Upgrade for Stardew Valley

MP X10L · April 26

Budget (including currency): 250€

Country: Germany

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Stardew Valley

Hi everyone,

My girlfriend plays exclusively Stardew Valley. She uses a ton of mods and some areas are quite laggy.

Her current PC:

- ryzen 5 3600

- 32GB DDR4 3000

- RX470 4GB

- 2TB WD Black NVME SSD

- 1440p 60Hz monitor

I am thinking of getting her a new or used 5700X3D or 5800X3D.

I have not investigate it but I think the CPU is the bottleneck.

Does someone have experience with CPU performance of Stardew? Does it like 3D V-cache?

Somehow I am too stupid to find CPU benchmarks for Stardew.

Best,

MPX

AndrewAsd · April 27

You can use MSI Afterburner and see what's being utilised more and determine what's holding back performance.

TetraSky · April 27

It depends entirely on the mods she uses and how many of them.

Stardew Valley is typically more of a CPU game. It can easily be played on an integrated GPU afterall. But if you start modding animations, graphics, textures and the likes, that's a different story.

Personally never used more than a handful of mods, so I never had an issue with lag...

Looking online... Honestly her current specs should be plenty. Seen posts of people with much older and crappier PCs run 300 to 600 mods just fine.

It could be mod incompatibility instead of just needing a better PC...

I would definitely check her system resources while playing first to know what her bottleneck is. If any.

Also, see this

https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/28950

Quote

2. My game still lags—what can I do?
If you're still experiencing lag, try adjusting the mod's memory settings in the config file to better match your system's capabilities. Also, check for other mods that might be conflicting and update them to the latest versions.

Could simply be a configuration issue where the mods are running out of memory, because the config doesn't let them use more than X GB.

jaslion · April 27

Yeah that system should have no problem at all running stardew with HEAPS of mods. This is most definitly a mod configuration issue.

Either way PER CORE cpu usage and gpu usage with msi afterburner during game as well as ram usage.

58 minutes ago, MP X10L said:

Somehow I am too stupid to find CPU benchmarks for Stardew.

Simply because this game runs on a potato so nobody bothered to benchmark it as you can run this game no sweat on like 20 year old machines.

The issues happen when mods conflict and cause loops, memory leaks,... So depending on what all she uses and how well kept is (up to date, constant new mods,...) it can easily get out of hand and NO hardware will fix these software issues

Why_Me · April 27

1 hour ago, MP X10L said:

Budget (including currency): 250€

Country: Germany

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Stardew Valley

Hi everyone,

My girlfriend plays exclusively Stardew Valley. She uses a ton of mods and some areas are quite laggy.

Her current PC:

- ryzen 5 3600

- 32GB DDR4 3000

- RX470 4GB

- 2TB WD Black NVME SSD

- 1440p 60Hz monitor

I am thinking of getting her a new or used 5700X3D or 5800X3D.

I have not investigate it but I think the CPU is the bottleneck.

Does someone have experience with CPU performance of Stardew? Does it like 3D V-cache?

Somehow I am too stupid to find CPU benchmarks for Stardew.

Best,

MPX