How to run God Eater 3 with an ancient potato Processor (i.e. without AVX)

[hexacypher]

How to run God Eater 3 with an ancient potato Processor (i.e. without AVX) pre Intel Ivy Bridge, pre AMD Constructor series.

This assumes you're running at least Windows 10 - version 1809:
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First download the Intel SDE to emulate AVX, etc.

Currently it should be this file: sde-external-8.33.0-2019-02-07-win.tar.bz2

located here:

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/pre-release-license-agreement-for-intel-software-development-emulator-accept-end-user-license-agreement-and-download

-click: DOWNLOAD Intel SDE for Windows*
-accept terms and continue
-download: sde-external-8.33.0-2019-02-07-win.tar.bz2

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Next you want to uncompress the contents of that file twice (cuz it's a compressed file in a compressed file) into your God Eater 3 binaries folder. The default should be something like this:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GOD EATER 3\

so you should have a bunch of new folders and files in it. Make sure you have the SDE.exe in there and not another .TAR compressed file.

Then you have to make a text file named: steam_appid.txt in that folder too.
Add the God Eater 3 steam ID to the blank text file: 899440
Save it.

Next close and reopen your steam client as an administrator and set it to run in offline mode.

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Now you're ready to run the game:

-Open a Windows PowerShell window: press (Windows Key + X) and select Windows PowerShell (Admin)
-Nagivate to God Eater 3 folder: default would be: cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GOD EATER 3"
-Then type this to start the game: .\sde.exe -ivb -- ge3.exe

NOTE: The good old command prompt works too, but must be "run as administrator".

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Notes:
- Takes a couple of minutes to startup. Check your Task Manager under PowerShell or CMD, if you wanna see it 'spooling' up.

- Adminstrator mode for Steam is a requirement, not sure about PowerShell, but ran with it anyways

- the "-ivb" Ivy Bridge argument on the sde.exe doubled performance versus not using it or trying to fake an Ice Lake processor.

- On an AMD Phenom II X4 955 with an AMD Radeon 7970, I was averaging 15 fps, but it was in the 10-40 fps range. Potato system, potato results for a new game for sure. Probably the Intel processor of that time would be better? Without that -ivb above it was averaging 8 fps lol.

-Offline, so no coop

-Probably would be better to just upgrade to a processor that is not 9 or 10 years old lol. I'll stick to playing this on my Threadripper build lmao. UPDATE: for the lols, ran it through the SDE on my 1950X with Vega FE averaged about 20 fps without the -ivb and an actually playable high 20s to 30 fps with that -ivb arugment.

[hotaru251]

ancient potato processor.... TBH i'd say my i3 4130 is a potato but it runs it pretty well though i also have a 1060 in it)

and tbh if you are using a system that is THAT depricated and want to PC game...skip out on playing some games and buy a betetr PC over time (as some pre-owned $150 pc prolly runs better)

its better in the long run as games will only get more demanding.

[hexacypher]

Originally posted by Genometric Dizzy:

If you can afford the 50 bucks to buy this game. you can afford to safe up some dosh to score a used PC with at least an Intel Haswell series CPU.

Well for some regions this game is like 20 bucks (Россия? Да, Вы). Anyways, yeah Haswell could run this as it has the AVX instructions built in. If you can't, update your video drivers or something lol.

But seriously, I feel the same way at this point. People should stop ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at Bandai/Namco and just get a relatively newish system? Is it that bad that people should have a 9ish year old system to start this game? Ivy Bridge or Bulldozer??

Originally posted by hotaru251:

ancient potato processor.... TBH i'd say my i3 4130 is a potato but it runs it pretty well though i also have a 1060 in it)

and tbh if you are using a system that is THAT depricated and want to PC game...skip out on playing some games and buy a betetr PC over time (as some pre-owned $150 pc prolly runs better)

its better in the long run as games will only get more demanding.

Sounds like a potato, but still that seems like a Haswell based CPU. What are you getting on average with your setup? FPS wise, 30? 60? 144fps?

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I'd like to see what Sandy Bridge people could get through SDE's AVX emulation, especially with a modern GPU like an AMD Vega or Nvidia 10-series. That being said, at least for SDE, it seemed like it was all CPU dependent. Sandy Bridge was definitely GOAT then and perhaps even till ZEN 2+/3 launches.

[NormireX]

i7 930 here and it is far from a "potato" Was playing Far Cry New Dawn with HD Texture Pack on Ultra settings with smooth fps and yeah I have a MSI Gaming X 1060 6gb and 24gb ddr3 ram which helps but my point is just because a processor is missing an unneeded feature does not make it a "potato". A potato would be more like a Pentium 2.

I think you just don't understand what the term potato actually means.

AVX is not needed by any modern game for any reason. Plenty of complex and graphically intense new games do not use AVX i.e. New Dawn, Anthem, Crackdown 3, etc all of except Crackdown have superior graphics and way larger maps than GE3 so there is literally no logical reason why they had to include AVX. I still think they just forgot to uncheck the AVX when they compiled the game. Anywho I hope they patch this at some point as it is a very fixable issue .

[Null_User]

Originally posted by NormireX:

i7 930 here and it is far from a "potato" Was playing Far Cry New Dawn with HD Texture Pack on Ultra settings with smooth fps and yeah I have a MSI Gaming X 1060 6gb and 24gb ddr3 ram which helps but my point is just because a processor is missing an unneeded feature does not make it a "potato". A potato would be more like a Pentium 2.

I think you just don't understand what the term potato actually means.

AVX is not needed by any modern game for any reason. Plenty of complex and graphically intense new games do not use AVX i.e. New Dawn, Anthem, Crackdown 3, etc all of except Crackdown have superior graphics and way larger maps than GE3 so there is literally no logical reason why they had to include AVX. I still think they just forgot to uncheck the AVX when they compiled the game. Anywho I hope they patch this at some point as it is a very fixable issue .

I'd also chalk it to the game being pretty much a direct port from the PS4, and Japanese devs simply not caring about PC optimization at all. If it works on some PCs out there, that's fine for them. Thing is, we know of a way to either make them stop the practice or stop releasing these games in PC, but our need for our Japanese anime fix may be greater than that. :)

[NormireX]

Originally posted by Hanuke:

Originally posted by NormireX:

i7 930 here and it is far from a "potato" Was playing Far Cry New Dawn with HD Texture Pack on Ultra settings with smooth fps and yeah I have a MSI Gaming X 1060 6gb and 24gb ddr3 ram which helps but my point is just because a processor is missing an unneeded feature does not make it a "potato". A potato would be more like a Pentium 2.

I think you just don't understand what the term potato actually means.

AVX is not needed by any modern game for any reason. Plenty of complex and graphically intense new games do not use AVX i.e. New Dawn, Anthem, Crackdown 3, etc all of except Crackdown have superior graphics and way larger maps than GE3 so there is literally no logical reason why they had to include AVX. I still think they just forgot to uncheck the AVX when they compiled the game. Anywho I hope they patch this at some point as it is a very fixable issue .

I'd also chalk it to the game being pretty much a direct port from the PS4, and Japanese devs simply not caring about PC optimization at all. If it works on some PCs out there, that's fine for them. Thing is, we know of a way to either make them stop the practice or stop releasing these games in PC, but our need for our Japanese anime fix may be greater than that. :)

Yeah and thankfully the SAO games have not had any problems from my experience and none use AVX.

[hotaru251]

Originally posted by hexacypher:

Originally posted by hotaru251:

ancient potato processor.... TBH i'd say my i3 4130 is a potato but it runs it pretty well though i also have a 1060 in it)

and tbh if you are using a system that is THAT depricated and want to PC game...skip out on playing some games and buy a betetr PC over time (as some pre-owned $150 pc prolly runs better)

its better in the long run as games will only get more demanding.

Sounds like a potato, but still that seems like a Haswell based CPU. What are you getting on average with your setup? FPS wise, 30? 60? 144fps?

not sure on what FPS i could get, i have my fps capped at 64 in precisionX (no reason i need higher when monitor is only a 60hz one)

but i dont go under 60fps.
(im likely to hit a cpu limit before a gpu 1 with my system limitations as only a dual core cpu)

[Maha]

Originally posted by hexacypher:

This assumes you're running at least Windows 10 - version 1809:

Whats up with Windows 10 running the intel sde, is there some difference that Windows 10 is doing compared to Windows 7?

[hexacypher]

Originally posted by Nan:

Originally posted by hexacypher:

This assumes you're running at least Windows 10 - version 1809:

Whats up with Windows 10 running the intel sde, is there some difference that Windows 10 is doing compared to Windows 7?

Probably not, I just don't have a Windows 7 system to test it out with, so I can't say for sure. Swapping out PowerShell for the ole Command Prompt seems to work though, so it does seem likely that Windows 7 will run it just as well depending on your processor and if you can find more or better optimized arguments to run with the Intel SDE.