I'm just right under min on my i7...

[St_Winter]

Such a bummer. I was waiting so impatiently for this game. With others having stutters with stuff that is recommended, I hope that maybe one day I can get this. I was going for a new rig later this year but some stuff came up. So, that'll be a next year thing I hope. Any hope that this game can get even more optimized? I'm good for the most part on everything else except for my processor...

[NYA͏͏KUZA FluffyXay]

Dude as someone who doesnt meet min requirements i havent had any optimization issues other then a bit of a stutter but thats bc i dont have a m.2

[Wolfman-RIP]

Originally posted by St_Winter:

Such a bummer. I was waiting so impatiently for this game. With others having stutters with stuff that is recommended, I hope that maybe one day I can get this. I was going for a new rig later this year but some stuff came up. So, that'll be a next year thing I hope. Any hope that this game can get even more optimized? I'm good for the most part on everything else except for my processor...

I have it running on my old gaming laptop hooked up to a monitor.

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9300H CPU @ 2.40GHz
16Gb Ram
NVIDIA GTX 1650

After playing on high settings i turned down the shadows and some other options to make it run smoother. People need to fiddle with the game & graphics settings till they get a balance of performance vs quality.

Steam deck also works.

[Illusion of Progress]

What CPU do you have? And what GPU?

It might be fine as long you're willing to accept "under minimum requirements" might sometimes mean "lesser performance".

The game is far more GPU demanding than CPU demanding in my (admittedly limited) observation.

The big thing with the stutters is that they are traversal stutters and happen to most everyone, if not everyone, so you should forget that aspect in particular and focus on if your "baseline" performance will up to your desires. You have two hours to try it.

But at the end of the day, hardware gets faster over time, people adopt new hardware, and the average requirements of what games need also goes up as a result. Many games are also made with the consoles in mind and these latest ones especially are focusing on the newer consoles and not the older ones. Silent Hill 2 is one such game. So yeah, eventually, you need to keep up on hardware if you want to play the latest games and not have as many performance concerns. "Core i7" on its own doesn't mean anything. What generation/particular model it is means more. So if this "Core i7" is from the quad core era (7th generation or older) for example, then yeah, it's ancient in tech terms by now and the recent console port/demanding games are more and more being made with far higher CPUs in mind as the target.

But you might be okay if the CPU is the only issue. Sometimes you can get good enough performance on near minimum requirements because there is no actual standard for defining performance. It's just what the developers ensure will be "good enough" based on what they think or based on what they have tested it on.

[St_Winter]

Originally posted by Wolfman-RIP:

Originally posted by St_Winter:

Such a bummer. I was waiting so impatiently for this game. With others having stutters with stuff that is recommended, I hope that maybe one day I can get this. I was going for a new rig later this year but some stuff came up. So, that'll be a next year thing I hope. Any hope that this game can get even more optimized? I'm good for the most part on everything else except for my processor...

I have it running on my old gaming laptop hooked up to a monitor.

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9300H CPU @ 2.40GHz
16Gb Ram
NVIDIA GTX 1650

After playing on high settings i turned down the shadows and some other options to make it run smoother. People need to fiddle with the game & graphics settings till they get a balance of performance vs quality.

Steam deck also works.

You give me hope! lol. And I also have a Steam Deck too!

[St_Winter]

Originally posted by Illusion of Progress:

What CPU do you have? And what GPU?

It might be fine as long you're willing to accept "under minimum requirements" might sometimes mean "lesser performance".

The game is far more GPU demanding than CPU demanding in my (admittedly limited) observation.

The big thing with the stutters is that they are traversal stutters and happen to most everyone, if not everyone, so you should forget that aspect in particular and focus on if your "baseline" performance will up to your desires. You have two hours to try it.

But at the end of the day, hardware gets faster over time, people adopt new hardware, and the average requirements of what games need also goes up as a result. Many games are also made with the consoles in mind and these latest ones especially are focusing on the newer consoles and not the older ones. Silent Hill 2 is one such game. So yeah, eventually, you need to keep up on hardware if you want to play the latest games and not have as many performance concerns. "Core i7" on its own doesn't mean anything. What generation/particular model it is means more. So if this "Core i7" is from the quad core era (7th generation or older) for example, then yeah, it's ancient in tech terms by now and the recent console port/demanding games are more and more being made with far higher CPUs in mind as the target.

But you might be okay if the CPU is the only issue. Sometimes you can get good enough performance on near minimum requirements because there is no actual standard for defining performance. It's just what the developers ensure will be "good enough" based on what they think or based on what they have tested it on.

i7 4790k
2070 super
It'll be installed on an ssd.

I'm running behind but a friend of mine built this for me before he died. So, it's hard replacing parts or getting a new pc. But at this point, I might as well just look at getting a whole new rig because the motherboard is outdated and won't work for win11 when I'll need to officially switch over. I figure getting a whole new rig means I can still keep this one mostly the same and hand it down to my kids who are getting into gaming.

[Illusion of Progress]

Oh, that's an old one. But a lot of those "immediately prior to the 8th generation" Core i7s (4th, 6th, and 7th generations) sort of performed rather similarly, at least if yours is overclocked.

It's definitely approaching needing a platform replacement for new games, but it might not be completely unusable. It might make the stuttering spots a bit worse but honestly, the game is just going to have that anyway.

If you're not aiming for high refresh level of frame rates, and if you can accept some potential dips below 60 FPS (maybe in the apartments?), I'd say maybe it's worth a try. I didn't particularly notice a high level of utilization on my CPU (5800X3D) when playing, but I only checked it sometimes so maybe I'm wrong on that. I think some people mentioned they tried this on a Haswell and it wasn't totally unplayable. Since it's more GPU heavy, your GPU being better in relation to your CPU might make this good enough to work with.

If you have "hardware accelerated graphics scheduling" (HAGS) turned on, maybe try with it off. I heard some people say the drops in the apartments are less severe on nVidia with that off, but I can't confirm.

[Bullett00th]

Originally posted by St_Winter:

i7 4790k
2070 super
It'll be installed on an ssd.

I'm running it on i7-7700k and 3060ti in FullHD just fine. Not a stable 60 but nothing that gets me out of the experience and tbh it's a visually stunning game so the performance is fair.

I suggest you give it a shot, you can always refund within 2 hours of gameplay if it runs poorly, and even then DLSS does wonders to performance.

Sorry to hear about your friend

[St_Winter]

Originally posted by Illusion of Progress:

Oh, that's an old one. But a lot of those "immediately prior to the 8th generation" Core i7s (4th, 6th, and 7th generations) sort of performed rather similarly, at least if yours is overclocked.

It's definitely approaching needing a platform replacement for new games, but it might not be completely unusable. It might make the stuttering spots a bit worse but honestly, the game is just going to have that anyway.

If you're not aiming for high refresh level of frame rates, and if you can accept some potential dips below 60 FPS (maybe in the apartments?), I'd say maybe it's worth a try. I didn't particularly notice a high level of utilization on my CPU (5800X3D) when playing, but I only checked it sometimes so maybe I'm wrong on that. I think some people mentioned they tried this on a Haswell and it wasn't totally unplayable. Since it's more GPU heavy, your GPU being better in relation to your CPU might make this good enough to work with.

If you have "hardware accelerated graphics scheduling" (HAGS) turned on, maybe try with it off. I heard some people say the drops in the apartments are less severe on nVidia with that off, but I can't confirm.

Thank you so much for all the info and time! I really appreciate it!

[St_Winter]

Originally posted by Bullett00th:

Originally posted by St_Winter:

i7 4790k
2070 super
It'll be installed on an ssd.

I'm running it on i7-7700k and 3060ti in FullHD just fine. Not a stable 60 but nothing that gets me out of the experience and tbh it's a visually stunning game so the performance is fair.

I suggest you give it a shot, you can always refund within 2 hours of gameplay if it runs poorly, and even then DLSS does wonders to performance.

Sorry to hear about your friend

Thank you so much! I also really appreciate it!