![]() ![]() I’m very happy with the longevity of this gaming laptop, it’s never had stellar performance (talking frames per second) but it does medium performance very, very solidly regardless of what you throw at it. It’s an inevitable part of PC gaming that you have to upgrade or replace your computer every so often. MMORPGs are ever evolving and growing, but so are their system requirements. I have no idea how good that score is but the video was smooth as silk running throughout, even the more spell effect intensive boss fights, so I’m hopeful I’ll be able to run the expansion without needing to upgrade. Clearly this benchmark is better optimised (it even uses DirectX 11). This time the benchmark ended to NPCs from the video applauding my system politely – a very nice touch! I have to say I’m pleasantly surprised that my aging rig can run it so well. Running the benchmark shows you the same promotional trailer that’s on websites and Youtube for the expansion. This makes use of the current games same graphics options and settings – it auto recognised that my machine fits the High (Laptop) profile. So with that slightly worrying prelude I moved on to the actual Heavensward benchmark. I don’t have the A Realm Reborn v2.0 benchmark downloaded so didn’t run that for a more accurate comparison. Of course the original v1.0 trailer is probably badly optimised so that score isn’t so very relevant today. The score of 2162 was with perfectly smooth video at least to my eye. ![]() Then I remembered I have to force unknown software to use the 3D graphics card using the nVidia control panel despite having the 3D card set as default in the same place (worst software design ever!). Of course the first time I ran it performance was terrible – a score of ~640. According to old forums that’s not good although I didn’t find an official ‘scale’ or rating. ![]()
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