boberro wrote:My 2008 machine knows hardly anything about gaming rigs. Hell, my IT background makes me doubtful towards gaming hardware, but I know one thing: 1920x1080 is not a full resolution. Your vertical resolution should be 1200px
From your lips to the monitor manufacturer's ears boberro. 1920x1080 is a sop to the HD TV mob, with their 1080p specification. Gits cost us 206,400 pixels
and screwed up our aspect ratios overnight, damn their eyes.
BTW, the SSD? Didn't bump up my FPS at all, but
did raise my average FPS, if that makes sense. No more micro-stuttering (or macro-stuttering either), and I was able to raise the texture quality without losing FPS or getting that annoying pop-in as the texture loads. So it's still slow, but feels much smoother and looks much better. Yeah, Arma loads a little faster, but not much (it was only a 40-quid SSD, 120Gb in total, and Arma 3 is all that's on it right now, I didn't move the OS over so the Arma loading time is down from 30 seconds to 20 seconds, ie - not worth writing home about it. Honestly, setting world to none in the command line did more for that than anything else).
Also, the new CPU has arrived in Ireland, says DHL. Might be able to get it by tomorrow which would mean I get to test it saturday and possibly play on Sunday, so we'll see if that helped any. Athlon to Phenom (ie. hello L3 cache) and three cores to six and an extra 0.2GHz clock speed. I think it might have an impact