Steam Specs

[the-danzorz]

So i just pre-ordered the game, now that the store works with PayPal.

I also just got a new GPU (graphics card) as my old one was faulty so they traded it in for a new one.

I have a GTX 650TI Boost (2gb) GDDR5
4gb DDR2 ram
3TB of space
Intel Core 2 Quad 2.5ghz (factory clocked)
Windows 7 64bit

The thing that still worries me the most, is if the CPU will run the game. Will it still put different threads into each core or is that purely an I series supported feature?

I plan to not have the rendering distance that high so hopefully that limits the amount of things needing to be rendered on screen taking up the ram and maybe CPU.

Mobo limits me to 4gb at the moment unless i do a bios update, but that is risky so want to hold off on that.

[elexis]

Do you seriously have DDR2 RAM?
I wasn't away that any cpu that supported DDR2 could be 64 bit.

[Geek]

The thing that still worries me the most, is if the CPU will run the game. Will it still put different threads into each core or is that purely an I series supported feature?

Multithreading is supported as long you as you have multiple cores.
It does not matter if it is an modern Intel or not.
Of course modern CPUs are more processing power overall, but that is a different topic.

[Sam L.R. Griffiths]

Do you seriously have DDR2 RAM?
I wasn't away that any cpu that supported DDR2 could be 64 bit.

Athlon 64 was just DDR1 going from memory.

[Sam L.R. Griffiths]

Multithreading is supported as long you as you have multiple cores.

Multithreading does not require multiple cores or multiple CPUs it just requires an appropriate OS.

Multiple Cores/CPUs just makes multi-threading more efficient.

[the-danzorz]

Thank you

[randomuser]

i knew it
you need the hidden "optimal" hardware, "recommended" isnt enough

[Raider480]

Athlon 64 was just DDR1 going from memory.

I've still got one of those (barely) running NAS, even. Definitely DDR1 lol.

you need the hidden "optimal" hardware

Only to the extent that it's roughly as quick as what Egosoft recommends, I would venture. I'm pretty sure that even if I had a single core at like 8GHz the OS could schedule the threads well enough to let the game run properly.

[mcerd1]

Do you seriously have DDR2 RAM?
I wasn't away that any cpu that supported DDR2 could be 64 bit.

Athlon 64 was just DDR1 going from memory.

and DDR2's on my old P4 640 - that could run x64 too

[Sam L.R. Griffiths]

Do you seriously have DDR2 RAM?
I wasn't away that any cpu that supported DDR2 could be 64 bit.

Athlon 64 was just DDR1 going from memory.

and DDR2's on my old P4 640 - that could run x64 too

But VERY badly as I recall

[mcerd1]

Do you seriously have DDR2 RAM?
I wasn't away that any cpu that supported DDR2 could be 64 bit.

Athlon 64 was just DDR1 going from memory.

and DDR2's on my old P4 640 - that could run x64 too

But VERY badly as I recall

well I never said you should run x64 on one


also didn't some of the last socket 478 P4's support x64, they would be running DDR's just like the first athlon 64's

[Sam L.R. Griffiths]

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well I never said you should run x64 on one


also didn't some of the last socket 478 P4's support x64, they would be running DDR's just like the first athlon 64's

Not sure - if they were NetBurst then perhaps. If you are really interested, it may be worth reading this Wikipedia entry.

[Rabiator der II.]

Actually, I still have an old Pentium4 (Northwood) with Abit IC-7 main board. Not as my primary PC of course. It uses DDR RAM (the original version of DDR, sometimes also called DDR1).