It doesn't take a GOOD PC to play Planetside 2, just a 'decent' one with an average video card, CPU, and a user with a little PC knowledge. I have it playing on an entry level A6 laptop ($500 Acer from a year or more ago with an integrated APU) at work @25-30fps on low, but very playable, and on a 3 year old gaming rig with a 1 year old videocard, no overclocking (flawlessly on maximum graphics settings @40-60fps w/ Vsync). If it's not running right and you have a middle of the road gaming rig, your doing it wrong. Turn off startup processes, background services, make sure your HD is as optimized as it can be. Make sure your CPU is cooling properly as they limit their performance based on heat. Dust acts as an insulator on your heat sink and the thermal paste CAN WEAR OUT over time if your PC is constantly running hot. Make sure your video card drivers are not only the newest, but do a little research and make sure they are the BEST version for that particular game (sometimes even beta versions work better). If your using an I5 or I7 Quad core make sure HT is turned OFF in the BIOS as NO GAMES use 8 logical cores anyways and you will see a FPS increase without HT. I have also found a tool that edits your registry to make it so I5s and I7s don't keep cores parked during gameplay when they shouldn't be. SOE is still working on optimization for all of the different hardware configs and it is always a work in progress. Play with your CCC or NVidia control panel 3D application settings until it's running as well as it possibly can through trial and error. I've seen the "Morphological Filtering" option in AMD CCC take my fps from 12 average all the way to 40 just by disabling it in more than a few games. It's a big collection of small settings and practices that make a PC run well, not just good parts. Game developers that make high end games that boast things like "Epic warfare on a MASSIVE scale" have designed this game utilizing the best available technologies to be as impressive and ground breaking as current computers will allow and you really expect to play that new shiny game well with parts that are A. Not designed for gaming, or B. Too old and an OS that is too busy updating your 8 different browser toolbars and IE addons to even be able to think about running a game?! After owning Halo 4, BF3 Premium, and the newest COD I can honestly say I feel like this game is BY FAR the best multiplayer shooter of the year but the truth is, it's a PC game. And PC games you have to tweak your system for to make run right, even on a brand new one.
You don't need a good PC to run, yes. You WILL when they optimize the game so that CPU's don't limit the game anymore. Hell, I'm running on full ultra with a GTX670 and my CPU is still the limiting factor. It is the optimization of the game that's the problem, and SOE has even stated that.
On the subject of using a computer to its full potential, there's a key on the keyboard next to the ' and " key. Try using it more.
Intel Q6600 @ 2.4ghz -> 5fps in big battles Intel i5 3570K @ 3.4ghz -> 30fps in big battles GPU is an ATI 5850 HD. Point being, small changes to hardware - big differences in gameplay. Changing your CCC settings will have a minimal effect on ingame fps if you are cpu bound. And i would consider a 2.4ghz quad core to be 'decent'.
This isn't arrogant at all... Pro-tip, you do not know as much as you think you know. You can't tweak your computer to fix bad code in the game engine and video card drivers, all you can do is mitigate it by single digit percentages with the tweaks you listed. Stop being an ***.
Win7 64bit GTX560Ti Factory OC. AMD Phenom II X6 3,7GHz 8GB 1666MHz RAM I can run it 30-40fps. And Im not running it even at low settings. Im running it below low settings, I have most settings turned totally off. I run it with None-Low settings.
Do you need to run it at low settings? A system like that should be able to handle medium. Well, medium on a few settings - i leave particles, shadows and foliage on low.
