A Legends induced squeeze

[Nedrear]

ORIGINAL: Gelatinous Cube

Wow, look at that military disparity! Highest i've ever seen the AI's Military Strength go is 36,000(Not counting Shakturi), but those dudes just aren't even close

My mature Pangalactic Commonwealth fields 56k on a Saint Patrics day... that is nothing.

*Shakturi meets Lord Admiral Barthom* "We got a World destroyer with a destruction of 10000! Fear us!!"
*Bartham steps aside* "We got 750 battle ships a 500 power, awaiting to blast you out of our galaxy. *the sky is swarmed*
*Shakturi turns around* "Sorry guys, guess we took the wrong turn at Casiopeia..."

[Jim D Burns]

ORIGINAL: Blueberry
Since I am a performance nut, out of curiosity and, indeed, for future reference in my own gaming, how was your machine handling the battle with 280 fighters deployed?

Slightly choppy, but my machine is several years old and defiantly not top of the line anymore. My video card which is probably the choke point is a Nvidia 9800 GT with 1 gig of RAM.

Had the opposing side also had a lot of fighters, I have no doubt there would have been a real decrease in performance levels.

Jim

[martok]

Well done, Jim! Thanks again for putting up this AAR. I really enjoyed it.

ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns

ORIGINAL: Blueberry
Since I am a performance nut, out of curiosity and, indeed, for future reference in my own gaming, how was your machine handling the battle with 280 fighters deployed?

Slightly choppy, but my machine is several years old and defiantly not top of the line anymore. My video card which is probably the choke point is a Nvidia 9800 GT with 1 gig of RAM.

Jim

Actually, I'd be willing to bed your RAM is the bigger problem. Erik has said on several occasions that the game is much more of a resource hog when it comes to memory (than graphics/video rendering), and that 4 Gb of RAM or more is ideal.

[Jim D Burns]

My PC has 12 GB RAM, but I guess with that many fighters 12 GB may still be too little. It was still playable with 280 on screen, but with a lot of enemy fighters it would have probably crashed performance given that choppiness was noticeable already.

Jim

Edit: The more I think about it, 280 may be too many all by themselves after all. In the above fight there was only one target to attack. I have no idea what a full sized opposing fleet would do to performance, I assume it may cause things to slow down quite a bit as all the fighters have to go through targeting routines for multiple targets as the fight develops.

[martok]

Ah, never mind, I misunderstood your previous post.  I thought you were saying your PC had a mere 1 GB RAM (not realizing you were referring to your video card).   


Anyway, I suppose memory could still be the problem, but 12 GB is pretty beefy.  I'm guessing 280 fighters is a lot (I don't have either expansion yet), but it's still hard to believe they would be enough to drag down your system that much(?).