A guy has this rig:

Let me quote his words, he was talking about the release patch:

"what about performance increase?
i really need it for some reason, It LAGs as hell in the start, less than 12 FPS.

And my PC isn't some craptop either,
Im sitting on an
I7-950
24GB of RAM (don't ask, got it cheap)
3GB of VRAM in my Geforce 580 GTX Phantom from Gainward

it can run everything from CS to metro 2033 maxed out smoothly, but i can't run The Witcher 2 on Low setting in 720P even"

This is very scary i wonder what kind of PC would i need to max the game D:
i have:
i7 920
8gb Ram DDR3
AtI 5970

I guess if he cant max the game i will have to run it on medium, mabe we need some kind of future PC to be able to run the game at max? :(

5970 is a high end dual gpu you'll be fine it beats the single gtx 580

I dunno i gave an eye and lots of work for that card lol but on this list [url=]http://www.overclock.net/graphics-cards-general/502403-graphics-card-ranking-5th-time-last.html[/url] his card appears tied or similar to mine , i am quite confused , he has a better processor and crazy ammount of ram how can he get 15FPS D:

EDIT: btw mine 5970 is the 2gb version one not the uber 4gb one :(

These issues will be fixed once new Nvidia / AMD drivers are released. Don't be scared, homie.

As far as I know the 5970 is a dual underclocked 5870...so each clock is a little slower than the 5870 and you while you have 2GB ram..I'm pretty sure its like SLI where only 1GB is useable. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Also having that amount of ram can actually lower peformance.

I hear good things about performance until people start trying to max the game (and use ubersampling...). Even with much older hardware.

24 gigs is the problem
Cheap
Its going to be low MHZ high latentcy

Second and even worse
3 8gig chips

Then the problem THat memory cannot be written and read from at the same time, this is how much of the speed comes from.

Which isnt normaly a problem...

Except the 3 gigs of the videocard needs memory addresses.. and this is taken from main memory after 3gb infact.. and so the 8 gig chip is being seen as 2 by 64bit windows/bios.

So its attempt to write/read and needing to wait.. and the gigabytes of data that are moved from videocard to main memory and back every second is being held up... creating stuttering.

It's the nature of PC gaming. You always get a bunch of people that max all the settings then complain they only get 10fps. PC games are often built in such a way that only the very latest hardware will be able to play at max settings, and some times only future hardware.

It'll be interesting to start getting details of how uber sampling performs on the latest video cards and systems.

Is he playing the pirated version?
If not, he might have uber sampling on (murders everything).

actually its an example of people thinking more is better...
and spending craplods of money.

Then buying cheap memory.

Memory can be the diffrence between identical computers having games unplayable at high resoloutions and another running them above 60fps.

lol...that guy is messin with everyone

Sadly my ram is the slowest component of my comp...I have DDR2 800MHz and can't upgrade it :(

Everything else is mega fast tho!

Ok found this:

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,825004/The-Witcher-2-im-Technik-Test-Grafikkarten-und-CPU-Benchmarks-plus-Grafikvergleich/Rollenspiel-Adventure/Test/

Click on "1.920 x 1.080 mit "Über-Sampling" to get uber sampling frame rates. As suspected even latest cards won't aren't playable with uber sampling on.

That is wrong and advising others to waste money.

The important thing with memory is to have enough.

Admittedly, more than 4GB with a 32-bit OS is too much, but it does no harm.

And the Northbridge or the CPU direct memory interface and the memory access patterns of individual programs will limit memory performance before the memory itself will.
No, the slowest component of your computer is the disk.

The purpose of having lots of memory is to keep your computer from having to read game resources off the disk repeatedly.

This is why it is more important to have enough memory for the programs you need to run and why speed is only a secondary concern.