CPU Specs

[davidagibson3]

Hi all - I'm not as sure how minimum cpu specs affect things as opposed to gpu where I have some idea.

Basically I have a 7th gen intel chip, whereas this game says a (nominally lower spec) 8th gen is minimum requirement... is this unlikely to run on any 7th gen at all, or does it just depend chip to chip?

[Matt Beeching]

With the CPU players tend to run into compatibility issues when it doesn't support required instruction sets (e.g. AES, AVX). Your 7th-gen 'likely' supports these but check the specifications.

Aside from that there are performance considerations, an i7-7700K with Hyperthreading can divide its workload across 4 cores / 8 threads, whereas an i5-7600K is limited to four which is fewer than either of the parts in Deathloop's minimum requirements (6+).

The i5 is more likely to choke as it's thread limited and unable to efficiently deal with the workload. Technology has moved on and the Quad core's days are over.

[operator97]

Seventh-gen desktop chips 100% support AES and AVX. AVX was introduced on Ivy Bridge, followed by AVX2 on Haswell, while AES dates all the way back to the very first Intel "Core" lineup.

[Onikage]

I have an i7-3930k cpu from 2011 and I can play this game fine. I have a GTX 1080 GPU and it runs anywhere from 60-40 fps depending on where and what I am doing in the game at 1080p resolution.

[TMAC Blade]

Originally posted by davidagibson3:

Hi all - I'm not as sure how minimum cpu specs affect things as opposed to gpu where I have some idea.

Basically I have a 7th gen intel chip, whereas this game says a (nominally lower spec) 8th gen is minimum requirement... is this unlikely to run on any 7th gen at all, or does it just depend chip to chip?

the i5 is a 6 core processor and after doing some caparison, it slightly beats out some 7th gen chips and even keeps up with some of the higher end 7th gen i7 chips. It actually is neck and neck with the i7 7700k but keep in mind this is only numbers and this can vary from game to game. Personally I'm playing the game with the i5 8400 and it seems to work fine.

PS: despite this however it is a 6 core and as every tech junkie has said, 4 cores is on the way out and though there are stills some that can game, it's not ideal to be running those CPU's on the games coming out these days.

[Holo]

you can get away with quad cores as long as you have hyperthreading

[FeilDOW]

It really depends on what GPU you are running with said 7th gen CPU and what resolution and refresh rate you play at.

List your specs and we can give you a much better idea of what kinda perfomance you'd be looking at.