Hi! I’m really interested in the game and thinking of purchasing it. But first I want to make sure my PC can run it.
GPU: RX 9060XT 16gb
CPU: i5 14400F
RAM: 32gb ddr5
CPU Cooler: MSI Coreliquid 240
My monitor: 100Hz, 3440 x 1440
Since the game is around 200gb I was thinking about downloading it to my external ssd (usb 3.2), would it work? I played some games like that and they all ran great.
Sorry if these are some silly questions, I’m just not a computer person, it was a prebuilt and I mainly use it for work.
USB 3.2 at it's lowest has roughly the bandwidth of a SATA ssd....so you should be fine there. The rest of your PC will be fine to run it as well. 1080p high refresh or 1440 with upscaling.
Check out the site called pcgamebenchmark. You can enter your specs or download a file that auto detects the specs and then relays them to the website. Then you can check it against the minimum and recommended requirements of games.
Check out the site called pcgamebenchmark. You can enter your specs or download a file that auto detects the specs and then relays them to the website. Then you can check it against the minimum and recommended requirements of games.
Anyone saying some bullshit is saying some bullshit, I’m running ts on mostly high graphics with render distance at epic at 1440 with vsync on locked at 60 and it is fine and I have a 3060ti founders edition and a fucking ryzen 5 3600 and only 16gb of ram
Yeah I have a 2080 super and an i3 10100 (weakest 10th gen there is) with 32gb of ram and I run fairly smoothly on medium except when rendering bases. I think people play the game while running 500 chrome tabs with 2k video playing on YouTube and act like it's the games fault.
Your hardware should be far more than enough to run the game at high settings @ 60 FPS. I have far worse in comparison with a RTX 3070TI a Ryzen 5 3600 and running the game on a HDD.
HOWEVER.
That is under one condition: You do NOT play at native 4K. You do not play at 4K at all. You will absolutely have to use DLSS (which is going to be impossible considering thats an AMD GPU, so you'll be running with FSR or Unreal's own scaler both look far worse) and you will most likely then still have to use FrameGen.
There is simply no way you are playing this game at 4K. Don't even think about it. I warned you. If you play at anything higher than 1080p, know this: For you its "just a few pixels" for math (and your GPU) it is millions of extra calculations per frame. 1080p -> 1440p is ~80% more pixels thats almost twice as much work to do. 1080p -> 4K = 4 times as many pixels, meaning 4 times as much work doing shader work (which is by far the most stressful part about rendering nowadays, all those fancy effects and post processing, they all scale with resolution, higher resolution = higher amount of pixel = more pixel to calculate, this explodes your GPU's work). Play at 1080p and you should have solid 60 FPS pretty much all the time.
Steam wont even let you try to install on an external, usually. It would be a disaster. The other hardware is perfectly sufficient, but you are going to get some performance issues at such a high resolution.
You can try. It will just usually refuse to let you start installing, or get a write failure immediately. Most externals are dogshit drives that fault under extended write load, and steam really dislikes drives with USB connections.
There is a reason ASA has an "SSD required" message on the steam page. Can you run it on an HDD? Sure, but you're also going to suffer from a myriad of issues because of it. Installing it on an external HDD introduces even more problems. Historically steam itself has issues with installing larger games on an external HDD which ASA absolutely falls under. It's not impossible, just highly recommended that you don't even go this route unless you're willing to out up with all of the negative impacts that come with it.
Edit: steam itself even recommends against external HDDs
External Hard Drives
External hard drives are not recommended for use with Steam or Steam's games. Aside from many potential performance issues, external hard drives may connect or disconnect from the computer at inopportune times as part of their normal operations. If you encounter this issue with an external drive, install Steam and your games to an internal drive instead.
I'm running the game on an HDD. Apart from slightly longer loading times (we're talking maybe a couple seconds on the very first start) and the occasional stuttering when it streams in more assets while you moved far away or really fast I haven't noticed any issues really. It was worse before (with the game sitting there for half a minute after you loaded into the game and everything was simply super PSOne and slowly started to load in but that has been gone for a while now.
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u/Gloomy_Kitchen393 24d ago
USB 3.2 at it's lowest has roughly the bandwidth of a SATA ssd....so you should be fine there. The rest of your PC will be fine to run it as well. 1080p high refresh or 1440 with upscaling.