juiceman1_2000
10th Oct 06, 8:31 AM
http://www.techspot.com/article/20-company-of-heroes-3d-performance/
"..The [tested] system has also been fitted with 1GB of memory rather than 2GBs. Since most gamers still get by with 1GB of memory, we felt it would make more sense."
"As was to be expected, shadows were one setting that really killed performance, particularly high detail shadows. By disabling high quality shadows you can expect to receive a ~30% performance boost, which is obviously quite substantial."
"That said, this kind of setup [an Athlon64 3800+ with a GeForce 7900GT] can still play the game very well with extremely impressive visual quality settings enabled."
Chief points of this article for me. I can use a $100 CPU, $120 RAM, sub $100 Motherboard, $100 VideoCard and still enjoy COH. All those people sayin you had to have 2GB of RAM and a higher class CPU and video card, were quite biased. Now all I need do is get the RAM and Video card
"..The [tested] system has also been fitted with 1GB of memory rather than 2GBs. Since most gamers still get by with 1GB of memory, we felt it would make more sense."
"As was to be expected, shadows were one setting that really killed performance, particularly high detail shadows. By disabling high quality shadows you can expect to receive a ~30% performance boost, which is obviously quite substantial."
"That said, this kind of setup [an Athlon64 3800+ with a GeForce 7900GT] can still play the game very well with extremely impressive visual quality settings enabled."
Chief points of this article for me. I can use a $100 CPU, $120 RAM, sub $100 Motherboard, $100 VideoCard and still enjoy COH. All those people sayin you had to have 2GB of RAM and a higher class CPU and video card, were quite biased. Now all I need do is get the RAM and Video card