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Why if i have a good pc the game runs really slow?


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21 hours ago, AmeliaJ08 said:

Because it isn't expensive, it's cheap.

SL runs like ass on everything, it has a habit of humbling even the most powerful hardware. It's a terribly slow old engine combined with a world of unoptimized content, it's a recipe for bad performance.

To that end I always tell people to not judge their hardware on SL, you find situations where low end dedicated GPUs aren't much slower than very high end GPUs thanks to the ancient engine simply not being able to make use of the resources it has available.

 

Yep... occasionally I'll turn off the GTX 1050 GPU on mine and run SL with the UHD 630 graphics from the 8th Gen i7 CPU. It actually runs OK if i use pre PBR fs or Cool VL with ALM and PBR turned off. Mid settings, no more than 96m draw distance. 

I'll sometimes go this way if I want to experience the older looking spots with less stress on my PC. I always run SL with an active 5 fan cooling pad cranked to max... I do that even if I don't run anything with 3D! Probably why my laptop still works well after 6+ years :) people tell me I can get away without the active pad if I'm not gaming. No, thanks. Best $25 of cheap insurance for a high performance laptop I ever spent... 

Combined with the tinier 2 fans on the laptop... I can mess around SL for at least two to three hours. Sometimes I'll take short breaks, logged out, and the laptop turned off for a few minutes while the fans underneath run to cool the thing off, then I come back and play some more.

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