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[Paigan]

Using a laptop as a gaming device is like using a motorcycle for a large delivery job.
Of course it's possible somehow, but ... you know.

[LordNothing]

i recently had an unacceptably high crash rate. i had been running on medium settings. some tryhard suggested low settings, so i gave it ago. it made the crash rate go through the roof. so i went the other way, maxed out my settings, and now the game is pretty damn stable at close to 60 fps. its inexplicable, a game that runs worse on low settings.

[Bandilly]

The Potatoe Whisperer, on 30 December 2016 - 04:26 PM, said:

This game will not run on an AMD CPU. Just not fast enough per core.

Lies! I don't even have my 1090T OCed, need to get better cooling to do that. It runs the game just fine at 3.2-3.4 per core and if I wanted I should be able to push it to around 4.0.

[kyfire]

The Potatoe Whisperer, on 30 December 2016 - 04:26 PM, said:

This game will not run on an AMD CPU. Just not fast enough per core.

I beg to differ with you, I've been playing on a AMD FX 6300 (@stock 3.5 GHz) with no issues. I get 60FPS on all maps. The only time I experience any issues is if I'm on Oceanic servers (I'm in NA).

[FireStoat]

The Potatoe Whisperer, on 30 December 2016 - 04:26 PM, said:

This game will not run on an AMD CPU. Just not fast enough per core.

Also chiming in to correct this fine gentleman. I recently built a budget PC for a friend's kid.

Athlon X4 845 CPU
Zotac GTX 750 ti oc GPU
Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-H motherboard
2 sticks of 1866 DDR3 ram (x2 4 gigabytes)
550 watt power supply
VIVO cheapo mid tower case

Using a mix of new and used parts I kept the cost under 250 bucks. MWO was one of the games he wanted to play and it handles it without shadows and particles set to low with the rest set to medium for about 50 FPS, dipping down to 40 FPS on River City. The issue with this game is that it is very single core intensive for tasking, which the older Piledriver types are especially poor with. I knew his intent going into this and went with the x4 845 both for its price point and its vastly improved efficiency with single core tasking.

[Navy Sixes]

Sylonce, on 30 December 2016 - 03:22 PM, said:

I used to run an old AMD laptop (A6 processor, and Radeon 7650 or some such), and at 20 fps with dips down to 10 or less, the game was practically unplayable.

Me too. I stayed in, despite my slideshow fps, by fielding LRMs. And also by being a huge Battletech fan who didn't care that he was getting stomped, so long as there were mechs involved.

Congrats, OP!

[xengk]

Yellonet, on 30 December 2016 - 01:50 PM, said:

I upgraded my PC with a GTX 1060 from a R9 280x... not much difference. Still get below 30 fps on some of the newer maps... It's crazy how poor this game performs

Yellonet, on 30 December 2016 - 04:56 PM, said:

2600K@4.4 GHz

I am running an i5 6500 3.2Ghz, with Asus R9270X-DC2T-4GD5 GPU, on Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H motherboard
But getting 60-70FPS in match, with dip to 50FPS during intense battle.
https://mwomercs.com...ost__p__5551094

[PurplePuke]

I've been playing for a year. I only have a laptop with no GPU. I've never played the game at more than 20 FPS.

Ridiculous, I know.

New computer soon.

I'm forced to play mostly sniper builds because in-close fighting nukes my framerate even more. Brawling is nigh impossible.

There are probably more like me than we know.

[Alex Morgaine]

Shadows. Every game i play i have max settings on a game except shadows i can manage a reasonable frame rate on mid grade tech. Turn shadows even a little up... And welcome to the slide show. Things on shadows just eating up resources stupidly?

[dario03]

So does the game actually use the cpu in your computers? Because I keep seeing people say its cpu limited but like I said mine is always around 40% usage and I still get slow downs. I have most settings turned down and while a rx470 isn't the fastest card around it is faster than the recommended card.