Day 3 of the experiment :
Probably I missed another discussion about it, if so, I beg for mercy.
I know, playing after an update in Entropia Universe is never a good idea. ;p
But I digged out my old laptop (A Sony VGN-AR61E, DualCore 1,67GHZ, GeForce 8400M GT, Win7Pro) 2 months ago and was amazed how great Entropia ran (mostly medium settings) and how good it still could look with such settings. :)
I can even overclock this 8400M GT using RivaTuner from (450/600) to an "powerfull" (570/770), which lead to another, visible performance boost. I could go even higher as with its cooling plate, it never breaches the 67°C. But everything WAS fine this way.
Now, after the turbo-booster-update of 400%, one would think, that this laptop could play Entropia even better...
...but (as stated in the news), even high-end PCs crash and lag these days.
(So does mine, with its GeForce 670 GTX)
Since then, the laptop has to use safe-mode on the avatar graphics and crashes like everyone else.
Now my question would be, even if there are thousands of different PC configurations out there, how did MindArk test this 400% boost and the avatar update, that leaded to so many graphical/performance/crash issues ? -_-
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