Fallout 4 have insane CPU requirement?

[FPS-Russia]

http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2182-fallout-4-cpu-benchmark-huge-performance-difference

 

 

 

 

Why did Bethesda not learn from older games? Fallout 3 runs like shit on my up to date PC at 1440P and this don't look much better?

[AresKrieger]

Kinda, it runs a lot better on higher end CPUs but one way to help counteract this is having higher memory speeds since fallout loves faster ram

[Morgan MLGman]

Funny how people still think i5's don't bottleneck in games and that i7's have no benefit. 12FPS difference is non-existant then in a game like Fallout? Not to mention frametime drops and potential stuttering that does not occur nearly as often on i7s.

[SageOfSpice]

3 minutes ago, AresKrieger said:

Kinda, it runs a lot better on higher end CPUs but one way to help counteract this is having higher memory speeds since fallout loves faster ram

Can confirm this. I'd spent quite a bit of time trying to get this to run on my old FX-4100. No doubt you'd believe it was heinously under-powered for the job, but with a combination of ram overclocking and the shadow tweak, the game ran at a pretty reasonable 50-60 fps inside a fairly large settlement, and at about 30-40 fps while Concord and Diamond City. That's largely due to the overclocking the ram. The ram overclock made it not only play smoother, but increased the FPS by a good 10 frames. I've never seen a game benefit that much from ram overclocking.

[AresKrieger]

1 minute ago, Morgan MLGman said:

Funny how people still think i5's don't bottleneck in games and that i7's have no benefit. 12FPS difference is non-existant then in a game like Fallout? Not to mention frametime drops and potential stuttering that does not occur nearly as often on i7s.

That's why I have my 4790k, if a game can utilize the threads an i7 can give an amazing boost.

[Morgan MLGman]

22 minutes ago, AresKrieger said:

That's why I have my 4790k, if a game can utilize the threads an i7 can give an amazing boost.

Not necessarily the threads only, there is also the matter of more L3 cache, I'm using an i7 as well myself, albeit an older one. Does very well paired with a 290X reducing CPU overhead and performing exceptionally well together.