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I've been running an intel 7900k, nvidia 1060 6gb, ssd, and 48gb ddr4 ram for close to 10 years. 99% of the games I play work great throughout. I'm trying to figure out if I should look at AMD or Intel for my next computer. Endgame of Distant Worlds 2 is awful.

What build would i need to play max settings with as little lag as possible?

I played the game on a Linux machine with a AMD Ryzen 3700X and AMD RX 580 (really quite old GPU) and 32 GB RAM. With lower resolution, the game ran good in the beginning of a game and still mostly OK with a lot going on. I recently upgraded to a high-end RX 6900 XT but i would think that anything above a RX 6600 would be an overkill for DW2.

In short: AMD 3700X CPU, AMD RX 6600 and 32 GB RAM should give you the best achievable performance in DW2.

What I've seen is, when you get to around 400-450 planets, it gets "choppy" in how on certain processes. My goal is to build a system that could handle 2000 planets with 90+ percent of the galaxy colonized and everything still happening as smooth as it does in the beginning.

If the new computer can handle that, it can probably last up to another 8-10 years.

Bandose wrote: Mon Jul 25, 2022 3:38 am What I've seen is, when you get to around 400-450 planets, it gets "choppy" in how on certain processes. My goal is to build a system that could handle 2000 planets with 90+ percent of the galaxy colonized and everything still happening as smooth as it does in the beginning.

If the new computer can handle that, it can probably last up to another 8-10 years.

I guess the end game of DW2 is a very good stress test for computer systems!

While we are on a good stress test.. could you give us a 7Zip file thats divided up to the max of 10MB so you can load it up here?
Then those who are interested can compare the CPU systems.

What would be the best measurements?
FPS, a short video how smooth it is running? There will be many pop ups. Shall and can we suppress all of them to get to a good stress test?

I have about the sam e rig as you do, but less ram.
So it would be interesting for me how it is running compared to you system..

So what do I have:
CPU: Windows 7 Professional 64bit Service Pack 1
Intel Core i7-4790K CPU @ 4GHz
16GB Ram

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

SSD: Crucial CT250MX200

Bandose wrote: Mon Jul 25, 2022 3:38 am What I've seen is, when you get to around 400-450 planets, it gets "choppy" in how on certain processes. My goal is to build a system that could handle 2000 planets with 90+ percent of the galaxy colonized and everything still happening as smooth as it does in the beginning.

If the new computer can handle that, it can probably last up to another 8-10 years.

Just curious, are you playing on 1.0.5.8? In general, I'd recommend Intel/nVidia.

I am just pushing this thread because I can not believe noone is interested in a way to find out what system runs dw2 best.
sure there is much to tweak, but i would love to hear what components speed up the game the most.

Bandose wrote: Sun Jul 24, 2022 2:46 am I've been running an intel 7900k, nvidia 1060 6gb, ssd, and 48gb ddr4 ram for close to 10 years. 99% of the games I play work great throughout. I'm trying to figure out if I should look at AMD or Intel for my next computer. Endgame of Distant Worlds 2 is awful.

What build would i need to play max settings with as little lag as possible?

Are sure about this? Because Intel has no 7900k. It has a 7900x and that's from 2017, just 5 years. 10 years would be an Ivy bridge but only DDR3. Intel introduced DDR4 along Haswell in 2014.
I recall this because I've built my last rig in Dec'15/Jan'16 using an i5-6600 with 64GB DDR-4 and a R9 390 Nitro, replaced by an RX 590 Nitro - I like silent PCs and am not into FPS. Plan was to build a new one every 5 years and after 6½ I'm still satisfied.

Your

rxnnxs wrote: Mon Jul 25, 2022 8:16 pm [...]
CPU: Windows 7 Professional 64bit Service Pack 1
Intel Core i7-4790K CPU @ 4GHz
16GB Ram

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

SSD: Crucial CT250MX200

is very similar to mine, even after all these years
SSDs aren't really a factor in DW2, unless you'd constantly save and load

Since I haven't play a 2000 stars, 90% colonized game yet, I too would be interested in seeing how this would perform on my system.