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[Daeda]

With CNC3 officially shipped to American retailers the first people actually playing the full game are starting to appear. Of course, you want to make your performance as best as possible. To help you with this Gamespot released a performance guide, which can be found here.

The CNC3 Team

Edited by Daeda, 27 March 2007 - 01:43 PM.

[Athena]

Hmm I don't think I'll need it . But it's nicely written by the looks of it.

[thudo]

Preformance is excellent.

[Phil]

At least I won't need to tune things with my new comp, everything will be on ultra-high by default

[thudo]

My specs (for comparison's sake):

Conroe E6700 @ 3.66Ghz (1.53V) Idle: 39c|Full Orthos Load: 53c || Scythe Mine CPU Cooler + ArcticSilver5 Thermal Paste || OCZ 2gb PC8000 DC EL GEEK RAM || Asus P5W DH Mobo (1301 Bios) Idle: 39c|Full Load: 42c || EVGA 8800GTX ACS3 Cooling Edition (659/1013) Idle: 55c|Full Load: 75c || 2x10k Rpm WD SATA2 Raptor HDDs || Thermaltake Armour Full Tower w/side 250mm Mobo Case Fan || OCZ GamerX 700W PSU || WinXPSP2 || Forceware (97.x) || 3dmark2006 Score: 12,426 || SuperPi 2M Time: 34.5sec

Now we need to do some benchmarking..

[Hostile]

Even though EA is shipping me a free copy I still went and bought the limited edition version today. I own 69857 of 100,000. I also adapted this famous Marines Creed This is My Rifle.

I'll attach it here if anyone wants to read, it's a txt file.

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[Phil]

You're a CNC3 addict...

[Athena]

Well he does own CNC3.net .

Can I ask.. what is that creed thing? I've not seen it before.

[Hostile]

It's something I wrote based off a famous creed called "My Rifle"

http://www.cs.rice.e...poems/1110.html

It's a famouse creed about a marine and his rifle.

[Mongoose]

Oh lord, i smell a huge addiction

[Athena]

It's something I wrote based off a famous creed called "My Rifle"

http://www.cs.rice.e...poems/1110.html

It's a famouse creed about a marine and his rifle.

Thanks, that's cool .

[Daz]

My online play seems to be alot smoother than skirmish play was for the demo (1280x960 resolution, Medium on the auto-settings).

I'm quite impressed for a fairly old PC.
Radeon 9600, 2ghz processor and 512MB RAM.

[Spikey00]

I have no clue why my computer does below what I think it should do... Its a pretty nice computer too, I bought it for over a thousand dollars.

I run 800x600 and with medium-highish settings (No AA, shadows, shading, and all else custom settings) and I get pretty nice FPS. Anything with AA just dies on me horribly, unfortunately.

I have 3 GBs of memory @ 533mhz, Intel Viiv Pentium D 820 Dual Core Processor, 256MB nVidia GeForce 7300LE. Drivers are updated to recent versions.

Anyone have a thought on this?

[Solinx]

Well, at the moment 3 GB is a bit overkill in most systems, while a LE type budget graphics card is pretty much the lowest you can get and not to be recommended for playing games.

The graphics card may be the reason for your problems.

Solinx

[Spikey00]

Ah. Well I can't afford much as I am only 14, but got any alternatives? Whenever I decide to play CNC, I terminate all the useless processes, and kill my internet, along with security.

[mrchris]

I get a pretty good framerate.

AMD 2800+
1GB DDR333
X1600 Pro 512MB

[Nighthawk]

Mine only really lags when watching a nuclear explosion.
AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core 5000+
2GB DDR RAM
ATI X1550 256MB

[Spikey00]

Yeah, the Nod nuclear explosion totally kills your FPS.

[thudo]

Depends on your hardware and your settings. CPU (5000+ looks fine), what kind of DDR ram is it (can make a difference). The video card.. hmmm.. thats ok. C&C3 would demand alot from it if you start maxing out details and playing on hi res like 1600x1200.