Assailer wrote: ↑Tue, 15. Oct 19, 06:04
I understand latest processors handle the game well, but is this EGO's best interest to appeal to that limited amount of customers?
It is still playable with older. I used to run it with a Core I7 920 and know someone who runs it with an I5 7XX (seven hundred something). Sure my Ryzen 9 3900X runs it a ton better than the old I7 920, but I could still play with an I7 920.
The fact X4 requires a 4GB GPU to play well out right means that they are targeting hardware that is ~5 years old max.
I know my old 2600k is the weak point when it comes to X4's performance, not my 1070 except in very specific circumstances. Still, for an eight year old CPU it's doing a sterling job considering X4's Core / Thread load quirks vs. most other modern titles. Being OC'd to 4.7ghz doubtless helps.
It's good to hear that a 4770k - overclocked I assume - which should be a fair bit better than mine is soundly beaten by the much newer 9700k. I've been itching to upgrade for a few years now but, other than X4, nothing really pushes my old rig. I've thrown in a new GPU - the 1070 when it launched - and some better SATA SSD's (no PCIe NVMe for me) but other than that it's the same rig. I have actually considered getting the 9700k as it does appear to be a very good gaming CPU without quite the price premium of the 9900k. I've also eagerly read up on all things Zen 2 and considered a 3950X as a jack of all trades PC - I currently have several PC's for various roles.
If there are any particularly tempting deals in the future I might grab some new bits, but I need pretty much EVERYTHING this time of course. CPU, Motherboard, RAM, newer PCIe NVMe Drives to replace the SATA SSD's. I might even snag a new case. I'll also need a new CPU block and may well grab a GPU too...do a proper job lol. However, what holds me back is that it's only X4 that gives my current system trouble, and I'm not playing it that much.
Yeah I totally agree. If this is the only game that calls for an upgrade, I don’t think I can justify it. My hope (and belief) is that they can move things like particle processing to the GPU side as they hinted at in another thread, and that with improvements coming to Vulkan, X4 will create less CPU bottlenecks and perform better on our current hardware.
The game is running fine....even on max settings(graphics) and I find it odd that you all should have such issues.
I remember I was having slow down issues until I did one thing......I changed one value in the config.xml file.... <trafficdensity>0.01</trafficdensity> default was .50 I thinks.
I got a i5-8600k and they told me it makes no difference in gaming from a i7-8700k, still i get some low fps drops up to 17 when i'm between a destroyed xenon station in a sector with a lot of fog
sundernet wrote: ↑Thu, 17. Oct 19, 20:54
I got a i5-8600k and they told me it makes no difference in gaming from a i7-8700k, still i get some low fps drops up to 17 when i'm between a destroyed xenon station in a sector with a lot of fog
