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We already need quadcore to run RE5?
i don't know about the rest of you, but this is kind of annoying to me. i bought a computer to run crysis, and all i half to do now is buy parts for it. well, i guess i'm passing on that because my main intention was to buy the motherboard, and work my way up. now i suppose its rather useless, because resident evil 5 on max settings requires a quad core processor which my socket is not capable of. i thought crysis was more visually demanding, how can this be?
RE5 runs flawlessly on my dual core + gtx285. It's an excellent port with next to no technical issues and, despite the lack of elaborate graphical options, performance even better than games that were made specifically for PC. Hell, even with my PC being cut down to just 2GB ram because the other 2 fried (waiting for replacements) the game's performance remained rock solid. Great looking and greatly optimised title. Too bad it's not that great but that's for a different thread. Whoever told you it needs a quad core is blatantly wrong. It performs better than Crysis. My PC handles both fine but I can tell RE5 puts less strain to it, and the ram reduction did affect Crysis.
"RE5 runs flawlessly on my dual core + gtx285. It's an excellent port with next to no technical issues and, despite the lack of elaborate graphical options, performance even better than games that were made specifically for PC. Hell, even with my PC being cut down to just 2GB ram because the other 2 fried (waiting for replacements) the game's performance remained rock solid. Great looking and greatly optimised title. Too bad it's not that great but that's for a different thread. Whoever told you it needs a quad core is blatantly wrong. It performs better than Crysis. My PC handles both fine but I can tell RE5 puts less strain to it, and the ram reduction did affect Crysis. "
Actually its on steam and amazon.com system requirements. that's what ticked me off. because there is just no way its visually demanding over crysis.
Steam just says Pentium D. That incudes dual core CPUs. Anyway, you could always try the benchmark, you'll see performance is sweet and the game's as beautiful as any PC game (but no, it doesn't have the vast open areas of Crysis, then again, few games do, even PC only games, so expecting every single game to be as well made is a little over the top, of course there will be various games that may look worse, either due to a less optimised engine, or due to less accomplished content, but demand better specs)."Actually its on steam and amazon.com system requirements. that's what ticked me off. because there is just no way its visually demanding over crysis. "
Don't take it from us, run the Demo/Benchmark and draw your own conclusions.
torrent: http://www.gameupdates.org/details.php?id=3633
regular: http://www.filefront.com/14056737/Resident-Evil-5---Benchmark-Tool--/
Flame shield,
Crysis has some SERIOUS problems as a graphical machine. Its extremely taxing on your system even on Medium settings, for ridiculous reasons. And games out now look just as good, and use less resources. Unless you REALLY REALLY REALLY want to play crysis as a GAME and not as a HD movie to just look at, I'd just say 'screw it' to trying to get the hardware to run it.
RE5 runs great on dual core at max settings, I've played it a little and in most scenarios it sticks to about 40 fps for me on a 9800 GT. Dunno why it says quad core, probably just can potentially take advantage of it.
Also, Crysis is old now. But its sort of like "Nothing can kill the grimace" complex in terms of a game being bested by hardware.
I'm willing to bet the performance in a game like RE5 wouldn't differ much from a mid-ranged dual core to a high end quad core.
I'm running it like 50-80 frames with a dual core and a okay videocard. I don't see the problem, however this game will use as many cores as you have according to one of their interviews. Look even with a dual core, there is no bottlenecking with the framerates at all.
i'm almost certain my comp can handle RE5...just that my budget vidcard can't. otherwise, dual-core shouldn't really be an issue. i thought quad-core was only needed if you wanted to play the game with that new-fangled stereoscopic 3D stuff. don't quote me on that though.
The requirements for games are getting ridiculous even though i see no real benefit of it. There are no real good games on PC that are not playable on the consoles. The only one that even comes to mind that is a must play on the PC is Starcraft 2, and thats not out yet and knowing blizzard will not be a system hog. This is another reasong PC gaming is going down the toilet even though it had a chance to make a comeback, its just the developers are fucking it up.
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