Can I run the game with this CPU? Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz

[🐇 DriadiTa 🐇]

Hello! I love Age of Wonders , but my computer is a bit old...

My CPU is an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz.

Can I run it with minimal settings? or it will crash even with the minimal setup???

Thanks!!!

Edit: Graphic Card is a GeForce GTX 960

[DaddyDevil]

Dont worry u wont believe on what i will try to run on so chill u will get somewhere?;)

Tell us about gpu also?

[DaddyDevil]

I will say it again dont worry u will get somwhere... :)

[🐇 DriadiTa 🐇]

Messaggio originale di DaddyDevil:

I will say it again dont worry u will get somwhere... :)

Hehe thanks, I hope I can play without a 10min loading screen or something like that :P

[sandman25dcsss]

Messaggio originale di 🐇 DriadiTa 🐇:

Messaggio originale di DaddyDevil:

I will say it again dont worry u will get somwhere... :)

Hehe thanks, I hope I can play without a 10min loading screen or something like that :P

It depends mostly on hard drive and RAM, not CPU. I am going to put the game on SSD to speed it up. Your GPU is good enough, slightly above minimum requirement.

[Blanch Warren]

If you have a graphics card you're probably alright. It doesn't have a high top frequency but it's not a bad base frequency, and it's not the most demanding game. Not bad for 2014.

[🐇 DriadiTa 🐇]

Thanks everyone for your replies!!! I'm going to build a new computer arround 2024 but I'm a big fan of Age of Wonders and Strategy-Turn based games!!! It's been a lot since AoW 3 !!!

Thanks!!!

Messaggio originale di Blanch Warren:

If you have a graphics card you're probably alright. It doesn't have a high top frequency but it's not a bad base frequency, and it's not the most demanding game. Not bad for 2014.

I love your avatar lol

[Parane]

Messaggio originale di 🐇 DriadiTa 🐇:

Hello! I love Age of Wonders , but my computer is a bit old...

Whenever you are wondering if your machine can run a particular game, you can always visit https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri and check for yourself. It'll give you an informative breakdown of how your hardware will perform.

[Illusioneer]

Messaggio originale di sandman25dcsss:

Messaggio originale di 🐇 DriadiTa 🐇:

Hehe thanks, I hope I can play without a 10min loading screen or something like that :P

It depends mostly on hard drive and RAM, not CPU. I am going to put the game on SSD to speed it up.

Huh? That's not how it goes.

Whether you've got the game on an SSD or HDD will realistically only affect load times when launching the game and loading a save. The bottleneck here being how fast information can be read and transferred to your RAM and VRAM.

How much RAM you got isn't that important so long as you have enough (And even if you don't have enough, you can pull from your HDD/SSD if really needed although this process is far too slow to be used in games). What's more important is how fast information gets moved to and from your RAM, and that information is usually bottlenecked by your CPU which needs to calculate and sort said information.

Messaggio originale di 🐇 DriadiTa 🐇:

Hello! I love Age of Wonders , but my computer is a bit old...

My CPU is an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz.

Can I run it with minimal settings? or it will crash even with the minimal setup???

Thanks!!!

Edit: Graphic Card is a GeForce GTX 960

From checking comparative benchmarks, I'd say you'll probably be able to run it, but may have some FPS trouble that can't be fixed by just lowing the graphics. It could be that there's a lot of CPU heavy settings that you can disable but that depends on what the dev's have implemented in the options menu.

[darkbird1000]

planetfall ran well on my old i5 but I use shadow and never have to worry about hardware again ;) we will see Thursday if GFN will have it ;)

[🐇 DriadiTa 🐇]

Messaggio originale di Parane:

Messaggio originale di 🐇 DriadiTa 🐇:

Hello! I love Age of Wonders , but my computer is a bit old...

Whenever you are wondering if your machine can run a particular game, you can always visit https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri and check for yourself. It'll give you an informative breakdown of how your hardware will perform.

Thanks! I use that, but my friends told me not to trust 100% , that's why I ask here at the forums! But I always check that website first!!!

[🐇 DriadiTa 🐇]

Messaggio originale di Illusioneer:

Messaggio originale di sandman25dcsss:

It depends mostly on hard drive and RAM, not CPU. I am going to put the game on SSD to speed it up.

Huh? That's not how it goes.

Whether you've got the game on an SSD or HDD will realistically only affect load times when launching the game and loading a save. The bottleneck here being how fast information can be read and transferred to your RAM and VRAM.

How much RAM you got isn't that important so long as you have enough (And even if you don't have enough, you can pull from your HDD/SSD if really needed although this process is far too slow to be used in games). What's more important is how fast information gets moved to and from your RAM, and that information is usually bottlenecked by your CPU which needs to calculate and sort said information.

Messaggio originale di 🐇 DriadiTa 🐇:

Hello! I love Age of Wonders , but my computer is a bit old...

My CPU is an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz.

Can I run it with minimal settings? or it will crash even with the minimal setup???

Thanks!!!

Edit: Graphic Card is a GeForce GTX 960

From checking comparative benchmarks, I'd say you'll probably be able to run it, but may have some FPS trouble that can't be fixed by just lowing the graphics. It could be that there's a lot of CPU heavy settings that you can disable but that depends on what the dev's have implemented in the options menu.

Thanks!!!

I don't know how to multi-quote, sorry thanks to everyone for the fast replies!!!

[sandman25dcsss]

Illusioner
Are you sure you really disagree with me? HDD for initial load, RAM for in game changes. Any modern CPU moves data in memory with huge speed, it is never bottleneck. Otherwise we would see how Windows switches context.

[Illusioneer]

Messaggio originale di sandman25dcsss:

Illusioner
Are you sure you really disagree with me? HDD for initial load, RAM for in game changes. Any modern CPU moves data in memory with huge speed, it is never bottleneck. Otherwise we would see how Windows switches context.

I'm 90% confident in what I stated.

Games tend to calculate A LOT of information at once and it's not at all uncommon for modern games to cap out older or even more modern CPU's.

When a CPU gets capped, windows does not suddenly stop to function correctly, everything just becomes slower as information is being queued for processing rather than being done all at once.

I'm a 3d artist and am well versed in what happens when either your RAM or CPU gets capped which happens more often to me than I'd like to admit.

[sandman25dcsss]

Messaggio originale di Illusioneer:

Messaggio originale di sandman25dcsss:

Illusioner
Are you sure you really disagree with me? HDD for initial load, RAM for in game changes. Any modern CPU moves data in memory with huge speed, it is never bottleneck. Otherwise we would see how Windows switches context.

I'm 90% confident in what I stated.

Games tend to calculate A LOT of information at once and it's not at all uncommon for modern games to cap out older or even more modern CPU's.

When a CPU gets capped, windows does not suddenly stop to function correctly, every just becomes slower as information is being queued for processing rather than being done all at once.

I'm a 3d artist and am well versed in what happens when either your RAM or CPU gets capped which happens more often to me than I'd like to admit.

The mininum CPU from Steam shop page is from 2011.
I am software developer with corresponding higher education, I know a bit about it too. 3D artists typically work with programs which have very high RAM requirements so they use virtual memory and swap info to and from hard disk.

[Blanch Warren]

I have no idea how much of the game loads into ram, but there is a program to load more into ram if you want to. If you have the ram.