NS2 at recommended specs

Racer1

I'm a bit curious what kind of gameplay people are getting on a PC with exactly the recommend NS2 specs. If you have a 3 Ghz core 2 duo with a GTX 450 or AMD 5770, and 4 GB of RAM, please post what kind of in-game framerates you get. If possible, use 1920x1080 resolution (or 1366x768 resolution if you cannot support that), to make it easy to compare with others. Also, if you have modified any video settings (like atmospherics), please specify.

Recommended NS2 specs (from http://store.steampowered.com/app/4920 ):
OS:Windows 7 32/64-bit / Vista 32/64 / XP
Processor:Core 2 Duo 3.0 ghz
Memory:4 GB RAM
Graphics:DirectX 9 compatible video card with 1GB, AMD 5770, NVidia GTX 450 or better
DirectX®:9.0
Hard Drive:5 GB HD space
Other Requirements:Broadband Internet connection

CommunistWithAGun

inb4 anecdote:

my brother tried it with a system simlar to the reccomended, with more ram. Barely playable on Low (30fps early game, sub 15 during late)

ScardyBob

Would be great to see some people with recommended or minimum spec computers posting in the official benchmark thread. The free version of FRAPs can easily be used to do this and as long as you don't try to record a video at the same time, has no impact on your performance. However, from scrolling through the results from people who are close to the recommended specs:

NOTE: Many of these benchmarks are from old, beta builds, so their performance is likely going to be quite a bit higher now (i.e. view these as worst-case scenarios, rather than true game performance right now).

NeoRussia wrote: »

CPU: Q6600 G0 @3.0ghz
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX460 1GB
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
RAM: 4 Gb @ 1600 Mhz
Minimum FPS: 8
Maximum FPS: 72
Average FPS start of game: 30
Average FPS end of game: 10
Build: 216
Resolution: 1920 X 1080
Ping: 30 ms

Imbalanxd wrote: »

CPU: i7 2630QM
GPU: GTX460M
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit
RAM: 8GB
Minimum FPS: 12
Maximum FPS: 50
Average FPS: 27
Build: 216
Resolution: 1900x1200
Ping: 180 ms

Wilson wrote: »

CPU: Core i5 750 3.57GHz
Graphics: ATI 4870
RAM: 4GB
OS: Vista SP2 64-bit
All graphic settings low 1680x1050
Build: 216
Min: 14
Max: 73
Avg: 39.461

_Necro_ wrote: »

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2.4GHz
GPU: GeForce GT440
OS: Windows 7 Professional 32 Bit
RAM: 2GB
Minimum FPS: 6
Maximum FPS: 35
Average FPS: 15.9
Build: 217
Resolution: 1280x960
Ping: 74 ms
Detail: Everything OFF
MultiThreading: ON

G1R wrote: »

CPU: Intel Core i7 2670qm@ 2.2Ghz
GPU: GeForce GTX 485m
OS: Windows 7 Professional, 32 Bit
RAM: 4GB
Minimum FPS: 15
Maximum FPS: 35
Average FPS: 22
Build: 217
Resolution: 1920x1080, everything maxed/enabled

NX Wolf wrote: »

Alienware M15x
ATI 5850 1GB GDDR5
8GB RAM
Intel i5 520M 2.40GHz
Windows 7 64Bit
500GB SSD Hybrid
Resolution: 1600x900
Visual Quality: High (With Multi Core Turned off aswell as that rendering texture experiment)
Max Ping: 89
Min Ping: 73
Avg Ping: 76
Connection: 100Meg Virgin Media (hard wired btw)
Version: Beta 218
Game Benchmark High Setting:
Max FPS: 19
Min FPS: 1
Avg Fps: 16
Game Benchmark Low Setting:
Max FPS: 33
Min FPS: 11
Avg Fps: 23

tarquinbb

for competitive purposes i'm still unhappy with 50-70 fps... for some reason it feels a lot more choppy than i would expect. i'm quite a bit higher than recommended specs with graphics options turned down.

perhaps i'm just spoiled by tf2 and its silky smooth 132 fps (120hz monitor). although 50-70 fps is great compared to most ppl, so i can't complain too much.