Video cards

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With release there has been a lot of people disappointed with game performance in relation to their graphics cards. FPS (Frames Per Second)

A big part of this has to do with confusion over what a certain graphics card is supposed to be able to do and the number scheme used by nVidia. For example a GeForce 8500 is NOT better than a GeForce 7900.

Funcom Minimum: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 Video memory: 128MB

Funcom Recomended: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX Video memory: 512MB

GUIDE: How to improve your performance and play in AoC

FIX for nVidia users with no particle effects/poor performance

Lower than Low Video Settings

The Test Bed Results Video card performance comparisons.

[edit] Usual frame rates achieved

These are the frame rates achieved even at the default lows if not lower.

Please use the video cards discussion page to post your results. Please include settings, processor, and ram.

Terrible < 15
Poor 15-20 fps
OK 20-30 fps
Good 30-40 fps
Excellent > 40 fps

[edit] NVIDIA

NVIDIA Nameing convention

NVIDEA comparison guide

GeForce 9800GX2
GeForce 9800GTX
GeForce 9600GT

GeForce 8800Ultra
GeForce 8800GTX
GeForce 8800GTS
GeForce 8800GT
GeForce 8800GS
GeForce 8600GTS (meets recomended requirements? but if your going to buy one go with a 8800)
GeForce 8600GT (meets recomended requirements? but if your going to buy one go with a 8800)
GeForce 8500GT (10-15 fps higher with Lower than Low Video Settings) (Dispite higher name number does NOT meet recomended requirements)
GeForce 8400GS (Dispite higher name number does NOT meet recomended requirements)

GeForce 7950GT
GeForce 7800GTX
GeForce 7800GT
GeForce 7600GT (10-15 fps) Frequent BSoD by at least one user. Suspect it is due to driver issues.
GeForce 7600GS
GeForce 7300LE
GeForce 7300GT
GeForce 7300GS
GeForce 7200GS
GeForce 7100GS

GeForce 6800XT
GeForce 6800LE
GeForce 6800GS (10-40 fps) In lowish settings, depends on area (this was using a 512 mb AGP (x8) card and my cpu is below recommended)
GeForce 6600

nVidia MOBILE (laptop) CARDS
GeForce 8400M G 5-10 FPS in Tortage daytime, with all settings set to minimal. Terrible, essentially unplayable.
GeForce 8600M GT (5-15 FPS)
GeForce Go 7400

[edit] ATI

Radeon HD2600XT (10-20 FPS) Max settings except for view distance (using 512 MB version)
Radeon HD3850 (35-45 FPS) Max settings no shadows, no AA (using 256 MB version)

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