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by Dr. Ian Cutress on November 5, 2020 9:01 AM ESTGaming Tests: World of Tanks
Albeit different to most of the other commonly played MMO or massively multiplayer online games, World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles. World of Tanks (WoT) is developed and published by Wargaming who are based in Belarus, with the game’s soundtrack being primarily composed by Belarusian composer Sergey Khmelevsky. The game offers multiple entry points including a free-to-play element as well as allowing players to pay a fee to open up more features. One of the most interesting things about this tank based MMO is that it achieved eSports status when it debuted at the World Cyber Games back in 2012.
World of Tanks enCore is a demo application for its new graphics engine penned by the Wargaming development team. Over time the new core engine has been implemented into the full game upgrading the games visuals with key elements such as improved water, flora, shadows, lighting as well as other objects such as buildings. The World of Tanks enCore demo app not only offers up insight into the impending game engine changes, but allows users to check system performance to see if the new engine runs optimally on their system. There is technically a Ray Tracing version of the enCore benchmark now available, however because it can’t be deployed standalone without the installer, we decided against using it. If that gets fixed, then we can look into it.
The benchmark tool comes with a number of presets:
- 768p Minimum, 1080p Standard, 1080p Max, 4K Max (not a preset)
The odd one out is the 4K Max preset, because the benchmark doesn’t automatically have a 4K option – to get this we edit the acceptable resolutions ini file, and then we can select 4K. The benchmark outputs its own results file, with frame times, making it very easy to parse the data needed for average and percentiles.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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Qasar - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
or PEBCAK :-)Qasar - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
ug.... PEBKACSpunjji - Monday, November 9, 2020 - link
It works both ways! :DSlash3 - Saturday, November 7, 2020 - link
The only real snag is for Ryzen/TR users wanting to install on a RAID volume, as doing so requires loading three individual drivers not provided by the Windows boot media (RCBottom, RCRAID, RCCFG). Without these the drives won't be visible, where with Intel's RST they will be visible without additional steps.It's not a common configuration for regular users, but worth mentioning as it's not always obvious and nobody reads instructions these days.
Tomatotech - Monday, November 9, 2020 - link
Friends don’t let friends install boot OSes on RAID disks. Anything goes wrong, dead drive etc, you’re fucked.Often the specific repair tools required to repair the RAID are on the OS partition that you need to access before repairing the RAID, but you can’t access it until you’ve repaired the RAID... and round and round you go.
Seen it happen at a couple of businesses that hired shitty IT consultants.
Spunjji - Monday, November 9, 2020 - link
Yup. Only ever worth doing on servers that have a RAID-aware BIOS and, ideally, some sort of integrated lifecycle controller with the drivers available.On a consumer-grade desktop system (i.e. not workstation) there is less than no point.
dagobah123 - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
These are not meant to be CPUs with on-board (integrated) GPUs. AMD has those, they are APUs e.g. 3400G, 3750G). The 5000 series APUs will come next year. Also, as other have stated above there's no difference in setting up an AMD vs. Intel system. Microsoft includes the drivers you need to get going, but of course with any build do update them once you're up and running. I've had both 10+ Intel and AMD systems over the years and certainly no stability issues ever related to the CPU, Intel or AMD.Kent T - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
There seem to be something wrong in the GIMP app opening chart. Can it really be, that all the biggest and most expensive CPU's are the absolute slowest at more than half a minute? And besides that, I have a 3770 non-K, and on Linux Mint 20 it takes a little less than 3 seconds to open GIMP 2.10. Except the first time after installing, it took 8 seconds.supdawgwtfd - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
Read the article. The answer is right thereKent T - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
Yeah, just saw it, my bad