Minimum requirements for strategy game WAY TO HIGH

[gatto_nero]

I added frostpunk to my wishlist at the end of year 2017 waiting for it and back then there was minimum requirements dissusion as developer describet them as minimum GTX 960 will handle game.

Now I see that developer instead of 960 state that game be handled properly by 660 just changed 9 to 6. REALLY? But its still to much for strategy game.

I have r7 250x and enjoy other strategy games without issue why on earth this game requires something like GTX 660 for minimum experience?

Is this some launch optimization issue?

This is only one screen game... This is crazy!

[Saturax.cz]

GTX 660 is over 6 years old... so... its not like they want you have some last gen gpu. You can probably in setting turn all OFF + LOW to play game with worse GPU ( like normal ). We will see after release :D

[SadisticNemesis]

Dude, GTX 660 is so old and out dated you're LUCKY that's the minimal. You can buy a better card for less than £100 so I don't see the issue, Stop the whining.

[gatto_nero]

Turn all off means minimum requirements and from last discussion when developers claimed they will optimize game it seems they just changed 9 to 6 without any further optimizations!

GTX 660 are Dishonored 2 minimum requirements not strategy game!

[gatto_nero]

Originally posted by SadisticNemesis:

Dude, GTX 660 is so old and out dated you're LUCKY that's the minimal. You can buy a better card for less than £100 so I don't see the issue, Stop the whining.

I finished playing Guild Wars 2 on my setup - I played Path of Fire without issue ... why not Frostpunk? Why I should buy anything?

[Smashing]

Originally posted by gatto_nero:

Originally posted by SadisticNemesis:

Dude, GTX 660 is so old and out dated you're LUCKY that's the minimal. You can buy a better card for less than £100 so I don't see the issue, Stop the whining.

I finished playing Guild Wars 2 on my setup - I played Path of Fire without issue ... why not Frostpunk? Why I should buy anything?

Don't buy anything then. A 6 year old card is not a huge ask. The game has a lot of steam and environmental effects, which could be the reason for needing a newer card. Even then minimum specs are often like sell by dates, you can often still run with specs below the minimum but those are specs at which the game should always be able to run. Below it you may have problems.

[gatto_nero]

I have bought Kerbal Space Program - strategy / simulation - it run smoothly on HD4000 ...

[gatto_nero]

I should play now KSP or Total War ? ... hard to decide - surely not Frostpunk :)

[Saturax.cz]

Originally posted by gatto_nero:

Turn all off means minimum requirements and from last discussion when developers claimed they will optimize game it seems they just changed 9 to 6 without any further optimizations!

GTX 660 are Dishonored 2 minimum requirements not strategy game!

Well its not true moust of time... normaly they write with reserve so you can try it on worse gpu on your risk + they dont count thinks like overclocking of old gpu for example, specialy GTX cards from ASUS have beter cooling and you can play with overclocking, etc...

[Saturax.cz]

Originally posted by gatto_nero:

I should play now KSP or Total War ? ... hard to decide - surely not Frostpunk :)

Total war: shotgun 2 is still best

[[DeusVult] Eisengrind]

What comes next? Is your playstation 1 supposed to be able to play playstation 4 games? That is basically what you are saying.

[gatto_nero]

Originally posted by Saturax.cz:

Originally posted by gatto_nero:

I should play now KSP or Total War ? ... hard to decide - surely not Frostpunk :)

Total war: shotgun 2 is still best

Yes strategy games are best ;) Unable to determine reason why developer couldnt turn of most effects in this Frostpunk "strategy" game.

Will eventually wait to see some reviews and how game behave on r7 250x ... 10 or 15fps :D

This is the question. They should give us DEMO but then ... lower number of preorders

[Trenze]

I've owned a 660Ti back in the day and played games like Unity, Blackflag, Metro, and ran them quite well. Your card seems to be quite close to the regular 660. As this is a top down view like game and it's only going to be rendering one scene you might be able to run this quite well with settings turned down.

What's the most modern game your able to run on your PC now?

[gatto_nero]

Originally posted by Miroslav:

I've owned a 660Ti back in the day and played games like Unity, Blackflag, Metro, and ran them quite well. Your card seems to be quite close to the regular 660. As this is a top down view like game and it's only going to be rendering one scene you might be able to run this quite well with settings turned down.

What's the most modern game your able to run on your PC now?

I finished Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire without issue. Thank you for positive comment ;)

I think devs just changed 9 to 6 without doing some optimizations so this is quite disapointing as I spoke same subject few months ago on this forum.

Thanks for positive comment

[Trenze]

What's your fps like in GW2? And do you have any other similar games you can compare to Frostpunk? That would be your best bet at figuring out if you can run it or not.

As for the number switch, 960 to 660 is a big jump, I don't think they did it for the sake or more sales, that would just be a crappy move. There was also the 700 series so the min recomened might be true and they just did some good optimization, otherwise why not say they game needs the 700, right?

I think you'll be able to run it, just don't expect everything on high. Another thing to keep in mind, if you do manage to get good fps, at least its not some fast pased action shooter so your camera wont be going all over the place, haha.

No problem at all, if it helps you figure out if you play the game then thats a win for you.

You also have the option of refunding if it really cannot run, but I dont think that will be the case.

[Hk416(Squad 404)]

I'm wondering, can I at my GTX 460 play this game at least on the minimum settings? I can certainly put the second same video card, but it has a blade of a graphics chip.