Optimization?

[KrisDim]

Please let me know if the game is good optimized. Ive got an average laptop and it is a trend for the survival (early access) games to be poorly optimized...
i5-4200U 1,6 GHz
Nvidia 750M
8GB DDR3 if anyone is interested. Thanks in advace and have fun :)

[XistenZ]

Optimization is a word people with poor builds use, it's not really a thing.

Even so, no your laptop (which is not an average laptop, it's very low-end) will not be able to play The Forest. The minimum requirements is a CPU @2.4GHz. Yours do have turbo @2.6GHz, which would mean you'll fry it pretty soon if the game would even launch.

Your specs is really odd, because the GPU and RAM are not bad at all, actually those are on the mid-high level when it comes to laptops, but the CPU makes the machine useless for anything but viewing your desktop. Your empty, sad, desktop. You know how you have to wait forever for a program or a webpage to load? Yeah, that's your CPU. Sorry.

[Dakuwan]

Lol... Always the devs fault...

[ifthisthenthat]

Originally posted by Perrterrter:

Optimization is a word people with poor builds use, it's not really a thing.

Wow a computer programming expert is among us.

[KrisDim]

Originally posted by Perrterrter:

Optimization is a word people with poor builds use, it's not really a thing.

Lol, thanks for the honest answer but optimization IS a real thing :D How am I able to play games like Shadow of Mordor and FarCry 4, on 60 fps, even witcher 3 with a rare fps drops (still playable tho) but for example my sweet little H1z1 is lagging like hell and some other stuff too. So, my point is if you deny that optimization plays a big role in the performance then you`ve got yourself a goddly PC and you have never experianced the struggle

[Dread Arkive]

Originally posted by KrisDim:

Originally posted by Perrterrter:

Optimization is a word people with poor builds use, it's not really a thing.

Lol, thanks for the honest answer but optimization IS a real thing :D How am I able to play games like Shadow of Mordor and FarCry 4, on 60 fps, even witcher 3 with a rare fps drops (still playable tho) but for example my sweet little H1z1 is lagging like hell and some other stuff too. So, my point is if you deny that optimization plays a big role in the performance then you`ve got yourself a goddly PC and you have never experianced the struggle

I'd love to know how you could get anywhere near 60 fps on Mordor or FC4 with your rig....considering I also use a 750M, but also have an i5-4570S @ 2.9 GHz with 8G RAM, and I only manage to keep them around 20-25 FPS at best with a mix of low/mid settings.
Only way I can figure is you're running them on absolute minimum graphics options with many turned off, and a far reduced resolution (the lowest I'll tolerate is 1600x900).

[XistenZ]

Originally posted by ifthisthenthat:

Originally posted by Perrterrter:

Optimization is a word people with poor builds use, it's not really a thing.

Wow a computer programming expert is among us.

Yes.

Originally posted by KrisDim:

Originally posted by Perrterrter:

Optimization is a word people with poor builds use, it's not really a thing.

Lol, thanks for the honest answer but optimization IS a real thing :D How am I able to play games like Shadow of Mordor and FarCry 4, on 60 fps, even witcher 3 with a rare fps drops (still playable tho) but for example my sweet little H1z1 is lagging like hell and some other stuff too. So, my point is if you deny that optimization plays a big role in the performance then you`ve got yourself a goddly PC and you have never experianced the struggle

People use 'optimization' poorly, it does play a role in performance, but when gamers use it they use it simply to say "my inadequate rig can't handle the game, it needs optimization". Optimization can't make your machine better, it can give you shorter loadtimes and at best slightly better FPS, but if you can't run the game to begin with no optimization will fix that.

Sidenote: I do have a godly PC, because I know my stuff #PCMasterRace #WowImSoHumble

[kuraiken]

Of course optimization exists but it's not a magic miracle. It's just very smooth programming. The opposite of optimization happens when people get the code to work, but they use it in a roundabout way that impacts on other processes so that, at times, for the CPU or the GPU the load of multiple processes becomes too intense and the game stutters, slows or hangs.

There's always two ways to counter system demands. One, the better but costly one, is to buy or better yet, build, a really good pc. That way you can ignore the demands because your superior hardware laughs at the shoddy programming. (Most of the time, some games, like Assassins Creed Unity, and many unity games in general, can still cause issues, but that's because unity isn't very well optimized and often has RAM issues even on 16 GB systems.)

The other is lowering your graphics. Resolution is the biggest factor that can increase your FPS by far and wide.

For the Forest, I can't say with certainty if it would work for you. That's because The Forest can have a lot of models on screen (GPU RAM demand) can require lots of RAM for all the items and processes, like the destroyable environment, felled trees into logs, etc. similar to Minecraft, and your CPU is kind of really, really low.

What you *can* do however is to buy The Forest, test it on your system for *less than two hours* (can always refund that), and if it doesn't work, refund (or get a better system) and you're fine.

Trying is the only way to know with a system like yours. It might work, with lower resolution, medium to low graphics, but it might not. Test it.

[Duxtorm]

Originally posted by XistenZ:

Optimization is a word people with poor builds use, it's not really a thing.

I'm sorry, but that's gotta be one of the wankiest things I've ever read..
To literally go so far as to say "It's not really a thing" in favour of 'If you can't run it, your pc must be trash', like wow.
Optimisation is as blatantly "a thing" as the graphics themselves. It's also really quite hard to use the word incorrectly because technically, regardless of the game and regardless of the system, if the game WAS more optimised, it WOULD run better on that computer, that's the simple black and white of it.

Of course there are optimisation standards and unrealistic (but possible) expectations-
Getting a game to run only decently (Like Subnautica) is acceptable and easier than getting a game to run excellently (Like Doom 2016 / Eternal), or heck, even Roller Coaster Tycoon.. Whilst you can't expect The Forest to be as well optimised as Doom, the simple fact is that it could be and if it were, it would probably run on a lot more low-end computers.

So yes, optimisation is absolutely an ever-improvable thing that effects every game,
and The Forest certainly could use a bit more polish because it IS fairly un-optimised.

[kir-kanos]

nice 5 year necro! guess time for this thread to be locked

[Sam]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.