For some reason my Far Cry 2 benches don't seem accurate. Guru3d's benchmark with very high settings on DX10 with a stock gtx 260 gave a result of 57 average fps on a core 2 duo 3.0ghz processor. I used the same very high settings on the benchmark program in DX9 with a E7200 core 2 duo overclocked to 3.4ghz and an overclocked gtx 260 running at 650/1160 and got an average of 46 fps. I'm not really seeing the logic in this. Does anyone else's benchmarks differ from that of Guru3d, or any other performance reviewing site, for that matter? Here are guru3d's settings and results. I am assuming they ran a short ranch. Any cooperation would be absolutely phenomenal. http://www.guru3d.com/article/far-cry-2-pc-vga-graphics-performance-review/5
SMOKEY BEAR! according to this site: http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTU5MSw0LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA== DX10 actually runs BETTER than DX9! This is most likely where my problem lies.
Performance will differ from rig to rig. But it seems that your overclock may be the problem as FC2 is very sensative to overclocking even in the slightest.
When using AA yes, otherwise DX9 vs. DX10 has no other changes graphically. I'm surprised it beats out DX9 without AA.
So does anyone know if they used the short or long ranch in their tests? Does anyone have a similar system that they can compare results with? This issue is really bothering me. Any help at all would be great.
benchmark on very high Here is my benchmark for the same dx9 settings as guru but this is at 1280x1024 as my monitor limits me. This is with my e8400 cpu at 3.6ghz and the gfx card at stock, but it is a 216 core 260gtx. > Run 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Settings: Demo(Ranch Small), 1280x1024 (60Hz), D3D9, Fixed Time Step(No), Disable Artificial Intelligence(No), Full Screen, Anti-Aliasing(4x), VSync(Yes), Overall Quality(Very High), Vegetation(Very High), Shading(Very High), Terrain(Very High), Geometry(Very High), Post FX(High), Texture(Very High), Shadow(Very High), Ambient(High), Hdr(Yes), Bloom(Yes), Fire(Very High), Physics(Medium), RealTrees(Very High) Loop 1 Total Frames: 2847, Total Time: 51.01s Average Framerate: 55.81 Max. Framerate: 82.65 (Frame:432, 6.70s) Min. Framerate: 44.26 (Frame:2303, 41.45s) SVG not loaded! View larger version Regards Ian
I would be willing to bet that your CPU is holding you back. Edit: Also, the SLI GTX260 setup got 51 fps, not 57...and I'm assuming based off lack of info that your not running a SLI setup. Having said that, even if you were running a SLI setup, 5 fps difference at that resolution isn't much of anything even if it was your CPU that was slowing you down.
