cpu choices for faster turns in the later game
Published on Saturday, November 30, 2024 By
So I currently run an 8840 laptop AMD with a 4070 video card as ROG laptop. In all normal tasks this laptop feels fast and non laggy. To be clear i have it pretty software barebones as my game machine with only a chrome browser and steam and epic installed along with some games. When i play GC4 after about 200 to 300 games on a gigantic galaxy the turns get longer. I have a second monitor pulled up with system monitor and my cpu is never cresting over 25-30 percent and my video card is doing nothing hovering around 5% or less. My 48 GB of ram is not even breaking a sweat at over 32 available (but used as cache). I am playing the biggest maps with one or two "streams" only. If the PC is computing between turns why is the game not maximizing cpu or using the video card for next turn computations? Will a new M4 apple silicon play better? Again not sure if its an integration problem but it seems that my system is not being fully utilized by the game but if some other CPU will be better ( intel or apple silicon) then im willing to spend the money on my hobby. I have actually played a game with more sectors ( alot more streams) where the turns were approaching 30 seconds between yet the cpu was not even breaking a sweat and ram use was under 20GB. So weirdness of the underlying OS (win 11) or the game is unable to utilize all the power available ? For the record this is not me complaining or bitching. Love the game just want to know if other hardware would make the game go faster? Only basing on CPU SSD and memory usage my pc does not seem to be the limitation. Playing on a desktop with faster memory (7500?) There was a program that i used years ago where i would load the games up in a ram disk to speed them up and that was heaven but since SSDs are actually fast now it seems unnecessary but if that will help i would be more than willing to do that! THere was even a steam program call dim disk ( or something like that) it was a Ram disk program that would autosyn back to your drives but last i checked it was abandonware. I have read through some posts here but most make reference to having more ram or latest CPUs and im only 1 AMD generation from newest right now and my RAM is complete overkill according to usage. I had posted on another subject before and they said the game was developed on apple silicon. So if that is true it would run faster on apple silicon. Before i make that investment i would like to know! Sorry for the long post but was trying to give as much information as possible.
TY!!
Roy