Brother Ben

Newgens are more of a challenge to manage as they can have negative personalities unlike real ones

The best database for this is FMfusion. You'll need to sign up to their forum to download it but they have been making it for years and its top quality https://www.fmfusion.it/showthread.php?tid=1787

You said it was too easy. Myself and Daniel have offered ways to make it more challenging

72 Systems tested Second Post fully updated and split into Laptop/Desktop to view scores at a glance. Full results with more in depth computer specs can be viewed on the spreadsheet Yet again a big thanks again to all who have tested so far

You don't need to set up anything. You just download these 4 save games to the games folder and hit "go on holiday" for a week for each one Benchmark 1 - Download - 12/09/2023 - 19/09/2023 Benchmark 2 - Download - 12/09/2023 - 19/09/2023 Benchmark 3 - Download - 12/09/2023 - 19/09/2023 Benchmark 4 - Download - 12/09/2023 - 19/09/2023

This is how i'm feeling about FM23. No issue with the game itself but if you are the kind of person that plays decades into a save it can be really hard to "start again" from scratch

To be honest its not my kind of thing but in terms of difficulty the Youth Academy Challenge looks near impossible to complete

The thousands of pounds I’ve spent on systems over the years just to play FM. Actually scratch that. I regret nothing!

I've gone back to FM22 but not for any of the reasons others have stated I just missed my FM22 save. I was 20 odd years in and I feel like I still have unfinished business. I'll admit though if FM23 had added more features that i'd miss then it would have been a harder decision.

Is this really a thing? I've just looked back at the history of my save and my record away from home is comparable to my home record. Genuinely curious if people think this is a thing. This is last season for me Season before that Most of my seasons look like that too one way or another barring a few outliers

Depends on your system. I can play with very high graphics but it stutters unless I cap it at 30 fps. Its a balance of smoothness v quality so you can play around with the settings to see what suits

Amazing, bet you'll have a blast building all that. Just became the benchmark thread MVP ! edit - I'm interested to know which of the two do you think will perform better in these tests?

It'll be really interesting. I think the AMD would edge it slightly for me purely on upgrade path for AM5. Its great to see both companies so competitive, it can only be a good thing

Possibly but to be honest i'd like to see a larger sample size of both of these processors because by every metric and every benchmark i've seen everywhere else the i9's single core performance is superior which is a major factor in these tests. Jurraso's 7950X shouldn't have beaten it in test 1 & 2 but it did, maybe because he had his system set up really well and fine tuned maybe I don't know. I would love to see a few more of these processors on our chart to see the outcome. I'm happy to be proved wrong. If i'm wrong then it means that FM is moving away from being a brute force single core game for the average user (test 1 & 2)

No but your nose gets longer like Pinocchio

Good to see this thread back. Was just about to start my long term post winter update save. Loaded up my FM22 save as i wanted to download my tactic from it to use as a base for FM23 but I ended up looking through my squad and in a burst of nostalgia I think i'm going to go back to that.

Before all that though, i'm sure 16 cores is fantastic and all but this is where the action really is. Type: Laptop Model: HP - 2186 - 15" CPU Model: Intel i3-3217U (Q2'12 - 3mb cache) CPU Base Frequency: 1.8 GHz CPU Turbo Frequency: N/A RAM: 4GB RAM Clockspeed: 1333Mhz GPU: On board intel HD 4000 Graphics Level in 3D: Very Low Benchmark 1: 05 min 29 Sec Benchmark 2: 31 min 23 Sec This is my mothers old laptop that I put an SSD in to get better performance and I have to say i'd forgotten how much difference it can make. HDD to SSD has to be the single biggest consumer affordable performance leap in the history of computing. Its gone from practically unusable to perfectly serviceable for her needs. Luckily for her she isn't a fan of FM as the times are awful however It does create a good contrast for the spreadsheet to show how far we've come.

Try doing the benchmarks. There are other M1's on there so you can compare your timings to them.

Like the sound of them. Nice big old school stadium too, 18000 capacity.

You never know we could be surprised. From an FM standpoint I can't see it being quicker in Test 1 & 2 than the i9. I will say though it looks like an absolute beast of a cpu. Its going to be right up there on the chart thats for sure. Look forward to your results.

Yeah sadly my guess is that the lower frequency will slow it down but it looks like an amazing chip

You'll find time, I always think I don't have any and then i'm glancing up at the clock at 4am realising i've got work in a few hours

Steam Deck would be great thanks Darj

Most definitely. Suited and booted too

I know a wise old grey Llama you could ask