PC specs

[Saint Gwynllyw]

With some people complaining about poor performance with Art of War,

What would the recommended PC specs now be for EU4 ?

I'm going to buy a new rig soon

 

[ChildeR]

The performance problems have mostly been unrelated to specs, but the most important is 4GB RAM which is a foregone conclusion with a new rig. (64 bit OS as well.)

Any modern desktop GPU will run it fine unless you have 4k resolution or something, including my cheap 7770. Laptop GPUs I can't quote off the top of my head.

Intel i5 or i7 seems to work best CPU-wise. Laptop i5s are basically i3s, so there you may want to step up to i7.

 

[Mikalos]

A WinXp 32-but 3 gig of ram 430 nvidia can play this at 1-2 seconds a day, so, that

 

[Saint Gwynllyw]

thanks both- £600 budget cover this?

I used to build my own rig back in the early 2000s, I've been out of the game for a while now running a shitty laptop. I only play CK2 at the moment, with no terrain and no water effects lol. I tried the EU4 demo and nearly melted my motherboard.

 

[Saint Gwynllyw]

Intel Core i5 4460 (4x 3.3Ghz)

Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Mainboard

8GB DDR3 1333Mhz

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB

 

[Mikalos]

thanks both- £600 budget cover this?

I used to build my own rig back in the early 2000s, I've been out of the game for a while now running a shitty laptop. I only play CK2 at the moment, with no terrain and no water effects lol. I tried the EU4 demo and nearly melted my motherboard.

a thousand dollars should get you a computer than can play just about anything but the latest and newest power eating games, and even those should have potential on lower settings

 

[ChildeR]

Intel Core i5 4460 (4x 3.3Ghz)

Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Mainboard

8GB DDR3 1333Mhz

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB

Sounds good. I'd pick a Radeon 270 in that price range, but the performance is close enough that 750 Ti is also a reasonable choice if you prefer Nvidia or can find it cheaper.

 

[WeissRaben]

Of course, the recommended requirements on Steam are a fourth of that, so if you don't read the forums while this specific topic is around...too bad, so sad, enjoy your molasses.

 

[Hiram_Maxim]

I went directly from 1.7.3. to 1.8.1, and noticed speed 5 was definitely slower, passing at a rate of about 8 seconds per month (scrolling around the map was no faster or slower.) I have a Radeon 7700 and six GB of RAM but I suspect it's my pretty old Phenom II x4 965 processor that's bottlenecking game speed, time to build a new PC.

 

[Saint Gwynllyw]

do you reckon HOI IV will be much more demanding?

 

[ChildeR]

do you reckon HOI IV will be much more demanding?

Probably not all that much:

all I can say now is that requirements will be about the same as EU4 and some stuff will be possible to turn off/down, but it might require a little more, I am just not sure yet until we start optimizing and adding options.

 

[mattyh1995]

thanks both- £600 budget cover this?

I used to build my own rig back in the early 2000s, I've been out of the game for a while now running a shitty laptop. I only play CK2 at the moment, with no terrain and no water effects lol. I tried the EU4 demo and nearly melted my motherboard.

This page shows a variety of build options. You're probably looking at the $700 build for £600 since we in the UK pay so much more for the parts.