My Discovery

[Raimeken]

This game is not good for either nVidia or ATi

I have 2 cards, 1 GTX 570 and 1 old 5870. They have a similar performance with the 570 only winning by a few FPS at most.

I realized that the 570 performs absolutely flawless on the campaign map, 60-70 FPS, and that the 5870 performs poorly, 30-40 FPS.

I also realized that the 570 is lackluster on the battlefield in engaged melee, 20-25 FPS, and the 5870 is around 30-35 FPS.

So....what do I do huh, I have a card thats excellent in campaign, but just 'ok' in battle, and a card thats just 'ok' in campaign and great in battle.

If this does not apply to the 6xxx series, then I will just put it off as a problem in the 5xxx series

Settings:
MSAA 2x
Textures: High
DoF:off
Shadows: Low
Unit Detail: Ultra
Tree: Ultra
Grass: Low
Particle: Ultra

Tesselation, Soft Shadows, and Vignette on

[AlfonsoVIII]

what drivers did you use for this experiment.

[Raimeken]

what drivers did you use for this experiment.

270.61 and 11.5

[AlfonsoVIII]

Those drivers have problems, revert to previous older ones, 266.58 or 266.66 for Nvidia and your performance will increase. For ATI, try 11.4.