My PC is 6 years old - should I get Going Rogue?
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DumpleBerry,
Posted on: 2010-11-17 23:41 in Player Questions
I was able to play GR on my compy....well before the graphics card seized and literally burned.....but then again I had a cat that was shedding something fierce and a lot of hair got into the fans.....
Just will probably be kind of laggy for you.
You are running the game now right? GR doesn't change anything, it simply allows you to start characters in Praetoria. No need to change your graphic settings. If your frame rate is acceptable on the Rogue Isles then I don't see anything that would cause you problems in Praetoria.
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Praetoria is to City of Villains what CoV was to CoH, graphics-wise. Expect things to be choppier than CoV by about the same amount as the performance hit you take going from Paragon to the Isles. If you don't notice a difference between the two, your performance decrease should be minimal. Even if you've just got onboard video, update your video card drivers to help improve performance.
Additional things can be done to help improve performance outside buying a new computer. If you have less than 2 gigs RAM, you'll lose a LOT in performance; adding RAM will help a lot. If you've already got 2 gigs or more, adding more won't help a lot. Defrag your hard drive. Make sure that you don't have any malware hidden on your computer. Shut down unneeded programs running in the background.
If you can run without GR, you can run with GR, especially outside Praetoria. And you get a fair amount to do outside Praetoria with GR: tips, new powersets, revamped arcs in Peregrine, new costumes, side-switching, and soon, the Alpha Slot and other Incarnate-related stuff.
tl;dr: I run on a 3 year old, very low-end computer that's probably similar spec to what you've got, and I run GR fine. Not great, and not Ultra Mode, but good enough.
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This^^^. My computer is ten years old. I can't run Ultra on it, but I can still set various settings to max and enjoy the game (with GR included) without any noticeable drop in frame rate or quality of play.
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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
You are running the game now right? GR doesn't change anything, it simply allows you to start characters in Praetoria. No need to change your graphic settings. If your frame rate is acceptable on the Rogue Isles then I don't see anything that would cause you problems in Praetoria.
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I imagine the biggest obstacle for you is how darn big the game is getting?
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
This^^^. My computer is ten years old. I can't run Ultra on it, but I can still set various settings to max and enjoy the game (with GR included) without any noticeable drop in frame rate or quality of play.
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This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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A ten year old computer handling any kind of current "max" settings without a noticeable drop in frame rate... That's fairly impressive.|
Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
This^^^. My computer is ten years old. I can't run Ultra on it, but I can still set various settings to max and enjoy the game (with GR included) without any noticeable drop in frame rate or quality of play.
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Did you manage to port CoH to some kind of Cray supercomputer left over from the 90s?
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Well I should clarify that I have most of the settings at medium. It's the character settings that are all redlined. If I'm going to fight crime, I have to look good doing it. 
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when I play on my laptop, I'm in "Performance" graphics mode most of the time, outside of Praetoria. In Praetoria zones, I often (but not always) have to drop down to "Minimum". I still found GR worth it. Praetoria is still very pretty, even with minimal graphics. |
Originally Posted by NewScrapper
I've got a 6-year-old PC that doesn't have a prayer of playing in Ultra Mode. Should I bother getting Going Rogue, or should I wait until I get a new PC? Is there enough non-graphics-intensive stuff (like the new Powersets) available in GR to make it worth the expenditure?
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I do find the costume-quality drop between 'performance' and 'minimum' to be significant & I share your preference for better graphics on personal heroes. However, the main effect in Praetoria that I find slows me down is the gushing water fountains, which should not interact with your character graphics settings, so you might be just fine.
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OMG OMG OMG! I probably would have bought it just for Dual Pistols and Electric Control. (I don't like MM's and I haven't tried Kinetic Melee yet.)
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Originally Posted by NewScrapper
Is there enough non-graphics-intensive stuff (like the new Powersets) available in GR to make it worth the expenditure?
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My desktop is 5 years old and runs the game fine on high quality.
(disclaimer, I'm running a Dell Precision 690 w/ more RAM than computers have hard drive space, SLI'd graphics cards and two quad-core Xeon CPU's)
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I run on a 3 or 4 year old laptop, on the 2nd lowest setting (Performance) and Praetoria was fine for me. It still looks nice and my frame rate is decent (20-25 fps). If you can run CoV acceptably now, you should be fine in Praetoria.|
Originally Posted by NewScrapper
I've got a 6-year-old PC that doesn't have a prayer of playing in Ultra Mode. Should I bother getting Going Rogue, or should I wait until I get a new PC?
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| Is there enough non-graphics-intensive stuff (like the new Powersets) available in GR to make it worth the expenditure? |
Yes, the missions are much nicer than either CoH/V. More like the Tip missions we get in CoH/V. Plus Dual Pistols, Demon Summoning, and of course the new Incarnate slots and missions ... I'd say GR a must-get if you plan to renew your subscription.
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Well I should clarify that I have most of the settings at medium. It's the character settings that are all redlined. If I'm going to fight crime, I have to look good doing it.
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Ironically, I was just told that I had Bieber hair this morning. I wear it pulled back, so I would disagree with that assessment.
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This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
My rooomate has had this game since beta. He has onl y had to change two things on his computer..well three. His harddrive space, added 2 gigs of ram to it and got a new agp video card. That's it. His cpu is either 6 or 7 years old and although mines loads the game up faster and zones a little faster than his, his cpu is holding up very well playing the game.
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I've got a 6-year-old PC that doesn't have a prayer of playing in Ultra Mode. Should I bother getting Going Rogue, or should I wait until I get a new PC? Is there enough non-graphics-intensive stuff (like the new Powersets) available in GR to make it worth the expenditure?