Age of Conan

My specs:

AMD 5200+ dual core processors

GeForce 8800gts (g92) 512mb (driver 174.74)

Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe mobo (nForce 570)

2 gb ddr2 800 G.Skill Ram clocked at 4.4.4.12

Western Digital 7200rpm harddrive

Windows Xp 32bit

My problem: Stuttering and getting below 20fps (with low settings) in Old tarantia and in any open vista (ie. Kopshev Provence, Aquilonian guild city zone) even if there was nothing to render but sky, foliage and ground. I want to get at least 40fps in ALL out of city areas on medium-high graphics!!!

My solutions (tell me which is more likely to help):

Get another 8800gts and run in SLI ($250)

Get a AMD 6000+ processor ($153)

Get intel E8400 or Q6600 + New Mobo ($350-400)

Get 2g of ram ($150)

Other suggestions?

I am a students so remember cheaper is better but I am getting my tax return soon and should be able to cover any of those.

Obviously the easiest and cheapest would probably go with another 2gb of RAM

you forgot to offer up the other option.....dump Vista and return to XP :)

I'm not an expert... just going to repeat a few things I learned when building my own computer (1-2 years ago).

1) SLI is kind of a marketing gimmick. One 8800GTS is better than two 7000-series cards.

2) Not all games support SLI. I've seen people say that currently AoC does not support it.

3) For Windows XP, the sweet spot on RAM is 2GB.

Originally posted by Czzarre

Obviously the easiest and cheapest would probably go with another 2gb of RAM

you forgot to offer up the other option.....dump Vista and return to XP :)

(points up to his post) Hehe, I dumped vista months ago because it would not update. I am an xp man and proud of it. (although AMD is pissing me off now )

Hmmm, would it be possible to get ram timed at 5.5.5.14 to run with 4.4.4.12 or do they have to be the same?

Well, for one, which is always overlooked in a system, is the motherboard.

You can cram all the "extra" 's you want in it, but th board will limit at what speed.

Your ram is slow (these days, 800 is slow for what is comming out now), at least 4 gigs to even play (with vista) can get away with 2g ram for XP, though again, everyone is going standard 4g.

Dont go SLI unless you have the power supply to handle it, CPU of course, otherwise all your doing is bogging down the motherboard again.

Faster load times 10,000 RPM hd and not too expensive.

Your Connection to the game as well will matter, drivers for older cards (DSL, Cable).

Increasing CPU is never a bad thing, Faster ram, would spend the 150 on a new motherboard, (even go as far as 200.00) for the Asus II.

Overall...to beat the games being produced, you need a deep pocket.

SLI tech x 3 boards ?  :) 

nm... wait for release. then update

ok a couple of things - some you might not be too happy to hear

~i have the same processor as you and atm it works fine on medium settings, the thing is that the beta never utilized dual/quad core processors and i had to go into the task manager and set affinity to a single core the ENTIRE time playing this game... doing that changed performance drastically - hopefully the retail version will be optimized for dual/quad cores but we do not know till it is here...

~i would say keep your processor and make sure that is an issue b4 replacing that item

~your grphics card is a good cards and should handle this game fine on medium/high settings depending on where you are (in a city/around tons of players etc)

~do not change your graphics card - rather when the game comes out play with the settings you have for the card itself and see if that changes the quality of the game. i realized changes settings on my card rather than my game settings helped a ton...

~mobo/HD - both are fine

~you need more RAM and also possibly to change your OS :(

~you need 3-4 gigs of RAM depending on how much your OS will utilize (people were stating XP was working a bit better bc vista is a memory hog but if you have the RAM to support vista it will run better

~Summary - get more RAM and make sure you have an OS that can handle what you are trying to do

****you did not mention your power supply so i am guessing that is fine but running that card you also want to make sure you have i think 450w + you might wanna look around for the exact number

hope this helped

Originally posted by MasterDelvin

Well, for one, which is always overlooked in a system, is the motherboard.

You can cram all the "extra" 's you want in it, but th board will limit at what speed.

Your ram is slow (these days, 800 is slow for what is comming out now), at least 4 gigs to even play (with vista) can get away with 2g ram for XP, though again, everyone is going standard 4g.

Dont go SLI unless you have the power supply to handle it, CPU of course, otherwise all your doing is bogging down the motherboard again.

Faster load times 10,000 RPM hd and not too expensive.

Your Connection to the game as well will matter, drivers for older cards (DSL, Cable).

Increasing CPU is never a bad thing, Faster ram, would spend the 150 on a new motherboard, (even go as far as 200.00) for the Asus II.

Overall...to beat the games being produced, you need a deep pocket.

SLI tech x 3 boards ?  :) 

What mobo should I look into? This, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131013 , is my mobo currently. Doesn't seem like asus makes much with more than ddr2 800.

Originally posted by Czzarre

Obviously the easiest and cheapest would probably go with another 2gb of RAM

you forgot to offer up the other option.....dump Vista and return to XP :)