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V21 what if my comp specs aren't good enough
Sami2ss:
Are integrated cards able to be taken out?
Bisjac:
--- Quote from: Sami2ss on July 29, 2012, 12:13:56 AM ---Are integrated cards able to be taken out?
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laptop no.
if its a desktop you can simply install a second real video card and simply not use the old port
edit;
or laptop hack it :D
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=185496.0
Lugnut:
loving hate laptops now :(
Extrude:
I don't know why everybody assumes that you can run games on a 30 dollar GPU, you can't. Playing the game at 20 fps with 1k bricks is not playable.
segfault314:
--- Quote from: Altiris on July 28, 2012, 06:23:10 PM ---YEAH!! My PC could handle it, it was just that the fan went really high and the temps were sky rocketing. Although I dont think those shaders were optimized very well. I think Blockland's will be better optimized.
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Minecraft, by its very nature (being written in Java) is bloated, and shader mods for Minecraft tend to run slower than they should, too.
Any entry-level DX11 card should run Blockland's new shaders at maximum settings. Here's one right here!
Also if you're worried about your performance (assuming your machine runs Blockland well now), don't be. Version 21 removes the old map system, which is bloated and poorly-coded, which should speed Blockland up significantly.
--- Quote from: Extrude on July 29, 2012, 12:21:10 AM ---I don't know why everybody assumes that you can run games on a 30 dollar GPU, you can't. Playing the game at 20 fps with 1k bricks is not playable.
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There's much more to Blockland than the graphics card. If you're experiencing severe drops in framerate with as little as 1k bricks, consider upgrading your RAM or CPU.
Graphically-speaking however, Blockland as it stands now doesn't use much more powerful graphics than what's featured in Tribes 2 (a 2001 game), outside of higher-resolution textures.