M D Gourley
Premium
Hello everyone,
First of all, I am not a tech person so the below info is very novice like...lol...but if any tech knowledgeable people read this and give their personal opinion that would be great.
I loaded up MSI Afterburner into rF2 to see how my GPU (GTX 690) and CPU (i7 3770k) was doing crunching some numbers...just as something fun to do and to look at all the pretty numbers...LOL
I used the newly released laser scanned 'Sebring' as frame rates / performance etc of this track and compare it to the 'Virtua LM Sebring' with the same overall rF2 settings (see attached screenshot)
I was quite amazed at how much different the 2 tracks utilized my PC hardware and was wondering whether a Graphics Card upgrade would do any good.
The attached screen shots of the MSI Afterburner data is only a snapshot in time at that point as the number fluctuated widly...so not very scientific.
From what I can see the the 'laser Sebring' used 100% GPU1 & 2 of my GTX 690, but only utilizing 40 -60% of the power of the 690 and very little of the CPU and Cores were stressed at all, going as high as 12%...but the RAM usage was very high going up to 10500MB and of course the FPS was about 5-12 (see attached screenshot)
The 'Virtua LM Sebring' using the same rF2 graphics settings as above gave a very playable 29-55 FPS and my 690 usage was at 100% on both cores as well as the power output of both cores around 80 -90%. The CPU usage was also up at around 17-30% but the RAM was down at 5929MB. (see attached screenshot)
...the big question...'Will getting a better graphics card improve the 'Laser SEBRING' performance?
any insight from tech minded people would be great.
First of all, I am not a tech person so the below info is very novice like...lol...but if any tech knowledgeable people read this and give their personal opinion that would be great.
I loaded up MSI Afterburner into rF2 to see how my GPU (GTX 690) and CPU (i7 3770k) was doing crunching some numbers...just as something fun to do and to look at all the pretty numbers...LOL
I used the newly released laser scanned 'Sebring' as frame rates / performance etc of this track and compare it to the 'Virtua LM Sebring' with the same overall rF2 settings (see attached screenshot)
I was quite amazed at how much different the 2 tracks utilized my PC hardware and was wondering whether a Graphics Card upgrade would do any good.
The attached screen shots of the MSI Afterburner data is only a snapshot in time at that point as the number fluctuated widly...so not very scientific.
From what I can see the the 'laser Sebring' used 100% GPU1 & 2 of my GTX 690, but only utilizing 40 -60% of the power of the 690 and very little of the CPU and Cores were stressed at all, going as high as 12%...but the RAM usage was very high going up to 10500MB and of course the FPS was about 5-12 (see attached screenshot)
The 'Virtua LM Sebring' using the same rF2 graphics settings as above gave a very playable 29-55 FPS and my 690 usage was at 100% on both cores as well as the power output of both cores around 80 -90%. The CPU usage was also up at around 17-30% but the RAM was down at 5929MB. (see attached screenshot)
...the big question...'Will getting a better graphics card improve the 'Laser SEBRING' performance?
any insight from tech minded people would be great.
...and having tasted the Triple Screen resolution and will never go back to a single monitor...lol....so I will have to live with the low FPS and save my money for an upgrade....although most of the Sims I have installed run very well on triples with my older PC specs.
