what do I need to upgrade?

[psijaka]

I would probably just up the RAM as it is so cheap, and see if that improves matters.

[Gortha]

More ram won´t bring him jsut one frame per second more.

He needs faster Processor and faster Graphiccard.

@OP
First OC your 920er a few hundrets MHz. This will help you to get a few more frames per second.

Reg
Gortha

[greenberetdelta]

Won't overclocking hurt my proc and do I really need a better card?

[Beerbeer]

I have the same CPU as you, and while it's an i7, it's old and one of the first generation of those.

I have an ATI HD 4850 and 9GBs of ram and I run everything on low.

I'm GPU limited. I would suggest upgrading your graphics card first.


Edit: in beta I had 3Gigs of ram. Bumping it to 9 helped a lot, especially with texture loading and random freezes and ram is dirt cheap now. Still, get a new graphics card.

[ChipMHazard]

Will overclocking damage your CPU? No, over volting will. OCing will shorten your CPU's lifespan a very little bit, nothing you need to worry about. The worst you will probably experience when trying to overclock is system instability and heat generation.
You do not need to upgrade your GPU, unless you're really suffering from GPU limitation. Then again I don't know very much about ATI cards and just made a passing glance on its specs.

[Ghoest9]

You probably need an aftermarket heat sink(not liquid just a big one with a fan) if you want to OC that.

But Almost surely right now you are being limited by processor speed.

I have the very cheap i5 2500k over clocked to 4500 and it works great.



The problem is that PS2 only makes significant use of one core so speed matters more than in other new games.

[greenberetdelta]

Originally Posted by Beerbeer

I have the same CPU as you, and while it's an i7, it's old and one of the first generation of those.

I have an ATI HD 4850 and 9GBs of ram and I run everything on low.

I'm GPU limited. I would suggest upgrading your graphics card first.


Edit: in beta I had 3Gigs of ram. Bumping it to 9 helped a lot, especially with texture loading and random freezes and ram is dirt cheap now. Still, get a new graphics card.

interesting I had both those things as well before i upgraded(3gbs ram, 4850 card)