CPU upgrade - More cores or clock speed for this game?

Tapirus

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Thinking about upgrading to either R5 3600 or R7 2700, I'm not sure how cores and threads vs clock speed would affect this game
I know in other games R5 3600 would mostly outperform 2700 but I'd like to upgrade to a CPU that can make the most use for this game specifically.
R5 3600 3.6gb-4.2gb 6c/12t
R7 2700 3.2gb-4.1gb 8c/16t

Thanks
 

Arletario

Arletario
Yes, both are above recommended specs, but it depends on two things:

- How fast is your graphic card compared to your CPU

- Will Frontier publish the game only with DirectX 11 support or did they upgrade the engine for DirectX 12 support too. (or are they planning in doing so)

It seems like it will only support DirectX 11 right now, since even the recommended requirements are only DirectX 11 - other games recommend DirectX 12 at this point. That's a pity, because the game will have the same problem as Planet Coaster when your zoo gets bigger and bigger. Yes, the Cobra engine supports multi-core CPU in general, but with DirectX 11 the draw calls are handled by only one core. So your CPU cannot send instructions to your GPU fast enough and that causes the frame rate drops in crowded parks and with thousands of building pieces. In that case a faster CPU will be better then a CPU with more cores. Additionally, the Cobra engine of Planet Coaster has issues when your CPU has more than 8 cores. How the improved Planet Zoo engine will perform with more than 8 cores... we will see ;) (According to an Youtuber during Beta - he had less FPS drops after he disabled some cores of his 12-core CPU)
If the game would be upgraded to DirectX 12 support, this bottleneck will be gone and a CPU with more cores is going to be better. But i doubt that will happen, because it would take an overhaul of the game engine again. And yeah, that's really a pity because it would improve the endgame performance noticeably and even Windows 7 (the minimum recommended spec) supports DirectX 12 now. :confused:
 
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meimento

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As a person with the i9 9900K, I would say for this particular game and most other games it is still better to have faster clock speeds.

I made a 49 acres enclosure with 192 animals in it, as well as the 246 acres enclosure. I can see there is more benefit to a faster clock speed than more cores.
As I watched my Task Manager though, this game is nicely using all 8 cores/16 threads nearly equally though so that’s good :)
 
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