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[Mordecai Walfish]

Hello everyone! I wanted to share a pretty good guide I ran across recently for PC builds in different price ranges, as Mechwarrior:Online can be pretty taxing on older hardware, and is a great reason to upgrade/build a new PC this holiday season!

The guide is here:

http://media.photobu...Guide/Guide.png


I would recommend to start at the "Fair" level build as the lowest possible configuration you would want to run the game at for acceptable gameplay (at lower graphical setting levels), and work your way up, depending on your budget.

Happy Holidays!
-Mordecai

[mayakashiii]

You shouldn't buy new hardware for MWO as it is horribly coded and doesn't use hardware like it should. The only clever solution is to wait it out and see what the devs can do about it, after that happened you are free to upgrade.

[Flapdrol]

3570K and Z77 board is a good place to start, no point in spending more as mwo and 95% of other games will not be able to use it.

[Xervitus]

By the time they optimise it, everyone will have 16 cores and 8gb of video rmemory so it won't matter

Edited by Xervitus, 25 November 2012 - 07:24 AM.

[Mordecai Walfish]

Flapdrol, on 24 November 2012 - 12:52 PM, said:

3570K and Z77 board is a good place to start, no point in spending more as mwo and 95% of other games will not be able to use it.

3570k and Z77 are on the higher end for running MWO. You can get acceptable performance from an $80 cpu and ~$100 mobo and save quite a bit from those intel parts. What you describe is not a "good place to start", it is high-end for this application, and most others currently. A quadcore AMD Phenom2 with 3+ghz runs the game fine with a sufficiently powerful GPU, and will cost less than half of the intel counterparts. That would be the "good place to start".

[Flapdrol]

Well, maybe I should have said "if budget allows" that's what you should get, and there's no point in spending more.

if you cant afford that I'd get a cheaper P67 / Z68 / Z77 board and a normal i5, cant afford that get a H61 board, still cant afford it, get a phenom II quad.

for this game it's best to spend a lot on the cpu and not as much on the gpu.

Edited by Flapdrol, 26 November 2012 - 09:47 AM.