WildAngelGive us Warcraft 4 already please..

trparkyToo bad they aren't fixing the shitty code that powers this game and now that the game is going free the chances of it getting fixed are less than they were before. The game engine is largely a single-threaded beast (and a bad one at that) so for those people who bought into the current generation AMD Ryzen chips they're going to have a shitty experience playing this game (good luck playing at less than 30 FPS). The only way this game plays well is if you have high clock speeds.

And now you know why I didn't go AMD Ryzen with the current generation of the chips, the game runs very poorly on it. This game was made back in the days of the old Pentiums where clock speeds were king, not core counts. Sure, core counts are great today but back when this game was made all that mattered was clock speeds. Under the hood of this game is a game engine that's very poorly optimized for anything but high clock speed chips.

And yes, I still like playing this game.

trparkyToo bad they aren't fixing the shitty code that powers this game and now that the game is going free the chances of it getting fixed are less than they were before. The game engine is largely a single-threaded beast (and a bad one at that) so for those people who bought into the current generation AMD Ryzen chips they're going to have a shitty experience playing this game (good luck playing at less than 30 FPS). The only way this game plays well is if you have high clock speeds.

And now you know why I didn't go AMD Ryzen with the current generation of the chips, the game runs very poorly on it. This game was made back in the days of the old Pentiums where clock speeds were king, not core counts. Sure, core counts are great today but back when this game was made all that mattered was clock speeds. Under the hood of this game is a game engine that's very poorly optimized for anything but high clock speed chips.

And yes, I still like playing this game.

trparkyYou're the first one to say that, every person on Blizzard's own forums and Reddit said that Starcraft 2 was single-threaded.

trparkyExcuse me for being wrong, go ahead and tell the literally hundreds of users on both Reddit and Blizzard's own forums that they're wrong as well because that's where I got my information from.

trparkyAnd before you say that I should have asked here, believe me... I DID!!! Nobody answered me, nobody told me anything. It was like this game didn't exist to those who hang out on these forums. Wait, I take that back... I had one person ask me why I still played that old game. I asked repeatedly even, nobody gave me answer so I turned to other sources that told me to avoid Ryzen and that I had to pay the Intel tax.

R-T-BNo, it's not, considering he qualified it with "one of."

It's an insanely popular game, like it or hate it.

trparkyDo you know how much Googling I did? I spent months after Ryzen's launch reading hundreds of forum and sub-Reddit threads on the topic. Nearly every one said that to avoid AMD Ryzen and that you just had to pay the Intel tax to play this game. I can't imagine that the people in those threads were being paid by Intel to say that so I figured that with that many people saying that it had to be true.

AlienIsGODwhat i choose to spend my money on is my choice lol

ThefumigatorI have no problem to say all those guys are wrong. I also don't believe anything anyone say.



I'm not sure why nobody answered your question here. I would have answer something like "go any route, but intel has better single threaded performance by a low margin against Ryzen"

I know that old games are fascinating even today, Diablo 3 is among those golden jewels. I play Anno 2070 which was relased quite a while ago.
We are not talking about the intel tax or whatever, we are talking about the concept you put over the table: You believe that with Ryzen a 2010 game would be completely unplayable and the intel route is the way to go... ? Only the Sith believe in absolutes.
I can benchmark Diablo 3, just let me see if I can borrow a copy...

TotallyHe's saying it is and I'm saying not anymore. I won't deny that it was popular worldwide at one time, but presently it is not. Going f2p is a last ditch attempt to shore up the waning playerbase for those living far away from the region's where starcraft is pretty much a religion. It's in a spot where enough people play that keeps the game alive but the distribution of players leave many left out connecting to each other seriously high latency.

Tartaros@trparky

I played wings of liberty on a phenom II x4, 8gb ram and a hd5870, maxed out, no framedrops. I played the 2 expansions on an ivy bridge i7 quad core, 16gb ram, gtx970, maxed out, no framedrops. I played multiplayer for some time on the ivy bridge, even in my laptop which is an ivy bridge I5 with 8gb of ram and a gt640m (had to lower details on the laptop), still no framedrops in online games. I refuse to accept what you say because that would mean Ryzen is slower than phenom II and ivy bridge and I don't think that's the case. Something is not right in what you say.

bugWell, it would seem your googling skills need an urgent upgrade, because here's WoW perfectly playable at 4k, 3 years ago: www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/R9_280X_Gaming_6_GB/21.html

Th3pwn3rYou know, I never really considered that he could be bored and trolling until just now.

CounterZeusWasn't it because of the unlocked framerate in the menu? GPUs were pushed to max?

Tartaros@trparky

I played wings of liberty on a phenom II x4, 8gb ram and a hd5870, maxed out, no framedrops. I played the 2 expansions on an ivy bridge i7 quad core, 16gb ram, gtx970, maxed out, no framedrops. I played multiplayer for some time on the ivy bridge, even in my laptop which is an ivy bridge I5 with 8gb of ram and a gt640m (had to lower details on the laptop), still no framedrops in online games. I refuse to accept what you say because that would mean Ryzen is slower than phenom II and ivy bridge and I don't think that's the case. Something is not right in what you say.

NeoGalaxyAlso the engine is pretty lame, works on 1 thread, maybe in five years Blizzard can develop it to work for multiple cores, maybe.