Profile of voltardark

Hi !

Start with a graphic adapter that worth at least 200$ or more if you can afford it, either AMD or Nvidia:

Radeon R9 280 around 230$
or
GeForce GTX 760 around 250$
or
Radeon R9 280X around 300$
Note : You can try a cheaper card (125$ to 200$) , if the rest of your rig are all top of the line. (4 ghz or more with a SSD HD)

Your game's performances will always be bottleneck by your least performing computer's component :

For the graphic card to perform at it's maximum, you need a good quad-core+ intel or AMD 3.0 mhz+ CPU as the GPU scale with the CPU power.

You also need a good motherboard of a least 130 $ with 8 gig of good speedy memory. Try Asus

A fast main bus with a speedy memory will insure that your frame rate remain constant, meaning no frame rate drop when there is a lot of action. A powerful graphic adapter pair with a so so mainboard and memory will have high frame rate, but will also have bottleneck causing data congestion dropping the frame rate to a minimum. A add-on sound card instead of the mainboard's one will also permit a highest sound setting without creating frame drop when there is a lot of simultaneous sounds.

A SDD hard drive will make the game load a lot faster.(Optional)

It will give you a very good starting rig at around 1300 to 1500 CAD, but not the best money can buy. (1000 to 1300 USD) Or less without a SSD HD.

If your graphic adapter (GPU) has only 1 gig of memory or less, a well defrag hard drive or a SSD HD will also help for a constant frame rate as your GPU will need to swap and load textures more often from the main memory.

Important : Having the latest drivers all you computer parts will also help a lot, especially if the game is new. (less the 6 months old)

Link for GPUs performance/price :http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-4.html

If that may help someone, i'will be happy.

See you on the battle field.

You are saying that "playing on low and mid settings" is good for ESL or for streaming and stuff?
You are saying that the game runs fine even that there are sooooooooooo many people, with rigs that cost over 1000-1500 Euros, that say that the FPS are very low?

If you are a dedicaded COH2 player (which i don't doubt that you are), you should know that what 90% of the posters in this thread say its true. And many of us are saying this since release and Relic knows it too. For gods sake, which modern game does not support SLI/CF? Doe to "Coldtech" is one of the excuses from Relic.

Anyway, in my country there is a saying, where there is smoke, there is fire.

Examples:
Here...

and here...

last one.

I didn't say that there is no glitch or hiccup related to performances and/or network in COH2. I just say that i think they are not game breaking. I just play 6-8 4vs4 games a day and find that none of those games weren't affected enough to talk about it. Maybe i'm lucky.

If the fanbase is to diminish then they will be no performance optimizations and the game will fall into oblivion. I honestly think that the performances on middle rigs are not that bad and don't really impact the fanbase. People who really like games with nice graphics don't play COH2. It's rather intellectual who like content more that play the game. (i admit the late 1 or 2 freezing issue is quite annoying).

Thanks.

Can't quite understand why you are attacking my 'skill' in this game when I merely stated that I didn't believe you were running the game at 50-60 fps... I never once attacked you in anyway besides stating IMO with a cpu with such low qualities, how can it run the game so smoothly... Lol and you also talk about your 'greater influence' in the community... This to me itself is something for me to just laugh at...

Maybe you got me wrong ?
I was talking to Inverse (OP).

I a still think that Inverse was one the the greatest vcoh player, i was talking of him having a great influence in the present community. When a person of such influence make comments like he did (even if it is how he really feel) it hurt the game and indirectly us all the fans. We need that game to grow strong, because it is our favorite game. I also still honestly think that performance is a non issue here. They are good enough) Maps and balance are more important for now.

I also think that inverse can still be the top Coh2 player, if he can put aside the not having 60-70 fps issue.

What really matter in COH2 is the man behind the machine, that what make that game great to people with some intellectual power.

Thank you all for your comments. Just try to make it in a way that make the game's fanbase grow, so the automatch queue is not empty and there is more than 2000 people playing on an eastern time evening.

As you say : Kappa. (lol)

Of course you need to make sure you don't have something running in the background pegging the CPU. You don't need a "windows optimizer" for that though, just common sense. I understand you're trying to help people and that's fair enough, but optimizers are mostly bull. Placebo effect is real though.

Did you ever try Glary ? You wouldn't have made those comments if you had. It's a complement to CPU-Z and GPU-Z.

This is not a resident program. It's a bundle of tools only. (defrag, spyware removal.e.t.c) but it got the most advanced tools on the market.

Thank you.

You posted a pic of your in game settings... which proves that yes your running the game on low... but you didn't post a pic of your actual FPS in game.. I'm sorry I just don't believe that a computer with those specs is running the game so well.. I am running the game on a AMD ATHLON II x4 Processor with 16 gigs of ram and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 TI (250$ on the market) and the game runs very poorly on low settings... My point of this is I just dont see how your computer with those specs is running the game consistently at 50-60 fps...

What is your sound setting ? If i use anything but low sound quality, frame drop and i got big lag spikes when there is any explosion.

It's the data bandwidth or bus size (data flow between different computer parts) that make the difference, as i say above, if my sound setting are higher, the data flow with exceed my bandwidth causing lag spike.