Issues playing PA

Yeah it's understandable. Recommend you ask here when choosing a new computer to make sure your graphics card is up to scratch.

on the note of a new machine can you by any chance suggest a afordable place to go that delivers to over seas military bases?

No idea. Perhaps Dell I guess. Recommend you find a tech-savvy guy who can help you choose and order parts individually and then build it himself - should work out quite a bit cheaper.

was hoping more for a computer website or something that builds and sells towers xD but ty anyway

newegg.com they might ship to you might not, don't know

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Hate to be that guy but in order to prevent this from happening to me is there any consensus as to what benchmark a person should shoot for in terms of GPU performance?

I'm looking at a http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.p ... +SE&id=106

I don't understand you're looking to buy that card or you own that card?

Looking to buy that card to upgrade but by the looks of it my CPU (while it will not bottleneck) might not be up to an RTS like this

i3 is a tad low but it has a recent cpu architeture which I think this game really needs (I'd like to point out your cpu hits 3.3Ghz wich is quite good)

but indeed intel HD graphics is a no-go for PA and the card you found seems suited to me while not allawing you to play with best (or better) graphical settings.

you're on a laptop?

More than a solid gpu this game will require a lot of vram.

Certainly, I had no delusions about how far that integrated graphics could carry me. Just needed an opinion on what level of card I need, and thus what power source with these things settled possibly a monitor.

Edit:

The next cards I'm looking at are the Radeon HD 7850 or GTX 760

Dude make sure your sentenses have a verb, a noun, a subject, a begining, and an end.

You're looking to get a second monitor?

as for the card you found, yes go with it. although if you want more PA bang for the buck a
GTX650-E-2GD5 would do you good since it's a 2gigs of graphic ram good graphic card of around the same price.eVGA GeForce GTX 660 in case you can afford it, this one is the cheapest 3gig card.

EDIT: alright then if you're going to look at a GTX 760, might as well put the above ↑ in normal size :eVGA GeForce GTX 660 this one is the cheapest 3gig card.

graphic ram size is going to be more important for PA than gpu clock.

>GTX 650

BAD CARD IS BAD

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.p ... 0+Ti&id=18

^Good card is good^

mushroomars, I only picked that one because it was one of the cheapest 2 gig ones, if there a ti edit, might as well.

Evga and gigabyte both make a 2 gig ti edit

I like the HD 7850 idea because it has 2 gigs and is quite cheap.

I only mentioned the display as I intend to replace my old one.

If I go with the 7850 I'll need between a 500-600W power supply. I also should make measurements

would this setup run PA?

EXECUTIONER Stage 1 "Prime" EXECUTIONER Stage 1 "Prime"
- NO Promotion
- Cooler Master Elite 430
- No Chassis Display / Controller Enchancement
- Stock Chassis Fans
- No Noise Suppression
- White Neon Internal Lighting Kit
- Stock Chassis Finish - No Custom Exterior Finishes
- Text to be Laser-Sketched™ on my desktop (I will be sending custom text)
- No Desktop Laser-Sketch™ Surfaces
- 600W Corsair CX Power Supply Unit
- ASUS M5A97 (AMD 970 Chipset) (ATX Form Factor, 4 DIMMS, 2 PCI Expansion SLots)
- AMD® Bulldozer FX-4300 Zambezi (3.80GHz) (32nm, 8MB L3 cache) AM3+ Socket (Quad-Core CPU)
- NO CPU Overclocking
- SINGLE - AMD® Radeon HD 7850 (2GB) GDDR5
- No thanks - I do not want to add a 2nd Graphics Card
- Want TRIPLE or QUAD GRAPHICS CARDS? - Contact a sales associate for direct pricing!
- No thanks, Do Not Overclock My Video Card(s)
- 1,000GB (1TB) 7200RPM Western Digital/Seagate/Hitachi/Samsung (32MB Cache)
- No Secondary Hard Drive
- No 3rd Hard Drive
- No Raid HDD Settings
- No Raid Controller
- 24x DVD Writer/Reader + 48x CD Writer/Reader
- No 2nd Optical Drive
- Standard Factory Heat-Sink and Fan (Not Recommended for CPU Overclocking)
- No H20 Tube Color - I do not have a FROSTBITE Liquid Cooling System
- 8GB DDR3 1600MHz (4GBx2 DIMMS) XOTIC PC Certified Performance Series (Highly Recommended) (Hand Tested)
- No Thanks, Please do not Overclock/Boost My Memory
- No Bluetooth
- High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
- Integrated Motherboard Audio
- No Add-On Card
- All-in-1 USB Memory Card Reader Add-On
- No Expansion Bay
- Microsoft Windows 8 (64-Bit Edition)
- No thanks, I Do Not Want DUAL BOOT Operating System Option
- No Operating System Redline Boost
- No OFFICE Software
- No PC Game
- Razer Arctosa Gaming Keyboard
- Razer Orochi Wired/Wireless Bluetooth/USB Notebook Gaming Mouse
- No Headset
- ACER 19.0” (G185HV) (16:9) Widescreen 60MHz Monitor (Black)
- Logitech (LS21) 2.1 Speaker System w/ Subwoofer
- No Mouse Pad
- No External Hard Drive
- No Rush Build - Standard Production Time is 8-12 Business Days
- 3 Year Limited Platinum Warranty [LIFETIME Labor Warranty / 1 Year Parts] w/ LIFETIME 24/7 Domestic Telephone Technical Support
- Included XOTIC PC Binder & Certificate of Ownership – take pride in your system with a hand-signed personalized XOTIC PC certificate!
- * 24/7 LIFETIME U.S. based telephone technical support
* Extreme QA testing by dedicated technicians
* 72 Hour stress testing and benchmarking to ensure top performance and stability
- XOTIC PC's White Glove Premium Packaging is standard on all Desktops!
- No Wood Crate Shipping

there is the actual shipping list

No. PA couldn't run on that.

It would be forced over its tick limit by the sheer overkill of the machine it is running on, causing temporal fissures to form and the universe to implode around your computer.

You could probably run two copies of PA at once lol. How much does all that cost?

Looking at each of the components and their benchmarks the answer is yes, but you don't need all of that.

$1196 only cause im getting a moniter, mouse and keyboard with it i edited the shipping list to show everything i was getting not just the desktop itself.

That is reasonable.

I tend to avoid extra flair and the LED's and laser etchings seem a bit much.

Now back o trying to find a nice 600W power source that will fit my case.