Running game on older CPUs

[HolyGranade]

I'm pretty much meeting all minimal requirements, but i've got i5 8500 instead of i7-8700K which specified in description. Question to guys who played this game on this or older CPU - is this game really so demanding on CPU or it's juts safe requirement from devs?

[METAL]

I ran it at first on a i5 9th gen cpu and a 3600 gpu, before I got a new rig.
The game ran alright but I had to turn things down to make it run smoothly.

So it will run but at low to medium settings.

[Isildur]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/

this will do the trick

[Shout Out To Ground Pound]

Originally posted by Isildur:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/

this will do the trick

This wont do any trick, this will just lead to more problems, if your hardware is not good enough then software wont help you you will add just more problems.
Lossless Scaling is good for hardware that can run the game at 60 fps atleast but then why you even need this programm then anyways ?

To hide the "my system is done" theory ? LossLess Scaling will be a very bad idea for people in this game becase it will screw your inputs and you will struggle more with Pary

[FWDKILLER]

I use a 10900k and rtx 3080 , 4090 soon 5090 but with rtx 3080 i get 60 to 70 fps on high and 55 on epic down to 40fps sometimes. Its the game not the hardware.

[Ichi-niiPL]

8700K is an old CPU at this points, so it's really a requirement, also this game is made on the most demanding engine ever made - Unreal Engine 5 - which is known for running like a giant pile of dog ****. Surprisingly for me, the devs actually made it run fairly smooth, at least on my rig.
Anyways my point is UE5 is extremely demanding on both GPU and CPU, so yeah it is, what it is.

[This PC]

Originally posted by Isildur:

this will do the trick

Me when I have no idea what am talking about, and am recommending solutions that will damage OP's experience. Hope you're not running DLSS too, your picture must be pretty messy rofl.

@op: Game runs fine on my cousins 4th gen i7, but he had to tone down graphics a bit to stop crashing.

[HolyGranade]

Originally posted by This PC:

Originally posted by Isildur:

this will do the trick

Me when I have no idea what am talking about, and am recommending solutions that will damage OP's experience. Hope you're not running DLSS too, your picture must be pretty messy rofl.

@op: Game runs fine on my cousins 4th gen i7, but he had to tone down graphics a bit to stop crashing.

Thank you. That's indeed a bit helpful. And yes, i didn't expect to play this game in 4K UltraGigaSuper Settings with CPU like mine. I was targeting lowest settings anyway.

[Apocalypse]

Originally posted by HolyGranade:

I'm pretty much meeting all minimal requirements, but i've got i5 8500 instead of i7-8700K which specified in description. Question to guys who played this game on this or older CPU - is this game really so demanding on CPU or it's juts safe requirement from devs?

My 2700x here, runs the game "fine" with 30FPS frame cap, stable, console like experience.
And afterwards I have the choice to double to frames to 60 with some fake frames or leave it as it is.

Either way, plays perfectly fine for this kind of game. Wouldn't want to play a first person game like that, and I was initially a bit concerned about parry windows, but turns out, perfect valid experience with a controller.

No issues with the upping the graphics either as far as I see the graphic settings have very little impact on CPU Performance.

So anyway, if your fine with 30FPS, that 8500 should be most likely fine, aftercall that 8700k is, at least in gaming, a good deal faster than a Ryzen 1600, which is the other minimum requirement for CPUs.

But you only know for certain if you try. There is a 2 hours refund window, so doesn't hurt to test imho.

[_Fell]

Originally posted by Apocalypse:

But you only know for certain if you try. There is a 2 hours refund window, so doesn't hurt to test imho.

If full price is a hurdle just to test it, don't forget you can make a new gamepass account for a $1

[HolyGranade]

For those who has similar question - game is running just fine on this CPU (i5 8500), on HDD (!) on the low-mid settings on stable 60 fps with rare drops to 50 which is not bothering much. And CPU isn't even fully loaded, around 70-80% with temperature average 60-65 C with the highest 70 C. So i guess older CPUs have a decent chance to run this game.

[Ashtrails]

running on i5 7600k, no hitches