Oct
20
2007
Long overdue update
Author: RobWell, I got the new computer built back in August. I don’t have any benchmarks or anything like that, but this thing is blazing fast. It runs Battlefield 2, World War II Online: Battleground Europe, Company of Heroes, and Civ IV all without stutters or problems of any sort. Frame rates are amazing, compared to what they were before. On the old computer running a XFX 6800GT/256m on a PIV 2.53GHz CPU with 1GB of ram I would get maybe 20 – 30 FPS in Battleground Europe. Now I get anywhere from 35 to 205 FPS. Major improvement, though it’s not as stable as I would like. That has more to do with the game than my rig, though, I think. The lowest FPS is usually in highly populated battles, and usually when I’m also running Fraps or both accounts at the same time. And I can finally play Civ IV on a huge map with all 16 Civs at once. It does have a tendancy to pause for a few minutes after I click end turn after I’ve run the map for a few hours and have contacted all the other civs, but nothing like it used to be.
Now all I need to do is save up for the 30″ LCD monitor and my rig will be complete.
