Playable on i7 920 (2.67GHz) in 2020?

[Larry]

Hi. Sorry to be one of those 'Will it play on my PC' guys, but most of the existing threads are ancient, and the min specs went up quite a bit since... and it seems like this still might work, based on some of the threads I read.

I've got an obviously inappropriate i7920 (2.67GHz) CPU that I unfortunately can't upgrade (motherboard/system restriction)... but I do have a GTX1060 and 12 gigs of RAM. I never play higher than 1080p, and don't usually crank game settings anyway.

Normally, I'd think I would be way under what is required, but I wanted to just check and make sure, and see what restrictions would be involved (...as, at least in the past thread I read, the developer was running a 2.8GHz CPU, if I remember right).

Can anyone give me an idea if I could still run this (although, obviously not with everything cranked, or using numerous complex ships), and if so, to what point could I go before I hit performance issues?

Thanks

[Dan2D3D]

Hi, you should be fine cause I still use my 9 years old CPU Intel i5@2.8Ghz and all good on my side with 121 FPS in-game.

If you want to compare, here is my PC :

Motherboard ASUS P7P55 LX (9 years old)
Intel Core i5 cpu 760 @ 2.80GHz 2.80 GHz (9 years old)
RAM 16 Gb (2 years old)
Sys. Win10 Pro 64 bit (updated from Win7 Pro)
Graphics NVIDIA Strix GTX 1050 Ti (2 years old)

= I can build absurdly huge ships in this game, 67 FPS looking at the ship :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2115358489
121 FPS Looking at empty space next to that ^ ship :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2115359650
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[Bannor]

Don't be scared to crank up that i7 920 - I easily boosted mine to 4.2GHz using only air-cooling. HUGE difference over stock speeds. Or do what I did - replace it with a Xeon W3690 (6 cores, 3.6GHz base speed. They're dirt cheap nowadays.

[Larry]

Hi, guys. Thanks for the responses. I'm not sure I can do much of anything as far as improving the CPU. It's an old pre-made Gateway system, which ran hot right from the start. The CPU can only be upgraded to maybe a 28GHz (for that motherboard). I couldn't fit much of anything more into the case, as it's already a rats nest. The front drive bays shorted out, and the whole thing is very old. Definitely best to just get a whole new rig... someday. Just not a priority now.

That said, it has ran everything I've thrown at it so far... flight sims, military sims, open world... all with generally high settings (...again, I don't go higher than 1080, and if I get 30fps, I'm perfectly happy...)

Okay, so your comments are encouraging. I'm sure my system may sometimes chug or stutter if there's a lot of stuff going on, but chances are, I won't really run into that.

I asked a similar question in the Stormworks forum, as that game is apparently a bit of a CPU strain, too... but they too think I could be able to run that (as long as I don't have a lot of vehicles happening at once, or do huge vehicles).

Cool... Okay, so it looks like I have some options!

So, one more question (again, just to see what the 'current' situation is). Is Win10 actually necessary, or can Win7 still run the current version?

[Dan2D3D]

They changed the Store page probably because Microsoft stopped updating Win7 but don't worry cause I also have Windows 7 PC at home with SE installed in and it runs very well tho I had to complete all Win7 updates.