I know it's a little premature to make this report, but I have a question that haunts me since I bought the game. When on the planet, there are many structures and units, the game tends to lose performance and begins to "Lagging". Now my question is: is the game that runs poorly resources, or is it my PC? I have an Intel quad-core i5-2400 CPU 3.10GHZ, a video card MSI R4670 (ATI Readon HD 4670) 1GB of dedicated memory with DirectX11 and 8GB of RAM. I want to have certainty because if the game lose so much performance, and it is the fault of my PC, then is best if I start to update it a bit :S
It's both. First of all, the game isn't very optimized at this stage of developement and you can expect much better performance in the future. On the other hand, with a better computer it will run better of course. :mrgreen: Although I personally would wait with upgrading to see how the game's performance develops in the future. (Btw. it could also lag if your internet connection is too slow, as larger games require quite a lot of bandwith.)
That graphics card is old. You can see a rough comparison of it against current generation cards here:http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon HD 4670&id=12 The game is also not fully optimized yet, so there will be performance issues, but yeah, you need a new video card at the very least.
First you need to check if your "lags" is real FPS problem or server/bandwidth lag. Press "P" in game and check what's going with your FPS. I think your computer is okay if you want to play on small maps and low settings. But you need to understand that this card is 4+ years old card, and if you want to play on high settings with all features enabled you need get new card. Best choice is card with 2GB+ of GDDR5 memory, because PA can can utilize big amounts of VRAM.
OK thank you all. Yes my problem is caused by a drop in FPS then I will seriously take into consideration the fact to change my Video Card. It is not a connection problem because I do an average of 40 ms. However, what video card do you recommend? I would like to stay near to 100-120 € (129-155 Dollars)
There already was few people who think about server-lag (when units move choppy, but framerate is good) as about their hardware problems. So I asked you about that to be sure if you really have low FPS. I not really good at choosing middle-end GPUs, because I spend $300-400 on GPU and use it for 3-4 years. I posted 110-155€ for you because I know/read only about this GPU market segment. Probably somebody else can recommend cheaper cards. There is only one important thing about PA: game work and looks much better with 2GB (or more) video memory, so you need card with at least 2GB GDDR5. If you want to stick to ATI/AMD cards: ASUS Radeon HD 7770 2GB or add more money and buy Radeon HD 7790/7850 2GB. Nvidia GPUs with same level of performance will be more expensive, so it's GTX 650 Ti 2GB or GTX 660 Ti 2GB. Usually I recommend to buy Nvidia cards, but currently as I see that PA working better with AMD cards.
Nvidia GTX 560 Ti. Super cheap right now, and runs PA very well. Run two in SLI if you really want good performance. http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/
Yeah, that Card is old, but its not only about gpu power. Its still alpha so the performance will get better I guess. I have a GTX 660Ti and when there occurs battle ingame with more than 20 or 30 units, the fps drop. I just tested it with an AI game. At start I had 60fps, after builing a huge base and lots of units (planes on patrol aswell) it dropped to 30fps. When I attacked the Ai with a bigger bunch of units it got to 15fps and below.
Access time isn't the issue, it's bandwidth of your internet connection. This is the first game I've ever played where bandwidth is a concern. I'd check the following, check your max download rate, fire up network monitor (I use a win 7 widget) and start watching a 1080p movie of youtube & check the max download it seems to get. Then play the game, you'll see as the game gets more units on the planet, so the download rate increases until you hit the max your connection can take. At that point I start seeing a lot of lagging, like click on a unit & give it a command, takes a second or 2 before it happens.
Yes, I think I'm going to take a AMD Readon 7790 with 2GB. It costs a little more than the GTX 650Ti but it has the best performance. Thank you all anyway ^ ^
I'd hold off if I were you. The new consoles are coming out with 8GB shared memory - that means the GFX chip can use like 7GB of RAM (1GB for OS + game itself) - game producers will start making games with those limits in mind & a GFX card with only 2GB will get old very quickly. I hear that the G-card manufactures are likely to re-spin current chips onto boards with lots more memory because of this.
He want middle-end GPU for "100-120 € (129-155 Dollars)", you can't buy good card with lots of VRAM for this money. I think for next two years most of console games will be released for both, old and new generation of consoles. There is no way how these games might want such big amounts of VRAM. Also Xbox One use DDR3 memory, so it's mostly same hardware with any other AMD APU. So even if current computers lose a bit performance on copying data from RAM to VRAM, they are still more powerful than consoles.
