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What is your current graphic hardware

GF 6000 Series
7 (2%)
GF 7000 Series
9 (2.6%)
GF 8000 Series
31 (8.9%)
GF 9000 Series
30 (8.6%)
GF 200/300 Series
32 (9.2%)
GF 400 Series
4 (1.2%)
X-Series
4 (1.2%)
X1000-Series
5 (1.4%)
HD 2000 Series
3 (0.9%)
HD 3000 Series
2 (0.6%)
HD 4000 Series
44 (12.7%)
HD 5000 Series
41 (11.8%)
256 MB or less
13 (3.7%)
512 MB
49 (14.1%)
1024 MB
54 (15.6%)
more than 1024 MB
19 (5.5%)

Total Members Voted: 218

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Offline Excavus

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Re: The Comunity Hardware Poll
« Reply #30 on: 20-08-2010, 03:08:49 »
What's the best GPU for BF2?
Whatever is best on the market but a 7900 GS should run it just fine with 60 FPS and it was released at about the same time BF2 was.

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Re: The Comunity Hardware Poll
« Reply #31 on: 20-08-2010, 03:08:44 »
What's the best GPU for BF2?

I'm not sure. I remember back on my 8800 GTS 320MB I had back in the day, if you looked closely at polygon intersections, they would flicker. My ATI 4870 doesn't do so, but it has bad problems with shadows.
Do newer Nvidia cards also have the flicker problem?
(you probably need to be very very attentive to graphics to notice).

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Re: The Comunity Hardware Poll
« Reply #32 on: 20-08-2010, 03:08:58 »
@Lainer
Must be hard having your videocards duelling each other ;)

It is.....But the good news is that one of them is winning because the fan has gone straight to the shitter.  So now the race is on to see if I get around to getting a new fan before the GPU burns up.
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Re: The Comunity Hardware Poll
« Reply #33 on: 20-08-2010, 04:08:25 »
GF7600GS 256MB

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Re: The Comunity Hardware Poll
« Reply #34 on: 20-08-2010, 09:08:25 »
Should be based on high end, low end, and mid end. Because an ATi 3800 will easily out perform an ATi 4200.

That is true, but I wanted to keep it simple. I first thought about something like " If you have a midrange card, select one generation older", but I was afraid that people do not know if they have mid-range or performance or low-end. And I think that FH2 is more limited by the memory than by the computational power of the cards.
My old card was an HD 2600XT with 256 MB and I had to set textures and geometry to low because I had loading lags when moving through the map. When I stood still and only moved the mouse it ran on 30-60 fps.

Now I have a HD 5850 with 1 GB (I accidently voted more than 1GB  :o) and enjoy myself messing around with viewdistances in the editor. I think that the look of the game can still be improved by doing that and if the average grafic performance of the community increases we could have this in the official maps. Maybe the old african maps could be spiced up too with some more under and overgrowth or just by increasing the view distance.

Here is an example of how a desert could look like (don't mind the leave texture on the ground)



Undergrowth viewdistance is 200m. You can see the small gap between horizon and the stonefield. When looked at from above it is more visible but looks not as good so I did not show it  ::)
African maps are realy light enough to do some stuff like that and it does not take much time to make it.
« Last Edit: 20-08-2010, 09:08:09 by Knitschi »

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Re: The Comunity Hardware Poll
« Reply #35 on: 20-08-2010, 09:08:33 »
Home: Nvidia 9600GT 1024Mb

(Work): Nvidia 6800 512Mb - runs FH2 on all low. (On a old Pentium IV)  ;D
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Re: The Comunity Hardware Poll
« Reply #36 on: 20-08-2010, 09:08:36 »
Sadly not only the Graphicscard is importent. Also the Speed 1 single of your Core CPU can bring. Not to mention the number of object and the number of Different objects

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Re: The Comunity Hardware Poll
« Reply #37 on: 20-08-2010, 09:08:15 »
Ati HD 4850 Pro 512Mb
it was the best deal I ever made :P

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Re: The Comunity Hardware Poll
« Reply #38 on: 20-08-2010, 10:08:41 »
ATI 5770 - 1024Mb Ram
since my GF 8800 GT - 512 Mb Ram died :(

But even if the ATI is newer and much faster in most games, it performs much worse than my GF 8800 GT with the FH2 shader effects (especially smoke). I played with both cards in 1920x1080. But maybe I had no AA enabled with the GF card, but come on..
Crappy BF2 Engine is hoplessly optimized for Nvidia GeForce Cards It seems.

Turn off V-Sync in the ATI Videocard settings, that should fix your problems.


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Re: The Comunity Hardware Poll
« Reply #39 on: 20-08-2010, 10:08:00 »
HD5650
1024MB

EDIT: And Intel i5-450
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Re: The Comunity Hardware Poll
« Reply #40 on: 20-08-2010, 11:08:53 »
Ati HD4850 512mb and in my older comp I have GF 7900GTO 512mb.

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Re: The Comunity Hardware Poll
« Reply #41 on: 20-08-2010, 11:08:39 »
BFG GTX 260 OC 896MB

The original model, not the MaxCore one. OC'ed out of the box (but not by much admittedly).

Voted 1024MB on the poll.


Used to get some texture flickering and lower than usual FPS in certain areas with a lot of statics, effects and high volume of players. Latest series of nVidia drivers seem to have resolved both issues, though not completely. I do still get texture flickering, but no-where near as bad.

Running it with a C2D 2.66Ghz and 4GB RAM on XP Pro 32-bit if that matters.

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Re: The Comunity Hardware Poll
« Reply #42 on: 20-08-2010, 11:08:36 »
GTX 295, I say up the graphics ;)

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Re: The Comunity Hardware Poll
« Reply #43 on: 20-08-2010, 11:08:38 »
GeForce 7600 GT 256 mb
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Re: The Comunity Hardware Poll
« Reply #44 on: 20-08-2010, 11:08:19 »
HD5770 1GB.

My other (old) PC has a 9600GT 512MB.