Pemalite said:
Cerebralbore101 said:
AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor
AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
RAM 8 GB of Something or another.
A small solid state for booting windows.
A 500 GB regular HDD of some sort.
Some sort of MSI board. I forget. A friend helped me pick the board years ago.
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The AMD FX is your issue there.
Even when released it wasn't exactly the fastest thing on the market.
Your GPU could also do with a boost as well, the Radeon 7700 card despite being fantastic value back in 2012, hasn't aged well.
In short... Civilization 5 is a better fit for your PC, even then I would personally still upgrade.
vivster said:
Maybe "for a game in 2018" you shouldn't use a CPU from 2012. To add to it AMD has a notoriously low single thread performance. Civ hasn't gotten less complex over the years.
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Well. The single threaded performance isn't really the issue for Civilization...
It's that the multi-threaded performance of the FX chips, tend to not be great anyway.
Spindel said:
Err...
The turn calculation is single threaded since you really can't parallellise it. Any additional cores are just used to run UI.
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From my extensive testing, there were gains when I went from 2-12 threads with Civilization 5.
I would imagine Civilization 6 has taken it farther. (But can't verify as I haven't played/tested it.)
With that in mind... A game doesn't actually need to leverage every CPU core for you to see a gain with more CPU cores.
I.E. Games that use 4 cores still saw improvements on my old 6-core processor.
In the AMD FX's case however... It is sharing an FP unit between two threads, hence, doubling the cores needed is extremely beneficial.
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Thanks. So what exactly should I upgrade to? Can I get away with just upgrading the CPU? I've never been the sort of person that cares about graphics. I still play two to three gen 5 or 6 games a year.
Edit: I think I'll just upgrade to the recommended specs for Civ 6 and Sega's Warhammer series.
Last edited by Cerebralbore101 - on 23 August 2018
