Acceptable is 30, ideal is 60. And you sound like a rich know-it-all that comes here to brag. AA is wrong by design right from the start, you need a monitor good enough to actually see the difference between uber settings, and it's not with a common 200-400 monitor. You serious, a buggy-no-software-threaded-for-3-cores X3? LOL Make it a X2 or a X4 and that means actual business.
Sure, any midrange nvidia GT can run GTA IV, as well as midrange atis HD4/5, but I laugh at the ram amount. You certainly think size matters, period :)) Oh yes, shadows kill each and every game, not per pixel lighting or advanced dynamic lights. Let me see if I get this straight, 30fps=choppy/stuttering? Sureeee. That almost reminds me of other gpu vendor forums, and creative also had nice posts like that. I know it's awful when guys buy really good machines, brag about them, and suddenly they see 3 years old Laptops running the latest games without any problem. Yes, that core 2 duo ran the game without any problems, with quite old drivers (which were the main deterrent to performance), quite playable 30fps, no stutter, view distance and some shadows. :O On Jul 19, 2:37 am, Cef <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know what you mean by acceptable FPS, my acceptable amount is > solid 60 FPS with a maximum slowdown of 45, which is what I get with > 16x AF and around 8x AA, all on high or very high in Alien Vs > Predator, BioShock, Stranglehold, Street Fighter IV, Devil Mat Cry IV, > Left 4 Dead 2, Borderlands and almost any game, except of course GTA > IV, where frames go from 55 to 30 all on high, but with shadows off. > > If acceptable frames for you is 20 or 30, which would only give you a > choppy and stuttering game, then yeah GTA IV runs good in a Core2Duo, > only 2 GB of RAM, and a 8600 with 256 mb. Maybe on low and no view > distance at all, or in medium with those flickering low shadows, but > if I'd like to play an ugly looking and slow version of the game I'd > get an XBOX 360 or a PS3. > > I still say, 4GB's of RAM, a QuadCore or Phenom II X3 BE, and any GTX/ > HD4/5 GPU with 1 GB of memory, as minimum to run it smoothly. > > .C. -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
