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Punxel's avatar
3 years ago

Intel Core i7 4790

Do you think Bf2042 will ever be playable on an i74790 (the recommended CPU for this game), or have DICE given up on that? We're coming up for a year after release and as far as I can tell the game still doesn't run well enough to play on the recommended hardware (that's recommended, not minimum).  By "playable" I mean, at minimum: lowest graphic settings, 1080p, 64 players, >60FPS.

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  • @Punxel The new Frostbite engine seems to like more CPU cores, 8 cores seem to be the sweet spot. Less cores and it seems to suffer. I have a 4790k that struggles to get acceptable frame rates. I doubt they can fix this easily. But my 11700k runs the game flawlessly.
  • @PunxelI would say a definite now, BF2042 loves CPU cores, memory bandwidth ...

    your platform is aging, it's time to upgrade if you want to play the latest titles...

    Even combining a beefy graphics card with the 4790 is not gonna help...

  • Frozenoulis's avatar
    Frozenoulis
    Rising Vanguard
    3 years ago

    It is playable with high ram speed(xmp ram 2133 mhz /2400 mhz).

  • Anobix's avatar
    Anobix
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    @Punxel wrote:

    Do you think Bf2042 will ever be playable on an i74790 (the recommended CPU for this game), or have DICE given up on that? We're coming up for a year after release and as far as I can tell the game still doesn't run well enough to play on the recommended hardware (that's recommended, not minimum).  By "playable" I mean, at minimum: lowest graphic settings, 1080p, 64 players, >60FPS.


    The CPU is 8 years old, I doubt you're going to get >60 FPS out of it.

    As others have said, the game likes additional cores. And depending on what GPU you have [you didn't specify] you could be getting hard-limited at that CPU. Generally higher resolution and settings moves the bottleneck off of the CPU and more into the GPU, but only to a point before it hits a ceiling.

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