It’s easier than you might think.
E4500 @ 3.00Ghz
2x1GB 1066mhz DDR2
Geforce 8800GT 512mb
640GB sata HDD
Source games never go below 60 FPS regardless of settings or amount of players.
GTA4 runs at about 30fps on high but starts lagging when it runs out of ram so I have to play on medium.
Crysis runs fine on very high but same problem with the ram so I played mostly on medium.
Bioshock, Fallout 3, Far Cry 2, Prototype, all ran on max settings at more than 60fps.
I’m gonna keep my current rig until the sky falls and earth implodes, it’s so perfect the only thing I have to upgrade is my ram.
I’d been wondering that myself. I can run every Valve game at 60 fps maxed out, and my i5 isn’t OC’d at all, and I have a much worse video card.
Pretty well.
Screen size: 1600x1200
Model detail: High
Texture detail: High
Shade detail: High
Water detail: Reflect all
Shadow detail: High
Color Correction: Enabled
AA mode: 8x MSAA
Filtering mode: Antisotropic 16x
Wait for vsync: Enabled (running disabled gives me same fps)
HDR: full (if available)
^ Those are my settings… I see no reason why it would run so fugly.
Toning down screen size to 1280x960 gives me a 10 fps boost, but eh, if I can run HL2 @ 300 [fps], why should episode 1 be so laggy? The same thing happens in Missing Information. :s I don’t get it.
EDIT: must have been some CCC setting that was causing it… now I’m getting 50 fps in busy places :o
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Averagely: 40-60 FPS (sometimes up to 80.)
1440x900 Monitor
NVidia Evga Gts 250 2GB with Physx and 3D gaming support
AMD Athlon 64 x2 5600+ Dual Core Processor 2.80 Ghz
2.00 GB RAM
286 GB Hard Drive
Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit
They run at max. Amidoinitright?
They run fine.
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AMD Phenom II x4 940 Black Edition
ASUS M4A79 Deluxe mainboard
Aeneon 4GB DDR2 800 MHz CL5 RAM (i will change soon to 8GB 1066 RAM)
Zotac AMP! Geforce GTS250 1GB (2 cards)
1.16 TB HDD-space on 3 harddisks, 2 Samsung HD501LJ Spinpoint F1 HD’s and 1 Maxtor 160 GB HD and a lotta other drives…
Creative X-Fi Extreme Audio
Win 7 Ultimate 64 Bit and Win Vista Home Premium 32 Bit
with that configuration every game runs fine in full HD resolution and full detail except Crysis that lags sometimes and never gets over 30 fps, with all other games i got over 60 to 300 fps
update dec 2010: CPU is runnig at 4x 3,4 ghz now, card is now zotac amp! geforce gtx460/1GB, ram is now OCZ 8GB DDR2 1066, 2 more SATA-HDD’s added, now there’s 1,5TB disk space
They run good… You happy now?
Edit: i should start reading topics… i hate being ninja’d by a lot of time
FPS: 75 solid (minus crysis, which fluxuates from 60 to 75, and on a rare occasional dropping as low as 30 in really busy situations) All settings maxed with max Anti-aliasing and filtering.
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Processor: i7 920(8 CPUs) OC’d to 3.33GHz
Memory: 6.144GB RAM with a 10GB page file
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
Display device: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 2GB
Soundcard: I have no idea, but it is a 7.1 surround sound capable card
HDD : 2x 1TB Internal, 1TB semi-permanent external
Peripherals:::
Monitor: Gateway FPD1975W TFT LCD Monitor 1440x900 widescreen resolution.
Mouse: Razer Copperhead
Keyboard: Some crappy generic Microsoft keyboard (my last one exploded)
Speakers: Logitech X540 5.1 Speaker System (got em for 50 bucks)
Various other things that have no impact of system performance…
I only use 1400x1050 resolution, but I really need to upgrade my monitor. That’s my next upgrade.
U only have DX10, only the ATi 5000 series cards have DX11 right now.
Lets see, all of my harware is fine except for my graphics card which is starting to show its age. The newest game I have is L4D2 and it works ok on the lowest settings but the water effects do not appear. Instead of water I just have a white slab with zombies wading through it, which in some ways makes Hard Rain and Swam Fever alot easier.
Perfectly Fine, thanks for asking!!!
installed dx version != dx hardware support 
edit: or maybe he just screwed up, I though he copied that from dxdiag or something… <.<
I took the basic details from DXDiag, yeah.
Ur software level is DX11, but your hardware level is DX10. You can only run games up to what ur hardware level is, even if your software level is higher.
Which is a moot point, because as of now there are no widely distributed DX11 games.
But also, I never installed/updated anything to DX11. The last DX update I did was with the last game I installed, and it just did whatever it had to do to run. Forget what game it was though…
Windows 7 has it pre-installed and there are quite a few good DX11 games coming out soon such as STALKER Call of Pripyat (US version) and Battlefield Bad Company 2. Dirt 2 is also a very good game that uses DX11.