Well the parts of my new PC arrived today, I carefully assembled it over the course of about an hour, burnt a new Win 7 RC disc and installed it on the Solid State Disc (SSD) in around 20-30 minutes. I didn't actually time the OS install, but I sat down to eat and before I was finished the PC was at the desktop waiting for me.
Unfortunately at first there was something dodgy going on, every few seconds the PC would freeze and jerk around, I thought perhaps it was a faulty SSD as I'd heard horror stories. For about four hours I was tweaking bios settings, disabling defragmenting (really bad for SSDs) and other windows features that could have caused the problem. Then I read a suggestion to choose another SATA port on the motherboard, gave it a shot and now the speed is blinding.
I've since tested VBS2 on this spec, set everything to Very High in the video settings and both view distance and object distance to 10km, and still got a fairly reasonable frame rate at ground level on Sahrani. I wouldn't play at those settings as I could see things going downhill pretty fast! That and 10km view distance isn't really useful for dismounts. I will be testing ArmA2 later, this should be interesting.
Jamie.
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