@goblinsly2 This is the link for the testing that was done for the new benchmarking system in Spring 2022, but it appears that the spreadsheet is no longer accessible.

Oh, that makes sense then - the CPU has only 4 cores and then this feature is disabled. The feature disables the first core because the first core is also used by a lot of other processes. This may cause stutters. But it is only enabled when the CPU has at a minimum of 6 or more cores. The reason for that is simple: if you have 4 and you drop one then 3 may not be sufficient to run the game smoothly at all. In your case, the warning is meaningless in my opinion .

Depending on the ammount of AI's and units even the beefiest CPU's are gonna struggle. But the reality is that the game is much, much smoother on new CPU's compared to older ones. Especially if you focus on single core performance over the amount of cores. So high clocked 6 core or something with 3D cache would be amazing for this game. As what it needs is basically 2 cores, with one of them being ultra fast. Having good ram also helps a considerable amount.

@arma473 said in unit strategies and counters (2023): T2 stationary artillery outranges some battleships but not others. T2 art range is 128. Non-UEF battleship range is 128. UEF battleship range is 150.

I played with M27 and M28 and didnt get a desync yet, infact, i didnt get it with any AI. I did notice though after the latest patch, Uveso and RNG stopped working, while M27 and dillidali still work. Didnt test M28 but have no reason to doubt it also works. So much fun also, and amazingly good, that M27

i don't understand people that complain about rating in general,just keep on playing,this game has a huge learning curve you have to go through,well in some cases it's an actual learning cliff you are being thrown from,but that doesn't change the fact that you just need to keep on improving,especially when it's an rts and not a shooter that doesn't really have a different game mechanic,uveso ai might be also quite overwhelming for someone who is completely new to the game,i'd strongly recommend starting with campaign and when you're done with it,play the custom campaign(the missions made by speed and shadowlord) as they are quite harder then normal campaign.once you are done with those,play global->1v1->2v2

@goblinsly Just so you are aware. Any test maps you will find are usually trying to measure sim speed, not FPS. Almost nobody cares about FPS, because sim speed is the thing that causes the game to slow down, FPS is usually good enough.

New Update (v93) is out. You can download it from the vault or from here: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/350/