Running ER with old CPU (i5-4570)

[wened]

Hi. For months i was convinced that my rig is ok to run Elden Ring. But recently they changed min specs and my CPU is the only part that is (slightly) below requirements. I was wondering if anyone here will run it on I5-4570, and if its going to be playable. I would like to avoid upgrading for now (will need new motherboard too :( ).

[DeuceBane]

thats a 4 core 4 thread, right? if so i think you're SOL unfortunately. i have a 6600k and and while im hoping im wrong, dont think i can run it at all.

just looked and yeah, you have 1 thread per core. Like me i think youre in trouble

[PIF GADGET]

same here, i have an i7 4790 who makes the job for everything else until now.

[DeuceBane]

Originally posted by PIF GADGET:

same here, i have an i7 4790 who makes the job for everything else until now.

yeah. really sucks. Other games released in february I get 60 fps 1080, a fromsoft game knocks the CPU out entirely, we're not even settling for bad performance we are just out entirely lol. very much sucks

[Mr.Peanut Supreme]

I know these comments are a year old but you guys are afraid of nothing, You are overhyping the cpu requirements of this game. I don't want people finding this, reading this and believing they can't play the game. If you have those cpus and it crashes, it's because of your GPU not the CPU, I just got done running the game on 4 core 4 thread cpu that was released in late 2007... a cpu old as dirt... ancient... It ran 40+ fps paired with the weak 3gb version of the GTX 1060 and a miniscule 8gb of 1333mhz ddr3 ram. With the right GPU a 4th gen i7 should be just dandy. More than enough. I think I have effectively proven THAT without a doubt, and if you still won't believe, then I don't know what to tell you.

[Wild]

i'm playing it on a i7 4770 with a gtx1070. Totally playable at 60fps/1080p with everything on High. No idea about actual the FPS tbh, but never had FPS drops or fight/region that would be annoying to play because of performances.
I was a bit unsure about my rig myself. I just got a pirated version played for a bit then i saw it was running fine i bought the game.

[Dont be Silly Wrap your Willy]

Depends a lot on rest of your specs.

ER is not particularly heavy on CPU. But it sure does like RAM and GPU mhz. Not a lot of VRAM usage though.

[Melendil]

Am I the only one having very poor performances?
I played this game last year on release with constant 55-60fps with some settings to medium/high and not a single fps drop.
Now I have 25 to 30fps drops in some areas with all the settings set to low and of course rtx disabled.
I know my rig is getting old (1060 3GB) but did some update ruined the games performances?
I tried anything from disabling anti cheat and playing offline, lowering my resolution to the ground but I cannot get the FPS I used to have last year...
It's not an overheating problem nor Integrated graphic (since I dont have one)

[Dont be Silly Wrap your Willy]

Originally posted by Melendil:

Am I the only one having very poor performances?
I played this game last year on release with constant 55-60fps with some settings to medium/high and not a single fps drop.
Now I have 25 to 30fps drops in some areas with all the settings set to low and of course rtx disabled.
I know my rig is getting old (1060 3GB) but did some update ruined the games performances?
I tried anything from disabling anti cheat and playing offline, lowering my resolution to the ground but I cannot get the FPS I used to have last year...
It's not an overheating problem nor Integrated graphic (since I dont have one)

Personally i didint notice any changes in performance since release, but it seems that after the last patch some people started experiencing reduced performance.

I think they have updated minimum requirements sometime ago, so that might be the case for weaker machines.

Why did they do it ? No idea.

[Occam's Chainsaw]

The system requirements are inaccurate. My little brother runs the game just fine on a rig with a 1060 6GB and a measly i3-8100.

[NotForMe]

I run on a 4790k, and 980 ti, with minimal issues.

my 4790k is no longer overclocked, for stability, so it's running at 4ghz.

[nfinite.recursion]

Minimum requirements have been BS for a very long time. In the 80s and early 90s minimum requirements were just that: the absolute bare minimum you needed to run a program or game.

At some point minimum requirements became a "minimum requirements for an enjoyable experience" without expanding upon what your experience will actually be with said minimum requirements. Do you have to play at low resolution? Do you get 60fps? Who knows? This was (and still is) a reason why PC gaming was hard to get into. You could build a PC with games you'd like to play in mind only to discover that some of them run like absolute garbage.

Some game devs list their game's requirements alongside the expected performance for the listed hardware which is a big step up from just listing minimum and recommended specs without informing you what kind of performance to expect.

[BVBYMETVL]

I've been trying to update my system and had a Ryzen 5 1400 CPU with a GTX 1060 6gb GPU. Elden Ring ran like trash. Updated GPU to RX 6650 XT... Elden Ring still ran like trash despite that GPU being twice as good. Then decided to update the CPU to a Ryzen 5 5600... Now Elden Ring is buttery smooth. I think CPU is pretty important in this game compared to some others