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CPU Questions

February 19, 2008 8:23:36 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

Several of us were discussing the rigs necessary to run this game well and I came across a post over at the Wargamer concerning this topic. The designers suggest a dual-core CPU for best performance (IE and Intel Core Duo machine). One gent has:

3 MB RAM,  nVidia 7800 XT 256 MB video card and a 3.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4

I have a 2.8 Ghz Pentium D 820 (Smithfield) that has "dual core technology" but lacks the "Core Duo" label.

Will my rig run the game any better than his?

How much better would a true Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, 2.2GHz, 800Mhz FSB, 4M L2 Cache run the game?

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Reply #1 February 24, 2008 3:08:28 AM
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Assuming everything else equal yours is somewhat faster than his. The T7500 is going to be somewhat faster than yours. But as to how much difference it will make in the game I can't say... I'd imagine not much. The T7500 is a mobile chip, yes? You're not likely to get a great video card in a lappy. That's where most of the performance really comes from here.
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Reply #2 February 24, 2008 3:33:24 AM
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Several of us were discussing the rigs necessary to run this game well and I came across a post over at the Wargamer concerning this topic. The designers suggest a dual-core CPU for best performance (IE and Intel Core Duo machine). One gent has:
3 MB RAM,  nVidia 7800 XT 256 MB video card and a 3.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4
I have a 2.8 Ghz Pentium D 820 (Smithfield) that has "dual core technology" but lacks the "Core Duo" label.
Will my rig run the game any better than his?
How much better would a true Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, 2.2GHz, 800Mhz FSB, 4M L2 Cache run the game?

You do not need multiple CPU cores for Sins to run at maximum performance. I run a Pentium M (Centrino Dothan) 760 @ 2.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 256 MB Geforce 6800 Ultra Go (laptop edition). This hardware allows me to max out Sins at any resolution without lag. I run 4x AA and have forced on 8x AF. At 1920x1200 it was causing some lag and the text was too small so I set the resolution to run at 1600x1024. If my performance is any indication, you can expect the identical performance between your two rigs assuming that the graphics cards are at least a 6700+, 7600+, or 8600+.
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Reply #3 February 24, 2008 4:48:18 AM
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It should be a generaly more smooth experience running with a dual core because any background services still running in windows will be taken care of on the second core. Also the Uarch of the C2D is by far superior to anything Intel did before and if the game does run slow at times for you, then the upgrade should improve that.

Saying that, my game runs flawlessly unless I have Azureus running in the background with several message programs, Firefox, Outlook etc They all try and eat up the VM!
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Reply #4 February 26, 2008 5:06:12 PM
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i am getting a new pc in 2 days just in time for weekend my old one is 6 years old
cannot wait to play everything on highest settings with no fps dropping down
i mean it should not with pentium intel dual core 3.2  
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Reply #5 March 8, 2008 9:01:08 AM
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Thanks, ZBJDragon.
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Reply #6 March 8, 2008 9:15:25 AM
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I don't think you'll have a problem.

I have a 4+ year old Pentium 4 2.8 ghz which is just single core. Dual core didn't even exist yet when I bought it.
2 gigs of RAM
2+ year old video card - Radeon x800 GTO 256 meg. Pretty low end nowadays.

And I run at 1440x900 on my widescreen monitor with everything set to at least high and a few to highest with no slowdowns other then in some really massive battles. Even then frames still stay above 20 so it's not too bad.

I do 3 simple things to do so well:
1) Turn off bloom
2) Turn off dust and debris
3) Turn off elevators

None of those enhance things all that much anyway.

So if you have anything better then my 4 and a half year old single core PC I think you'll be just fine on all high settings.
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