Best PC for game?

[rincewindtga]

Hi,

what is the best PC configuration (Intel/AMD 1080/2080ti to play TPF2 with best fps or without to many stuttering?

[rose4100]

I run an AMD FX 8350 8-core (4.00GHz) chip, GTX 1070 and 16gigs of ram and i have almost zero fps loss on medium sized maps. Late game it slows down a bit while i'm panning the camera across the map but not badly and it levels out when the camera stops. Large maps run ok too. I haven't tried Experimental yet.

The number one thing is single-core processor speed. Anything lower than 4.0Ghz is a waste of time for this game.

[rawfox]

I got a Ryzen 2700x with 32gb ddr4 and a 1060/6 and the game works really bad, performance wise.
Its still young and feels a bit too early released, but for now im waiting for a performance patch.

[TheLostPenguin]

As rose4100 said the main thing is CPU speed, which at this point notionally still would mean a pricey i9 build if you really wanted to get absolutely as much as possible before the game slows down. Realistically any high end intel/AMD CPU that can run somewhere in the mid-high 4GHz range will do, even if you spend all the money on getting every last Hz from an i9 this game will still grind it into submission at some point, and it's nearly always severely diminishing returns going for the very top tier parts.
Everything else in a system, I wouldn't recommend building with much less than 16GB RAM now, if you have more it'll help a bit especially with large mod counts but not essential. GPU wise I have a 1080ti that doesn't get terribly troubled by TpF2, if you have 4k you probably already have a better GPU anyway, but I wouldn't be surprised if a 1080ti could handle that as well, it's not the most taxing game for the GPU.

[T3kx]

It is so relative to how you build...

Medium map with 54 cities will lag
Experimental map with 16 might but not so much (after the first pan and scan of the map).
Small with 8 huge cities might

Then traffic jam, how many vehicules (1 train = 32 truck sometimes)
Then what is your computer running in the background (1080 video playback on 2nd screen)...

Playing on a laptop i5 / 16 gb ddr4 / ssd / mx150 gpu

[KingyBear]

Whats your budget. The i9 9900k would probably be the "best" but you could also get a Ryzen and use the money you save to get better ram/gpu. Depending on what you have now you could also wait to see what Intel or AMD release this year.

[Gregorovitch]

Most games are bottlenecked by GPU but this game (same as many strategy games) is bottlenecked by CPU. For this reason if you play almost exclusively strategy games when looking at recommendations you should consider upping the CPU spec and compensating by reducing GPU spec. Also note that if you do up the CPU spec you will need to include to up CPU cooling system to match.

At the moment PC Gamer are recommending Ryzen CPU and AMD GPUs for mid-range builds but Intel and NVIDIA form high- and top-end builds. You can see the stuff they recommend for each build level here. This is not necessarily the best stuff in each price bracket, you will probably be able to do better at any given moment if you know exactly what you are doing, but it's a pretty good guide.

Mid-range 1080p build (~$1000)
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/gaming-pc-build-guide/

High-end 1440p build (~$2000)
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/pc-build-guide-high-end-gaming-pc/

Top-end 4k build ($3000+)
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/build-guide-the-extreme-gaming-pc/

Add 30-50% if you buy the same specs from a shop rather than build it yourself.

To give an idea of how this works for Transport Fever 2 I have a i7-8700k and a 1080ti, which is about equivaleent their high-end 1440p build, and cost about the same overall, and I get about 60-80 FPS @1440p with very little in the way of stuttering/lagging in late game.

[CunkFeatures]

Originally posted by rincewindtga:

(Intel/AMD

Won't be a difference, not these days. Unless you need 16/24 threads in your life (VMs/developer/creator) just go for a newer high clock speed CPU (gamer).
The game (late game) only stutters if the CPU cant keep up with the sim each clock. And eventually, no matter what system, you will find stutter. Depends how much straw you load onto the camel's back. Higher the clock speed and more transistors, the stronger the back.

Originally posted by rincewindtga:

1080/2080ti

Same again, unless you also play games like Red Dead and are waiting with bated breath for Cyber Punk. You could just get away with a low/mid range card in this game.

Originally posted by rose4100:

The number one thing is single-core processor speed. Anything lower than 4.0Ghz is a waste of time for this game.

No, the number 1 thing is IPC (instructions per clock).
AMD Bulldozer 8350 has 23.1 IPC or 2.9 per core @ 4.2GHz. AMD Ryzen 1800X has 84.6 IPC or 10.6 per core @ 3.2GHz
The higher the IPC the more calculations per clock.

[Leif1024]

This game is a VRAM hog, lol. I got a 3900X and it's just chillin, frequency is king in this game still. An OC'd 9600k would give you the best bang for the buck in this game, I had mine @5.2ghz, same for the 9700k and 9900k of course if you got deep pockets.
If you do other stuff then playing this game, go for Ryzen.
I got a 2080ti on water ( EKWB ) and this game uses ALL of the 11gb Vram !! My system RAM usage is around 22Gb of 32Gb 3733Mhz CL14 OC'd RAM. Means this game loves a lot of RAM and VRAM, so a 1080ti/2080ti, Readon VII or any of the professional cards like the quadros and W series should work best. 32gb system RAM needed for best performance.

[CunkFeatures]

Originally posted by Leif1024:

Means this game loves a lot of RAM and VRAM, so a 1080ti/2080ti,

Thats most odd. My game uses around 8GB of RAM with a half filled highly loaded experimental map. And only 4.5GB of VRAM with everything on max?

I'm on Linux, maybe a Windows issue?

[jhughes]

Originally posted by tomtalk24:

Originally posted by Leif1024:

Means this game loves a lot of RAM and VRAM, so a 1080ti/2080ti,

Thats most odd. My game uses around 8GB of RAM with a half filled highly loaded experimental map. And only 4.5GB of VRAM with everything on max?

I'm on Linux, maybe a Windows issue?

It will use more ram if more is a available.

[CunkFeatures]

Originally posted by jhughes:

Originally posted by tomtalk24:

Thats most odd. My game uses around 8GB of RAM with a half filled highly loaded experimental map. And only 4.5GB of VRAM with everything on max?

I'm on Linux, maybe a Windows issue?

It will use more ram if more is a available.

On Windows? I guess if it helps.

My end I'm stuck with free RAM, not even caching, performance is grand. Yet this is only glancing at htop now and again just to see whats what. Its been like this for me since the test build, before then it was hungry!