I'm in the same boat (pentium g3258). I was hoping to purchase the game, and I'm also waiting for the 5790k for an upgrade. The only dual-cores I've read that worked are the i3's with 4 threads and the mobile i5's and i7's that have 4 threads. I found an old quote from a developer about a month ago in which his Xeon with 2 threads ran the game with no error. So that makes me think it might be the DRM utilizing another thread which causes the problem. So maybe in the next few weeks/months after this exe is cracked that can be a solution for people with 2 threads. The quote is below:
"For those asking dual core - one of the min-specish dual core workstations I have does indeed run the game, and not too terribly. I haven't played all that far though, and I'm not sure if we'd officially support it, so your mileage may vary.
It's a Xeon 5150 2.66GHz, with an 8800GTX (512mb), 4GB RAM. "
and can be found here.
http://forum.bioware.com/topic/515786-the-big-can-my-pc-run-dai-thread/page-24
If I were you, I'd return the game and wait a few weeks to see what the community can do about this. There might be a hack or mod that will allow cpus with two cores to run the game. It is quite obvious that the 4 threads aren't critical to the game running as it was only a month ago that the bioware employee was running the game with only 2 threads.
Folks, I'm sure you know a Pentium is half castrated compared to an i3, since part of the ease of overclocking is that the cache is only half of a normal C2D size CPU's onboard cache. I'm not privy to any changes in Frostbite since that engine first was used, and stirred up tons of complaints in the forums back then.
2000? 2001?
I do know the BF4 game requirements are only a year old, with only dual cores, while Fifa 15 was intended for quads as soon as it was announced.
@ Gorath
This Pentium has higher benchmarks than many i3's and competes with i7's in single thread performance when overclocked. Even before overclocked it is comparable to a 3.4ghz i3 in performance.
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Pentium-G3258-vs-Intel-Core-i3-4130
The G3258 also outperforms older quad-cores (using all cores), which seem to run this game.
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Pentium-G3258-vs-Intel-Core2-Quad-Q6600
Fifa 15 runs on the G3258.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3ebntNPFOE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RAhAvgTZkU
I think it was perfectly resonable to think of the minimum requirements as a soft-requirement from the experience with other recently released EA games using the Frostbite 3 engine.
G3258 will have problems... with far cry 4. The problems is that pentium g3258 is dual core... and dual cores sucks. Next time when you buy budget grab quad core i3 or amd athlon x4 or fx 6300.
So Penitum g3258 has same IPC as i7 - because it has same cores! it has less cache but that is not big deal. Big deal is that Games are going to be optimized for octa-quad cores so ... pentium will lagg or stutte or crash (black screen).
So i dont get people who buy pentium g3258 instead of i3 or FX 6300 ... pentium g3258 is not budget CPU for new games!
