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    CPU upgrade help my WAR performance?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by thegooch69, Sep 24, 2008.

  1. thegooch69

    thegooch69 Notebook Guru

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    I have the Gateway P-6831FX stock except for another 320gb hard drive. My frame rates in WAR are fairly decent. The only time I experience significant lag is during RvR battles and highly populated areas.

    My question is would upgrading to a T8300 drastically improve my frame rates? I'm not sure if WAR is a CPU heavy or video card heavy game.
     
    thegooch69, Sep 24, 2008
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    brainer Notebook Virtuoso

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    every MMO is heavy on CPU and kind of light on GPU. a better CPU will greatly help in WAR, because from what ive seen, the areas are very crowded.
     
    brainer, Sep 24, 2008
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    thegooch69 Notebook Guru

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    That's good to know. I'm glad to hear that I'm able to easily get a nice performance boost!
     
    thegooch69, Sep 24, 2008
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    mullenbooger Former New York Giant

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    Are you sure?
     
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    rschauby Superfluously Redundant

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    I'd have to agree with this. However, this game is still young and will still go through some performance optimization on both server and client side. Make sure you have 2 gigs of RAM too (didn't look at your specs).

    Do you get latency spikes in those big RVR battles?
     
    rschauby, Sep 25, 2008
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    I don't know I'll have to monitor but I have 3 gigs of ram.
     
    thegooch69, Sep 26, 2008
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    his ram is very sufficient believe me, its either he wait for patches (which will definatly increase performance) or get a newer CPU, but maybe he should wait a bit more before deciding.
     
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    could he not overclock his cpu?
     
    roosta, Sep 29, 2008
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    Buff throttle and shadows will help alot. Especially the buff throttle in large RVR battles.
     
    iggy097, Sep 29, 2008
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    I have buff throttle, and it helped but it's not making a huge difference like some people claim. I've looked up and done a few performance tweaks. For the most part, it's smooth but I was doing T2 scenarios the other night and it would stutter pretty badly during some spots, especially during high concentration of players on screen.

    I needed a better CPU anyways as the stock one just doesn't cut it anymore for many other things other than WAR, so it's worth getting regardless. Once I finally have it installed and running, I'll let everyone know if I notice a huge difference or not.
     
    thegooch69, Sep 29, 2008
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