Upgrade cpu/motherboard?

[ramm]

Hello,

 

I currently have:

- Intel i7 950 3,07ghz OC'd to 3,50ghz

- Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. X58A-UD5 (Socket 1366)

- 12gb ddr3 ram

- Asus GTX 780 3gb

- Multiple ssd's and hdd's

 

this setup is fine for most games but recently i have been struggling with planet coaster. I asked on their forums and they tell me that I should upgrade my PC but im honestly dont know if my system is that old.

 

You see with this system I can play GTA5 on 1920x1080 with high/ultra settings and still get a decent framerate (between 50 and 60fps)

 

But for planet coaster I can barely get 30fps, mostly it sticks at 15-20fps when the park is getting even a tiny bit full.

 

So yeah this kinda puts me in a tricky position.

 

Can someone just honestly tell me what my current system is? Because I was pretty sure it was still fine. But yeah how the hell can I run gta5 with all those settings but not be able to run planet coaster at all. The game is in alpha still and needs to be optimized but they tell me my system is outdated and the cpu is bottlenecking so I thought I'd ask on a different forum to get some other opinions. Especially since it doesnt make much sense to upgrade your pc when you can still run a game like gta5 this well. Seems like a waste of money to upgrade. But then again I bought the planet coaster alpha and i really love the game and want to play it but yeah with this setup im unable to.

 

Thanks

[Pdates]

That game is CPU intensive, unlike GTA, that puts it's load on tha Graphics Card. Try upgrading to something new, because that cpu is from Late 2009, a bit old. Have in mind that if you are upgrading, you will have to buy a new motherboard, and maybe new ram,

[AlphaPolack]

It is certainly long in the tooth...

[PCGuy_5960]

You should try to upgrade your CPU... If you can tell us how much money you would be willing to spend, we can provide recommendations

[Nena Trinity]

That CPU should be fine for most games, just not that one I guess...

[typographie]

6 hours ago, ramm said:

But yeah how the hell can I run gta5 with all those settings but not be able to run planet coaster at all.

Optimization. Isn't Planet Coaster still in alpha, by the way? It might be a bit too early to judge it's performance.

 

I wouldn't upgrade just for this game right now. It's not necessarily your CPU that's the problem. Maybe you'd spend hundreds of dollars on a platform upgrade and find your framerate only went up by like 5 FPS or something. Your framerate seems way too poor to be entirely that CPU's fault.

 

Are those other players on the forums getting good framerates, like 60 FPS solidly? And what hardware are they using?