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VR jefranklin18

VR jefranklin18
I kickstarted for premium beta back in week 1 of the original kickstarter campaign, but knew that I would need an upgrade before I could actually play it.

Thinking I had a bit of time of head of me, I haven't rushed to upgrade but when the advance beta client came out, I had to try it. Lets just say the miniguns in the first scenario now have a rate of fire of about 30 rounds per minute. :)

Getting an I3 may not have been a good long-term decision!
 

Mephane

Mephane
jefranklin18 said:
I kickstarted for premium beta back in week 1 of the original kickstarter campaign, but knew that I would need an upgrade before I could actually play it.

Thinking I had a bit of time of head of me, I haven't rushed to upgrade but when the advance beta client came out, I had to try it. Lets just say the miniguns in the first scenario now have a rate of fire of about 30 rounds per minute. :)

Getting an I3 may not have been a good long-term decision!
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Since my PC is also too old to handle it fluidly in normal circumstances, I found that running in a window with a reduced resolution helps tremendously. I have a machine 5 1/2 years old, still with a Q9550, but at 1280x720 and low details it runs relatively smooth (barring the multiple Impeccable clipping into each other bug, that make the FPS drop significantly even on new high end machines).
 

Frank

Frank
You may want to dig a little deeper to see if there's something else causing the slowdown. I am in the same boat as you. I got an i3 and was thinking I'd need to upgrade, but I thought I might as well try it to see what it was like even if quad core was mentioned in the minimum spec.

I started it up an have had no issues at all so far. I don't know what my framerate is. I tried pressing ctrl-f but I couldn't see a readout. But it plays smoothly, and it looks... wonderful.

I'm at work and I can't remember what kind of graphics card I got. I think it had a green circuitboard with light blue cooling fans if that's any help, oh, and it was NVidia. Being in the same boat, I'd reckon you'll be upgrading anyway, 'cause I will. Maybe that extra burst of power is all you need.
 

VR jefranklin18

VR jefranklin18
It's a low-powered laptop. Intel M380 and the graphics card is the Intel embedded one. I bought it on the cheap a few years ago as I wanted one for casual browsing, so had my expectations appropriately set.

I have a Core2Quad desktop which I reckon with a card upgrade (has a 9800GT at the moment) should be more than capable until I sort out a decent gaming laptop.
 

Y2K

Y2K
Built my rig last summer for BF4, went all out so no upgrading required for BF5. Well worth it, eats anything I throw at it and asks for more. ELITE all maxed is awesomely wiicked.
 

Rog

Rog
Have downloaded and run the alpha-for-beta thing on my i3 3110m 2.4GHz laptop with integrated HD4000 graphics. Not exactly a gaming powerhouse.

Know what, it runs!

OK, had to turn all the details down to low, and it runs in 720 fullscreen, but it's actually fine. The only slowdown really noticed was getting up close to the Anaconda, where framerate dropped under 10fps (guess), but still playable.

Obviously this is not exactly ideal, but it lets me put off building that new machine for another couple of months.

jefranklin18 said:
It's a low-powered laptop. Intel M380 and the graphics card is the Intel embedded one.
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That M380 is the problem I reckon: HD 4000 was > 50% quicker.
 
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Rog

Rog
Hey Frank, to check your GFX card, click 'Start', and in the search box type 'dxdiag' and click it.

On the display tab, it should tell you the type of card, plus a load of other impenetrable gubbins.
 
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