Your CPU and modern games: A guide to those building.

PP Mguire

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System requirements are a joke and I'd take them with a grain of salt. Let's take Fallout 4 for example. They put minimum an i5 2500 or a Phenom 2 X4 945. Do you know how much more powerful an i5 2500 is compared to that X4? An i3 will run circles around it. Fallout 4 is a 1-2 core game like Skyrim, there's no reason to require a quadcore let alone an i7 for recommended. I believe they're doing it based on clock speed, which my article also addresses as a dumb way to analyze performance.
 

ArielSchwatrz

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Too bad this thread is old. I hope nobody will get mad if I necropost it a little? :whistling: The point is - I got Hogwarts Legacy on Steam not so long ago. My PC doesn't exactly meet minimal requirements, anyway it works without any issues. I was wondering, how is that actually possible.
 

PP Mguire

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Because the biggest issue most people face with any hardware is stuttering which is generally fixed by locking the framerate to 60fps. As to requirements, it's a guideline. UE4 scales well because it's old so lower resolutions and settings could be playable on hardware older than they might have listed.
 
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