Dual Core?
Butmunkie
Join Date: 2012-12-16 Member: 175264Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Oh and SSD</div>Hey guys!
Long time fan of NS1 and a bunch of my mates are gonna be getting this together for christmas.
Was just wondering if this game supports dual core CPU's? I heard this game is pretty intensive on the CPU and I have overclocked to 3.2g. But if its only going to use one core it might not be enough.
Also will an SSD noticeably improve performance?
Long time fan of NS1 and a bunch of my mates are gonna be getting this together for christmas.
Was just wondering if this game supports dual core CPU's? I heard this game is pretty intensive on the CPU and I have overclocked to 3.2g. But if its only going to use one core it might not be enough.
Also will an SSD noticeably improve performance?
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What kind of CPU do you have? I was under the impression that most dual cores weren't the best and you'd need to step up to an i5 or i7 with a quad core.
Intel e6750 2.6, OCed to 3.2.
Edit: <a href="http://ark.intel.com/products/30784/Intel-Core2-Duo-Processor-E6750-4M-Cache-2_66-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB" target="_blank">http://ark.intel.com/products/30784/Intel-...Hz-1333-MHz-FSB</a>
Those are the stats, apart from the overclock of course.
With GTX460's in SLI can I expect that at least?
Actual game testing shows, you will have severe frame rate drops in end game or heavily populated scenarios.
However this seems to be the case for most people even those with quad cores at the moment.
Early game in an empty corridor it's 70fps. Any early combat with more than a few people around me it drops to ~40. Late-game (16-20 players) with exos, cysts and all the carnage it will drop to 10-15fps if I get anywhere near heavy combat.
I have an SSD and load times are pretty fair. NS2 loads in probably 20-30 seconds on first go and I'm almost always in the first 3-4 people to load on a map change which is much faster once the game is cached.
I find this hard to believe since my i5-3570K quad core has load of 30-70% on all cores when im playing NS2.
Unless you have an early i7 or newer, do not expect decent performance.
It's definitely not about ur I5 its about ur gfx and/or memory. I5 is perfectly capable of running this game with gazillion fps.
I have i5-3570k and i know what im talking about, NS2 is piece of cake for it. I'm GPU bottlenecked with HD 7750, CPU is running only half load. I still have decent performance.