ANON Cerberus
Tiny Toons
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Posted - 2014.05.10 21:16:00 -
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Just as a base guide.
Depending on how many players will be on the battlefield at once - this alone will really big a big deciding factor on if the game will use a lot more CPU or GPU. As a general rule, the higher the texture resolutions, the more pretty particle FX and other graphical things - usually this will require more GPU power.
The amount of players on the battlefield and other things like this will strain the CPU more.There are many things you can do to a computer beyond just simple upgrades that can improve performance. Of course buying new parts and building new PC`s is a great way to get the latest levels of performance, however if you have an older PC or you are wanting to get more out of your hardware here are a few things you can try....
1st most important thing - Defragment your hard drive if you have a traditional (Non SSD) HD. Also run things like error checks and clean up the disk if you require more space.
2nd - Update all of your graphics and hardware drivers. Sometimes the latest drivers ARE NOT ALWAYS the fastest. Depending on the age of your GPU, if you are willing to spend a little time benchmarking a selection of drivers you may find that an older / newer driver will yeild more performance. This can be a small or even a large difference in terms of performance.
3rd - Make sure you close all unnecessary programs when you are running your games, things like steam, internet web browsers, any other startup programs that you do not need.
4th - If you are running windows, especially things like vista, windows 7 + 8. The operating system itself can use up a good portion of your available RAM, it may even be taking extra CPU cycles. You can temporarily reduce the 'graphics' of windows and at the very least you will increase the amount of available RAM.
[Control panel > system > advanced system settings > in the advanced tab - performance - settings > click adjust for best performance]
If you do this, windows will look very basic, almost like the old days of windows 98, however you can change this back at any point and you will find that games will run better if you dont have a huge amount of RAM available.
5th - so here is where we start getting technical now - Overclocking. This is a way to push your hardware past its rated 'limit'. Most components can be pushed anywhere from 5-30% past their standard speeds. Now I would not advise overclocking if you don't know what you are doing because if you do things wrong, especially when it comes to CPU Vcore voltages, pretty much voltages of any type, there is the potential to fry your circuitry.
However done correctly, assuming you have ample cooling, even the most modest of pc setup can unlock a lot of potential.
This applies for the CPU, RAM speed as well the GPU speed as all can be pushed faster (this usually requires a motherboard that supports these options however most graphics cards these days have utility programmes to overclock the GPU from windows / the OS.
I hope this helps, give me a shout if anyone needs any help. |