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Ah!
Now that might make sense!
If the results go to an updated companion app, then we have what we need for private racing.
I'm about due to buy a new laptop and ideally I'd like one that gives me the best resolution graphics in Zwift. Is that Ultra? I tend to buy from PC World / Currys. Anyone able to advise which models would give me Ultra? I am a Windows laptop sort of bloke.
https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/windo...328_xx_ba00010671-bv00308565/xx-criteria.html
https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/windo...328_xx_ba00010671-bv00308565/xx-criteria.html
If you want full 4K hd, select the feature down the right hand side under resolution. Ideally you're looking for a gaming PC, excellent graphics, Nvidia 2070 and i7 or i9 main processor. SSD hard drive-capacity, depends on what you want to store, lots of photos or video's etc
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
If you definitely want to buy one from PC World, then you're best off ticking the filter box for Gaming Laptops, rather than Windows Laptops. All the Gaming ones will be Windows ones as well, but they'll also have decent graphics cards which should all give you at least Ultra settings in Zwift, whereas the generic ones under the Windows filter category are more set up to just surf the internet and do some word processing - you'll be lucky to get Medium or High settings on these.
Of course, the more expensive laptops in the Gaming category would probably give you 4K UHD - this is the current top setting in Zwift, although you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between 4K UHD and Ultra unless you had a particularly large monitor/screen.
JuhaL
Guru
From horses mouth mean something like directly from somebody who knows something about it and it's probably true, something like that?.
bobinski
Legendary Member
- Location
- Tulse Hill
Doesn’t Zwiftaliser or whatever it’s called have an option to show what gives best graphics performance?
AMD have shaken up the gaming laptop market with their Ryzen chips- cheaper and better performance especially graphics and even more so with discrete graphics. Martin, what’s your budget?
AMD have shaken up the gaming laptop market with their Ryzen chips- cheaper and better performance especially graphics and even more so with discrete graphics. Martin, what’s your budget?
Brusgaard
Über Guru
- Location
- Skive, Denmark
Anything with discrete graphics would give you Ultra. Go for an Core i5 and 8/16 GB minimum. If you want to do fancier stuff like OBS, you can take full advantage of more cores and a “real” Core i7 (H+HQ) will be good.
GTX 1660 Ti is fine for resolutions up to 1440p, higher than that you have to go for 2070, and you quickly end up paying £1200+.
Any reason why it has to be a laptop?
bobinski
Legendary Member
- Location
- Tulse Hill
Overclockers are a decent online site. I have bought bits from them and made 3 gaming PC’s in recent years. Customer service if anything goes wrong is pretty good.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/gaming-laptops/finder/up-to-1000-pounds
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/gaming-laptops/finder/up-to-1000-pounds
So what's the plan for JB tomorrow? If we can gap the other real contenders before the climb, then we can isolate JB which opens up various possibilities.
One scenario, if JB and one of us are together after the climb with the other two a little ways behind, the rider with JB refuses to pull. JB's left with the choice of letting our rider rest while JB works, or JB can soft pedal and let our other riders catch up.
Alternately we let JB go on the climb (only if he's alone), then work together to reel him in over the back half of the course.
If we're in a group with just JB, then we gap him off the back over and over ;-) Essentially we let one rider get a big enough gap to break the draft and the other two soft pedal to get behind JB. Make JB work out of the draft to catch up, then as he gets back in the draft and lays off power, one of the two in his draft surge around and we repeat the process to soften him up (with the previous surging rider tucked into JB's draft to recover and a teammate also in JB's draft resting, ready to help or take their turn surging).
Of course if JB has teammates or other riders with him, then those ideas don't work nearly as well :-)
One scenario, if JB and one of us are together after the climb with the other two a little ways behind, the rider with JB refuses to pull. JB's left with the choice of letting our rider rest while JB works, or JB can soft pedal and let our other riders catch up.
Alternately we let JB go on the climb (only if he's alone), then work together to reel him in over the back half of the course.
If we're in a group with just JB, then we gap him off the back over and over ;-) Essentially we let one rider get a big enough gap to break the draft and the other two soft pedal to get behind JB. Make JB work out of the draft to catch up, then as he gets back in the draft and lays off power, one of the two in his draft surge around and we repeat the process to soften him up (with the previous surging rider tucked into JB's draft to recover and a teammate also in JB's draft resting, ready to help or take their turn surging).
Of course if JB has teammates or other riders with him, then those ideas don't work nearly as well :-)
Looks like there are a few ringers in C again tomorrow. An A+ rider signed up .... the guy who has been racing B and getting DQ'd the previous few weeks 
Also strangely 2 C riders with 20 min power of 4.1 and 3.8 respectively - not dodgy looking at all 
Let's see who tries to latch on to their wheels for a free ride. Could be a risky move that might pay off, or backfire very badly.
Also strangely 2 C riders with 20 min power of 4.1 and 3.8 respectively - not dodgy looking at all Let's see who tries to latch on to their wheels for a free ride. Could be a risky move that might pay off, or backfire very badly.
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mjd1988
Guru
Looks like there are a few ringers in C again tomorrow. An A+ rider signed up .... the guy who has been racing B and getting DQ'd the previous few weeks
Let's see who tries to latch on to their wheels for a free ride. Could be a risky move that might pay off, or backfire very badly.
Wow yeah I'm guessing that a+ ride may just have made a mistake, can't imagine what he has to gain? He is also probably too powerful for any of us to latch onto for long!
The guy with 3.8w/kg looks like he hasn't hit that in a while (still nearly b though)
It'll all be alright in the night, 4 of us signed up so far.
View: https://youtu.be/HzdIEZu0NCU
Interesting Gcn video on how effective drafting is on a climb. Definitely feels like it is very important on climbs in zwift.
