Sergeant Acht Scultz
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.03.09 16:31:00 -
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Kai Sheia wrote:please move wherever would be best if neccessary, not sure where this sort of question is best suited for.
looking towards getting a new computer. the one I have now is REALLY terrible, so dang near anything will be an upgrade from what I have now. BUT, I've got a few questions, largely related to EVE, as its what I am most concerned with playing effectively.
the main uses for this computer would be usual internet-browsing type stuff, EVE (likely 2-3 boxing in the forseeable future), Tribes Ascend, possibly Mechwarrior Online. I don't need super-awesome maximum settings running at 1000fps or anything of that sort, just want it to run nicely at nice settings, rather than run barely-sufferably at minimum settings.
Windows 7 vs Windows 8.
not heard a lot of good things about Windows 8. how much of these issues are legitimate concerns, and how much is people just being reluctant about change?
in essence, what "warnings" would you have for someone who is thoroughly computer literate but a little out of date on some things, about choosing Windows 8 over Windows 7? what limitations or quirks might come up that one might wish they knew about ahead of time?
AMD Fusion Processors.
from what I've read, these processors likely would serve my needs and budget rather well. a particular system I'm looking at uses an A8-5600K, comes with 8gb ram, and can take up to 32gb. this seems like it should suit my needs to a T, am I missing anything about this that would make it substantially less-so?
I got the Win8 64 pro version while it was at promo prices -around 95 bucks- all I can say is for everything else than Eve this thing is absolutely fantastic.
If you really want your old bureau like you can, there's this little program named Classic Shell that helps you keep your old bureau style like XP Win7 or even 95/98
If you pick the regular recent rig with Win8 you can't notice that much the difference, I saw it only because my computers are all tuned by my self as per software installation, and hell the difference is the same between XP and Win8 than campaign route and a straight line highway foot to floor on gaz pedal.
Then current hardware with those multiple cores and logic cores (double)+memory amounts being totally managed with minimal resources by win8, put an XP in and it's giving candies to pigs, it can't handle all that memory or such recent hardware, it's a makeshift job no matter how much people will try to convince them selves it's not one.
Now in what Eve is concerned there's a little "Hic", some guys can run 10 accounts and more with, I couldn't play without a crash or freeze for 3 months now but got recently fixed and can now at least play graphics on top.
For the example, little it's true but still:
Blacklight Retribution -uses Dx11 -tessellation, flares and whatever you might think or imagine about graphics, I can play it with full settings on top (high) without crash freeze or anything else than the usual lag from pc-server communications with this kind of game
Planet side 2- it's not really known to be a monster for graphics but whatever, Physix and yada ya all settings on top (high), no crash freeze or even lag of whatever sort, nothing.
Eve, well depends, seems some guys never encountered issues with or did but since it's their job they just came here show how good they are and others are bad, anyway, a huge number of players have or had issues but CCP seems a bit more reactive to fix this.
Last but non least: if you buy whatever computer and just close yourself the door for everything else than Eve, you're doing it wrong.
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