Computational Offloading ? - Answered.

[THE BL1P]

Is it possible to offload some of the CPU work to a second PC or Server ?

I have a second PC doing nothing atm and I thought it would be nice to offload some of the CPU workload.


THanks.

[CBJ]

Sadly not.

[THE BL1P]

Sadly not.

Boo

[THE BL1P]

My next question is can I make the game universe smaller to reduce the lag I suffer in conflict systems or would a smaller universe not help ?

[CBJ]

There isn't, and even if you did I don't think it would make a huge difference. There is, of course, some constant background overhead for running the full universe simulation, but if you get significant slowdown in particular locations then the majority of that slowdown is likely to be caused by things happening in that location. There's not much that can be done about that given that, as you're probably aware, the per-core performance of your CPU is pretty much at, or even slightly below, the minimum requirement for the game.

[THE BL1P]

There isn't, and even if you did I don't think it would make a huge difference. There is, of course, some constant background overhead for running the full universe simulation, but if you get significant slowdown in particular locations then the majority of that slowdown is likely to be caused by things happening in that location. There's not much that can be done about that given that, as you're probably aware, the per-core performance of your CPU is pretty much at, or even slightly below, the minimum requirement for the game.

I wasn't aware of that I just know its a 4ghz cpu with 8 cores or thats what it said on the box anyway. Maybe AMD lied ?

Anyway thanks for the advise about the not being able to create a smaller universe and that it wouldn't really matter anyway.
I thought I had above min specs but I guess not, Ill just move onto another game if it gets much worse no problemo amigo

[CBJ]

I wasn't aware of that I just know its a 4ghz cpu with 8 cores or thats what it said on the box anyway. Maybe AMD lied ?

They didn't lie, but if you compare benchmarks against the Intel CPU listed in the minimum requirements, you'll see that the Intel has considerably better single-core performance. That's an important factor for all X series games.

Before you give up on it, though, I'd recommend looking through the performance troubleshooting sticky thread at the top of the forum. There may well be ways to improve performance to a point you are comfortable with.

[THE BL1P]

I wasn't aware of that I just know its a 4ghz cpu with 8 cores or thats what it said on the box anyway. Maybe AMD lied ?

They didn't lie, but if you compare benchmarks against the Intel CPU listed in the minimum requirements, you'll see that the Intel has considerably better single-core performance. That's an important factor for all X series games.

Before you give up on it, though, I'd recommend looking through the performance troubleshooting sticky thread at the top of the forum. There may well be ways to improve performance to a point you are comfortable with.

Thanks I will check that, again.