Laptop Specs For The Game's Highest Setting

diorbebe wrote: »

I have an alienware 17, with 1070 graphics and the game still lags at full graphics when in the opposition's base, and also during xtw at the opposing side's dragon, even with very little people.

so yeah.. what saxroll said.

dingo488 wrote: »

If you want to run PWI optimally on max graphics without terrible FPS I suggest buying a computer from 1995

jsxshadow wrote: »

I even tried as much as installing the game on a ram disk (16 gb with 32 gb ram) locking it to 1 single CPU core @5GHZ) and still...you won't get a lagfree experience...ever. it's impossible.

sarrafeline wrote: »

PWI's game uses a single core, single thread, DirectX 8 based, 2005 game engine. It was 'updated' a few years ago to DX9.0c, but it still uses DX8 rendering engine.

I have a Core i5 4440 3.1 ghz CPU, and a 980 video card. My Graphics card sits at like 20% while running PWI because the CPU is holding it back. Basically, data gets read from your hard drive and put into RAM. From RAM, it goes to the CPU, processed, then sent to your GPU for rendering, and some data is sent back to your CPU.

IF PWI's game engine could utilize more than a single core/thread, then it probably would be able to use more than 20% of my GPU. Since it's limited to a single core/thread, it's highly dependent on single thread performance, and since 2011, Intel and AMD have focused heavily on multi-core, multi-thread performance, and let IPC stagnate.

What does this mean? It means that a top of the line DirectX 9.0c video card, a dual core CPU with higher IPC capabilities, and an SSD are the best that you can do for your game performance. An i7, or i9, or Threadripper won't give you any more performance benefit over an older i5 or i3, because PWI can't run on multiple cores.

The last note: ARC likes to run an entire thread/core up to 100%, so a single core, single thread CPU wouldn't be a good idea, even if you are running without ARC. A new game engine could 'fix' this, and bring up performance, but don't kid yourselves. I saw the thread about the demo for the possible new game engine, and quite honestly, who would put a new game engine into a game that's 11+ years old? PWE seems to be trying to steer PWI players towards new games... If PWI is to run for another 10 years, though, it WILL eventually need a new engine. We'll have to jsut wait and see, I guess.

rieihdius wrote: »

noblesserai#2642 wrote: »

Hello, PWI players!
I would just like to ask you guys especially the laptop geeks out there if this certain gaming laptop can run this game to its highest setting while still maintaining a good fps in a very populated area.

This is the laptop - (ASUS ROG Strix GL753 17.3" Gaming Laptop - Black (Intel Core i7-7700HQ/ 1TB+128GB SSD/16GB RAM/Win 10))
The specs can be found here - (http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/asus-asus-rog-strix-gl753-17-3-gaming-laptop-black-intel-core-i7-7700hq-1tb128gb-ssd-16gb-ram-win-10-gl753ve-bs71-cb/10573746.aspx?)

I really appreciate any responses and sorry if I posted this post into a wrong section.

That laptop should run this game with no problem at all.
Most of what the other people told you is true. However I do not recomend you to get older hardware. Why?
Because while is true that this game use single core and barely touch your Graphic card, remember you are also running an Operative system, plus maybe some other addtional stuff like security software, some sort of comunication software (skype or whatever), music player, etc, etc.
If you try to run all that in some old pc, your perfomance will suffer.
Also while is true that during the last years cpu companies are more focused on multi thread performance than single core and IPC does not increase dramatically each year. That does not mean that a cpu from 2010 will run this better than something from 2016+

Just to give you a plain example: from a lot of computer that I tested this game, and after running the game on 3 that I currently still have access, here are some results...

samsung r480
Laptop from 2010 ; i3 330M + nvidia 330m (not sure if exact same gp model since im not looking at it now )
3 GB ram
500 GB Hdd
win 10 pro 32 bits
It runs ok on low populated area(30 to 65 fps), runs very bad in populated area (15 to 35fps).
Unknown on in high populated pvp events, but I can guess that if runs bad on west archo, probably is unplayable in something like Xtw or a big TW.

Some Custom Pc from 2010 :
Amd Atlhon 64 X3, radeon 5570
16GB ram
hdd 1TB + hdd 2 TB
win10 64 pro
Runs really good on low populated zones, even with everything at max (more than 60 fps)
Runs bad on high populated areas with graphics at max. (less than 25 fps)
Run ok on high populated areas with lower graphics (30 to 45 which is still playable)
Unplayable on pvp events with too many players, this both with high or low graphics, specially if there are stormbringers and clerics doing their shiny stuff (0 fps to 2 fps.... perma stuttering slide show )
Unplayable on pvp events with too many players even with best performance + simple models (0fps to 7fps)

Custom Pc from 2017
Amd Ryzen 1700, Sapphire Radeon Rx 480 Nitro
16GB ram
ssd 275GB + hdd 2TB
Win10 64 home

runs really good on low populated areas even with all maxed (95 to 250 fps)
runs ok on crowed zones even with all maxed (35 to 110 fps aprox)
almost the same if I low graphics a bit (40 to 110)
runs mehh on pvp event with too many players with all graphics maxed (25 to 62 with some random stuttering now and then)
same as before if I lower the graphics (27 to 65)
runs fine on populated pvp events at best performance (35 to 90).

My advice is: Buy a computer that can run current games (if you can pay for it) and play this game too if you want.
If something can run games from this year with decent performance, PWI should run fine even with max graphics, the only part of the game that will make any computer suffer are crowed PVP events like large scalle Mass PK, TW, NW and XTW. And when I say large scalle I am talking about 30 or more people on screen at same time trowing all kind of shiny skills.