So as not to clutter up Louvert's Anticipaaaaaation thread I'm starting this one.

Weighing my options on a new computer system built with the DID campaign in mind and the hugely increased air activity in 1918. The lack of availability of current generation AMD and Intel stuff complicates things.

My question is: When in 1918 do events ramp up and start impacting WOFF performance?

Thanks,

From the activity side, Kaiserschlacht and Amiens. You will see less action outside of those, particularly with the as yet unnamed edition
Cheers
Shredward

Thanks Shredward. I've got a few months then to sort things out.

epower: FWIW, I did actually get my hands on a Ryzen5 5600x, as you and I had discussed a while back.

All I can say is "monster". It actually outruns every other CPU I've benchmarked to date - without even being overclocked - by a good margin, and that includes several 6/12-, 8/16-, and 10-core/20 thread monsters who previously dominated my measurements.

My advice? Buy one (unless, of course, you want the 5800x...or something faster still...holy mother of pearl...). Based on the UL benchmarks discussed elsewhere, it looks like Intel should be getting a little nervous...the 5600x outscores the 9th gen i7s (including my own 9700k @5.2GHz), as well as the 10th gen i5's. As a preliminary estimate, I'd say when overclocked it will compete soundly (if not outperform) the i7-10700k. But the AMD chips support PCIe 4.0, where Intel won't until (at best) 11th-gen Rocket Lake.

I was tired of waiting to get a 6000-series GPU, so I paired the 5600x with a 5700XT...and (again, without being overclocked) it compares nicely to a 1080Ti-10600k (oc @~5000) combo in Fire Strike .

Maybe that'll help

(Edit, in retrospect, I also believe you'd have to consider there are some reports of issues with this sim and newer AMD hardware, so full disclosure, anyone in the market should consider carefully what they decide upon as a function of what they want to do with it.)