soulburner
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I recently moved and I no longer have access to my desktop PC, which I left to my brother and I am building a cheap eGPU setup for my Thinkpad X230. Initial tests show that a dual core, four threaded i5 3320m does pretty well in many games when paired with an externally connected Radeon R9 270 2 GB. I might change the GPU to something more powerful within the next few months.
Things tested so far:
- The Witcher 3: the first hour or so runs pretty well on mixed medium-high settings with SBAO. Limited the fps to 30 and it seems like it drops to 27 sometimes. It might be due to PCI-Express 2.0 1x throughput limit or CPU limit. Changing detail settings to lowest doesn't improve anything
- ELEX: the first hour or so runs at 30fps limited without drops
- Morrowind: flawless
- TESV: Enderal - might need further tweaking, seems to run between 50 and 60fps on mixed settings
- Pillars of Eternity, Torment ToN -- both run at 18 fps and nothing seems to help. They are not running on integrated Intel graphics (Intel HD4000 can go above 30fps in 720p), but refuse to perform nicely anyway. Forcing d3d11 on PoE1 does the trick and I get 50-60fps, but it doesn't work for Torment. Any ideas? I googled and found many similar problems, even on desktop PCs and it seems they remain unsolved...
So... please post links or your own experiences with dual core gaming in 2019 - performance, details settings, graphs.... Or link to a thread I missed that might exist already
Things tested so far:
- The Witcher 3: the first hour or so runs pretty well on mixed medium-high settings with SBAO. Limited the fps to 30 and it seems like it drops to 27 sometimes. It might be due to PCI-Express 2.0 1x throughput limit or CPU limit. Changing detail settings to lowest doesn't improve anything
- ELEX: the first hour or so runs at 30fps limited without drops
- Morrowind: flawless
- TESV: Enderal - might need further tweaking, seems to run between 50 and 60fps on mixed settings
- Pillars of Eternity, Torment ToN -- both run at 18 fps and nothing seems to help. They are not running on integrated Intel graphics (Intel HD4000 can go above 30fps in 720p), but refuse to perform nicely anyway. Forcing d3d11 on PoE1 does the trick and I get 50-60fps, but it doesn't work for Torment. Any ideas? I googled and found many similar problems, even on desktop PCs and it seems they remain unsolved...
So... please post links or your own experiences with dual core gaming in 2019 - performance, details settings, graphs.... Or link to a thread I missed that might exist already