What kind of hardware is required to run max shadows on medium-high brickcount?

[Mr Unicode]

Hey all, Im not gonna be home for a while, I want to get a small form factor desktop, but i was told that i dont need a powerful GPU to run shadows.
And that a macbook pro with an Intel Iris Pro GPU would be enough to run shadows in blockland. Which i dont know about because i tried running shadows on an Intel GPU and i got these really ugly "pinstripes".

so, what should i do? Go with a mac that has an iris pro or a small form factor gaming destop?

(also should note that the SFF desktop im getting i will be paying for myself, whereas my parents said they would buy a macbook pro if i needed it)

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[Conan]

take "free money" if you can get it imo - the macbook will probably handle most of your BL needs nicely. unless you want to play with 60fps on max shaders all the time.

generally i just run high+hata's custom low soft shaders only for pictures and on occasion when designing maps with FPS ranging from 20 to 2 (on really big builds), but play in minimum with 200k+ bricks with minimal lag. my laptop has intel graphics and an i7 haswell, purchased in jan 2015, cost about $800.

[JBlitz404]

take "free money" if you can get it imo - the macbook will probably handle most of your BL needs nicely. unless you want to play with 60fps on max shaders all the time.

generally i just run high+hata's custom low soft shaders only for pictures and on occasion when designing maps with FPS ranging from 20 to 2 (on really big builds), but play in minimum with 200k+ bricks with minimal lag. my laptop has intel graphics and an i7 haswell, purchased in jan 2015, cost about $800.

If a Mac Book can handle Blockland at reasonable speeds, then anything can.

[Jasa]

A small factor gaming desktop definitely.

Blockland only uses 1 CPU core so you need a processor with decent single-core performance. Any Intel 4th or 6th generation CPU (except the celeron models) should be adequate in this case. I personally would not recommend an AMD CPU because the single-core performance just isn't there. If you get a CPU with bad single-core performance you won't be able to make full use of your GPU because of bottle-necking.

For the GPU I would get a GTX 750 or up, GTX 950 or up, R7 265 or up, or a R7 370 or up.

[rggbnnnnn]

Blockland only uses 1 CPU core so you need a processor with decent single-core performance. Any Intel 4th or 6th generation CPU (except the celeron models) should be adequate in this case. I personally would not recommend an AMD CPU because the single-core performance just isn't there. If you get a CPU with bad single-core performance you won't be able to make full use of your GPU because of bottle-necking.

Yeah, I have an AMD 8-core and that is a big factor as to why Blockland is not as smooth as it should be for a CPU at 4 gigahertz and a GTX 980.

[otto-san]

i just have a core 2 duo and a GTS 450 and i can run max shaders pretty well, tho i would probably go for better hardware than that lol

[Path]

Shaders aren't supported on Intel, and the majority of mac products run intel graphics.

[Mr Unicode]

i should note that i want to run high-max shadows all the time.

[honytawk]

Shaders are optimized for Nvidia cards.

[Conan]

i should note that i want to run high-max shadows all the time.

small form factor + what jasa said
there's no other way to get good fps + shaders on BL

[TheBlackParrot]

Shaders aren't supported on Intel, and the majority of mac products run intel graphics.

false false false, shaders work fine on intel

if the macbook is free, get the macbook

[ZSNO]

Blockland only uses 1 CPU core so you need a processor with decent single-core performance.

It can use 2 cores
https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=266760.msg7858558#msg7858558

[Shift Kitty]

It can use 2 cores
https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=266760.msg7858558#msg7858558

Brick fakekill physics on 1 core. Entire rest of the game on the other.
Might as well be 1.