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    Alienware alpha question

    Will the base $500 version of the alpha run far cry 4 at all on high with no anti-aliasing? I don't wanna waste money on it if it doesn't run it cause i'm using far cry 4 as a base for other games like dragon age and my budget is $600. any help would be appreciated
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    CPU: i3-4130T (2 cores, 4 threads, 2,9GHz). Pretty low end but should be able to handle FC4 because of the HyperThreading. Not officially supported because it is not a 4 core processor.

    GPU: GeForce® GTX GPU 2GB GDDR5 "Maxwell". They don't even tell what GPU it really is? Ridiculous! I bet it is very low end, like GTX 750 Ti or something similar. 2GB VRAM is also not much for FC4. May cause problems, not upgradeable!

    Edit: GPU turned out to be overclocked version of GTX 860M. So my estimate of "GTX 750 Ti level" was very close. Around 30 FPS on FullHD resolution in FC4.

    RAM: 4GB DDR3L 1600MHz Memory. Fills the minimum requirements, not recommended requirements. 8GB would be way better. May cause problems. Easy to upgrade though.

    With that chassis the PC must be near impossible to upgrade. I'd go for a normal desktop PC without any "Alienware" costs extra.
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    Originally Posted by KidBakugan_2000 Go to original post
    Will the base $500 version of the alpha run far cry 4 at all on high with no anti-aliasing? I don't wanna waste money on it if it doesn't run it cause i'm using far cry 4 as a base for other games like dragon age and my budget is $600. any help would be appreciated
    Go on youtube and look for low end gaming rigs. There should be suggested rigs that will work well for around $400-$500 (of course that is U.S. prices and may be higher elsewhere).
    like this:

    but of course if you can spend a little more you can get a better unit.
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    I don't want to get off on a rant here but, from the little I have heard and read, Hyperthreading and Gaming are two parallel and different worlds... they will never meet. At least not now and let alone with UBI as the Game Maker.

    https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q...e+in+gaming%3F

    If this was a CoD MW game made by Infinity Ward I could easily tell you that a 500 budget computer might do the work, albeit, hopping from time to time but this being an unfinished (even after patch 1.08), shody, buggy port to a PC game... you are going to be hard press playing in low settings.

    Then again, you could be one of those 1% guys that claim they don't have any issues with the game. Good Luck
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    Originally Posted by GiveMeTactical Go to original post
    I don't want to get off on a rant here but, from the little I have heard and read, Hyperthreading and Gaming are two parallel and different worlds... they will never meet. At least not now and let alone with UBI as the Game Maker.
    Didn't quite catch your point there. FC4 only starts on systems that can run at least four simultaneous threads. Thus it needs either 4 cores or 2 cores with HyperThreading.
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    Again, not being a PC guru and not really caring about doing the testing on my own, I tend to read and hear from people that I know know more than I do... here a quote from one of them

    Far Cry 4 is powered by an enhanced version of the Dunia 2 Engine. And since Far Cry 3 scaled incredibly well on more than four CPU cores, we kind of expected similar behaviour from Far Cry 4. Well, the good news is that the game scales indeed well on four CPU cores. The bad news is that the game always stresses one CPU core/thread, meaning that PC gamers will have to disable completely Hyper Threading, otherwise they will find themselves into a number of CPU limited situations.
    Then, there is another post here that I really did not read it all so I could be wrong... http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php...-better-Forums

    Dual Core CPUs w/HT will fool the software into believing that it has 4 cores but the issue is the stress of FC4 on 1 CPU core and the small percentage usage on the other 3 so no, as far I am concerned, HT is not used beneficially on FC4.
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    Originally Posted by GiveMeTactical Go to original post
    Dual Core CPUs w/HT will fool the software into believing that it has 4 cores but the issue is the stress of FC4 on 1 CPU core and the small percentage usage on the other 3 so no, as far I am concerned, HT is not used beneficially on FC4.
    Yes, you are right, there are very few games that really benefit from HT.

    But the quote didn't make any sense. "The bad news is that the game always stresses one CPU core/thread, meaning that PC gamers will have to disable completely Hyper Threading". I absolutely have no idea what they are trying to say here. Seems like they don't quite know what HT is all about.
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    Originally Posted by KidBakugan_2000 Go to original post
    Will the base $500 version of the alpha run far cry 4 at all on high with no anti-aliasing? I don't wanna waste money on it if it doesn't run it cause i'm using far cry 4 as a base for other games like dragon age and my budget is $600. any help would be appreciated
    That's what you get for buying laptop for "gaming" lol.
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    bottom line is you may get the base game to run on an I 3 no it will not run every asset of the game hence you have a min system requirement of a quad core CPU



    Far Cry 4 Minimum Requirements
    MINIMUM
    OS: Windows® 7 (SP1) / Windows® 8 / Windows® 8.1 / (64-bit only)
    Processor: 2.6 GHz Intel® Core™ i5-750 or 3.2 GHz AMD Phenom™ II X4 955
    Memory: 4 GB RAM
    Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD5850 (1 GB VRAM)
    DirectX: Version 11
    Network: Broadband Internet connection
    Hard Drive: 30 GB available space
    Sound Card: DirectX-compatible
    Additional Notes: Windows-compatible keyboard, mouse, optional controller.


    RECOMMENDED:
    OS: Windows® 7 (SP1) / Windows® 8 / Windows® 8.1 / (64-bit only)
    Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel® Core™ i5-2400S or 4.0 GHz AMD FX-8350 or better
    Memory: 8 GB RAM
    Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 or AMD Radeon R9 290X or better (2 GB VRAM)
    DirectX: Version 11
    Network: Broadband Internet connection
    Hard Drive: 30 GB available space
    Sound Card: DirectX-compatible
    Additional Notes: Supported video cards at the time of release: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or better, GeForce GTX 700 series; AMD Radeon HD5850 or better, Radeon R9 series.


    Note: Laptop versions of these cards may work but are NOT officially supported.
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    the alienware system the OP asked about .. no it will not run the game to satisfactory levels and it will most likely crash a lot ..if it even runs
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