SH5 and one-core processor... yes? :-)

[Stary Wuj]

Hi! This is my very clever, born of hope question :-)

My specs:

WinXp SP3 32-bit
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (one-core) processor
2 GB RAM
GeForce 8800 GTX (can buy new graphic card, for example GeForce GTX 650 Ti - but does it make sense?)

Can I play SH5 with medium settings?
Whether the game really uses 2 cores?

Have a nice day!

Stary Wuj

[Herr-Berbunch]

Minimum specs say

Intel® Core™2 Duo E4400 2 GHz / AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 4000+ 2.1 GHz or higher
1 GB (Windows XP) / 2 GB (Windows Vista, Windows 7) OS: Windows® XP (Service Pack 3), Windows Vista® (Service Pack 2), Windows® 7
Vid card: 512 MB DirectX® 9.0c-compliant video card (NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT / 9 / GTX 200 series or ATI Radeon HD 2600 / HD 3000 / HD 4000 / HD 5000 series)

At the price it costs I'd say buy it and try it with lowest settings, then you've got it for when you've a better spec PC if it doesn't work well. I wouldn't recommend mods that add too much, just the basic gameplay improvement ones.

Don't forget to d3dantilag file to help things along.

[Sailor Steve]

My single-core processor won't run it without huge problems, but yours is better than mine in being 64-bit. I think your biggest problem is going to be having only 2 GB RAM. I believe it wants 4, and you'll need the 4-Gig patch to make it work (that's a free download, so no worries there). As H-B said above, it's so cheap these days that it can't hurt to get it just to have a copy for the future.

[GT182]

GeForce 8800 GTX will work just fine playing SH5. I also have a 8800GTX 1GB DDR3 [by Zotac] with NVidia's latest drivers [326.??], and everything runs just fine. The 8800 is the oldest GFX card SH5 will run on with no major problems, so I haven't found the need to buy a new one. SH5 runs great with the 8800.


I know nothing about AMD processors so I can't help there. I am using an Intel i5 dual core clocked at 2.81 with XP 32bit SP3 and 4GB DDR3 RAM. It ran great with that setup. And using the same processor and graphics card with Windows 8.1 64bit 12GB DDR3 RAM. SH5 is installed but I have to get it all modded before I run start runing it on 8.1. For now I'm jumping back and forth between XP Home and testing 8.1.... which I like very much. ;)

So I suggest investing in DDR3 RAM first. Matched RAM. Do not use 3 sticks of RAM... use either 2 or 4.
Processor next if needed.
Then a GFX card last.... if you really feel the need for a new one.