Can my game be better if I upgrade my machine?
wizard_merlin:
Quote from: Alexina on 2011 February 13, 14:52:20
A better machine will only take you so far. You'll get nice graphics, fairly nice speed, but the game itself is poorly written using inefficient and half-assed coding hence why it is so slow, glitchy, laggy, runs your fan to max and uses a helluva lot of CPU power, and if you use mods and packs then that adds more load to the game.
I disagree and think your just full of shit and bile because you can't get it to work on your machine for whatever reason.
I am lucky if my fan speeds get above 50% of max speed, and it usually grabs one core only, which isn't really taxing on the CPU or even a "Helluva lot of CPU power" as you describe it. I had a couple of sound issues after LN, which would drive up a core or two, but finally seem to have them solved. The game isn't what I would call slow or laggy, unless playing on the underspec'ed laptop, even though occasionally when something specific occurs it may appear to lag or be slightly slower, but hardly the major disaster you are implying it is. Yes it is buggy and poorly written, but mods like AM solve most of those issues and clean everything up.
The same thing applies to you as it does to Cwunts, if you don't like the game, stop playing it.
Madame Mim:
Well, I've chosen the path I'll follow. I'll get a new case, MB, RAM and OS with my current savings and do a new video card in a couple of months time.
J. M. Pescado:
Your computer is fine. You don't need an upgrade, and your issues are caused by things unrelated to your computer. Perhaps all the CRAP you are running.
Madame Mim:
Like I said there are little to no issues with my game. I just wanted to make sure that this update time I spent my money in the places most likely to cause improvement to the game performance.
witch:
Then you have made some wrong decisions. A new case will do squat. RAM's OK, but it's probably not the main bottleneck, you'll need the extra RAM just to run Win7 anyway. You will still be without a decent video card and it's likely your old one will not fit the new mobo. Come to think of it, you're probably thinking of buying a mobo and using its onboard integrated graphics. Oh no, I see you're going to wait awhile for the one thing that might make a significant difference on its own.
You'd get a more responsive machine by cleaning up crap that's constantly running (as per Pescadoian advice), turning off a few unneeded services (see ElderGeek) optimising your registry and possibly purchasing faster hard drives if you have SATA connections on your mobo. And a power supply and video card as previously recommended by at least two out of three shoppers.
How on Earth you made the decision you did out of the information in this thread is completely beyond me.
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