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I just learned that far cry 4 won't run on a duel core cpu. Yeah I know I'm late to the party. But I want to know can they legally do that? I would think that would be a violation of some type of consumer law? seeing as I don't recall it being stated anywhere on the box that a duel core can't run the game? Id think that would be some type of false advertising as you pay 60$ for the game fire it up and find out shit my cpu can't run it cause they blocked access.

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I think you can unblock the limitation of two cores no idea how you do do it tho. 

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I just learned that far cry 4 won't run on a duel core cpu. Yeah I know I'm late to the party. But I want to know can they legally do that? I would think that would be a violation of some type of consumer law? seeing as I don't recall it being stated anywhere on the box that a duel core can't run the game? Id think that would be some type of false advertising as you pay 60$ for the game fire it up and find out shit my cpu can't run it cause they blocked access.

ubisoft are kinda well....bastards.....gaming companies these days are getting more and more rough with really careing about what the consumer wants i feel.

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It seems that users with hyperthreading-compatible cpus can get away with this

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Depends... I know on i3s they can get around it

 

 

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But isn't it illegal if it wasn't stated that a duel core couldn't run it. Id be pretty angry if I bought the game expecting it to work only to find out its blocked from even trying to run on my system. Its not the fact that it can't run on a duel core that I'm questioning. Its the fact that by some chance it could its been blocked from even trying and I don't think its stated as such. That just seems VERY illegal to me.

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But isn't it illegal if it wasn't stated that a duel core couldn't run it. Id be pretty angry if I bought the game expecting it to work only to find out its blocked from even trying to run on my system. Its not the fact that it can't run on a duel core that I'm questioning. Its the fact that by some chance it could its been blocked from even trying and I don't think its stated as such. That just seems VERY illegal to me.

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But isn't it illegal if it wasn't stated that a duel core couldn't run it. Id be pretty angry if I bought the game expecting it to work only to find out its blocked from even trying to run on my system. Its not the fact that it can't run on a duel core that I'm questioning. Its the fact that by some chance it could its been blocked from even trying and I don't think its stated as such. That just seems VERY illegal to me.

 

I think it's inferred from the minimum system requirements. It's definitely not illegal, but it's underhanded.

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Well, the spec requirements I saw listed quad core as minimum. The listing was on Nvidias site since I don't have box or atm way to check online services. So if they state that you need quad core, then you can't claim them for game not running on dual core.

It's like when gamers whined over BF4 beta being 64bit only.

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I just learned that far cry 4 won't run on a duel core cpu. Yeah I know I'm late to the party. But I want to know can they legally do that? I would think that would be a violation of some type of consumer law? seeing as I don't recall it being stated anywhere on the box that a duel core can't run the game? Id think that would be some type of false advertising as you pay 60$ for the game fire it up and find out shit my cpu can't run it cause they blocked access.

Hhmm.. Yea.. They did a quite bad joke with unity (even i don't agree that much). But, they did a good job with far cry 4. Well optimized and no major framdrops. The graph is also beautiful.

And.. They announced about core issue before they launched it (as far as i know)

So.. I think it's not fair if we blame them again.

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Hhmm.. Yea.. They did a quite bad joke with unity (even i don't agree that much). But, they did a good job with far cry 4. Well optimized and no major framdrops. The graph is also beautiful.

And.. They announced about core issue before they launched it (as far as i know)

So.. I think it's not fair if we blame them again.

It is fair to blame them because the only reason a quad core is "needed" is because they programmed FC4 to use core number 3 as its primary thread. No rhyme or reason, just ubisoft being stupid. Even more so since you can run it on a dual core, you just need to use a third party fix...

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O okay I just was curious as I wasn't sure if any company could out right block or deny something without clearly stating it. Its not that fact that a duel isn't able to run it. Its the fact that ubisoft flat out denied duel core users from even attempting to run it. Just seems very underhanded and border line illegal to say well maybe it could run it but were not even gonna let it try. Then not stating so in any info of the game.

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I don't know what is written on the box. But on Steam the minimum requirement asks for a quad core CPU.

 

And that is ultimately their software. So they can do what they want with it. If they want to lock out certain hardware they are allowed to do it. With this case they did inform the consumer. But even if they didn't it would have been at most false advertisement and you should take them to court to get something out of it. And at most you'll get a refund out if it.

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It is fair to blame them because the only reason a quad core is "needed" is because they programmed FC4 to use core number 3 as its primary thread. No rhyme or reason, just ubisoft being stupid. Even more so since you can run it on a dual core, you just need to use a third party fix...

to be honest. i aint complaining since i'm using a quad core CPU and it was a good game. and i think, that game isn't for dual core CPU which is probably bottleneck with quite high end GPUs. my fiend tried this game with his quad core i5 and GTX 560 and this game is too heavy for that GPU. so, u need a better hardware right? so, i think a bit proper quad core CPU which won't bottleneck with a "proper" GPU as the minimum requirement isn't a problem here. that's what i think.

the game performance itself? it was good (even it wasn't the best) and i'm happy with that.

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