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    G73 - Runs Civ V Like A Dream!

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Almost Tactful, Sep 21, 2010.

  1. Almost Tactful

    Almost Tactful Notebook Consultant

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    Just figured I'd drop a line and let anyone know that was thinking of getting the game that it runs it extremely well :) I set it to 1920X1080, maxed every setting, enabled DX11 tessilation, and upped AA/AF to 8x and it ran at 60FPS while I played. The GPU did show a 98% usage amount and it ramped it up nice and hot to 87*C but no stuttering or issues! I'll post back some more once I see how it deals with a full game ;)
     
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    MNDZA Notebook Enthusiast

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    Sounds great. I was thinking of getting that game. Now looking forward to it more. Also FF14 tomorrow!
     
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    Once I get my G73 back from RMA I want to play this too. Frys has it on sale today for $39.
     
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    Almost Tactful Notebook Consultant

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    Still playing pretty well but the FPS is dropping haha, I'm about 250 turns into the game and the world is opening up. I decided to go for broke and I did a huge map with 12 players and 24 city scapes, at this point with the same settings I'm down to about 22-25FPS so I'm thinking of dropping AA soon to pick a few back up, although we may be CPU limited. The game doesn't use "cores" 5-8 at all so it seems that it isn't HT compatable and only uses physical cores, wish there was a way to turn HT off so the CPU would stay at a higher clock.
     
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