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Post by bryanky5 on Feb 27, 2017 2:10:40 GMT
Ah, thanks for the responses you two. I was quite a bit worried, since I just built the PC. On GTA V, the only PC game I've actually bought [was recently a purely console gamer], I've noticed that my frames dropped to around 45-to-50ish with x4 MSAA and everything else maxed out. A friend of mine told me that this was my CPU bottlenecking my GPU. I'm assuming that Andromeda will be much more hefty, system-wise, than GTA V. Regardless, I have no plans on turning on MSAA on Andromeda, but I'm still a bit worried about the 'bottlenecking'. Not too experienced when it comes to computers. PermTrouble narcoticbiotic Like others have said, don't think it's a bottleneck. I have a Core i7 4790k, a GTX 970 and 16GB of RAM and got similar FPS. I did have a ton of mods installed though.
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Post by CHRrOME on Feb 27, 2017 2:20:22 GMT
Since you guys seem to enjoy sharing your PC specs, marvel at this. Your envy will be my sustenance. Phenom II X6, 4GB RAM, and the best of all, the crown jewel, Radeon HD 5670. Beat that if you can! Which you can't. Please do tell if you end up being able to play, at least at minimum settings, I'm actually curious and it'll great to know, for science
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Post by Pearl on Feb 27, 2017 2:36:58 GMT
I was really worried about my setup because while I have the recommended RX 480, my CPU is below the min spec (FX 6300) and I'm aware it's a rather unbalanced combination. But I got to try out Battlefield 1 yesterday and was shocked at how well it performs, in the single player campaign I got a steady 80-90FPS on 1080p with ALL settings on Ultra. I thought I'd have to settle for 30FPS on Medium-High for MEA, but I'm a lot more optimistic now. FX-6300 is AM3+, right? If it winds up not being enough for whatever reason, you can pick up something like an FX-8350 (which is the recommended CPU spec for AMD) for about $140 and drop it right in to your current motherboard. Maybe that price will drop in a few weeks, who knows.
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Post by narcoticbiotic on Feb 27, 2017 2:51:58 GMT
I was really worried about my setup because while I have the recommended RX 480, my CPU is below the min spec (FX 6300) and I'm aware it's a rather unbalanced combination. But I got to try out Battlefield 1 yesterday and was shocked at how well it performs, in the single player campaign I got a steady 80-90FPS on 1080p with ALL settings on Ultra. I thought I'd have to settle for 30FPS on Medium-High for MEA, but I'm a lot more optimistic now. FX-6300 is AM3+, right? If it winds up not being enough for whatever reason, you can pick up something like an FX-8350 (which is the recommended CPU spec for AMD) for about $140 and drop it right in to your current motherboard. Maybe that price will drop in a few weeks, who knows. Yup. I've actually considered doing that but I plan to switch to Ryzen later this year so getting another CPU for this socket would feel like a waste of money at this point But it's good to have the option still. If I had a better cooler and mainboard, I'd just overclock this thing.
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Post by Tanyara on Feb 27, 2017 4:35:56 GMT
I only have 2 GB VRAM per GPU though, and if I have understood things correctly then SLI does not combine the two VRAMs together to 4 GB. Then I will have a total of 2GB and I feel it might not be enough. Certainly not if SLI isn't supported You could be right After running out of vram your gpu will try to pull from the much slower system ram. With your upgrade to 16gb of ram, you may still be able to push high settings, but possibly need to scale back to avoid some chugg I would be interested in hearing how your current system handled this with battlefield 1 if you happened to play I don't play BF1, but one of my friends does and he has an identical setup. According to him he can run it just fine in high settings with about 60 fps.
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Post by archr on Feb 27, 2017 4:52:41 GMT
Hello i need help. I built my pc just to play ME Andromeda. Now that the minimum requirements are revealed i am flummoxed.
These are my pc specs Graphics Nvidia Geforce 4gb 1050ti
Ram 16gb ddr4
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Will i be able to play this game or not? I spent all my money into buying this rig. No way i can afford to spend another 800$ for an i5 3570.
With all the other specifications meeting the requirements i should be able to play the game right?
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Post by Pearl on Feb 27, 2017 5:50:34 GMT
Hello i need help. I built my pc just to play ME Andromeda. Now that the minimum requirements are revealed i am flummoxed. These are my pc specs Graphics Nvidia Geforce 4gb 1050ti Ram 16gb ddr4 Cpu Intel Core i3 6100 3.7 ghz Will i be able to play this game or not? I spent all my money into buying this rig. No way i can afford to spend another 800$ for an i5 3570. With all the other specifications meeting the requirements i should be able to play the game right? You should be able to play the game, although I don't know what kind of performance to expect. It all depends on how much the game relies on the CPU. Battlefield 1 runs okay on the 6100, for example, but it may not be a one-to-one comparison because it's made by different people. Also, since you mentioned it, the i5-3570 is a five-year-old part so running out to buy one today would be a bad idea. The equivalent part you would need to buy to upgrade would be the i5-6500, which runs around $190-$200.
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Post by archr on Feb 27, 2017 6:55:29 GMT
[quote author=" Pearl" [quote source="/post/330203/thread" [/quote][/quote]You should be able to play the game, although I don't know what kind of performance to expect. It all depends on how much the game relies on the CPU. Battlefield 1 runs okay on the 6100, for example, but it may not be a one-to-one comparison because it's made by different people. Also, since you mentioned it, the i5-3570 is a five-year-old part so running out to buy one today would be a bad idea. The equivalent part you would need to buy to upgrade would be the i5-6500, which runs around $190-$200.[/quote] Hi thanks for your response. I guess i will stick with my current rig and see how the game plays on my system.Hopefully it will play decently. P.s. My ram is 12 Gb ddr4 and not 16 gb
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 6:57:42 GMT
I'm actually thinking of buying a new card and skip the SLI since we don't know if MEA will have SLI support from day 1. Long-term I'm planning to build a new high performance PC from scratch for when Dragon Age 4 comes out in a couple of years or so, but for MEA I'm thinking of buying a Zotac GTX 1060 6GB which is available at a very good price right now. The "problem" then though could be a slight bottleneck with my CPU, but would still run fairly good I think 1060 should be good for gaming for quite a few years I should think; as I've said in previous comments the 1060 is supposed to be slightly superior to the 980 and at a much lower price, plus the new Pascal architecture. You said you had an AMD CPU, right? I don't really know a thing about AMD CPUs, so can't really tell you if it will in fact bottleneck, maybe it wont though. Someone with knowledge in AMD processors should be able to clarify that. GTX 1060 is between GTX 970 and GTX 980. It is the GTX 1070 that is comparable with GTX 980 Ti.
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Post by stira on Feb 27, 2017 8:37:23 GMT
Hi! Is there any chance play with Amd phenom II x4 procesor?? There was two games with no support for this old procesor. (No mans sky and Mafia 3 I gues). DA:I runs great with this procesor. If dai ran, you're probably fine. Depending on which variant of the cpu you have, you're not much below the minimum in single core speed. I am not an amd guy, so this is purely based on benchmarks. Ok, thx, but you dont understand me. Im not worried about power of cpu, Im worried about some new games DOES NOT work on Intel/AMD CPUs without SSE 4.1/4.2 support. I play new Call of Duty, Battlefield 1 and Titan Fall 2. Amd Phenom II x4 965 Radeon R9 270 2GB 12 GB Ram DDR3
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Post by mrfixit on Feb 27, 2017 10:08:44 GMT
Since you guys seem to enjoy sharing your PC specs, marvel at this. Your envy will be my sustenance. Phenom II X6, 4GB RAM, and the best of all, the crown jewel, Radeon HD 5670. Beat that if you can! Which you can't. Please do tell if you end up being able to play, at least at minimum settings, I'm actually curious and it'll great to know, for science I think there's no way my PC runs Andromeda. Anyway, I don't plan on getting the game while I have the current rig. Kinda pointless.
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Post by Dawnstorm88 on Feb 27, 2017 10:34:55 GMT
Since you guys seem to enjoy sharing your PC specs, marvel at this. Your envy will be my sustenance. Phenom II X6, 4GB RAM, and the best of all, the crown jewel, Radeon HD 5670. Beat that if you can! Which you can't. How about my specs? Athlon X4 750k and Radeon HD 6670 We can cry together in the corner while the others play
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Post by The Twilight God on Feb 27, 2017 10:59:01 GMT
It can run on a PS4 so any PC that isn't like 10 years old should be fine.
My old PC from the single digit 2000's is about on par with a PS4.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 11:27:01 GMT
Ha. My I3 might struggle (but shouldn't really with it's hyperthreading) with this, but my GTX950 won't I'll buy it on PS4 first see how that goes.
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Post by Darks1te on Feb 27, 2017 11:55:29 GMT
Since you guys seem to enjoy sharing your PC specs, marvel at this. Your envy will be my sustenance. Phenom II X6, 4GB RAM, and the best of all, the crown jewel, Radeon HD 5670. Beat that if you can! Which you can't. How about my specs? Athlon X4 750k and Radeon HD 6670 We can cry together in the corner while the others play 2 months ago i was sitting at i3-530 and HD 5570 (though 8gb of good kingston ddr3 1300mhz ram and 5570 was a placeholder after my 5 years old hd 6870 died in september). But now i'm all fine and dandy with i7-7700k, gtx 1070 and 16gb ddr4 2400mhz ram
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Post by vanillah on Feb 27, 2017 13:10:21 GMT
Ha. My I3 might struggle (but shouldn't really with it's hyperthreading) with this, but my GTX950 won't I'll buy it on PS4 first see how that goes. Hyperthreading not really used in games. Yeah, in a few years when DX12 in full swing things might change but right now performance in games dictated by a per-core performance, having 4 strong cores for today AAA games on high settings is pretty much a must. GTX 950 is pretty much a GTX 660 and both cards are in a ballpark of ps4's GPU, but PS4's GPU have unified 8gb of GDDR5 memory so it performs somewhat better. I suspect you will have more stable 30 FPS on PS4, but then again it's all about optimization, BF1 runs good on GTX 950 with a somewhat modern i3 ( about 45 fps on high).
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Post by BadgerladDK on Feb 27, 2017 13:36:50 GMT
If dai ran, you're probably fine. Depending on which variant of the cpu you have, you're not much below the minimum in single core speed. I am not an amd guy, so this is purely based on benchmarks. Ok, thx, but you dont understand me. Im not worried about power of cpu, Im worried about some new games DOES NOT work on Intel/AMD CPUs without SSE 4.1/4.2 support. I play new Call of Duty, Battlefield 1 and Titan Fall 2. Amd Phenom II x4 965 Radeon R9 270 2GB 12 GB Ram DDR3 I understand you perfectly well. If DAI ran, this probably will as well, since both are Frostbite games, same as BF1. But you're below spec, so nobody can say for sure, and EA would probably not do much to help if it turns out not to run, other than refund the game.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 14:19:30 GMT
Ha. My I3 might struggle (but shouldn't really with it's hyperthreading) with this, but my GTX950 won't I'll buy it on PS4 first see how that goes. Hyperthreading not really used in games. Yeah, in a few years when DX12 in full swing things might change but right now performance in games dictated by a per-core performance, having 4 strong cores for today AAA games on high settings is pretty much a must. GTX 950 is pretty much a GTX 660 and both cards are in a ballpark of ps4's GPU, but PS4's GPU have unified 8gb of GDDR5 memory so it performs somewhat better. I suspect you will have more stable 30 FPS on PS4, but then again it's all about optimization, BF1 runs good on GTX 950 with a somewhat modern i3 ( about 45 fps on high). Yeah... You can tell I'm not really using my PC for gaming at the moment. Might upgrade at some point, the new AMD processor looks tasty.
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Post by vanillah on Feb 27, 2017 14:51:36 GMT
Hyperthreading not really used in games. Yeah, in a few years when DX12 in full swing things might change but right now performance in games dictated by a per-core performance, having 4 strong cores for today AAA games on high settings is pretty much a must. GTX 950 is pretty much a GTX 660 and both cards are in a ballpark of ps4's GPU, but PS4's GPU have unified 8gb of GDDR5 memory so it performs somewhat better. I suspect you will have more stable 30 FPS on PS4, but then again it's all about optimization, BF1 runs good on GTX 950 with a somewhat modern i3 ( about 45 fps on high). Yeah... You can tell I'm not really using my PC for gaming at the moment. Might upgrade at some point, the new AMD processor looks tasty. Yep, Ryzen looks good but they only announced i7 equivalents for now (R7). I would wait and see how they gonna undercut Intel's middle of the pack (i5's) with R5. Ryzen 5 may turn out to be one of the best performance per dollar values out there.
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Post by kingjuly on Feb 27, 2017 15:08:26 GMT
The only thing I was worried about was the RAM. I only have 8gb atm. Hopefully I can get away with that.
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Post by PermTrouble on Feb 27, 2017 15:11:22 GMT
You could be right After running out of vram your gpu will try to pull from the much slower system ram. With your upgrade to 16gb of ram, you may still be able to push high settings, but possibly need to scale back to avoid some chugg I would be interested in hearing how your current system handled this with battlefield 1 if you happened to play I don't play BF1, but one of my friends does and he has an identical setup. According to him he can run it just fine in high settings with about 60 fps. I would definitely give it a go before dropping hundreds on a new gpu then. Though I'd still suggest upgrading your system ram if you're able. Computers are eating vast ram these days. I checked my task manager the other day and I was sucking down 4gb just with random background processes and a couple browser tabs open. That's nuts
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Post by Korra Ryder on Feb 27, 2017 15:36:09 GMT
these days, the Computers are becoming more advanced, so it does take up more with other programs added too.
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Post by unofficialgreycolor on Feb 27, 2017 15:45:12 GMT
The only thing I was worried about was the RAM. I only have 8gb atm. Hopefully I can get away with that. If you are playing @1080p I don't think RAM is going to be a problem as long as stuff in the background doesn't take up more than like 3-3.5 GB of RAM.
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Post by Tanyara on Feb 27, 2017 15:57:33 GMT
I don't play BF1, but one of my friends does and he has an identical setup. According to him he can run it just fine in high settings with about 60 fps. I would definitely give it a go before dropping hundreds on a new gpu then. Though I'd still suggest upgrading your system ram if you're able. Computers are eating vast ram these days. I checked my task manager the other day and I was sucking down 4gb just with random background processes and a couple browser tabs open. That's nuts Yeah, I'm trying to make up my mind whether to buy it or not:) DAI was actually slighly chuggy with high settings (and a few ultra), but that game could seriously vary from day to day how it ran O.o I upgraded my RAM today, so I'm all good
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Post by PermTrouble on Feb 27, 2017 16:14:07 GMT
I would definitely give it a go before dropping hundreds on a new gpu then. Though I'd still suggest upgrading your system ram if you're able. Computers are eating vast ram these days. I checked my task manager the other day and I was sucking down 4gb just with random background processes and a couple browser tabs open. That's nuts Yeah, I'm trying to make up my mind whether to buy it or not:) DAI was actually slighly chuggy with high settings (and a few ultra), but that game could seriously vary from day to day how it ran O.o I upgraded my RAM today, so I'm all good If you keep your 660's, and don't mind, try posting back how it was running for you after release. It's not like the SLI 660's don't have the horsepower, I'm interested if the vram holds them back at all.
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