02-04-2005, 11:37 PM
Roland,Feb 4 2005, 10:38 AM Wrote:I had your exact same card. Then I bought a GeForce 6800 (plain). Worked like a charm. Although I also have a gig of RAM (Planetside used to run like #$%& with anything less, and I mean like #$%&).
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As was pointed out by Thecla, the typical memory footprint of most systems when this game is running is going to be in the area of 650-820 MB. So anyone that is trying to play with 512 MB or less is going to be facing a lot data getting to swapped to the HDD for any active areas. Since the speed difference for HDD access is orders of magnitude slower than the even the slowest RAM access speeds, getting ones system RAM to 1024 MB or better will generally yield far better results at game performance compared with any of the video card upgrades (including whatever is the newest/greatest video card this week). Once you can get the system RAM to at least 1024 MB, then it can start to be worthwhile to look to better video card performance.
As you noted about the performance of Planetside with less that 1024 MB, that is starting to be the case with many of the larger and newer games that have been coming out. They may work with less than 1024 MB, but the performance is going to be "#$%&". ;) So for anyone else out there having choppy video in WoW and using less than 1024 MB; look for the sales on memory and get it up to at least 1024 before worrying about a new video card. The system RAM is likely to be a far cheaper and better boost for the first step.