PC upgrade for LFS / rFactor
Discussion
I never got round to building the new pc as I mentioned on PH before Xmas - time and money constraints took over..... so I thought I would soldier on with my current pc for a while longer and maybe get a better AGP graphics card. I have already put 1GB of ram in since I started this thread.
I have got back into LiveForSpeed and hope to get rFactor soon.
My PC is a XP-M 2500 with 1GB Ram.
Current Graphics Card is a Radeon 9600.
Last night on multiplayer LFS I was getting about 50 frames per second. I am thinking of upgrading to a Radeon X1600 256mb - How much difference is this going to make to the gameplay ? Or will I hardly notice any benefit for £80 .
My motherboard is AGP so if anyone knows a better card to get for £80 please let me know.
I have got back into LiveForSpeed and hope to get rFactor soon.
My PC is a XP-M 2500 with 1GB Ram.
Current Graphics Card is a Radeon 9600.
Last night on multiplayer LFS I was getting about 50 frames per second. I am thinking of upgrading to a Radeon X1600 256mb - How much difference is this going to make to the gameplay ? Or will I hardly notice any benefit for £80 .
My motherboard is AGP so if anyone knows a better card to get for £80 please let me know.
danwebster said:
Graphics card won't make as much difference.
Depends on what you're going from and to, I went from a GeForce 6600 (256mb) to a 7800 (512mb) and the differences on rFactor and the like are very noticable. I can now run everything at full/max. All depends if the game is GPU or more CPU intensive.
What is your current CPU/ RAM?
rFactor seems quite heavily reliant on CPU and RAM performance. If your CPU is powerful you will see the full benefit from upgrading your graphics card where as if your CPU is quite weak the game may already be CPU limited.
In this situation a fast graphics card may not speed up the game, but should still allow you to run higher graphics setting or resolution without any further degridation in framerate.
I had a Athlon 64 3500+ CPU, 2Gb DDR400 CL2 RAM and a 7950GX2 Video Card and would get poor performance on the grid and sometimes following lots of cars, other times it was very fast. Turning down the graphics options didn't seem to help much either.
I've upgraded the CPU and RAM to a Core2Duo E6600 and 2Gb DDR2-800 RAM and the whole thing is sooo much better
rFactor seems quite heavily reliant on CPU and RAM performance. If your CPU is powerful you will see the full benefit from upgrading your graphics card where as if your CPU is quite weak the game may already be CPU limited.
In this situation a fast graphics card may not speed up the game, but should still allow you to run higher graphics setting or resolution without any further degridation in framerate.
I had a Athlon 64 3500+ CPU, 2Gb DDR400 CL2 RAM and a 7950GX2 Video Card and would get poor performance on the grid and sometimes following lots of cars, other times it was very fast. Turning down the graphics options didn't seem to help much either.
I've upgraded the CPU and RAM to a Core2Duo E6600 and 2Gb DDR2-800 RAM and the whole thing is sooo much better
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