The 400% performance boost

Day 3 of the experiment :​

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Probably I missed another discussion about it, if so, I beg for mercy.​

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I know, playing after an update in Entropia Universe is never a good idea. ;p​

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But I digged out my old laptop (A Sony VGN-AR61E, DualCore 1,67GHZ, GeForce 8400M GT, Win7Pro) 2 months ago and was amazed how great Entropia ran (mostly medium settings) and how good it still could look with such settings. :)​

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I can even overclock this 8400M GT using RivaTuner from (450/600) to an "powerfull" (570/770), which lead to another, visible performance boost. I could go even higher as with its cooling plate, it never breaches the 67°C. But everything WAS fine this way.​

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Now, after the turbo-booster-update of 400%, one would think, that this laptop could play Entropia even better...​

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...but (as stated in the news), even high-end PCs crash and lag these days.​

(So does mine, with its GeForce 670 GTX)​

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Since then, the laptop has to use safe-mode on the avatar graphics and crashes like everyone else.​

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Now my question would be, even if there are thousands of different PC configurations out there, how did MindArk test this 400% boost and the avatar update, that leaded to so many graphical/performance/crash issues ? -_-​

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Also my "old" GTX 285 had its problems with Entropia on "Very High", while all other DX 10 games had no problems on 1920x1080.

 

The crashing, both, laptop & Desktop is happening way too often.