Is AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP good to run PlanCo 2?

[DarthQuell]

So, I checked my system requirements and, from what I can see, everything in my set-up is above the minimum (and some above the recommended). The only thing my set-up said when checking it was that I need NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB VRAM) / AMD Radeon RX 5600XT (6GB VRAM) / Intel Arc A750 (8GB VRAM). I currently have AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Is it possible for my desktop to run PlanCo 2 or not? I'd like to know before I order the game

 

[DarthQuell]

I know that my graphics card is on the older side, but hey, if it works it works. I can run games like PlanZo, Ark: Survival Evolved, and Prehistoric Kingdom (maybe not the best examples, but it's all I could come up with)

 

[Robert K]

I don't know. If it isn't at least 6GB and the minimum one listed, who knows if PC2 will even work or if it will be slow. My current card is 3GB but I'm on Win 8.1 and Direct X 11 so it won't work with that. I want to keep 8.1 for a reason, so I need to buy a computer with Win 10 or 11, preferably 11 because support for 10 ends in a year. And I would like the i7-10700 processor and the RTX 2070 Super card and an SSD drive. I'm looking for a deal on ebay for under $500. They are out there, if you get it used.

 

[GroG79]

Should be fine in 1080p

 

[DistortAMG]

Should be fine in 1080p

I doubt it. It is way slower than the minimum GPU that is listed in the minimum requirements. VRAM amount is only part of the picture, the card also needs to be fast enough.

 

[Robert K]

Is it better to just go for an RTX 2070 Super card vs. the GTX one? Do only the higher cards support ray tracing? Frontier is forcing me to spend a few hundred dollars to be able to play their stupid Planet Coaster sequel at a reasonable frame rate. And I guess you absolutely must have Windows 10 at minimum. I'm just going to try to get a used PC on ebay that has that graphics card in it and the i7-10700 cpu. There is one now, for $450 but somebody could buy it in the meantime. Steam stopped working on my current computer anyway after uninstalling it and reinstalling it because of an error message that gave a few choices and one of them allowed Steam to run with something disabled. It seems to load, and the processes show in task manager, but no window pops up. Maybe it doesn't like Windows 8.1 anymore? They did stop supporting 8.1 this year.

 

[Ramm]

Is it better to just go for an RTX 2070 Super card vs. the GTX one? Do only the higher cards support ray tracing? Frontier is forcing me to spend a few hundred dollars to be able to play their stupid Planet Coaster sequel at a reasonable frame rate. And I guess you absolutely must have Windows 10 at minimum. I'm just going to try to get a used PC on ebay that has that graphics card in it and the i7-10700 cpu. There is one now, for $450 but somebody could buy it in the meantime. Steam stopped working on my current computer anyway after uninstalling it and reinstalling it because of an error message that gave a few choices and one of them allowed Steam to run with something disabled. It seems to load, and the processes show in task manager, but no window pops up. Maybe it doesn't like Windows 8.1 anymore? They did stop supporting 8.1 this year.

Come on Robert you cant really blame Frontier for this... I usually dont say this but if anything PC related is such a big problem then maybe consoles is a better option.

PC's just need regular updates. Dont need a new one very year, but if you upgrade every main component like CPU, Mobo, Ram, GPU every 5 to 6 years you still always have a very decent system. A good ATX tower and good PSU can last you well over 10 years.

It seems you try to keep making shortcuts everywhere but in the end its better to just get a decent Power supply and decent case and then upgrade your components every 5 years or so. A windows license you also only need once and I could upgrade from win7 to win10 for free back in the day so im sure you could do that with win8 too and now we also have windows 11 which I personally dont use but it goes to show that you are staying a bit behind on purpose.

It seems you are making it incredibly difficult for some reason

 

[Robert K]

I'm just going to get a high end pc used for cheap on ebay. They are out there. If I get one with the graphics card and the cpu at the recommended specs would that handle PC2 well? The RTX 2070 and i7-10700? I don't have to get it now, I can wait until November after my bowel surgery or even December. I have Crohn's, and I have to go for a minor surgery Nov. 7, day after PC2 launches. I have to stay in the hospital for a few days for observation.

 

[DistortAMG]

Is it better to just go for an RTX 2070 Super card vs. the GTX one? Do only the higher cards support ray tracing? Frontier is forcing me to spend a few hundred dollars to be able to play their stupid Planet Coaster sequel at a reasonable frame rate. And I guess you absolutely must have Windows 10 at minimum. I'm just going to try to get a used PC on ebay that has that graphics card in it and the i7-10700 cpu. There is one now, for $450 but somebody could buy it in the meantime. Steam stopped working on my current computer anyway after uninstalling it and reinstalling it because of an error message that gave a few choices and one of them allowed Steam to run with something disabled. It seems to load, and the processes show in task manager, but no window pops up. Maybe it doesn't like Windows 8.1 anymore? They did stop supporting 8.1 this year.

What are you blaming Frontier for? For advancing their games and making the graphics look as good as they can? There are plenty of cheaper and simpler options including Geforce now and consoles, but you choose not to use then. That's not Frontiers fault is it. That's you being picky and without sounding nasty (I do not mean to be) but stubborn too.

In answer to your question an RTX 2070 will run the game with ray tracing, a GTX card will not. If you cheap out on a power supply though, expect to be putting all the components inside the PC at risk of being damaged and or destroyed. A power supply is really the most inportant component inside a PC that you should not be cheaping out on. If you do, you risk your whole PC.

You see you are facing right now, basic errors with Steam that are fixable but you don't have the skills to fix (that's perfectly fine) my worry is your gonna be running into such a hard time with other issues, driver updates and what not going forward. The PC platform as in being natively played on a box in your house, really doesn't sound like the best option for you, not for a stress free experience.

 

[Digler]

Is it better to just go for an RTX 2070 Super card vs. the GTX one? Do only the higher cards support ray tracing? Frontier is forcing me to spend a few hundred dollars to be able to play their stupid Planet Coaster sequel at a reasonable frame rate. And I guess you absolutely must have Windows 10 at minimum. I'm just going to try to get a used PC on ebay that has that graphics card in it and the i7-10700 cpu. There is one now, for $450 but somebody could buy it in the meantime. Steam stopped working on my current computer anyway after uninstalling it and reinstalling it because of an error message that gave a few choices and one of them allowed Steam to run with something disabled. It seems to load, and the processes show in task manager, but no window pops up. Maybe it doesn't like Windows 8.1 anymore? They did stop supporting 8.1 this year.

LOL...don't blame Frontier for your lack of patience. Save and buy.

 

[Ramm]

I'm just going to get a high end pc used for cheap on ebay. They are out there. If I get one with the graphics card and the cpu at the recommended specs would that handle PC2 well? The RTX 2070 and i7-10700? I don't have to get it now, I can wait until November after my bowel surgery or even December. I have Crohn's, and I have to go for a minor surgery Nov. 7, day after PC2 launches. I have to stay in the hospital for a few days for observation.

Yes it should technically run it if it all works as promised. But second hand is always a risk. You cant go back for warranty etc. Im curious if people sell it including the data such as windows install on the drives. Seems like a huge security risk. So I would assume you have to install windows yourself. So you should already make a bootable windows 10 usb installer on an usb drive

 

[Robert K]

Some people sell their PC's because they are upgrading. There is one on ebay now with an RTX 2070 card for $450 buy it now. He is upgrading. I missed out though on an i9 with a graphics card even better than the 2070, it sold for $360 or something. I tried to bid on it at the last seconds but was outbid. There were no new bids for hours until the end. It jumped up by $100. It was $288 before I placed a bid and others did, too. I'm just going to wait and get one when I have enough. I have over $200 in ebay right now, and I'm going to buy some ebay cards at grocery stores, like $50 at a time.

 

[MDPCFan]

Im curious if people sell it including the data such as windows install on the drives. Seems like a huge security risk. So I would assume you have to install windows yourself. So you should already make a bootable windows 10 usb installer on an usb drive

I'm sure other PC companies have something similar, but on Dell systems, you can do a "Factory Reset" of your system if you're giving away/selling it, which wipes out your data and resets the entire system to how it was when it was first bought (including whatever version of Windows it came with, Dell bloatware, and all else). I doubt the "wipe" of the hard drive(s) is govt.-grade or anything thorough like that, but that's probably what was done to the used systems Robert K is looking at. And it's all nice and legal because Windows, in this case, is essentially licensed to that PC -- not the individual who owns it.

 

[ladbroke]

Come on Robert you cant really blame Frontier for this... I usually dont say this but if anything PC related is such a big problem then maybe consoles is a better option.

PC's just need regular updates. Dont need a new one very year, but if you upgrade every main component like CPU, Mobo, Ram, GPU every 5 to 6 years you still always have a very decent system. A good ATX tower and good PSU can last you well over 10 years.

It seems you try to keep making shortcuts everywhere but in the end its better to just get a decent Power supply and decent case and then upgrade your components every 5 years or so. A windows license you also only need once and I could upgrade from win7 to win10 for free back in the day so im sure you could do that with win8 too and now we also have windows 11 which I personally dont use but it goes to show that you are staying a bit behind on purpose.

It seems you are making it incredibly difficult for some reason

This I agree with.

Last year, I upgraded my motherboard.
When Planco2 was announced, I done a "will my pc run it" test and it said I needed a newer graphics card, so I got one.
The motherboard is already in place (though I probably want another new one of that, but in the new year, as what I got wasn't a massive upgrade but helped at the time).

I got the XFX AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT SPEEDSTER QICK 319 Core 12GB GDDR6 Graphics Card, which was £300.

The newer motherboard I'm looking at takes me from Ryzen 5, that replaced my 3 last year, to a 7. This should then allow me to keep this for a couple years, and save up for when I want to upgrade again to a far better one.