Hehehehe very good mate!



Read somewhere that the FPS can't go much beyond 50-60 FPS with all the eye candy no matter what the system because of some poor optimisations.

Try this one out, turn off all your lights when in flight. I saw an increase of 20 FPS! I received a response on the ED forums that this is because one of those 'poor optimisations'.

I noticed that trick on Black Shark, on BS 1 the flashing beacon would cost you 10fps when in use.... so it stayed off at all times!
in BS2 its about 4 FPS that go.


Maybe Im just picky, I do get up to about 60 fps on very rare occasions, but when Im at the airfields on my tod its mid 20's... I was getting mid 20's with my previous card.. so theres a bottleneck on the system somewhere it's running at exact same resolution as before (max res of my monitor is 1680 x 1050) but does look a lot nicer at the moment, even with all the bells and whistles turned off its still very smooth, no jaggies etc...

i5 750 overclocked to 4.1GHz, ATI HD 5770 no OC, 8GB DDR3 RAM, Win7 Home 64-bit.

Non-OC CPU vs OC CPU -- faster loading times and I think a few FPS boost as well, 2-5FPS on my test mission.

I've not tried an OC'ed GPU vs non-OC'ed GPU since I'm happy with my framerates. Funny enough, med settings vs high settings gave me the same FPS so I went with the high settings. Blackbird, even if both your hardware can be replaced, I would advise getting the best GPU you can afford first, and OC your CPU. When you upgrade your CPU (and mobo), the new GPU will just carry over with no problems.

Alright, seems the graphics card wins then. Thanks for the posts.

Let us know how you get on with your new card. Looking forward to hearing what you go for.

For reference, I have a HD 5770 and it runs the game fine. However, go for the best card you can afford. Myself, I am hoping to get a 6950/6970 sometime in the near future.

I tend to take my time and address issues thoroughly so I have ordered a new system, since my current one is 4 years old anyway. So this is what I went for:

Antec P-280 case
Intel Core i7 2600k processor
Corsair Hydro H100 cpu cooler
XFX AMD 7950 3GB Dual Dissipation graphics card
16 GB Corsair 1600 DDR3 ram
Corsair Performance Pro 256 GB ssd
ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 Socket 1155 motherboard
Cooler Master 800w Silent Pro Gold power supply

+ my existing displays and other periphals I did not have to replace.

That'll make a decent system for a few years to come, and definitely overkill for DCS A10C or any other game currently on the market

Very nice system!