Core Update.

[eyein12]

I disagree sorry. for the money the card get the job done even when i had that 5 yr old dual core. I was finally able to use shadows on when i got the 550ti. then i upgraded my cpu and mobo and ram now I cant complain for now. Not interested in spending a cool grand on a new cpu that will be outdated the minute it arrives.

[Shortliner]

Well, installed the new card, and WOW, RailWorks 3 runs silky smooth at the HIGHEST graphic settings. No stuttering or lag when it loads up the next tile. It was.......beautiful, I was consistently getting 30fps with the new card. Once I get RailDriver to play nicely with Wins 7 64bit, I will be set.

[eyein12]

Well, installed the new card, and WOW, RailWorks 3 runs silky smooth at the HIGHEST graphic settings. No stuttering or lag when it loads up the next tile. It was.......beautiful, I was consistently getting 30fps with the new card. Once I get RailDriver to play nicely with Wins 7 64bit, I will be set.

told u! glad to hear it!

[PapaXpress]

Last night I ordered a 560Ti 448 FTW (it was on sale) to replace my 460 GTX FTW

I'll know next week if I made a mistake...

[Shortliner]

Last night I ordered a 560Ti 448 FTW (it was on sale) to replace my 460 GTX FTW

I'll know next week if I made a mistake...

I upgraded from a 520 to the 550ti really expecting to see much improvement, BOY was I wrong.

[eyein12]

I thought you said you got improvement? or was that sarcastic.

[Shortliner]

I thought you said you got improvement? or was that sarcastic.

No, what I meant was that I was only expecting a little improvement, instead I got a HUGE improvement. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[TheFlier]

COOL! Glad the card fixed your problem :)

I'm still stuck with a 4870. It IS a pretty capable card for all the games I have except RW3. Hopefully a patch to fix the game from using only 50% of the GPU (ANY gpu) will mean I wont have to upgrade for a while yet. (But have my greedy lil eyes on the 7870 when it comes out and the price stabilizes) But still feel it would be a waste if the dern thing is only being half used by this game.

[SMMDigital]

Oh my God! I was about to buy a 550TI... I know that was discussed before, but what should be a good option (with atmospheric, not stratospheric) prices, then?

For future reference, at least a x60 (i.e.560TI) or higher on the Nvidia side. Oh, and stay away from the Nvidia brand cards. You are paying for a card with the brand name, with no appreciable performance gain.

I don't agree with the assesment that RW is CPU and NOT GPU dependent. If it were CPU dependent, then my graphics cards would not be pulling 90-95% utilization at the same time the CPU is pulling 18-46%.

[Machinist]

Oh my God! I was about to buy a 550TI... I know that was discussed before, but what should be a good option (with atmospheric, not stratospheric) prices, then?

For future reference, at least a x60 (i.e.560TI) or higher on the Nvidia side. Oh, and stay away from the Nvidia brand cards. You are paying for a card with the brand name, with no appreciable performance gain.

I don't agree with the assesment that RW is CPU and NOT GPU dependent. If it were CPU dependent, then my graphics cards would not be pulling 90-95% utilization at the same time the CPU is pulling 18-46%.

OK, I'll do the math of budget carefully and see if I can afford the x60... The (my) problem is that 560TI (MIWidth 256-bits) costs almost double price of 550TI (MIWidth 192-bits) and this (quite higher price) may be a clue that the performance is higher also. Anyway my current is a GeForce 9500 GT so I'm expecting a great improvement. Fingers crossed...

[SMMDigital]

There are so many variable to graphics cards and your computer setup, its hard to say without plugging the card in to see just how well one will do. Where one says a 550Ti is doing wonderful on their system, I say not so well on mine. The difference could be memory configuration. I could be the bandwidth pulled across the Motherboard ( a known bottleneck for mine in SLI ) . It might even come down to different vendors tweaking their video card this way, where another on will tweak it that way. Doing your homework, as it looks you are doing, and keeping the receipt ( and opening the package it comes in vewy carefully ) are your friends.

A 560Ti is 2x the cash of a 550Ti? Good grief. When I bought mine they were $200 a piece! If I do remember correctly, the 560 also has twice the processor cores? If it dont run RW good, it'll run somethin good!

[TheFlier]

I don't agree with the assesment that RW is CPU and NOT GPU dependent. If it were CPU dependent, then my graphics cards would not be pulling 90-95% utilization at the same time the CPU is pulling 18-46%.

I only get that kind of GPU utilisation when in the game menu. It drops to 40-50% running any scenario.

Could I ask what your system specs are, pls? :) (and does it include an SSD by any chance?)

[PapaXpress]

Try this 560Ti, I just ha dine delivered today (I post some GPS numbers soon)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0069RZ0L ... 375&sr=8-1

[SMMDigital]

I only get that kind of GPU utilisation when in the game menu. It drops to 40-50% running any scenario.

Could I ask what your system specs are, pls? :) (and does it include an SSD by any chance?)

Asus P8P67 Rev 3 Motheboard
Intel i5 2500k, 3.4 Ghz
16GB Corsair Vengeance Memory, 1600Mhz
NVidia GTX 550Ti Video Card, x2
Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD, SATA 3 interface (Main drive running windows and Railworks, 30GB freespace)
Western Digital 1.5 TB HDD
Seagate 1.5 TB HDD
Seagate 1 TB HDD, used as ESATA external
Lite-On Blu-Ray disk writer drive
Haf 932 case
Win7 64-bit

Onboard sound is used. And before anyone says "snob", I only paid $300 for the system. Im real good at selling my old computers.

[PapaXpress]

I am all most certain now that my video card upgrade made little to difference. I will OC the CPU to 3.6 and see if I get a jump.