Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “SWTOR – PvP Warzones – i7-6700 – GTX 960 – Game Performance – Lenovo IdeaCentre 700”.
Hello and welcome to check deals, game performance, review, time, Star Wars, The Old Republic, player-versus-player 8 vs. 8 war zone. Now we are playing this game today on this lenovo idea: center 700 gaming desktop computer. I have previously reviewed this computer and a link to that review will be in the video description below, as well as a link to this computer on amazon, because for $ 900, this is an awesome machine, intel i7, 6700 processor turbo up to 4 gigahertz 8 gigabytes Of ram and, most importantly, a gtx 960 gaming graphics card, it also has a solid state. Boot drive a 1 terabyte, hard drive, Wi-Fi and a bunch of other features go check out that review. It’S really cool. Now we are in no.
Is it no Vera? No Vera Coast – I only read it – I never hear it pronounced umm. This is an 8 vs 8 war zone. Now, if you look up in the corner here, you’ll see that I have fraps running. Fraps is a program that will monitor and record our framerate.
I’Ve got it set up to record 2 minutes of gameplay once I actually get into combat and I’m fighting someone that’s when the framerate really tends to come down. If you look right now we’re doing almost 80 frames per second sure, that’s great, but that won’t hold once there’s eight people on screen and stuff going on it drops. So I’m going to press f11 once we’re in combat it will record two minutes and then we’ll switch over and check out what that total is I’m doing this live so that you can see the actual gameplay all right, we’re in combat so I’ll hit f11. Now the fraps canter is gone. If you look you’ll see that we no longer have it and that’s normal when it is actually keeping track of our performance, it goes away. But if you see how much stuff’s going on on the screen, it’s definitely busy.
I will tell you it’s also much slower I can tell it is obviously much slower. The question is how much slower now we were getting about 80 frames per second before we entered combat one of the interesting things about Star Wars. Field Republic is that it performs great when you’re not doing anything and terrible when you are go figure. So if you enjoy playing this game or you’ve been interested in trying it 1a know what kind of computer you’ll need.
Here’S two answers for you. First of all, on anything reasonably modern, an Intel i7 or I 5 processor, quite frankly, with a NVIDIA, GTX 960 you’ll get about this performance while the i7 part is nice. An i-5 at the same clock rate would do the same thing. Frankly, an i3 6100 will do the same thing: Star Wars.
The Old Republic is not a heavily multi-threaded program; it generally uses two threads and it only uses one of them to the max, but it’s that GeForce GTX 960. That makes all the difference. So if you are interested in spending less on the computer, it’s the graphics card, you need and they killed me again. That’S alright! I’M sitting there trying to talk to you while playing so I’m certainly doing terrible. I also am standing. I don’t have the right keyboard. Mouse, yes, I know I’m complaining, I don’t have my quick bar setup, I’m missing my third quick bar in order to try to make this test repeatable, I’m actually playing this on the on one of the default, quick bar setups, because I do think that, depending on How you have your user interface set up does affect the performance of the game. If you turn the user interface off the game performance jumps there, we go and they’re gon na kill me in a second.
So our fraps rate counter came back. So it’s been two minutes and there I went and died. So we’ll come back here, we’ll all tab over. Let’S take a look at this. There we go. This is from the Run that I just did. The other one was from something before so we did a hundred and twenty thousand milliseconds or two minutes average of 34 and a half frames per second minimum of 16 maximum of 76. Now you might be asking yourself, oh man, that’s terrible turn the xD tail down.
It’Ll run much better, let me save you the trouble it doesn’t matter. You would have to turn the detail down to low from its current setting of ultra notice any difference I’ve. This is actually the fifth run of this. I’Ve done.
I’Ve been playing around in different war zones for about the past half an hour in this game on this machine to get an idea of what it does before I film this. I actually did a run at medium and I did a run at low. It adds five frames, a second, maybe eight. It doesn’t make a huge difference.
Starwars, your republic in eight verses, eight war zones performs terribly and to give you a comparison on my computer at home, which is actually faster than this, because I have an i7 overclocked to 4.4 gigahertz. This goes max for, and i have a gtx 980ti, which is a nice, expensive, graphics card. It isn’t much better than this. I can usually average 40 frames a second in war zones with a minimum and the 25 range, but that’s an expensive computer and that’s about as good as it ever gets now.
I could show you more, but that’s the gist of it. The four versus four war war zones are faster, the arena’s are faster, but eight versus eight is slow as molasses. I will tell you this machine will do operations and flashpoints and all player versus environment content, just fine its war zones that are slow, but since they are the hardest for that for any computer to do, I want to show you what to expect it’s totally playable, But there’s definitely a few spots at where it comes down. Wood upgrading anything in here helped a little bit, but even if you replace the gtx 960 with the gtx 970, it wouldn’t change by much.
That’S just the game. So that’s what you can expect was this video helpful to you give it a like. Was it not that’s. Okay, too, remember to subscribe to my channel, it’s the big red button right down there and if it’s not read because you’ve subscribed.
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