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Title: Help this poor NA white boy with PC stuff
Post by: Tom Cruise on February 28, 2016, 04:47:56 pm
Alright lads. I have a dream. And that dream, is to play the dog shit out of Warhammer Total War (don't start drama on pre order shit). Only problem is my PC for some reason has a hard time running total war games. Everything else runs fine, but once I start getting into big battles, the frames are as low as 15-30 on average. Too choppy of animations to watch. Makes me cry. And I run my graphics normally somewhere with a medium-high setting on various things. Nothing gets crazy high due to me not being able to run it. I am always trying to tweak them and run benchmarks.

Nerd edit: I guess I should mention this is Rome 2.

So in order to fix this, I require the always tech savy CRPG community to help me out. I got some dinky website to get some (hopefully) accurate specs. Making a very poorly educated guess, I would say it would be my video card. It also doesn't help that the specs for Warhammer Total War aren't out yet, but if you guys have any suggestions, anything would be appreciated.

Specs:
(click to show/hide)

Double nerd edit, the reckoning. Missing specs:
C: Drive- Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB

Some 600 watt psu, too lazy to check right now
Title: Re: Help this poor NA white boy with PC stuff
Post by: Prpavi on February 28, 2016, 06:28:37 pm
Which motherboard, ram model and timings, you don't need a soundcard that's a ripoff, disks wtf is this 4 drives, get 120/240 ssd partition some for system rest u se for games and another normal 1/2 TB drive for storage. I'd recommend nVidia for gpu but that's my  preference.
Title: Re: Help this poor NA white boy with PC stuff
Post by: Tom Cruise on February 28, 2016, 06:44:23 pm
Quote from: Prpavi on February 28, 2016, 06:28:37 pm
Which motherboard, ram model and timings, you don't need a soundcard that's a ripoff, disks wtf is this 4 drives, get 120/240 ssd partition some for system rest u se for games and another normal 1/2 TB drive for storage. I'd recommend nVidia for gpu but that's my  preference.

Gunna somewhat have to speak in layman's terms buddy lol. Not the biggest techie. Also I do have an SSD for my main drive like games and what not, and also have a secondary hard drive for random shit. I just meant what is there to improve on, mainly performance wise, and specifically for things like Total War games.
Title: Re: Help this poor NA white boy with PC stuff
Post by: Turkhammer on February 29, 2016, 03:36:16 am
Just find some game similar to the game you interested in on that website and see if your machine meets the specs.
Title: Re: Help this poor NA white boy with PC stuff
Post by: Prpavi on February 29, 2016, 01:41:13 pm
Ah sry, tought you wanted to build a PC (read it on the phone).

Can you download Everest please and post your specs
Title: Re: Help this poor NA white boy with PC stuff
Post by: Tom Cruise on February 29, 2016, 04:22:56 pm
Quote from: Prpavi on February 29, 2016, 01:41:13 pm
Ah sry, tought you wanted to build a PC (read it on the phone).

Can you download Everest please and post your specs

Well what do you want to see mate?
Title: Re: Help this poor NA white boy with PC stuff
Post by: Prpavi on February 29, 2016, 05:15:32 pm
Quote from: Tom Cruise on February 29, 2016, 04:22:56 pm
Well what do you want to see mate?

Gpu and ram and motherboard
Title: Re: Help this poor NA white boy with PC stuff
Post by: Tom Cruise on February 29, 2016, 05:25:49 pm
So apparently nothing wants to show my GPU. Tried device manager, Radeon app settings, CPU-Z, and all of them just say R9 200 Series. Everest doesn't even detect it. Nor will it detect my mobo, so gf gg.

8GB OF RAM THOUGH.
Title: Re: Help this poor NA white boy with PC stuff
Post by: Scab on February 29, 2016, 07:06:23 pm
Quote from: Tom Cruise on February 29, 2016, 05:25:49 pm
So apparently nothing wants to show my GPU. Tried device manager, Radeon app settings, CPU-Z, and all of them just say R9 200 Series. Everest doesn't even detect it. Nor will it detect my mobo, so gf gg.

8GB OF RAM THOUGH.


go to search and type dxdiag, go 1 tab over, to display, and see what it says.
Title: Re: Help this poor NA white boy with PC stuff
Post by: Grytviken on February 29, 2016, 07:56:23 pm
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/rXC67P  u can use this site to see wut upgrades are compatible with ur stuff etc, maybe u want more ram and a better gpu?

white lives matter

Title: Re: Help this poor NA white boy with PC stuff
Post by: Prpavi on March 01, 2016, 07:28:20 am
the thing is I'd like to see the specs so we can maybe see what the bottleneck is and what's slowing you down
Title: Re: Help this poor NA white boy with PC stuff
Post by: Mr_Oujamaflip on March 01, 2016, 12:34:13 pm
When you're running the game, check the performance tab of task manager, might give some inclination. IIRC Total War games tend to be quite CPU intensive so it might give you an idea what's up.