Should I buy a new Pc to play SH5

[Trool323]

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]

Originally Posted by Trool323

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]

you could get the mod for the atlantic use this with SH4.

[robbo180265]

Originally Posted by Trool323

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]

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]

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.

[JU_88]

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]

Originally Posted by robbo180265

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.

Originally Posted by jimbuna

The final consideration for me was the fact I wanted to be relatively future proof for about a year ahead.

Agree. 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.

[Karasunx]

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.

[JU_88]

Gfx card and Ram is what will set you back a abit, but a decent CPU and mobo can be bought for peanuts.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by JU_88

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]

I can run sh4 max everything at 50 FPS. How does SH5 compare to SH4?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by skookum

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

Usually the increase is in graphics and cpu.

[pickinthebanjo]

Originally Posted by Trool323

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 I'll play SH3 for a campaign

[CaptainMattJ.]

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.