New PC needed

[woody]

Sick of lagging badly if server hits 60-70 people or theres siege equipment about.

Means strat is almost unplayable for me, certainly blocking with any consistency is out and I reckon my PC is now way out of date so would this set up be lag free from the PC side:
   
VIBOX Warrior 4 - 4.2GHz AMD, Fast Quad Core, Desktop PC, USB3.0 Computer (2GB ATI Radeon HD 7850 HDMI Graphics Card, XFX 550w Bronze 80+ PSU, 2TB HDD Hard Drive, 16GB DDR3 RAM, DVD-RW, SD Memory Card Reader, Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3 Motherboard)

Any thoughts from someone who knows about this crap would be appreciated.

[Elindor]

Would suggest getting a small solid state for your primary (C:) drive and a regular HDD for your other drive.

Solid states have gone down in price...try a Samsung EVO (size up to you).

[WITCHCRAFT]

You will absolutely be able to play without losing frame rate. I can't say how high you will be able to set your graphics without suffering, but you won't need to set everything to the lowest setting even on full server strat battles.

I have a 3GHz dual core, 4GB RAM, and a "spare tire" 256MB graphics card since my good GPU died and hasn't been replaced yet. I am able to keep my FPS above 50 on low-mid graphics settings.

[Switchtense]

first of all: what are your ragdoll and corpses settings?
set these to like 15 each and try a strat battle
also set shadows and shader to something like medium or low


is that your current setup or a "i might buy that one" setup?

if its your current one then the lag must have other causes


if its not your current one, can you post yours?
cause maybe you dont need to spend so much money, renewing a few parts rather than a whole new pc might be sufficient too


and there is absolutely no need for a SSD if you think about getting that posted rig, 16gb RAM will run fast as hell

RAM is very important though

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my friend has a slower cpu, much worse graphics card, slower HDD but 8gb RAM, while i have only 4gb RAM, and his PC runs quite a bit faster than mine
(a total war rome2 battle loads about twice as fast for him than for me at the same settings)

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ASUS M4A87TD EVO   
AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor, MMX, 3DNow (4 CPUs), ~3.2GHz   
4092MB RAM   
250 GB HDD   
1TB External HDD
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2048MB GDDR5

and i run a constant 120fps at almost max graphics (corpses to 25 and shader to the medium-setting)
smoke bombs do nothing to my fps (maybe if there are like 5 at the same time next to me, but so far i never noticed an FPS drop

[Patoson]

Like Elindor has said, if you're going to get a new computer, get a SSD for Windows and games and a HDD as secondary. The difference is immense.

[woody]

Thanks to all.

The specs are for what I have now bought, get it in a week or so. I will add SSD later as cash allows.

Old PC was about 2Ghz, 3.25 RAM, obsolete graphics card. Had graphics at 1024x768 but everything else at minimum eg ragdolls at 0 and every option on lowest. It was ok at up to about 50 players on a server, after that or if siege equipment unplayable. Last strat battle sealed it, kept getting killed without even being able to move, saw guy, freeze, then noises and Im dead.

Get the same problems on single player offline so its definitely obsolete computer.

Cheers

[Switchtense]

Like Elindor has said, if you're going to get a new computer, get a SSD for Windows and games and a HDD as secondary. The difference is immense.

not necessarily

another example:

friend 1: SSD, intel i7 overclocked, nvidia gtx 760, 8gb ram
friend 2: HDD, random quad core, nvidia gtx 550, 16gb ram
(these friends actually exist )

friend 2s pc runs way faster than friend 1s, loads windows, random programs and games about twice as fast (booting pc is a matter of like 5 seconds or so)
even though my friend 1 has the main things on his SSD


obviously theoretically it would be even faster if you had 16gb RAM AND a SSD, but id say try that setup without SSD first, and then see if you still need more speed or if youre happy the way it is
no point spending even more money than you already have
doubt you got a money tree in your back garden (in case you have, ill be right over with a lorry)

all i know is that compared to your older pc this is going to be fast as fuck

[woody]

By the way I only bought the PC after reading peoples posts, reassured me it would be quick enough.

Cheers

Woody

[Switchtense]

hope youll find that setup satisfying, i definitely would and im jealous now