My PC configuration is good for PlanetCoaster & other games ?

Candy_78 · Jan 25, 2016

Hello today I come to show the configuration of my PC that I would love to buy PlanetCoaster.

Total price: € 1,120.00

Intel Core i5-4690K (3.5 GHz): € 255.90

[h=1]DDR3 Kingston ValueRAM, 8 Go, 1600 MHz, CAS 11[/h]

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO: € 33.90

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 XTREME, 4GB: € 419.90

Samsung Series EVO 850, 120 GB SATA III: € 69.90

Asus Xonar DX: € 74.90

More Zalman Z3 Black: € 47.80

Cooler Master B500 v2, 500W: € 49.90

Microsoft Windows 10 Family, 64-bit, OEM - DVD Version: € 124.90

Thanks for your help

Guitar_Sly · Jan 25, 2016

Not a bad System... but i think you should get a minimum of 8GB RAM for a System like this...

Candy_78 · Jan 25, 2016

Thank you for your opinion

[h=1]DDR3 Kingston ValueRAM, 8 Go, 1600 MHz, CAS 11[/h]

Angelis1 · Jan 25, 2016

Guitar_Sly said:
Not a bad System... but i think you should get a minimum of 8GB RAM for a System like this...

+1

Candy_78 · Jan 25, 2016

Angelis said:
+1

I found another card 8GB Memory

PSPfreaky · Jan 25, 2016

I expect the minimum specs will be around:

Processor: Quad Core Processor (>2.0Ghz)
RAM: 4GB
Video card: GTX 460 or better
OS: Windows 7, 8, 10 (64 bit versions only)

I'm sure (for 99,99%) you can play Planet Coaster with your system

But what do you mean with other games?

Coasterbuff · Jan 25, 2016

Are you trying to tell me that my Windows 98 won't play Planet Coaster? [cry][cry][cry][cry][cry][cry][cry][cry][cry][cry][cry][cry][cry][cry][cry][cry][cry]
Now where did I put my savings account book

Kombiice · Jan 25, 2016

take a r9 380x instead of a 970

Candy_78 · Jan 25, 2016

PSPfreaky said:
I expect the minimum specs will be around:

Processor: Quad Core Processor (>2.0Ghz)
RAM: 4GB
Video card: GTX 460 or better
OS: Windows 7, 8, 10 (64 bit versions only)

I'm sure (for 99,99%) you can play Planet Coaster with your system But what do you mean with other games?

Minecraft

Angelis1 · Jan 25, 2016

Candy_78 said:
Minecraft

So yeahhhhh, you definitely need RAM !

And if you have enough RAM, you can even have Google Chrome (but nothing sure) [big grin][big grin][big grin]

Brett C · Jan 25, 2016

What is the maximum amount of money that you're willing to spend on a new machine? We can build around that.

This is my current machine's specs:

RAM:

It plays most games silky smooth. Late 2016/2017 will be around the time that I upgrade this machine.

Brett C · Jan 25, 2016

If you can afford it, go for a 256 or 500/512GB SSD. Additionally, for ram, 32GB is actually worthwhile these days on games that are 64bit. Cities Skylines is a massive ram hog for example.

Milkman1 · Jan 25, 2016

PSPfreaky said:
I expect the minimum specs will be around:

Processor: Quad Core Processor (>2.0Ghz)
RAM: 4GB
Video card: GTX 460 or better
OS: Windows 7, 8, 10 (64 bit versions only)

I'm sure (for 99,99%) you can play Planet Coaster with your system But what do you mean with other games?

Based on what they've said that seems about right...essentially Elite: Dangerous' requirements + a little extra

Other games....probably RCTW

Fruchtknoten · Jan 25, 2016

The NVIDIA GeForce 970 GTX is the best graphic card you can buy at the moment. It has the best price/performance and is the most popular one right now. (source: http://www.futuremark.com/hardware/gpu)
I have 2 of them in the MSI-Edition and they are absolutely amazing.

With the change to the 8 GB RAM your system is completely fine for the next years.

Edit: So @Brett C. What are the recommendations for a PC to play Planet Coaster comfortable? My girlfriend has a MAC and maybe she needs to play with bootcamp (windows), depends on if the game will be released on mac or not. The MacBook Air is from mid 2012, has onboard 1,5 GB, i5 with 1,8 GHz and 4 GB RAM. I need to know if this is enough, because she wants to buy the game right now.

Angelis1 · Jan 25, 2016

Fruchtknoten said:
The NVIDIA GeForce 970 GTX is the best graphic card you can buy at the moment. It has the best price/performance and is the most popular one right now. (source: http://www.futuremark.com/hardware/gpu)
I have 2 of them in the MSI-Edition and they are absolutely amazing.

With the change to the 8 GB RAM your system is completely fine for the next years.

Edit: So @Brett C. What are the recommendations for a PC to play Planet Coaster comfortable? My girlfriend has a MAC and maybe she needs to play with bootcamp (windows), depends on if the game will be released on mac or not. The MacBook Air is from mid 2012, has onboard 1,5 GB, i5 with 1,8 GHz and 4 GB RAM. I need to know if this is enough, because she wants to buy the game right now.

I dont wanna talk for Brett C but I guess it's impossible to know what the minimum specs are since the game is still in developpment, but you can take the system requirement from Elite

angerous as reference (they may be close)

Minimum recommended hardware specification:

Direct X 11
Quad Core CPU (4 x 2Ghz is a reasonable minimum)
4 GB System RAM (more is always better)
DX 10 hardware GPU with 1GB video ram
- Nvidia GTX 260
- ATI 4870HD
Internet connection

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows 7
Windows 8.x

Fruchtknoten · Jan 25, 2016

Angelis said:
I dont wanna talk for Brett C but I guess it's impossible to know what the minimum specs are since the game is still in developpment, but you can take the system requirement from Eliteangerous as reference (they may be close)

Minimum recommended hardware specification:

Direct X 11

Quad Core CPU (4 x 2Ghz is a reasonable minimum)

4 GB System RAM (more is always better)

DX 10 hardware GPU with 1GB video ram

Nvidia GTX 260

ATI 4870HD

Internet connection

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows 7

Windows 8.x

But they know what the engine of that game is and the limits. Therefore should they know the specs for that game.

With the requirements from Eliteangerous she would be able to play. Depends on if the MacBook doesn't lose any performance due to bootcamp.

Angelis1 · Jan 25, 2016

Fruchtknoten said:
But they know what the engine of that game is and the limits. Therefore should they know the specs for that game.

Well, I can make many differents games using the same engine, with differents minimum specification at the end.

But yeah, between these two specific games "Elite Dangerous" and "Planet Coaster", I think this will be the same.

Fruchtknoten said:
With the requirements from Eliteangerous she would be able to play. Depends on if the MacBook doesn't lose any performance due to bootcamp.

I cannot help here. I'm not a Mac user ... [sad]

Zerobyte · Jan 25, 2016

Kombiice said:
take a r9 380x instead of a 970

I would go for a Nvidia, less power, better drivers and less hot as an Nvidia card

I buy me 3 day's ago a early birds day present [big grin]

I used my old cooler i think stile the best,a bit heavy 860 gram

and case .

And Brett thanks for the tip nice program (Speccy)

Milkman1 · Jan 25, 2016

Fruchtknoten said:
But they know what the engine of that game is and the limits. Therefore should they know the specs for that game.

With the requirements from Eliteangerous she would be able to play. Depends on if the MacBook doesn't lose any performance due to bootcamp.

It's actually the opposite. Games run/look better on bootcamp than they do on OS X. -or at least did. I haven't checked the latest operating systems.

When playing via bootcamp you aren't emulating a windows computer- you are using a windows computer- so the performance won't suffer like it would when playing via parallels or another virtual PC.
As long as she meets the minimum requirements she'll be fine.

....but will she really be able to enjoy the game with everything set to "low?"

Fruchtknoten · Jan 25, 2016

Milkman said:
....but will she really be able to enjoy the game with everything set to "low?"

I know that bootcamp is not a VM. But I'm wondering about the drivers... like the GPU for DirectX.
We still play the first RCT and we enjoy it. So if Planet Coaster runs on low settings, she will definitely enjoy it as much as with RCT. Graphics are not the main reason to enjoy a game, even if Planet Coaster has very good graphics to give you a nice feeling while you're playing. But it's still not the graphic that makes you play a game for like 100 hours... it's the content.