Game really this much CPU demanding?

[EaglePrince]

Hi guys! I've been looking at the gameplay videos of Age of Empires 4, as well as at the minimum and recommended system requirements.

Somehow it doesn't make sense to me that this game is so much CPU demanding. It turns out that my Ryzen 3 1200 is too weak for the game... What do you think? Are these minimum and recommended system requirements exaggerated, or the game indeed needs that much CPU power?

[Nachocheese]

the game runs pretty much only on 1 cpu core for some reason.

[Seoul]

i have an intel xeon e3 1231v3(2014) and no problems...most of the time under 50% cpu load

[G0ll0]

Game uses coh1 engine which focuses on 1 Core... So basically you need to OC or change the CPU, game also consumes a lot of VRAM, this is one of the worse optimized games recently

[Machiavelli]

Game is unoptimised. im getting better frames in aoe3 and that is so similar in terms of artstyle.

[Beefers]

Game runs fantastic, they knocked the optimization out of the park. It does not take advantage of cutting edge hardware that well but in terms of older and mid tier systems they nailed it.

This game runs better on my 2013 potato then both SC2 and AoE3DE currently do by a very wide margin.

[EaglePrince]

So in short, there is some hope for me as well.😁 I will think about it, maybe I could try to buy it, and if it doesn't run, ask for refund...

Originally posted by Fellington, Mount & Blade Knight:

(...) aoe3 and that is so similar in terms of artstyle.

Yes, this is exactly why it is so weird to me that they put pretty powerful CPUs into recommended system requirements.

Originally posted by cT_Gray:

Game uses coh1 engine which focuses on 1 Core...

I was hoping AoE 4 wouldn't turn out to be like that... Somehow, I could understand that a small studio like Firefly makes a game like that (such as Stronghold Crusader 2), but Age of Empires 4 belongs to Microsoft (if I'm not wrong), and the studio should have been able to make it better.

[Nachocheese]

Originally posted by EaglePrince:

So in short, there is some hope for me as well.😁 I will think about it, maybe I could try to buy it, and if it doesn't run, ask for refund...

Originally posted by Fellington, Mount & Blade Knight:

(...) aoe3 and that is so similar in terms of artstyle.

Yes, this is exactly why it is so weird to me that they put pretty powerful CPUs into recommended system requirements.

Originally posted by cT_Gray:

Game uses coh1 engine which focuses on 1 Core...

I was hoping AoE 4 wouldn't turn out to be like that... Somehow, I could understand that a small studio like Firefly makes a game like that (such as Stronghold Crusader 2), but Age of Empires 4 belongs to Microsoft (if I'm not wrong), and the studio should have been able to make it better.

actually the game runs on the reworked essence engine which was made after dow3.
In the coh3 test it used mutliple cores fine, so iam not sure what the AoE4 team did.

[DiasFox]

Lol StormBreaker everywhere trolling

Between, maybe try set some settings lower. Most of my settings are medium.

[Sody Pop]

I'm going to check my settings later, but I have an RTX 2080 and the videos skip a lot in campaign, and there is stuttering during battles when I'm trying to move around on the map at the same time.

[fluppi]

Originally posted by Nachocheese:

Originally posted by EaglePrince:

So in short, there is some hope for me as well.😁 I will think about it, maybe I could try to buy it, and if it doesn't run, ask for refund...


Yes, this is exactly why it is so weird to me that they put pretty powerful CPUs into recommended system requirements.


I was hoping AoE 4 wouldn't turn out to be like that... Somehow, I could understand that a small studio like Firefly makes a game like that (such as Stronghold Crusader 2), but Age of Empires 4 belongs to Microsoft (if I'm not wrong), and the studio should have been able to make it better.

actually the game runs on the reworked essence engine which was made after dow3.
In the coh3 test it used mutliple cores fine, so iam not sure what the AoE4 team did.

well, this gives hope for some optimisation patches, because other games that cant handle multithreading because of age old engines instead just use crutches, like for example stellaris.

[G0ll0]

Originally posted by Beefers:

Game runs fantastic, they knocked the optimization out of the park. It does not take advantage of cutting edge hardware that well but in terms of older and mid tier systems they nailed it.

This game runs better on my 2013 potato then both SC2 and AoE3DE currently do by a very wide margin.

lol, the game runs very well in everything in low? jaja stop posting lies

[Beefers]

Originally posted by cT_Gray:

Originally posted by Beefers:

Game runs fantastic, they knocked the optimization out of the park. It does not take advantage of cutting edge hardware that well but in terms of older and mid tier systems they nailed it.

This game runs better on my 2013 potato then both SC2 and AoE3DE currently do by a very wide margin.

lol, the game runs very well in everything in low? jaja stop posting lies

Not lies in the slightest, the game is optimized really well for a wide range of hardware, it however is not as well optimized for high end hardware. Not lies, truth, software engineering. I can load up all 3 titles today, and did during the stress test and after launch to compare. They very clearly went out of their way to make the game run well on low spec machines, now whether they could have done more to make it run better on high end machines is a another question.

[G0ll0]

Game is not well optimzied for medium, high and ultra.. if you play a water map in medium you will notice a huge fps drop at mid game, they need to work a lot on optmization, IMO this game cannot be played on low, it looks horrible.

[bearfieldlee]

GTX 1070 and i7 4770k here. No problems whatsoever with this rig.

[GameOverRIP]

GTX 1070, Ryzen 5600x and the game barely hits 25% useage. However all videos/cutscenes stutter