What are your computer specs?

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by moonwerewolf, September 6, 2014.

  1. moonwerewolf

    moonwerewolf Member

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    I have seen a few people talking about poor performance, and seen others with everything on max. So I wonder, what is the specs on the machine you are running the game on?

    My computer:
    OS:
    Windows 7 professional 64bit
    Ram: 16 Gb of ddr3
    Hardrive: 128 Gb SSD
    Processor: i7-2600 (quad core, 3.4 GHz)
    Graphic card: GeForce GTX 780
    OverClocked: No
    Info/comment: I build this computer to run supreme commander FA, and Planetary without lagging. I have a total of 1.6 TB hard disk space, but I only included the SSD on the specs since that's where the game is installed.
  2. pizwitch

    pizwitch Active Member

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    A google sheet on drive would be better, with a performance rating, so that people have a better idea of how the game may run on their own PC.
  3. squishypon3

    squishypon3 Post Master General

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    My computer:
    OS:
    Windows 7 professional 64bit/Zorin OS Linux duel boot.
    Ram: 4Gb of ddr3
    Hardrive: 660 Gb HDD
    Processor: i3 (quad core, 2.3 GHz)
    Graphic card: Integrated HD 3000
    OverClocked: No
    Info/comment: I bought it for like 100 to 200$ used when it cost about 400 - 500 new. I got it so I could play Spore without any lag I think. I get very good fps in PA, up to 60 early game, but the lack of VRAM and another 4 gigs of RAM makes rendering planets a hassle as it starts to pagefile.
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  4. Zaniaac

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    OS : Windows 7 home premium 64 bit
    RAM: 16GB DDR3 1800mhz
    Harddrive : Seagate barricuda 7200rpm 2TB (Installed on) 120GB Samsung 840D SSD
    Processor: i7 4770K 3.5GHZ turbos 4.0
    GPU: Nvidia GTX 670 2GB
    Game runs great at 60fps, only wish there was a offline mode
  5. valheria

    valheria Active Member

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    My computer:
    OS:
    Windows 7 ultimate 64bit
    Ram: 16 Gb of ddr3 at stock speed of 1333mhz
    Hardrive: 250 Gb SSD samsung evo with a almost full 2 TB data drive
    Processor: phenom 2 1090t at stock speed (3.2ghz 6 core)
    Graphic card: GeForce GTX 780 ti
    OverClocked: lol no...
    Info/comment: I can run the game on max settings just fine fps wise.. But the lack of offline mode and my internet is severely damaging my experience of the game at the moment so i don't play much.

    Starting to show some age as this was originally built by scan computers back in 2010 or so.. Will upgrade the cpu when AMD release a more mature version of their top end fx cpu's.. But other than that this pc runs lovely in and out of games.. Just wish i had a better internet connection !!
  6. eukanuba

    eukanuba Well-Known Member

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    My computer:
    OS:
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
    Ram: 16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 802MHz
    Hard drive: 1863GB Hitachi HDS723020BLA642 ATA Device (SATA)
    Processor: Intel Core i5 2500K @ 3.7GHZ
    Graphic card: 1024MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
    OverClocked: CPU from 3.3 to 3.7GHz, GPU marginally overclocked (~10% I think) using supplied Asus software
    Info/comment: Playing Supreme Commander was the main motivation for getting these specs, I've added another 8GB of RAM for playing PA.

    Performance is acceptable, it drops to about 10fps late game, but that's still playable most of the time.

    My bottleneck is definitely my GPU, eventually I play to upgrade to a card with 3GB VRAM, I think this is necessary for optimal performance judging by VRAM usage in the Ctrl-P debug screen.

    Incidentally if anyone knows what I'm doing wrong with my RAM please help. It's Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz, but depending on where I look on my computer I get different speed readings. Different places on my computer give different readings, either 800MHz or 1300MHz I think, even though in the BIOS I try to set it to 1600MHz. For some reason I've never been able to get my head around the way RAM settings work, any advice greatly appreciated. :)
  7. valheria

    valheria Active Member

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    Yeah i too want a offline mode so that i can actually have big battles which is what they keep banging on about in live streams..
  8. valheria

    valheria Active Member

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    Yeah a decent GPU is pretty important if you plan on playing massive matches.. I regularly use over 2gb of vram during long matches and even then it can slow down. Also your ram is fine.. ram gets displayed like that alot the time.. mine does it too but it is running at the speed you wish it to be : )
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  9. Gorbles

    Gorbles Post Master General

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    CPU: i5-3570k @ 3.40GHz
    RAM: 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM (Corsair Vengeance, 2 * 4GB, decent-ish timing - 9-9-9-24)
    GPU: GeForce 660 Ti 3GB
    HDD: Crucial MX100 500GB SSD, and various assorted HDDs all combined under 1TB :D
    PSU: 750W something-or-other

    PSU is probably massive overkill, but they tend to last well enough anyhow. Might need another 8GB of RAM at some point, but not a priority.

    SSD isn't used, will be the boot drive once I get Microsoft to sort out their damned activation issues with my copy of Windows.

    I max everything on PA, though I haven't really tried large-scale battles much.
  10. zweistein000

    zweistein000 Post Master General

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    CPU: Watermill with a 200cm radius water wheel
    RAM: 50 m^2 of storage, about 50% is taken by potatoes
    GPU: Beaumont's steam engine. Coal consumption is 1 ton / week
    HDD: 50 stone tablets and a midget
    PSU: Set of 44 Hamsters. 6 died on me 4 days ago, but on the way is a 750 W Corsair CX PSU that I will use for my new computer that I'll buy in December, it's just a shame that the old one died on me :p
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  11. someonewhoisnobody

    someonewhoisnobody Well-Known Member

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    With this setup the game runs perfectly for the whole game.
  12. cdrkf

    cdrkf Post Master General

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    Desktop:

    OS
    : Windows 7 64 bit / xUbuntu (dual boot)- primarily play PA on Windows though
    CPU: AMD Phenom II X3 2.6 ghz (will change to a FX 8 core soon).
    RAM: 8gb DDR 3 1600 (replaced AM2+ mobo, which was DDR2 with a much better AM3+ board + a nice new 8gb ram module, got to love AMD for maintaining compability between platofrms like that, plan to add a 2nd 8gb soon).
    GPU: Nvidia GTX 560 (1gb)- due to the low memory limit I have to turn 'virtual texture' to low to maintain acceptable frame rates. Otherwise I leave everything on high. Anyone else with 1gb vram should do the same.
    HDD: 1tb standard HDD

    Game actually runs really well now I have 8gb memory. The Phenom II X3 is about spot on for whats needed for the client (running at about 90% utilization but notably able to keep reasonable frame rates late game). The GPU needs another 1gb memory as can't maintain good frame rates without running out of frame buffer, although shader performance is fine.

    Laptop:
    os: Windows 7 64 bit
    CPU: Core i5 M460 (dual core + ht, 2.4ghz, 2.8 turbo)
    Ram: 8gb DDR3 1333
    GPU: Nvidia GT 420M 1gb
    HDD: 256gb SSD

    Interestingly the game also runs ok on this laptop despite the weak gpu. Again have to run with low textures (and actually all the options on minimum). Like that I get good early game fps (40+) and still around 15 late game. The CPU about the same performance as the one in my desktop.
  13. Tormidal

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    My computer:
    OS:
    Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
    Ram: 64 GB DDR3 Corsair Vengenace - 1866MHz
    Hardrive: 1TB SSD & 3 1TB HDDs
    Processor: i7-4820K (3.7GHz - 3.9 Turbo)
    Graphic card: Two GTX 780 TI's
    OverClocked: Nah
    Info/comment: Built it cause I wanted to be able to play everything ever.
  14. Aliessil

    Aliessil Active Member

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    My computer:
    OS:
    OSX 10.9.4
    Ram: 16Gb 1600mhz DDR3
    Hardrive: 3TB Fusion drive
    Processor: 3.5ghz i7 (quad)
    Graphic card: GeForce GTX 780M 4gb
    OverClocked: No
    Info/comment: 2013 iMac 27", bought in January. I run at 2560x1440 with everything on Uber
  15. DeadStretch

    DeadStretch Post Master General

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    OS: Windows 8.1 64-bit
    Ram: 8GB DDR3 1600
    Hardrive: 1 450 GB HDD
    Processor: AMD Athlon X4 760K
    Graphic card: Radeon R9 270 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5
  16. MrTBSC

    MrTBSC Post Master General

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    currently using a sony vaio laptop

    OS: windows 8.1
    RAM: 4GB
    GPU: NVidia GeForce 330 (Lap)
    CPU: Intel Core i7 Q72o 1.6
    OC: no
    running everything on low
  17. elwyn

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    everything on high and runs great
    os 8.1
    my computer:
  18. Fr33Lancer

    Fr33Lancer Well-Known Member

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    My computer:
    OS:
    Windows 7 Pro 64bit
    Ram: Ballistix Tactical 2 x 4 Go DDR3-1600
    Hardrive: SSD Crucial MX100, 256 GB,
    Processor: Intel Core i5-4690K (Quad Core, 3.5-3.9 GHz)
    Graphic card: Sapphire Radeon R9 290 TRI-X 4 GB
    OverClocked: Hell yeah, Devil's Canyon here, Peach ! :cool:
    • CPU Running 4.4 Ghz @ 1.13V (instead of stock 1.1)
    • GPU Running at 1050/1500 (Core/RAM) instead of 957/1250
    Info/comment: Bought 2 months ago
  19. Shwyx

    Shwyx Well-Known Member

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    This thread is nothing but a useless dump of text unless someone creates a shared doc or the OP does a regular synopsis with updates.
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    tatsujb Post Master General

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