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Watch Dogs will not run on Dual-core CPUs

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Yeah I installed this game on my old PC thats running a intel core 2 duo E8400 and it barely runs at all. I take about 5 steps and it locks up for a few seconds and take 5 more steps and it does it again. it does run but real bad.

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The IPC does matter to CPU performance, and its something the manufacturer should be about when engineering the product, but its not something the user should even be bothered.
 
What the user should be about more is about the general performance of the processor.
 

IPC is just a number! :P

 

Yes! Precisely! That's what I'm saying (or trying to say anyways). :) Look at the overall performance of the processor, not one specific attribute (number of cores, clock speed, cache etc.) on it's own. Those things, individually, are only a part of what effects the overall performance. 

 

That last line... LOLZ  :lol:

 

Yeah I installed this game on my old PC thats running a intel core 2 duo E8400 and it barely runs at all. I take about 5 steps and it locks up for a few seconds and take 5 more steps and it does it again. it does run but real bad.

Depends on the rest of your system. You may be running out of system ram or Vram (or both). 

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Yes! Precisely! That's what I'm saying (or trying to say anyways). :) Look at the overall performance of the processor, not one specific attribute (number of cores, clock speed, cache etc.) on it's own. Those things, individually, are only a part of what effects the overall performance. 

 

That last line... LOLZ  :lol:

 

Depends on the rest of your system. You may be running out of system ram or Vram (or both). 

I was just trying to see of it would actually run on it. The specs are the E8400, EVGA 780i mobo, EVGA GTX 680 <---hand me down from the gamer PC, 8 gigs of OCZ gold 800MHz, and an Audigy 2Z sound card. it was a good gaming system 6 years ago, and also will play TitanFail on medium to high settings at 1920x1080. I know that game isn't to taxing to run but it's the newest game I've installed on the old machine.

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