quality set to max...in plain words maximum quality. Resalution was at 1280x1024 32 bit color. At first i had some wierd memory leak problem sorta...but as i messed with video settings in the game they went away and I couldn't get them back. black boxes around icons & such i could not get to go away. I am using 3.7 catalyst drivers....tried the 3.8 drivers but 3.7 were better. I also had tracers starting out behind plane and flying past me but that went away also & couldn't get it back. Muzzle flashes of the cannon were showning spit skin pieces flying out but that went away also as I turned on & off video options and couldn't get it back.
In maxed out mode sitting on the RW in a spit firing guns FR dropped to 9fps, strafing a hanger they dropped to 12fps, flying around with some alt looking ahead 35 to 50 fps....looking to side 60-70 fps, straight up produced 240 fps.
Then I went to my video card settings and turned them to max performance...anti-aliasing off...texture & mip mapping detail lowest setting, antistropic filtering off. I kept the same resalution and color depth. I also turned off bumb mapping, horizon & transitions.
Video quality was noticably much poorer but the wierd part is my FR's only increased by about 10%. In both modes i get some minor stutter or hesitations when rolling or changing direstions.
some things i would like to see:
1)Let GV's drive into (thru) tree's so they can hide better
2)some straight tracers mixed with spiral tracers
3)"stacked pancake" trees about impossible to see - kept hitting them flying along ground :-) Looked great from air tho
Hope this helps guys, if there is anything I can do to help Let me know...run some particular stress test or routines I will be glad to help.
Cris Mans
