View Full Version : Should I buy a new Pc to play SH5
Trool323
08-24-10, 07:52 AM
Help guys I dont know if I should buy a new Pc to play SH5 or not. I read about sh5. I've seen many vids on y tube about sh5. I still think it's not worth the money to buy a new system to play the game. I think SH4 with op monsun is probably just as good. tell me why i should fork out the upgrade money to play it ? I currently have one of the last model celeron D's. With 1 gig of DDR ram and a 256 AGP card. Needless to say SH5 aint running on my system anytime soon.
I've been eye ballin tiger direct but i dont know if I should upgrade.
irish1958
08-24-10, 08:09 AM
Help guys I dont know if I should buy a new Pc to play SH5 or not. I read about sh5. I've seen many vids on y tube about sh5. I still think it's not worth the money to buy a new system to play the game. I think SH4 with op monsun is probably just as good. tell me why i should fork out the upgrade money to play it ? I currently have one of the last model celeron D's. With 1 gig of DDR ram and a 256 AGP card. Needless to say SH5 aint running of my system anytime soon.
I've been eye ballin tiger direct but i dont know if I should upgrade.
Save your money and go see the Reds play a few games.
Dale1957
08-24-10, 08:57 AM
you could get the mod for the atlantic use this with SH4.
robbo180265
08-24-10, 09:00 AM
Help guys I dont know if I should buy a new Pc to play SH5 or not. I read about sh5. I've seen many vids on y tube about sh5. I still think it's not worth the money to buy a new system to play the game. I think SH4 with op monsun is probably just as good. tell me why i should fork out the upgrade money to play it ? I currently have one of the last model celeron D's. With 1 gig of DDR ram and a 256 AGP card. Needless to say SH5 aint running on my system anytime soon.
I've been eye ballin tiger direct but i dont know if I should upgrade.
Really it's your call - not ours.
I wouldn't advise upgrading for SH5 only , as you may have seen it's a long way off being a complete supermodded sim(although the modders get it closer each day).
I would imagine that with those specs you are going to struggle with most modern games, so it might be worth it in the long run.
Sailor Steve
08-24-10, 09:02 AM
Even to play SH4 properly you need 2 GB RAM and a 1 GB graphics card. I'm planning on a new computer soon, not for SH5, but for SH3. It takes a lot of power to run these games properly, and for all the upgrades I've done to my current rig, it still has problems with SH3 modded the way I like, which is pretty funny seeing that I bought this computer five years ago just so I could play SH3.
SH4 is better in that respect, but it will stutter a lot if you don't perform the upgrades I mentioned.
Jimbuna
08-24-10, 09:30 AM
I bought a new rig nearly a fortnight ago because I was finding it difficult to play any SH series game (mainly becuase of what my system obviously determind as 'excessive modding' and upgrades).
I honestly don't think any game is worthy of the cost of a new system but the simple truth is, if you want to play SH3 fully modded with all the latest gems or SH4 or SH5, you will need a pretty powerful set of system specs.
The final consideration for me was the fact I wanted to be relatively future proof for about a year ahead.
Buy a new rig to play a variety of modern games -by all means, but just for SH5?
Not really worth it tbh.
Lord Justice
08-24-10, 11:30 AM
Really it's your call - not ours.
I would imagine that with those specs you are going to struggle with most modern games, so it might be worth it in the long run. Agreed. :yep:
The final consideration for me was the fact I wanted to be relatively future proof for about a year ahead. Agree. :yep: I built my pc for 2 sims + 2 games only, and futre proofing of course. The main question for me was, outwith sh3 and sh4, how much did i want sh5? to command crew, enjoy better graphics, it was high up priority must have. As the good gent Robbo says its your call. :hmmm:
Karasunx
08-24-10, 01:01 PM
If you've been thinking of upgrading your PC anyway, then SH5 can be the catalyst to do so. I was playing games on a rig that was almost 7 years old and upgraded just because it was time and used the specs for SH5 as a baseline for what I wanted my new system to handle.
Gfx card and Ram is what will set you back a abit, but a decent CPU and mobo can be bought for peanuts.
Ducimus
08-24-10, 02:49 PM
Buy a new rig to play a variety of modern games -by all means, but just for SH5?
Not really worth it tbh.
QFE.
skookum
08-24-10, 03:00 PM
I can run sh4 max everything at 50 FPS. How does SH5 compare to SH4?
Jimbuna
08-24-10, 03:19 PM
I can run sh4 max everything at 50 FPS. How does SH5 compare to SH4?
In the broadest possible terms....lets say you needed a system 30% more powerful than the one you needed to run SH3 in order to play SH4....a further increase of 30-40% is needed for SH5.
I did say in the 'broadest terms'.....because I'm too lazy to dig out the game sleeves :DL
Usually the increase is in graphics and cpu.
pickinthebanjo
08-24-10, 04:09 PM
Help guys I dont know if I should buy a new Pc to play SH5 or not. I read about sh5. I've seen many vids on y tube about sh5. I still think it's not worth the money to buy a new system to play the game. I think SH4 with op monsun is probably just as good. tell me why i should fork out the upgrade money to play it ? I currently have one of the last model celeron D's. With 1 gig of DDR ram and a 256 AGP card. Needless to say SH5 aint running on my system anytime soon.
I've been eye ballin tiger direct but i dont know if I should upgrade.
Well if you want to play it then you'd better do some upgrading. If you don't like it there is always new games that are good, though they may not be subsim's. I just built a new build for SH5 but I don't expect much from it so I will probably build it for Metro/Battlefield 2, but you never know it may be great. All I want to be able to do in SH5 is start out, find a ship, then sink it :haha: I'll play SH3 for a campaign
CaptainMattJ.
08-24-10, 08:50 PM
my rig is a 600 GB hard drive, 4GB Ram quad core. i can barely play SH5 simply because of my graphics card. ATI radeon 3200 sucks so hard you wouldnt believe it if you saw it. if im around a large task force FPS is 1. if around a task force its 1 the rest of the time its 8 FPS. thats with EVERYTHING OFF and absolutely lowest resolution. whats a GOOD graphics card thats not overpriced. good enough to run SH5 with mostly everything on, but not 1500 dollars.
DelphiUniverse
08-25-10, 02:33 AM
Buy an intel computer with support for SSE 4.1 (And 4.2). Get a GTX 280 or newer, its extremely important with a good graphics card with this (and other games). The difference between a good rig with a bad graphics card and a medium good rig with a good graphics card is incredible. Don't buy the second best thing when it comes to a graphics card. I see too many people being cheap there and as soon as they fire up a game, they start to complain.
Jimbuna
08-25-10, 07:16 AM
Based on price and taking into account you already have ATI the 5750 is ample.
Buy an intel computer with support for SSE 4.1 (And 4.2). Get a GTX 280 or newer, its extremely important with a good graphics card with this (and other games). The difference between a good rig with a bad graphics card and a medium good rig with a good graphics card is incredible. Don't buy the second best thing when it comes to a graphics card. I see too many people being cheap there and as soon as they fire up a game, they start to complain.
And dont fall for the 'Graphics memory' con either.
With a graphics card you get what you pay for everytime, for instance: a 50$ card with 2GB memory is almost certainly going to be a pile of crap compared to a $100 with 1GB, the differcence being that the more expensive card will have a faster GPU core - which is far more influencial on your games performance than a few MB of Memory..
Also 'Faster memory' is better than 'More memory' where Video cards are concerned.
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