Author Topic: What will make blockland run faster  (Read 2685 times)

If I played a lot of games with graphics around or a little higher than HL2 on high, and its mods, would I want a 9600 or 8800gt?

It probably doesn't matter, my dad's computer runs Half Life 2 on high settings and he has a 6800 or something like that in it.

Don't count on just the graphics card to fix all your gaming fps problems.
You'll want to look into your RAMs and your mother board.
Watt supply is also a factor.

Most cards can be overclocked so you should google up on how to do that.

Don't count on just the graphics card to fix all your gaming fps problems.
You'll want to look into your RAMs and your mother board.
Watt supply is also a factor.

Most cards can be overclocked so you should google up on how to do that.

Yeah, I figured the rest of the stuff wouldn't matter as much as the video card though, since I won't be running Crysis.

I heard overclocking has a few downsides, and I'm sure my dad wouldn't approve of it. Hell, he doesn't approve of me forwarding my ports.

Don't count on just the graphics card to fix all your gaming fps problems.
You'll want to look into your RAMs and your mother board.
Watt supply is also a factor.

Most cards can be overclocked so you should google up on how to do that.

If your computer is struggling with playing BL then it is most likely a cheap $400-$500 prebuilt machine from Dell or HP and slapping in the meatiest graphics card available isn't going to do jack stuff for you.

All the components in your system have to not only be compatible and in working order, but also up to comparable levels of performance. A great graphics card will be wasted on a computer without a decent CPU. In regards to "RAMs" (lol) and motherboards, the main thing to look for is compatibility and in the case of RAM, quantity.

It is true that a many graphics cards will scale back their performance if they are not receiving the juice they require to run and so having a quality, up-to-spec power supply is not only a matter of safety, it can effect your gaming too.

It is possible to overclock many components of a computer, but doing so is not as easy as clicking a button and comes with substantial risks. If you don't know what you are doing you may damage or destroy your computer, wasting hundreds of dollars in an instant. Also, the potential gains from overclocking will not be noticeable to the average computer user and the techniques are mainly used by those who get a kick out of seeing technology pushed to limit (the same kind of people who spend thousands of dollars on their computers).

If your computer is more than 1 or 2 years old and you really wish to upgrade, I would recommend building a whole new system, as jamming in a new graphics card isn't going to turn your aging pile of silicon into a raging, testosterone-filled beast of a gaming machine, despite what that "one website said".

my friend has a 400 dollar walmart emachines comp.

all we did was put in some random 50 dollar PCI 256m video card we got from best buy. it runs blockland fine now. low/med settings. but at 1440x900 so not to shabby.

my friend has a 400 dollar walmart emachines comp.

all we did was put in some random 50 dollar PCI 256m video card we got from best buy. it runs blockland fine now. low/med settings. but at 1440x900 so not to shabby.

Keywords.

This thread has mostly referred to much more powerful and expensive cards and I am trying to save someone the disappointment of buying such a nice card only to see little gains from it.

It doesn't take much to run BL, but it can take a reasonable amount more than a prebuilt to run it well.

yah, i mean that's what most people should buy in this community if they want to upgrade for blockland.

most people that play this game have that 600 dollar or less computer, and they hear so much about 8 and 9 series nividia cards. all the powerhouse hardware they think they should be using.
but really a 5 series card will do the trick. at even extremely low budget.

most prebuilt computers STILL dont even have a PCI-E mobo yet. that's pretty much an instant realization that you will never have a decent gaming computer, and can never upgrade to one.

The only component I was able to keep from my old prebuilt was an optical drive. Almost everything else has changed standard wise.

Anyway, for those who don't have any money to spend, simply lowering the games resolution and quality settings should give you a good boost in performance.

Fortunately few servers exceed 20k of bricks anyway.