The "Can I Run Planet Coaster" thread

Bergenia Tanoak

Bergenia Tanoak
cerealfruitcakes said:
Call me crazy but I hate the dang graphics card clip with all my heart and soul. I don't know why I have the worst time with it but it just never wants to play nice with me. [mad][mad]

With my experience, I found that researching parts and understanding how it all worked was the worst part. There are so many layers to it. i5's vs i7's? Why do some of the processors have K's on the end of them? DDR3 vs DDR4? What's better or different about AMD vs Intel? What are all these companies making the same card? Which one do I pick?! It can feel very daunting.

But after I understood what I was getting into and finished building it, I wanted to smack myself in the head for thinking this was going to be hard. It feels very intimidating at first, but once you grasp what everything is doing, it clicks and it's like riding a bicycle. You should definitely spend some time understanding what the parts are, what they do and how it all works together. Then dive into officially picking out parts. Seems intimidating at first, but there are a crazy amount of Beginner Guides for this, just go wild on Google.

I really like PCpartpicker.com You can set up a build, see other builds, etc. etc. I like that when you're picking out parts, it will deduce parts that aren't compatible with each other. That really helped me a lot when I was starting out. It's also very, very nice knowing I'm saving some good $$ which can later be spent towards some new upgrades. I just picked up a new 8gb stick of RAM for dirt cheap and it took seconds to install.
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I agree with all of this.

That GPU clip, just clips automatically without issue when installing the card, but I have forgotten to disengage it when pulling the card out. Always a duhhhh moment.

For the heck of it, I'm going to define some things to the best of my understanding of them:

i7: comes with hyperthreading. This technology adds about 10 to 30% boost in handling of a large number of tasks which will make it feel like it has more "speed".

K: is a special version that may be faster, and also gives you further overclocking options to boost the speed of the processor. The Intel 6700K I used in my build list is by default faster than the non K version (4GHz vs 3.4GHz). Overclocking is where you run the processor at a faster "non official" speed. For example running the 4GHz processor at 4.5 GHz all the time; this will result in the processor running hotter so you need better cooling than the stock solution.

Socket 1151: Means there are 1,151 contact points on the bottom of the little CPU chip.[shocked] The newest Intel generation of Socket 1151 (means there are 1151 pins) don't overclock as well as the older 1150 version from 1 year ago. In some ways a build with the older 2014/2015 top of the line I7-4790K could be a little faster when tweaked. Buying the new 1151 solution might allow you to upgrade the processor in the future to a better one, since the 1151 socket will be used for a few years.

DDR4 ram, or also called memory, is needed for the Socket 1151 processors. DDR3 is needed for the older Socket 1150 processors.

There are always options.[up]
 
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Tristan91

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Hi all

Do you think my laptop will be able to run the game?

Windows 10 64-bit
Intel Core i7-3630QM @2.4GHz
8 GB of RAM
Nvidia GeForce 610M

Thanks to all you wonderful people who understand what these numbers mean!
 

Vadon

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Tristan91 said:
Hi all

Do you think my laptop will be able to run the game?

Windows 10 64-bit
Intel Core i7-3630QM @2.4GHz
8 GB of RAM
Nvidia GeForce 610M

Thanks to all you wonderful people who understand what these numbers mean!
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Probably not. Your gpu is weak and below minimum specs.
 

Lithix

Lithix
Hey everyone,

Considering buying into the alpha and judging by the other posts on here I'm probably ok to run the game reasonably well but I just wanted to be sure since my processor is a reasonably old model now:

Windows 10 64-bit
Intel Core i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz (3.80 Overclock)
Radeon 7850 HD (2GB memory)
16 GB of DDR3 RAM @ 799 MHz

Thanks a lot for your help!
 

Joël

Volunteer Moderator
Joël
Lithix said:
Hey everyone,

Considering buying into the alpha and judging by the other posts on here I'm probably ok to run the game reasonably well but I just wanted to be sure since my processor is a reasonably old model now:

Windows 10 64-bit
Intel Core i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz (3.80 Overclock)
Radeon 7850 HD (2GB memory)
16 GB of DDR3 RAM @ 799 MHz

Thanks a lot for your help!
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Hey Lithix, welcome to the Planet Coaster community!

Looking at your specs I think your computer is very well capable to run Planet Coaster. [up]
I personally have an even older Intel Core i7 processor and it runs the game reasonably smooth, although on the 'medium' graphics setting, so you should be fine.

Enjoy the game! [big grin]
 

ryanlee94

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Hi everyone,

I don't want to spend the money on the game if I can't run it.

Windows 10
Intel core i7-4510u
8GB RAM
Intel HD graphics 4400

Let me know what you think.
Thanks for the help!
 

Abletudu

Abletudu
The Intel HD is an integrated graphics chip and it doesn't tend to run Planet Coaster very well. You need a proper dedicated graphics card unfortunately.
 

aDOLPHINjoy18

aDOLPHINjoy18
You probably will be able to run it in 1366x768 low settings. my hp ab222tx 15' laptop has a 6th gen intel core i5 6200u with intel hd 520 and even the amd r7 m360 runs it slightly better.
2 months ago i decided to invest in a custom destop pc with intels flagship 6th gen i7 6700k quad core cpu and sapphire nitro amd radeon r9 390 and it can easily smoothly play this game on 1920x1080 HIGH settings. I call it investing cuz you're breaking your budget forking out money for it. But in the end you can rnjoy your games in 1080p maxed out settings with smooth fps. the amd r9 390 has a big 512bit bus and whopping 384gb/s. my r7 360m on my laptop only has a bandwidth of 16gb/s I googled that info.
 

gregorburns

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Bignrich09 said:
Will there be any limitations like if I make a huge park
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The big frame drops tend to come from the amount of people in the park. I don't think there's a computer out there that won't have a limitation in that way at the moment but you have a good i7 processor and to put that in comparison, I get to around 4000 People before I hit any frame drop with my Pentium processor which is way below yours so I'd certainly say that you'll be able to get a few thousand people in with no problems.
 

aDOLPHINjoy18

aDOLPHINjoy18
I can assure you, you will be able to play this game in 1920x1080 HIGH settings smoothly! My custom desktop PC has the 6th gen Intel Core i7-6700k CPU too. According to Intel's website, it is also their current flagship processor too. weeeeeeee

Out of the Intel Core i7 6700HQ, and 6700, the 6700k has the highest base speed of 4Ghz. My system also has a Sapphire Nitro AMD Radeon R9 390 too. Your and my hardware is perfectly able to play this game easily on maxed settings. Even with a huge detailed park with 6 roller coasters like my park and 4200 people in your park. My system also has 16GB DDR4 2400Mhz HyperX system RAM.

For those who want to know the official minimum system requirements for this game, here: https://www.frontierstore.net/planet-coaster-earlybird.html
You can also Google the type of GPU and CPU you have and compare it to the minimum requirements hardware. And also notebookcheck and GPU Boss to compare your GPU/CPU potential with that stated in the minimum specs required.
 

CoasterRanger

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Hello!

So I don't know much about performances and things like that.

My performances:

AMD FX(tm)-4100 Quad-Core Processor 3.61GHz
Ram 8,00 Go
64 bits

Will it be enough to run Planet Coaster?

Thank you.
 
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