What specifications does your computer have?
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What specifications does your computer have?
After playing Age 3 for a decent amount of time it's occured to me that lag is an obvious problem that all skill levels in the community have to deal with, a lot of this can be put down to lag caused by a slow internet connection.
However from watching various casted games where lag in large fights seems to be a problem when casters have high detail graphics it's made me believe that the speed of the hardware in players pcs can sometimes be the route cause.
Therefore seeing as age 3 isn't that hard of a game to run on modern systems it would be interesting. see what calibre of hardware the community runs.
However from watching various casted games where lag in large fights seems to be a problem when casters have high detail graphics it's made me believe that the speed of the hardware in players pcs can sometimes be the route cause.
Therefore seeing as age 3 isn't that hard of a game to run on modern systems it would be interesting. see what calibre of hardware the community runs.
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Re: What specifications does your computer have?
4790k, 1070ti and a 1440p 144hz IPS monitor (was the first of its kind too iirc)
And the only two games I play regularly were released in 2005 and 2007
On the other hand, Australian internet.
And the only two games I play regularly were released in 2005 and 2007
On the other hand, Australian internet.
Re: What specifications does your computer have?
Riotcoke wrote:However from watching various casted games where lag in large fights seems to be a problem when casters have high detail graphics it's made me believe that the speed of the hardware in players pcs can sometimes be the route cause.
That is a correct observation.
Re: What specifications does your computer have?
7700k, 1080ti, and also a 1440p 144hz IPS display(was not the first of its kind too iirc)
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Re: What specifications does your computer have?
gibson wrote:7700k, 1080ti, and also a 1440p 144hz IPS display(was not the first of its kind too iirc)
Too bad you can't cast in 1440 because the UI doesn't support it
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Re: What specifications does your computer have?
Well I'm not sure if twitch would let you stream with a high enough bitrate for 1440p or if my cpu would even allow me to stream with that high a bitrateRiotcoke wrote:gibson wrote:7700k, 1080ti, and also a 1440p 144hz IPS display(was not the first of its kind too iirc)
Too bad you can't cast in 1440 because the UI doesn't support it
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Re: What specifications does your computer have?
Wish I had an OP pc :/
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Re: What specifications does your computer have?
gibson wrote:Well I'm not sure if twitch would let you stream with a high enough bitrate for 1440p or if my cpu would even allow me to stream with that high a bitrateRiotcoke wrote:gibson wrote:7700k, 1080ti, and also a 1440p 144hz IPS display(was not the first of its kind too iirc)
Too bad you can't cast in 1440 because the UI doesn't support it
Twitch does let you in 1440 60fps as I've done it before
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Re: What specifications does your computer have?
Yes they elt you stream with it but they dont let you stream with high enough bitrate to look good. I did a Test stream once where i did 1440p with 10k bitrate and my bitrate never went higher than 6kRiotcoke wrote:gibson wrote:Well I'm not sure if twitch would let you stream with a high enough bitrate for 1440p or if my cpu would even allow me to stream with that high a bitrateShow hidden quotes
Twitch does let you in 1440 60fps as I've done it before
Re: What specifications does your computer have?
Intel Pentium 2 300mhz
4mb ram
3dfx 4mb
1.2gb Hdd 5200rpm
4mb ram
3dfx 4mb
1.2gb Hdd 5200rpm
Re: What specifications does your computer have?
crjensen4 wrote:Intel Pentium 2 300mhz
4mb ram
3dfx 4mb
1.2gb Hdd 5200rpm
[spoiler=AoE 1 requirements]Pentium 90 processor or faster (P-133+ for 1024 x 768 resolution)
SVGA with 1 MB RAM
fast 2D graphics card (2 MB required for 1024 x 768)
16 MB RAM
Win 95 or Win NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3
80+ MB HD space[/spoiler]
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Re: What specifications does your computer have?
crjensen4 wrote:Intel Pentium 2 300mhz
4mb ram
3dfx 4mb
1.2gb Hdd 5200rpm
Troll in a way its is believable. 1.2 gb hdd is simply not enough for aoe 3 vanilla itself + not enough for the most basic windows required to play aoe 3. So #fail JOKES ON YOU!
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Re: What specifications does your computer have?
EAGLEMUT wrote:Looks like he just misspelled tb...
No, you definitely can't play AoE 3 with this. *Yeah and a bit more. I think you can only use it offline nowadays. (pentium 2, OS ~win98? )
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Re: What specifications does your computer have?
EAGLEMUT wrote:Riotcoke wrote:However from watching various casted games where lag in large fights seems to be a problem when casters have high detail graphics it's made me believe that the speed of the hardware in players pcs can sometimes be the route cause.
That is a correct observation.
More accurately, this has to do with the way AoE3 handles the hardware, specifically the cores right? i.e. better hardware at a certain point will not necessarily increase performance.
Re: What specifications does your computer have?
It's actually a lil more complicated. You can have OP graphics card and the game might still fail to use it to its real potential, because when the game starts it first checks what kind of hardware you have. It does this by checking against a list of predefined profiles which are written in an XML file. Yeah, it's that retarded.
If it doesn't find your GPU there (which most of the time won't because those hardware profiles were made in 2005), then the game thinks you have no GPU or you have some generic one. So it "decides" it will only use a small amount of video RAM (VRAM). The rest of the workload falls on the CPU.
It gets even shittier, because modern CPUs have integrated GPUs (iGPU) and it doesn't recognise those either. So if you have a good CPU with a decent iGPU, AOE3 "thinks" you have no GPU or a very small amount of VRAM. Most of the time, it will just use a generic hardware profile, because it can't identify which vidya card you have, so it defaults on the lowest spec.
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If it doesn't find your GPU there (which most of the time won't because those hardware profiles were made in 2005), then the game thinks you have no GPU or you have some generic one. So it "decides" it will only use a small amount of video RAM (VRAM). The rest of the workload falls on the CPU.
It gets even shittier, because modern CPUs have integrated GPUs (iGPU) and it doesn't recognise those either. So if you have a good CPU with a decent iGPU, AOE3 "thinks" you have no GPU or a very small amount of VRAM. Most of the time, it will just use a generic hardware profile, because it can't identify which vidya card you have, so it defaults on the lowest spec.
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Re: What specifications does your computer have?
i3, i5, i7 is relative to which generation.
I got an i3 8th generation which should be as good an older i5.
GTX 1050ti 4gb, 8gb ram and a 125GB ssd for aoe3 and other productivity stuff.
I got an i3 8th generation which should be as good an older i5.
GTX 1050ti 4gb, 8gb ram and a 125GB ssd for aoe3 and other productivity stuff.
Re: What specifications does your computer have?
@Dolan I know you've done some research on this, but ultimately haven't found a way to improve the situation, right?
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Re: What specifications does your computer have?
Garja wrote:i3, i5, i7 is relative to which generation.
I got an i3 8th generation which should be as good an older i5.
GTX 1050ti 4gb, 8gb ram and a 125GB ssd for aoe3 and other productivity stuff.
Well the list is fuzzy, as in you put your computer where you think it should go, but i'd say yours is on the lower end :)
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Re: What specifications does your computer have?
Idk, 1050ti is better than 1050 and i3 8th gen is basically still better than most of processors of previous years, despite not being i5 or i7. If we are talking about 2019 standards then ye because it is a 2018 build. But I doubt many people are using a 2019 PC. Within the given categories I ranked it in mid level. I guess 1050ti isn't exactly a 2018 gfx, more like 2016 I think.
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Re: What specifications does your computer have?
Dual core, gtx 750ti,4gb ram(yes i know about the bottleneck)
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Re: What specifications does your computer have?
Garja wrote:Idk, 1050ti is better than 1050 and i3 8th gen is basically still better than most of processors of previous years, despite not being i5 or i7. If we are talking about 2019 standards then ye because it is a 2018 build. But I doubt many people are using a 2019 PC. Within the given categories I ranked it in mid level. I guess 1050ti isn't exactly a 2018 gfx, more like 2016 I think.
I dunno with how it's setup, i think it's on the lower end. Like my PC has a R7 1700 with a 980 and i would most likely fit in middle of the road
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Re: What specifications does your computer have?
Those hardware profiles from the XML file are linked to shader scripts. That's why if you edit the hardware profiles and try to force the game to accept a different graphics card, you might get very weird results. If it fails to default on any generic profile the game simply fails to start and asks you if you have a GPU. If you trick the game into accepting a different GPU, you might notice that the water looks purple on Bayou or stuff like that. It's because there is a mismatch between the GPU you forced onto the game, the shader version supported by that GPU and the corresponding shader scripts which will execute on that chip.EAGLEMUT wrote:@Dolan I know you've done some research on this, but ultimately haven't found a way to improve the situation, right?
How could this be fixed? I don't think it can be modded, without re-writing the shaders. They were written for Shader Model 3 (Pixel Shader 3 and Vertex Shader 3), so the semantics and output registers were very different from the latest versions. They were supported by the last versions of DirectX 9. Shaders would have to be re-written for Shader Model 6, at least, which is supported from DirectX 10 onwards. That means it would support more modern graphics capabilities from chips made after 2012. And if you have such a GPU, then the game would be more capable of offloading graphical tasks from the CPU to the GPU. Currently it's not able to, since the shader scripts running in the game are from an old model and version that is not able to address as many registers and use as many textures as modern chips can output.
At least that's my current reading on why AOE3 fails to fully use modern video cards and integrated chips.
Re: What specifications does your computer have?
supahons wrote:crjensen4 wrote:Intel Pentium 2 300mhz
4mb ram
3dfx 4mb
1.2gb Hdd 5200rpm
[spoiler=AoE 1 requirements]Pentium 90 processor or faster (P-133+ for 1024 x 768 resolution)
SVGA with 1 MB RAM
fast 2D graphics card (2 MB required for 1024 x 768)
16 MB RAM
Win 95 or Win NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3
80+ MB HD space[/spoiler]
Spot on! This is exactly what I used this rig for :)
Re: What specifications does your computer have?
Garja wrote:i3, i5, i7 is relative to which generation.
I got an i3 8th generation which should be as good an older i5.
GTX 1050ti 4gb, 8gb ram and a 125GB ssd for aoe3 and other productivity stuff.
Agree.
In all the rigs I have build over the years I have always gone for an I5 instead of the more expensive I7 - honestly for most games you won’t be able to tell a difference- at least not in my experience.
This has also allowed for more frequent updates of hardware because of the savings.
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