New Rig Built For Bos, A Few Questions

[Pudfark]

I was running a AMD 8350 overclocked and the few times in the past, I tried to run this sim...it ran poorly.

So, I just finished assembling the 'rig' in my sig below and reinstalled BOS.  I have not configured the 'settings' or controls and plan to do this over the next couple of days.

 

What basic (solid) graphic settings should I begin with in order to experience a smooth, stable, 50ish FPS and what settings/features should I avoid?

 

Is there an obvious advantage to moving BOS from my platter HDD to my Plextor M.2 drive?  Other'n load times?

 

I have not overclocked the GTX 770 w/4gig vram card.  Will it make enough difference in BOS to do it?

Is it worth 'appropriating' the twin to this card....from my wifes computer and running sli and prolly for my life as well?

 

Any advice appreciated.

 

It's good to be back here,

=54th= Sancho

[dburne]

 

So, I just finished assembling the 'rig' in my sig below and reinstalled BOS.  I have not configured the 'settings' or controls and plan to do this over the next couple of days.

 

 

 

Very nice rig!

 

 

 

 

What basic (solid) graphic settings should I begin with in order to experience a smooth, stable, 50ish FPS and what settings/features should I avoid?

 

 

 

With that setup, I would think you could run Ultra on your graphics settings without much trouble. Certainly the high setting should run very well.

 

 

 

 

Is there an obvious advantage to moving BOS from my platter HDD to my Plextor M.2 drive?  Other'n load times?

 

 

 

Not really , main difference is in load times, not game performance.

 

 

 

I have not overclocked the GTX 770 w/4gig vram card.  Will it make enough difference in BOS to do it?

Is it worth 'appropriating' the twin to this card....from my wifes computer and running sli and prolly for my life as well?

 

 

 

The gains from overclocking your video card are pretty minimal, much more gains to be had from cpu overclocking and it appears you already have that set pretty good.

 

I will say though, with that system of yours, a GTX 970 or even 980 would compliment it very nicely.

But you should get pretty good performance still with that 770 card.

 

As far as SLI, I can not comment as I have no experience there - although don't know if I would venture into taking the wife's card away lol...

Edited March 5, 2015 by dburne

[Pudfark]

Thank You dburne.

I'll follow your sage wisdom and start with high settings on the gfx and work upwards from there, slowly.

I appreciate your other thoughts as well.  

 

Hopefully, there's an SLI person around here...who can give me a clue as to any benefit from running two GTX 770's with 4gig vram each as opposed to a single GTX 980?  I've never run SLI before.  Would the two 770's equal or better a 980?  I have plenty of PSU to run two cards.

 

Thanks Everybody.

[Scott_Steiner]

Hi Pud,

 

I am not a SLI person but I am a Crossfire person.

 

Keep in mind that problem solving hardware when you add a 2nd card becomes a lot more advanced, you may often find you are not getting the performance you should out of two cards or get weird graphic corruptions.. Fortunately, most of these problems are fixable by changing and updating drivers, or tinkering with different graphic options. Hopefully you will not come across many problems but you must keep it mind that things pop up when 2 cards try to play nice together.

 

I would say since you already have the 2nd card in your wives machine and that it is very easy to take out and pop in another video card.. By all means go for it. It's a free test, if you are not satisfied with the performance or ease of use, you can always pop it back in to the other computer and look for your next plan of action.

 

Just make sure your power supply can handle it and your motherboard supports SLI, I am guessing both on your new system will be good to go.

 

If it works like it should, I am fairly certain 2 770's will kill IL-2. I am running 2 AMD 6970's, they are 4 year old cards with 2 GB of VRAM and I still get probably 50-70 fps on average in this sim.. I am still not ready to upgrade my GPU's yet, they have performed admirably over the last few years.

 

Keep in mind that 4GB of VRAM + 4GB of VRAM do not equal 8GB of VRAM. The cards are working in tandem to render the current scene, each card alternating a frame.. They are doing the same work on the same tasks so it is essentially still a 4GB of VRAM system.. But that should be plenty of this game. I would try max graphics, with 4x multi-samping as starters.

 

Give it a go and let us know how it runs!

 

 I run Rise of Flight on the main SSD, it loads a little quicker but is not a big difference. If you do not want to use the space on the SSD to install IL-2, I wouldn't worry about it and just run it on your platter drive.

 

You can probably oc your GPU memory and clock speed a little bit.. But I would do a safe and shallow overclock, dburne is right that you aren't going to see a massive boost from dialing the card up a little bit. CPU's on the other hand are a different story.

[Pudfark]

Howdy Scott and thank you for your excellent explain.  SLI may not be for me....  Particularly when, if I steal her card, I'm gonna have to buy her some jewelry and another card.  Might be better to just buy a 980 and sleep on the couch for awhile?  What you said about running two cards is what I was thinking and just trying in some way to convince myself, that it was reasonably doable and worth some potential frustration.  Thanks for bringing me back down to earth.  Seems sometimes, it's not about bragging rights, it's more about the comfortable ride....remind me to never to tell my spouse that. 

 

I'll give the GTX 770 a whirl and if it don't spin that well?  A GTX 980 will replace it.

 

Thanks again everybody.