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Join Date: Dec 2013
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It runs better on here than it does on my ASUS gaming laptop, actually. The solid state memory on the Surface easily outperforms the mechanical disk on my laptop. I think RW is more bound by disk speeds than processor and memory given it's design. I can't recommend the Surface highly enough for RW, or just general use.
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Join Date: Feb 2009
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I run RW on an i5 Surface Pro 3 and have had zero issues. I am a huge fan of the Surface. In use it primarily for tabletop RPG stuff: HeroLab, RW, Fractal Mapped, Roll20, MS Office.
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Join Date: Nov 2014
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It's also perfectly easy to save a backup database as a file, then use any means you like to get the file to a second computer, where you restore the database. It's a little more complex than syncing, but sometimes this forum forgets that not everyone paid for cloud service
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Posts: 2,294
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Pretty easy to do considering the clock has been stopped on cloud payment for years
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Birmingham, UK
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Quote:
Sleet was enjoying a tasty beverage at his local tavern, when a Tarrasque showed up in the local area. He managed to valiantly get on it's back and ride it. How he did it is a mystery to this day... RW: Engine Heart, I Love The Corps! Home Brew: Star Gate: Avalon, Monda Minutia. I'm good with: OpenOffice, Paint, Lego Digital Designer. & not so good with: Realm Works, Hero Lab, CC3+, GIMP, Cityographer, Hexographer, Fractal Mapper, AstroSynth, Inspiration Pad Pro. RW Kickstarter Supporter. Last edited by Zaphod Beebledoc; February 18th, 2017 at 01:35 PM. |
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Alabama
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Investing in a Kickstarter is not the same as paying for a product or service.
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Ottawa, Canada
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I run RW on the following systems:
Main desktop: i5 Skylake / 16GB Ram / SATA SSD Gamer Lappy i7 Ivy Bridge / 16GB Ram / SATA SSD Surface Pro 3 i5 version / 4GB Ram / NVMe SSD Surface Pro 4 (work) i5 version / 8GB Ram / NVMe SSD It runs fantastic on all systems. Having at least an SATA SSD as stated by people does majorly impact performance. The difference in Ram for me has not seemed to make a difference. Oddly enough it runs slower on my work SP4, however that's more indicative of the crap running on then its own performance. However the SP4 is slower than the SP3 CPU wise, just runs at half the power, giving stellar battery life for such a powerful system. RW will run on an aging system, but do yourself a favor and add an SSD. The single biggest performance upgrade there is for your PC is an SSD. Even on an older SATA3 based system, adding a value line SSD offers unreal gains. Do not worry about paying for NVMe (if your Mobo has the connector), though faster, reality is the difference between a convention drive vs SATA SSD is the biggest gain and better to put more money into size than the less gains with NVMe. Also you can buy a budget CPU, faster and less cores over slower more cores, but again stock a SSD in there. Exmortis aka "Scott" RW - Needs Rez spell HL - Game Master/Designer RPG Tools - Campaign Cartographer 3+, D20 Pro Ultimate Real Life - IT Security Hobby - Anything on water or ATV |
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Adelaide, Australia
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I can absolutely vouch that the ssd will improve your a Realm Works experience. Its like a whole new pc.
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Chicago, IL
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This. I reported a while back that I was having rather significant performance issues on my laptop. When I got a new laptop with an SSD I've had excellent performance. I liked it so much I went out and got an SSD for my home desktop and went through all the hassle of installing Windows on the new drive just to get the performance boost.
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