Quoting: liamdaweSeems reddit [External Link] doesn't agree with me on this article.

Note to self: Don't read reddit.

This is such a boring trend among developers in general, the response to any user tweaks is always "nooeee dont tinker with our perfectly logical programs, just spend hours replacing your tuned ubuntu with the utter standard, wash your hands, then start the game and get all these logs and send them to me so that I can ask you to do it all again for reproducability. THEN we might file a bug that will sit in some list for a year. Have fun.". Yeyeye that's all rational and stuff, but I think they get blinded by their own position as computer experts, computers is essentially mumbo jumbo magic IMO, like other complex stuff humans deal with. Things just work, and they are generally too complex/contingent/systemic for any person to understand, so people tinker and code away and sometimes it just works. Trying to force it to be rational and understandable is just too time consuming when users can get improvements with random tweaks.

As long as it doesn't break anything, let us play with irrational tweaks and pray to the CPU gods like we want.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: buenaventuraHow do you do this? Entering bios with F2 during boot, I see no option to turn Turbo on/off. Perhaps it is not supported by my "AMD A8-6410 with Radeon R5 Graphics (up to 2.4ghz)". However, in bios it says that my computer has only 2000mhz cpu freq, so clearly the CPU is not turboin :P

It might be throttling down some GHz as it doesn't need them in BIOS.

I just installed indicator-cpufreq, and there I can choose between:

2,00 GHz
<etc etc>
1,00 GHz
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Conservative
Ondemand
Powersave
Performance
shedutil <--- INTRUIGING, what is this? I google and it seems like some newfangled stuff? I wonder if that will be even better than Performance!

Still, why does it only go up to 2,00ghz? Says right on the sticker on my lappy "up to 2.4 ghz", bullshiet :P

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Quoting: meggermanRunning AMD CPU/APU's i have always turned of Turbo mode in the BIOS and cool & quiet.

How do you do this? Entering bios with F2 during boot, I see no option to turn Turbo on/off. Perhaps it is not supported by my "AMD A8-6410 with Radeon R5 Graphics (up to 2.4ghz)". However, in bios it says that my computer has only 2000mhz cpu freq, so clearly the CPU is not turboin :P

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Quoting: EikeIt's worth a try. I had to do it - strange enough - for Limbo to work in the correct speed. :)

How silly, it does actually reduce stuttering in Shadow Tactics, making it quite playable. When zooming out too much it is still laggy though, but I do not think I am just imagining an improvement. Will try disabling turbo as well, why not.

Does this persist over reboot? I presume not. I will try this with PoE also, which is also Unity I think and also suffers from stuttering for me.

I feel kinda cheated man, I've worked so hard with GPU drivers, .ini tweaks etc. with many different games and all the while I've thought "hrmm well i THINK this is CPU bound, not much to do about that, I expect the CPU must be working full power since I have power cable plugged in always, oh well.". This is too simple.

Edit: I feel like my avatar looks, I realize now looking at my post. WTF man. I even have the beard and everything. SPOOKY ;)

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Hmm, does this setting the CPU governor to performance impact games otherwise you think (like, with OpenGL on a weak CPU?).

I have a AMD quadcore A8-6410 ("up to 2.4 ghz) on my laptop, and I struggle to play Shadow Tactics (and other unity games) on lowest settings, sometimes I think my CPU is at fault as much as my GPU. top reports around 250% CPU usage (which means 2.5 cores used I guess) for Shadow Tactics. Is it possible to increase that usage, you think?

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Quoting: edmondo

Quoting: buenaventura

Quoting: edmondoInstalled and played about 90 minutes on AMD RX 470 (mesa driver) without issues.

The game looks nice and the story seems interesting, even I've only scratched a bit of it.

Now let's go back into the last castoff body and try to understand "what does one life matter".

What are your specs more exactly, how many gb VRAM does that card have? These names tell me nothing.

Thanks for your help!

Sorry for the late answer.

The gfx card is a RADEON RX 470 GAMING X 4G.

My CPU is an AMD X3 720 overclocked at 3 GHz.

Hi!

Thank you for the answer anyhow, I will probably pick up this game when I have a better computer, it is important to have a decent framerate for immersion, I feel.

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Unitygames seem to be CPU bound on my machine sometimes, like the demo of Shadow Tactics, which is laggy. I would like to test it, is it possible to do on the DRM-free demo?

I hope they enable it fully soon! Many games are JUST under the threshold for being painlessly playable for me right now, perhaps a little bump like this will be what it takes.

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I was all hyped last weekend, playing the solo quests and building a nice UR (or BR as they call it, blue red) burn/event deck with disciples of aurora, but now when trying at work (without steam) it is sadly blocked :( I wish I could change the port it uses.

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Quoting: abelthorne

Quoting: buenaventuraEdit: YAY! It seems to work without Steam, let's hope it needs no weird ports (trying from home now, next week I'll try at work).

It might need libs that are in the Steam runtime (and widely installed overall but they might not be on your work PC).

Is there a competetive scene to speak of?

Yes, though I'm not really into that and don't follow it that much. I know some pro gamers stream (you can probably find them on the Faeria subreddit or playfaeria.com). And as I said, there is a monthly tournament; you can find the details on https://esports.faeria.com/ [External Link]. Besides this, I'm not sure there are a lot of other tournaments, though, I guess the game is not well known enough yet.

Quoting: Micromegas

Quoting: buenaventuraIs there a competetive scene to speak of?

Yep. The top players get invited to the Monthly Cup.

https://esports.faeria.com/ [External Link]

These are the current top players:

https://esports.faeria.com/top-ranking [External Link]

Thanks for your help, luckily I bring my own laptop to work, so it will probably work, unless some strange ports are used by the client itself. Will have a go att Faeria now!

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