volkov956 0 Posted July 7, 2009 (edited) System 1 GTS 250 1024 E6850 4GB DDR2 2 640gb 32mb HDD Sata System 2 GTX 280 955BE 8GB DDR2 1 640gb 32mb 4 320gb Sata in Raid Hardware 0 not software All using up to date driver except both are using 182.50 Drivers on all Platforms Test 1 Windows Vista 32bit /Server 2008 System 1 Reasonable Frames no crashes System 2 Low Frames no crashes Test 2 Windows Vista 64bit / Server 2008 System 1 Reasonable Frames and crashing System 2 Reasonable Frames and crashing and stuttering Test 3 Windows XP 32bit /Server 2003 System 1 Great Frames no crashes System 2 Great Frames no crashes Test 4 Windows XP 64bit /Server 2003 System 1 Great Frames and Crashing System 2 Reasonable Frames and Stuttering and Crashing All tests took some time Didnt run arma mark to do the tests though sorry . Also Tested a System with a GTX 9800m GTX E8600 4gb DDR2 1 200gb Sata 16mb 2 200gb Sata 16mb in software raid 0 But it results were pretty much mirroring System 1 Notes: 1. All systems had little or no difference If I used the Very High or Default or High Settings for Video Memory 2. VSYNC Affected neither of the system if on or off as well as Triple Buffering 3. All system were not affected if I used a -winxp or maxmem command 4: Changing Drivers had little to no affect or caused even more problems 182.50 was the most stable in all tests. 5: All were run at the same settings in game 6: Disabling EAX in CFG improved Audio and increased in performance if HW Sound was enabled in most cases. 7: AA, AF, FSAA, Post Processing all set to OFF 8: Shadows High ran better then Low 9: Sound Cards tested were Audigy 1/Audigy 2 ZS/Audigy XFI Elite/Xonar Esscensse STX 10: In 64bit environments to get stutter less was to turn texture detail to low 11: Scopes in Vista 32/64bit XP 64bit 2k3 64bit 2k8 32/64bit where lod was changed causes large texture stuttering 12: SLI was not tested at all I dont recommend SLI for lack of benefit for 2 cards for any game 13: All systems were butchered down to the same basic services no AV/Firewall/Indexing/Superfetch/Application Experience 14: 2k3 and 2k8 were Workstationed during tests to be able to play games properlly 15: all tests where done during Campaign/Editor/CRCTI 16: Physx Disabled but seemed to have no effect Edited July 7, 2009 by volkov956 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jackdaniels 10 Posted July 7, 2009 (edited) Thankyou for all the effort you put into this, but I for one am not going to install windows Xp just to play one game. I am infact tacking this back to the shop for a refund and I shouldn't have a problem getting my money back. After all, it states on the box that it is compatible with windows vista and it is clearly isn't. Edited July 7, 2009 by Jackdaniels Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FraG_AU 10 Posted July 7, 2009 System 112: SLI was not tested at all I dont recommend SLI for lack of benefit for 2 cards for any game Good work, however I strongly disagree with 12. That is a very broad generalisation which is completly false, out of the 10 odd games I play the only 2 giving me grief are Empire:TW and Arma2.. Everything else is much much better on my dual gpu solution then any single GPU and usually means I can play 60+ FPS min with 8x-16AA 16AF and all details on max. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
volkov956 0 Posted July 7, 2009 I have 3 SLI Options but all give me grief so i just dont bother with SLI much Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
volkov956 0 Posted July 7, 2009 Just my only bump incase this info can be helpful to anyone Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
