For most players with CoD4 experience, the frame rate hit you get playing CoD:WW will be a bit of a rude shock. While Infinity Ward opted to make CoD4 for the median PC systems out there, Treyarch appears to have gone the other route and catered more toward the high end systems.
What this means to you and me is that frame rates are lower than in CoD4. In some cases, much lower. Since frame rate ( = frames per second, or fps) is proportional to success in this game - increasing frame rate is very important.
Aside from the obvious, like ensuring that you shut down any non-used processes on your computer (anti-virus, VOIP, browsers...etc.), or getting a faster broadband connection (FIOS anyone?), the only immediate alternative we as gamers have, is to "tweak" our player configuration file.
-125 fps in stock is not too shabby and certainly playable even in competition.
-Turning off all of the bells and whistles, the rate "zooms" to 171 fps.
-As you may have read our article on the MP Beta Tweak , yitchwwbeta1 and 2.cfg improved on this quite substantially.
-The benchmark rises to approximately 200 fps.
-Finally, for those who are dealing with older computers which result in the game turning into a Powerpoint-like slideshow out there, you might want to try our first all-out FPS maximizer: yitchww1.cfg. This config raises the frame rate to a whopping 372 fps on my machine. I say whopping...it only increased the frame rate by a factor of two...it could have been a great deal more with Shader 2.0 available.
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What this means to you and me is that frame rates are lower than in CoD4. In some cases, much lower. Since frame rate ( = frames per second, or fps) is proportional to success in this game - increasing frame rate is very important.
Aside from the obvious, like ensuring that you shut down any non-used processes on your computer (anti-virus, VOIP, browsers...etc.), or getting a faster broadband connection (FIOS anyone?), the only immediate alternative we as gamers have, is to "tweak" our player configuration file.
-125 fps in stock is not too shabby and certainly playable even in competition.
-Turning off all of the bells and whistles, the rate "zooms" to 171 fps.
-As you may have read our article on the MP Beta Tweak , yitchwwbeta1 and 2.cfg improved on this quite substantially.
-The benchmark rises to approximately 200 fps.
-Finally, for those who are dealing with older computers which result in the game turning into a Powerpoint-like slideshow out there, you might want to try our first all-out FPS maximizer: yitchww1.cfg. This config raises the frame rate to a whopping 372 fps on my machine. I say whopping...it only increased the frame rate by a factor of two...it could have been a great deal more with Shader 2.0 available.
