8800GTS "real world" benchmark inside...

[TheRapture]

Here is a session of Call of Duty 2 with the eye candy cranked up....very playable and smooth...for online multiplayer I drop the AA back to 2x to gain a few fps....I expect the averages to increase once I get a C2D setup in a few months. So for you guys wondering about getting an 8800 with an "old" X2 cpu, here ya go....it kicks ass still, again, just crank up the eye candy! REMEMBER, this chart is with vsync ON and capped to 75fps (75hz "refresh" rate on my LCD).

 

[Zinn]

not bad at all! a new CPU prolly won't do you much aside from boosting minimum frames a little. nice OCs all around

 

[TheRapture]

not bad at all! a new CPU prolly won't do you much aside from boosting minimum frames a little. nice OCs all around

Yeah the low spots like 11fps were not noticeable, they are either a glitch or an actual microsecond drop between some kind of heavy action. Or maybe when I died!!! I DID take the liberty of taking out the 3 sections of steady 75fps that were the times between me dying and the scene reloading, therefore keeping the actual in game frame rate average correct. If I had left those in there you would see straight lines at 75fps, and that would have artificially inflated the average framerate. As it is done, it is accurate.

 

[Mayhs]

u have vsync on...so thats half ur fps gone already...damn its a nice card

 

[DuffMan72]

What program did you use to record the FPS?
Also, what map were you on? I know some maps like Carentan are less stressful, whereas some of the new or custom maps really kill the framerate.

 

[TheRapture]

What program did you use to record the FPS?
Also, what map were you on? I know some maps like Carentan are less stressful, whereas some of the new or custom maps really kill the framerate.

It's the single player one where you have to take over the farmhouse/German HQ, then defend against the German counterattack, then after that you have to go back into the field in front and lay your explosives on the tank.....I played the whole level through. It has lots of gunfire, grenade tossing, and lot's of characters in action and on screen at the same time. You can see it held in the mid and upper 30's alot. My old 7900GT would choke itself into the lower teens at the same settings, so it pretty much doubled my average framerate.

I used FRAPS to get the frame rates, then just plugged them into Excel and used the built in graphing function.