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[xXziroXx]

Originally Posted by Unkownsoldier

I've been using v6 hoping that would fix the problem, it didn't. All of my graphics cards are updated and things like that I have made sure of it since I got the thing and it's always lagged. When ever I play Graal it turns my cpu usage to 100%, and most of the time my laptop over heats after a while of it being on. It's just a shitty 5 year old laptop though, so once I get a new one it should be fixed.

Laptops are not known for good performance, especially if you combined the word "laptop" with "shitty" and "5 year old". The good laptops costs quite a lot of money.

[Unkownsoldier]

Originally Posted by xXziroXx

Laptops are not known for good performance, especially if you combined the word "laptop" with "shitty" and "5 year old". The good laptops costs quite a lot of money.

I know, I think I spent $700 back then for what is probably worth $400 today. Never buying from Radio Shack again lol. Any recommendations for my next laptop?

[Crono]

Originally Posted by xXziroXx

Laptops are not known for good performance, especially if you combined the word "laptop" with "shitty" and "5 year old". The good laptops costs quite a lot of money.

Yeah but to run Graal? A game that used to run on my old pentium 2 which hasn't significantly changed in appearance? Meh...even in 2006 I was running it on a 2.1ghz Athlon XP w/ 512MB of RAM and a Radeon 7500LE (PCI mind you, really horrid card) just fine.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Crono

Yeah but to run Graal? A game that used to run on my old pentium 2 which hasn't significantly changed in appearance? Meh...even in 2006 I was running it on a 2.1ghz Athlon XP w/ 512MB of RAM and a Radeon 7500LE (PCI mind you, really horrid card) just fine.

Indeed—I have a cheap (at the time) eight-year-old laptop which runs Graal fine. The performance problems experienced by lots of players are probably compatibility issues which Stefan really needs to fix.

[Crono]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

Indeed—I have a cheap (at the time) eight-year-old laptop which runs Graal fine. The performance problems experienced by lots of players are probably compatibility issues which Stefan really needs to fix.

I think horrible hard drives also play a roll, or oversized Graal folders. I was losing performance on a normal 7200rpm drive because my folder was too big*.



*inb4 dats wat she sed

[xXziroXx]

Originally Posted by Crono

Yeah but to run Graal?

My mom bought a pretty cheap laptop a few years ago (against recommendations) that can barely even run Facebook games. The low budget laptops are garbage.

[Crono]

Originally Posted by xXziroXx

My mom bought a pretty cheap laptop a few years ago (against recommendations) that can barely even run Facebook games. The low budget laptops are garbage.

Surely it has more power than an iPhone 4, which can run Graal. Isn't the iOS version of Graal basically Graalv6 with a reduced drawing size? Unless it's one of those ultra-thin PUT-ALL-DAT-PRESSURE-ON-CPU type of solutions then I can understand, but he did say he spent $700 on it so who knows.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Crono

Surely it has more power than an iPhone 4, which can run Graal. Isn't the iOS version of Graal basically Graalv6 with a reduced drawing size? Unless it's one of those ultra-thin PUT-ALL-DAT-PRESSURE-ON-CPU type of solutions then I can understand, but he did say he spent $700 on it so who knows.

The OS X version of Graal (which the iPhone runs) runs extremely well compared to the Windows version on the same hardware. I think Stefan has done a lot of optimizing for iPhone—it helps that hardware compatibility is less of an issue, too.

iPhones performing better than Windows players on superior hardware is not unheard of.