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Fafaffy · Cheater Reputation: 65 Joined: 12 Dec 2007 Posts: 28

if a game starts to lag (Not because of video card) what would help take away the lag, CPU or Ram?

Deciding whether to get a better CPU or ram

elpacco · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 3:52 pm Post subject: Re: Quick Question

Hero · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:01 pm Post subject: Re: Quick Question

Saifallofjmr · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:17 pm Post subject:

It could be FPS lag or network lag.

Karakawe · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:22 pm Post subject:

I should hope it's not network lag OP is asking about.
It could be memory if there isn't enough of it (page file performance). Really would have to see the specs to be sure.

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 5:23 pm Post subject:

how do you know it's not the video card?

if you're getting a lot of hitching, maybe you're thrashing your hd because you're constantly hitting the page file

you can also check GPU usage with something like evga precision or gpu-z. if gpu usage isn't high in game (as in 90% or more) and you have poor framerate you're probably CPU bound.

Hero · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 5:37 pm Post subject:

kls85 · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 5:42 pm Post subject:

AtheistCrusader · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 5:58 pm Post subject:

OP should post specs and game name.

Hero · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:00 pm Post subject:

He should have an athlon II x2, 5770, 2gb ddr3 ram, but I do not know the game. He actually asked me when he was building. Pretty sure this is what he went with. Inwhich case only games using quad core capability should lag badly.

I mean shit, some games lag for me on high looks. Not really lag, but less frames.

elpacco · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:02 pm Post subject:

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:03 pm Post subject:

Hero · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:32 pm Post subject:

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:20 pm Post subject:

nothing says it requires a quad, throw enough horse power at it and you'd be fine with anything.

lots of things are parallelized well enough that they will use a bunch of cores, doesn't necessarily mean you will get free performance if you aren't cpu bound as is. maybe you can even damage performance if you're lucky, there is an overhead involved.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2010/07/05/how-many-cpu-cores-do-games-need/5

at 3.33ghz the deficit is already almost made up. hardly matters if enthusiast mcoverclock comes rolling up with his 4.2ghz dual core some shit

Hero · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:28 pm Post subject:

Recommended:
o OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
o Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad or higher
o Memory: 2GB
o Graphics: 512 MB Video Card (GeForce GTX 260/ ATI Radeon 4870)
o Controller Support: Support for Logitech G15 and G19 keyboard LCDs in multiplayer

This must be nothing.