Upgrading your CPU without upgrading your motherboard is almost always a futile process. You'll pay $1-300 for a cpu that is 10% faster. If you really want to upgrade you cpu, SAVE that money and put it into a new CPU/Mobo/Ram combo when you can afford it. In this case you could buy a AMD 5000+ off ebay for $100 and get a…
Jasonin3D...looks like you have exceeded the 700tris limit by your own admission of 564 polys-- which is 1128 tris. He looks good-- probably due to the additional geometry! :) I have to agree with achillesian-- Silk Spectre does look a little squat. But overall the Watchmen ensemble is quite impressive.
Ive had a integrated GFX card, a Radeon HD 5470, and an HD 6570, and a GTX 560 ti and over the course of those cards I didn't notice any improvement in VFX rendering
The problem with the solution above is that if you want to edit the model later on its going to be really difficult. We are having a discussion about this in the modeling shapes thread. Basically read what Perna has posted on the last 4-5 pages. http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56014&page=133
Excellent link from Shogun3d. More links here that might be of use: http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Subdivision_Surface_Modeling http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56014
Maybe look for Nvidia drivers from 6-7 months ago? Check the Clean Install box under Advanced settings. I'm using 306.97 on a Nvidia GTX 560 Ti and they work fine.
The idea I had for this project was to scrape the absolute bottom of the barrel of what I could do in terms of visual fidelity in the UDK when running on a current high end machine. and still keep it playable at a decent frame rate. my current machine Intel 2600k I7 "sandy bridge" 16GB ddr3 Ram 1333hz Nvidia GTX 570 Nvidia…
@pmiller001 Yes, I'd say it's an industry standard way of working. :) Check out this epic thread: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56014