8 replies to this topic

[Uncle Totty]

After my MWO frame rate dropped on the family computer, to around 6FPS, I find it to be about time to get one of my own. So what hardware would you people recommend for a computer that can run this game well.

[ICUBurn]

depends on your budjet. i b uilt a new system and it ran me $1600. the one im building for my brother that will run mwo and should do it max settings and smoothly will total roughly $650-700 when done. could go cheeper yet but i didnt want to do micro atx mobo and a crappy case with no airflow.

Edited by ICUBurn, 03 April 2013 - 01:25 PM.

[Oderint dum Metuant]

As above, how can we build you a system with no outlined budget?

[defcon won]

First, what do you have now? What OS and how old is the installation
Could be that a clean OS install, a good dust cleaning of components (grounded) and driver & OS updates could get you going just fine. Or just upgrading the video card. If using onboard graphics, you shouldn't expect games to run.
Possibly upgrade memory and/or cpu, but for gaming, the graphics card is where you put the money.

[Moromillas]

You know I'm not sure. It might be better to go through support directly, they're still in the process of getting it to run on a various hardware, so going by the standard requirements thing, like processing power etc alone wont be enough.

[Oderint dum Metuant]

defcon won, on 03 April 2013 - 11:44 PM, said:

First, what do you have now? What OS and how old is the installation
Could be that a clean OS install, a good dust cleaning of components (grounded) and driver & OS updates could get you going just fine. Or just upgrading the video card. If using onboard graphics, you shouldn't expect games to run.
Possibly upgrade memory and/or cpu, but for gaming, the graphics card is where you put the money.

Not totally true, each genre of games and indeed each game are completely different depending on the methods used to create them, currently under direct x9 we know that MWO is very heavy on the CPU, as opposed to the GPU.
That should change over time however.

Moromillas, on 03 April 2013 - 11:48 PM, said:

You know I'm not sure. It might be better to go through support directly, they're still in the process of getting it to run on a various hardware, so going by the standard requirements thing, like processing power etc alone wont be enough.

True and not so true, it's very easy to build systems to play MWO, by using systems built for its base engine and other games made on that engine, by the time MWO reaches maturity after another 12 months of development time, it's performance should be exactly where we would expect a cry engine 3 game.

[Moromillas]

DV McKenna, on 04 April 2013 - 12:42 AM, said:

True and not so true, it's very easy to build systems to play MWO, by using systems built for its base engine and other games made on that engine, by the time MWO reaches maturity after another 12 months of development time, it's performance should be exactly where we would expect a cry engine 3 game.

Yes, it does use the cry engine, but the source wont be exactly the same. They're still doing performance passes on various hardware. Basically, different hardware that have the same power will have different performance in-game.

[Sen]

Short answer:

core i5/i7 processor, or AMD vizshera FX 6k/8k series
4-32 Gig DDR3 1600
Nvidia 650/660 or higher / AMD 7850/7870 or 7950/7970
600w + PSU
SSD for O/S if possible

[ArmageddonKnight]

Intel i5 3570k
Coolermaster 212 Evo CPU cooler
Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Paste
AMD Sapphire 7870XT
2x4gb 1600mhz G.Skill CL9 RAM
Asus P8Z77 V LK Motherboard
WesternDigital Caviar Black 7200RPM 500gb 32mb Cache HDD
Corsair TX650m PSU
CoolerMaster HAF 922 PC case

Optional: Samsung 830 Pro 128gb SSD

Edited by ArmageddonKnight, 04 April 2013 - 08:15 AM.