[Video] Can You Play Far Cry 5 on a AMD Phenom II X4 940?

[MycroftCanadaNS]

https://youtu.be/L3hur5HQXzQ

[BrexitBiscuits]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ yes or no?

[MycroftCanadaNS]

Originally posted by BrexitBiscuits:

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ yes or no?

I am playing the game am I not?

Of course you can. The name of my channel is AMD Phenom II X4 940 which doesn't support sse 4/4.1 or 4.2

Think about it. Any game you see on my small channel you can run on a Phenom. The list of games shown on my channel is just a drop in the bucket on what a Phenom is really capable of.

[David]

Funny, when the game first came out, people with phenoms got told to upgrade their old and outdated cpu to get the game working .. turns out it works perfectly fine on phenoms

[MycroftCanadaNS]

Originally posted by David:

Funny, when the game first came out, people with phenoms got told to upgrade their old and outdated cpu to get the game working .. turns out it works perfectly fine on phenoms

Yup. It's incredible what Phenoms will run in this day & age. I can run servers, and clients of games you would never think would be possibe. I personally think Phenoms were the best CPU's AMD ever came out with, well until Ryzen's arrived.

That is exactly I was told when I asked them about it. They said my CPU would not be able to handle the new requirements Far Cry 5 because the world was much more demanding.

Proved them wrong.

Every Developer/publisher of these larger companies will always say exactly this that the CPU is the problem, and needs upgrading.

I just recently got burned by Rockstar by my purchasing Red Dead Redemption 2, and they gave the exact same excuse because they are just being incredibly lazy, and cheap.

Rockstar even said if you can play GTA 5 you would be able to play RDR2. I can run GTA 5 with graphics on high with no issue's, so they lied about that as well.

Rockstar could easily patch out the SSE 4/4.1/4.2 requiremnets, and it wouldn't take them that long too do it but they simply refuse too.

Any way, I never trust what any of these companies say anymore.

[David]

MycroftCanadaNS
It is not even the companies, if you look at older threads here in the discussions about running the game with a phenom cpu, you can see people literary insulting others that have phenoms and telling them to upgrade and that their cpu is old and outdated, I am wondering where those people are now

[Ceejay]

i think part of the reason is realistically people with old cpu's are also running low end gpu's (which you are not). I have often said I do think they inflate the minimum requirements so they simply do not have to deal with people who have low end hardware, trying to play games on computers that really cannot handle the game properly. This does happen a lot when you look on steam forums, loads of threads complaining about performance issues do end up being due to people misunderstanding specs and having low end machines.

As for the SSE issue, as I said on your vid, I believe initially some of Far Cry 5's features were using them without them realising, then when it launched and the issue popped up, they could not track down the problem in time. So to stop loads of people buying the game with phenoms then complaining, they simply stated the cpu's were not supported.

Which when you think about it was probably the right thing to do at the time, okay phenom owners were upset that they should not buy the game but imagine the backlash from them buying the game, then finding they could not run it, it would have been far worse for them.

Sometimes even knowing what the problem is, debugging and tracking down the culprit code can be difficult, especially with so many people working on the game at once. Its not just always a simple patch that takes a few days/weeks to hunt down, especially if a lot of the code is based on those instructions.

Though really the could have been more open about it. Especially if they have now since fixed the issue and people can now run the game.

[MycroftCanadaNS]

Originally posted by Ceejay:

i think part of the reason is realistically people with old cpu's are also running low end gpu's (which you are not). I have often said I do think they inflate the minimum requirements so they simply do not have to deal with people who have low end hardware, trying to play games on computers that really cannot handle the game properly. This does happen a lot when you look on steam forums, loads of threads complaining about performance issues do end up being due to people misunderstanding specs and having low end machines.

As for the SSE issue, as I said on your vid, I believe initially some of Far Cry 5's features were using them without them realising, then when it launched and the issue popped up, they could not track down the problem in time. So to stop loads of people buying the game with phenoms then complaining, they simply stated the cpu's were not supported.

Which when you think about it was probably the right thing to do at the time, okay phenom owners were upset that they should not buy the game but imagine the backlash from them buying the game, then finding they could not run it, it would have been far worse for them.

Sometimes even knowing what the problem is, debugging and tracking down the culprit code can be difficult, especially with so many people working on the game at once. Its not just always a simple patch that takes a few days/weeks to hunt down, especially if a lot of the code is based on those instructions.

Though really the could have been more open about it. Especially if they have now since fixed the issue and people can now run the game.

Thank You Ceejay

That is very true, I am using a mid range GPU but it's all about what you are willing to live with as far as graphics are concerned.

Your are right again, the developers/publishers overlook those of us who are using legacy CPU's, and it doesn't seem to bother them because they think that the bulk of their money will be banked during the first two to three weeks after release, and maybe when sales are really slowing down for the title they will then spend forty eight hours patching out the SSE requirements.

I totally understand that having so many departments working on a game can cause many issue's along the way, and things are overlooked but this is because these companies have reduced their QA department, and really do not care as far as making sure it can play on the vast majority of the hardware in everyone's homes.

I mentioned that I was burned by Rockstar for Red Dead Redemption 2 even though I was assured that if I could play GTA 5, I would be able to play RDR2 which of course I can't, and many people were told by Rockstar to not get a refund, and give them time to patch the game although if you look closely they have been adding in content then taking the time to patch the game properly since when they released the game on steam, people were having the exact same issue's that people were having since Rockstar released the game on November 5th.

Oh well.

Thank You Ceejay, I really appreciate your comment, and makes total sense.

Gaming for me is what are you willing to put up with as far as graphics are concerned. I mean I'm a guy who thinks ASCII is beautiful (haa).

Take care Ceejay, and Thank You.

[Ceejay]

You are welcome,

I also got hit with the red dead redemption issue, I pre-bought it, could not play it for almost two weeks after launch....was not happy :)

As for legacy cpu's I also get that with my fx 8350, the amount of people who say upgrade it its terrible, even though it can handle every game at 1080p still.. (saying that I now have a ryzen for other reasons :p)

Keep on making the vids :)

[MycroftCanadaNS]

Originally posted by Ceejay:

Oh I got hit with the red dead redemption issue, I pre-bought it, could not play it for almost two weeks after launch....was not happy :)

Keep on making the vids :)

You were not alone in it.

I'll do my best, and thank You.

[LiMpY]

Originally posted by Ceejay:

You are welcome,

As for legacy cpu's I also get that with my fx 8350, the amount of people who say upgrade it its terrible, even though it can handle every game at 1080p

Agreed. Works just fine.