What resolutions do you play at? Mebbe viddy memory is a problem too.
I have to dissagree unless your playing at really high resolutions
i chose your card and the same card with 640mb to show the difference that having twice as much video memory will have
I also chose 1600x1200 as its about in the middle of the resolutions available its also higher than a lot of people are using
3DMark06 (v1.0.2) HDR/SM3.0 Score
HDR-R/SM3.0 Benchmark (1600x1200x32, 4x AA, 8x AF, Default Quality)
most games show less than 5% improvement by doubleing video memory, fsx, doom3, Warhammer Mark of Chaos and prey are actually a tiny bit faster on the 320mb version
the exception appears to be dark messiah which shows a 300% improvement ,this may be some sort if glitch as a 256mb 7800 is 150% faster and a 256mb x1650 is twice as fast
Every one of those games is CPU-limited without extreme settings, and those extreme settings are just what would necessitate the migration to a graphics card with more video memory in the first place.
Not a glitch so why do several cards with less memory run this game much faster when the 8800gts is considered much quicker (as born out by the benchmarks) is an x1650 really twice as fast as a 8800gts and why isnt the extra memory of the 8800gts 320mb vs 256mb increasing performance ? even a 256mb 7800gt beats the 8800
other examples
Oblivion: The Elder Scrolls 4 (Outdoor)
Fraps/THG-Savegame (v1.1) (1600x1200x32, no AA, 8x AF, max Quality, HDR-R) = less than 5% difference
yes we should and like i said i ddint pick the res to show or not show (whatever be the case) any limitation or non limitation, it was picked cos it was in the middle
/Davros is cherry free
New answer, get a 4870 and game happy.I have a C2D 3.2GHz, 2GB RAM and a 8800GTS 320MB. I find myself limited in some flight sims like FSX and I also play Armed Assault, Crysis, STALKER.
What upgrade (if any) would help me the most with flights sims?
I know - I'm the one that stole it
Ok, someone just explain to me what just happened in this thread. I've been away from the video card stuff for some time now. I think more memory is something I do need, but not sure if it's worth spending on right now.
The other problem I'm having right now with FSX is CTD in full screen mode (window mode is fine). This is a known (but unfixed) problem with nvidia cards. ATI/AMD doesn't seem to suffer from the same problem.
With that in mind, is there any good AMD/ATI card out there would beat my 8800 GTS 320mb and be worth the $?
If your talking about just fsx then no
would fsx benefit from a quad core since its cpu bound ?
or how about moving to vista and dx10 one of the benefits of dx10 was it is suposed to hit the cpu less maybe this would help
you'll have to check out some benchmarks
ps: the ati 4000 series looks good
This is an architectural issue. It is widely-accepted that NV's memory management with G8x and its successors is not as efficient as their ATi counterparts.