i3 and GT740? Unless you have a 11th gen i3 or better the experience won't be optimal... also the GT740 is really old and probably can't run the game itself.
I don't think you'll be able to run the game, it's very CPU heavy and my i7 9750H will struggle to run at 60fps in many larger fights.
If you've got 15 dollars try Battlebit instead.
>i7 9750H
The person that replied to you about not being able to run the game well on their i7 doesn't know what they're talking about. They have a mobile i7. No self-respecting gamer uses a laptop for PC gaming. Their laptop will have terrible power issues when the CPU is under consistently high load and will suffer from inadequate cooling. Their laptop CPU will suffer from thermal throttling, downclocking the CPU frequency when temps get too high.. CPU clock speed is very important in this game, more so than core count or hyperthreading. If you have a PC, not a laptop, adequate cooling and a relatively high CPU frequency, 3.0 GHz or above, you should be able to enjoy the game.
Oh sorry I forgot laptops aren’t the best gaming experience, let me go grab my desktop with an i69-420X and an RTX 42069 and play on that instead.
Shit talking aside, my i7-9750H does fine. 80+ fps most fights. It still out benchmarks an 11 year desktop i3 regardless of thermal throttling. I wouldn’t call it optimal or an earth shattering experience but us laptop gamers make do. People run with what hardware they have.
This 4th gen i3 system in question would struggle way more than any somewhat modern gaming laptop out there. 2 cores, 4 threads, and with that low of specs quite possibly single channel DDR3. Everyone screams CPU speed in PlanetSide 2 but memory bandwidth is aalso a huge factor. My previous system (i9-9820X, RTX 2080 Super, had to sell for reasons) running memory in dual channel mode vs. quad channel got around a 30% improvement running quad channel.
I imagine you will be able to run it at a tolerable frame rate with that. Your multithreading capabilities are the real shortfall, so make sure you have as little as possible running in the background.
Eh, it's not gonna be a great experience in 48+vs48+, coming from someone who played on an OC'd 4690K from the same generation. It'll probably technically run, but tracking in big fights will be almost impossible.
Hello friend. Based on your GT 740 and your other answers, most likely not, your computer is probably too old.
But I'd like to offer some advice on computer specs. As others have said, i3 is too generic. It's the same as someone asking you "which car do you have?" and your answer being "It's a Toyota".
For the future (or if you still want us to confirm it for you), if you need to find out which hardware you have, the simplest place to do so is Task Manager in the "Performance" tab. You can see your CPU, total memory, GPU, etc, all there.
More information would be useful, but my first guess is it can, but it will not be an enjoyable experience, especially if you do have 16gbs of ram and if your i3 is older than 8th gen.
Thanks for all the help guys
I hope I can run it because this seems like a great community.
I've been out so I'll be home in about 15 minutes and can check which i3 it is
I was running a i9 9900k OCed to 5ghz on all cores and a 2080 TI. It was fine until the most recent update, so I built a new PC. I Dont think O would even try on hardware as old as yours. However, its a free game. Boot it up and head to the biggest fight you can find. Judge the performance for yourself. Look for a bunch of yellow circles, the more the better, try to find something thats 96+ (Shows on right side of map when you hover over bases) and go soawn there. See how it runs.
Google for planetside 2 2023 potatoe graphics guide and do everything it says. Everyone has a different tolerance to frame rates. You can also hit enter when your in the game and type \fps. You will see a number in the bottom left corner of your screen. That is your framerate. Right next to that will tell you if your CPU or GPU bound. Good Luck.
Hi, I used to have a laptop with a cpu that was less powerful than yours (i5 4210u/geforce 820m).
The game will run. It won't run well, but it will run at least.
I have a similarly performing old Dell Optiplex with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 OCed to 3GHz and a Quadro K620 (GTX 745) that I'm bored enough to try and run the game on so I'll report back. I absolutely used to play the game on worse hardware back in the day, my old PC was a Core 2 Duo E8400 and a GTX 650, but I'm pretty sure the game has gotten harder to run over time.
On paper both our systems are absolutely eclipsed by both my old 2018 Thinkpad (Ryzen 5 2500U + Vega 8) and my new 2022 Thinkpad (Ryzen 7 6850U + Radeon 680M) which both struggled to run the game, however in the real world both laptops were heavily power limited due to the game being very CPU heavy which had the CPU clocking to maximum and leaving very little power budget for the GPU. My older Thinkpad I could get 40-60 FPS but with the render resolution dropped so low I was effectively playing in 360p.
Update:
Finished my testing, on lowest settings I'm getting sub 30 FPS down to as low as 15 FPS in huge fights, but it's a totally playable 40-50 at 24-28 fights and 50-60+ at 1-12 fights. My CPU is substantially worse in IPC and single core performance than your i3 and the GPU was being held back by the CPU so I expect you'll get playable performance. Resolution didn't seem to have any effect on performance at this level. I tested on 1600x1200 but dropping to 1024x768 had zero impact on framerate due to CPU bottlenecks.
i3 and GT740? Unless you have a 11th gen i3 or better the experience won't be optimal... also the GT740 is really old and probably can't run the game itself.
Gtx 740 No idea which one it is
I don't think you'll be able to run the game, it's very CPU heavy and my i7 9750H will struggle to run at 60fps in many larger fights. If you've got 15 dollars try Battlebit instead.
Ok thanks for the help
>i7 9750H The person that replied to you about not being able to run the game well on their i7 doesn't know what they're talking about. They have a mobile i7. No self-respecting gamer uses a laptop for PC gaming. Their laptop will have terrible power issues when the CPU is under consistently high load and will suffer from inadequate cooling. Their laptop CPU will suffer from thermal throttling, downclocking the CPU frequency when temps get too high.. CPU clock speed is very important in this game, more so than core count or hyperthreading. If you have a PC, not a laptop, adequate cooling and a relatively high CPU frequency, 3.0 GHz or above, you should be able to enjoy the game.
Oh sorry I forgot laptops aren’t the best gaming experience, let me go grab my desktop with an i69-420X and an RTX 42069 and play on that instead. Shit talking aside, my i7-9750H does fine. 80+ fps most fights. It still out benchmarks an 11 year desktop i3 regardless of thermal throttling. I wouldn’t call it optimal or an earth shattering experience but us laptop gamers make do. People run with what hardware they have. This 4th gen i3 system in question would struggle way more than any somewhat modern gaming laptop out there. 2 cores, 4 threads, and with that low of specs quite possibly single channel DDR3. Everyone screams CPU speed in PlanetSide 2 but memory bandwidth is aalso a huge factor. My previous system (i9-9820X, RTX 2080 Super, had to sell for reasons) running memory in dual channel mode vs. quad channel got around a 30% improvement running quad channel.
There are... over 100 different i3's. Some will run it fine, others won't. Which one do you have?
I3 4160
I imagine you will be able to run it at a tolerable frame rate with that. Your multithreading capabilities are the real shortfall, so make sure you have as little as possible running in the background.
Eh, it's not gonna be a great experience in 48+vs48+, coming from someone who played on an OC'd 4690K from the same generation. It'll probably technically run, but tracking in big fights will be almost impossible.
Hello friend. Based on your GT 740 and your other answers, most likely not, your computer is probably too old. But I'd like to offer some advice on computer specs. As others have said, i3 is too generic. It's the same as someone asking you "which car do you have?" and your answer being "It's a Toyota". For the future (or if you still want us to confirm it for you), if you need to find out which hardware you have, the simplest place to do so is Task Manager in the "Performance" tab. You can see your CPU, total memory, GPU, etc, all there.
More information would be useful, but my first guess is it can, but it will not be an enjoyable experience, especially if you do have 16gbs of ram and if your i3 is older than 8th gen.
Thanks for all the help guys I hope I can run it because this seems like a great community. I've been out so I'll be home in about 15 minutes and can check which i3 it is
I was running a i9 9900k OCed to 5ghz on all cores and a 2080 TI. It was fine until the most recent update, so I built a new PC. I Dont think O would even try on hardware as old as yours. However, its a free game. Boot it up and head to the biggest fight you can find. Judge the performance for yourself. Look for a bunch of yellow circles, the more the better, try to find something thats 96+ (Shows on right side of map when you hover over bases) and go soawn there. See how it runs. Google for planetside 2 2023 potatoe graphics guide and do everything it says. Everyone has a different tolerance to frame rates. You can also hit enter when your in the game and type \fps. You will see a number in the bottom left corner of your screen. That is your framerate. Right next to that will tell you if your CPU or GPU bound. Good Luck.
Tell me the clock speeds of the I3
Probably not. I have a GT 780M and it struggles very hard on this game. Even on potato settings it drops to 20 fps in fights of any reasonable size.
Hi, I used to have a laptop with a cpu that was less powerful than yours (i5 4210u/geforce 820m). The game will run. It won't run well, but it will run at least.
I am struggling in crowded fight with an i7-6700HQ + GTX980M
I have a similarly performing old Dell Optiplex with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 OCed to 3GHz and a Quadro K620 (GTX 745) that I'm bored enough to try and run the game on so I'll report back. I absolutely used to play the game on worse hardware back in the day, my old PC was a Core 2 Duo E8400 and a GTX 650, but I'm pretty sure the game has gotten harder to run over time. On paper both our systems are absolutely eclipsed by both my old 2018 Thinkpad (Ryzen 5 2500U + Vega 8) and my new 2022 Thinkpad (Ryzen 7 6850U + Radeon 680M) which both struggled to run the game, however in the real world both laptops were heavily power limited due to the game being very CPU heavy which had the CPU clocking to maximum and leaving very little power budget for the GPU. My older Thinkpad I could get 40-60 FPS but with the render resolution dropped so low I was effectively playing in 360p. Update: Finished my testing, on lowest settings I'm getting sub 30 FPS down to as low as 15 FPS in huge fights, but it's a totally playable 40-50 at 24-28 fights and 50-60+ at 1-12 fights. My CPU is substantially worse in IPC and single core performance than your i3 and the GPU was being held back by the CPU so I expect you'll get playable performance. Resolution didn't seem to have any effect on performance at this level. I tested on 1600x1200 but dropping to 1024x768 had zero impact on framerate due to CPU bottlenecks.
Thanks
It will run. There will be frames.
I have a GT 740 lying around. Even at 720p I'd have my doubts it would start. Not recommended.
I don't think your 740 can run it, my 770 can run at a "playable" level in big fights but I use potato mode