System requirements are out!

[MadDjinn]

I was misreading the chart then. Thank you so much.

The HD 8570 is indeed better than the recommended spec of HD 7970. It's even a bigger number

And yes, AMD uses the normal bigger number is better thing - within the type. So HD vs HD bigger is better wrt the first 2 numbers.

HD vs R9 is a little different since the 7970 is roughly equivalent to the R9 260 I think, give or take since the R9 series is mostly a rebranded HD card set.

Oh, oops.

I take it you meant the HD 8570D. With the D meaning onboard rather than a real card.

That would be very different.

No it won't be good enough if it's an onboard thing.

 

[AvantInvader]

Looks like its time to upgrade my graphics card!

 

[SJSerio]

I'm sure I'll have to upgrade my video card now. Hopefully I'll be able to do it in October (though I need a new printer too and that is a priority for school). May have to wait for November, though.

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[tokala]

For those of us a bit out of the loop when it comes to hardware, is there any kind of online tool that will let us compare this against our own specs and give us an idea of how well or poorly it will run? Like a benchmark score type thing.

I find the notebookcheck list fairly helpful, especially for those with not-so-good or older hardware:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-5500.125586.0.html
mostly notebook chips, desktop cards are in italics

minimum would be upper end of "class 4", anything from "class 1" should work with high(ish) settings.

Spoiler :

I'm assuming my videocard on laptop is good?

I have an AMD APU...anyone have an idea of where it as well as my graphics card fall in that range?

Those are technically around or a bit above min requirements.
Intel integrated graphics might underperform though, due to generally not-so-hot drivers.

With low end dual graphics, it's probably better to use only the dedicated (more powerful) card.

 

[Grumpbeard]

Oh, oops.

I take it you meant the HD 8570D. With the D meaning onboard rather than a real card.

That would be very different.

No it won't be good enough if it's an onboard thing.

Nope, there's no D on my computer specs (looking at my order when I bought the thing.) Think I'm good! And if not, I'll just swap it out later. Again, thanks!

I bet I was comparing an onboard one to a real one without realizing it, but I'm fairly certain I have a real card.

 

[Aheadatime]

Can anyone tell me if my laptop is good to go?

Processor - Intel Core i7 3630QM 2.4Ghz
OS - Windows 7 64-bit
Ram - 12Gb
GPU - GeForce GTX 660 1.7GB usuable

Hard drive is still one of the older RPM, but will be getting a SSD installed before release.

 

[MadDjinn]

Nope, there's no D on my computer specs (looking at my order when I bought the thing.) Think I'm good! And if not, I'll just swap it out later. Again, thanks!

When I search around for it, all I find is 'integrated graphics' and 'Oem' or notebooks.

In which case, the comparison I made was false, because the 7970 I mentioned was a real destktop graphics card - which is by far more powerful than any integrated graphics/notebook gpu.

So do you have a desktop or are you talking laptop?

 

[Grumpbeard]

When I search around for it, all I find is 'integrated graphics' and 'Oem' or notebooks.

In which case, the comparison I made was false, because the 7970 I mentioned was a real destktop graphics card - which is by far more powerful than any integrated graphics/notebook gpu.

So do you have a desktop or are you talking laptop?

Its a mini-tower. A Lenovo Thinkcentre M83.

 

[tokala]

Oh, oops.

I take it you meant the HD 8570D. With the D meaning onboard rather than a real card.

That would be very different.

No it won't be good enough if it's an onboard thing.

Modern top-of the line integrated graphics should be at or even above the HD5570, especially in a modern game.
It's a little bit strange that they have the 450 as "minimum" on the nvidia side though, back in the day the GTS450 was almost twice as fast as the HD5570

 

[WiseGreen]

Do you folks think a laptop with an i5-4210U (1.7GHz, up to 2.7GHz on turbo speed) will be able to run it?

 

[XboxAddict77]

I feel like my setup will be able to run it, but I think my CPU may be a little low for the recommended specs:
CPU: Intel Quad-core i7-4700 HQ @ 2.40 GHz
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M
RAM: 8 GB
OS: Win 10 64 bit
What do you guys think? is my CPU fine?

 

[MadDjinn]

Its a mini-tower. A Lenovo Thinkcentre M83.

oops, yeah, The HD 8xxx is actually not better than the 7970.

double checking AMDs own site, the 8xxx series is an OEM/mini series made after they flipped from the HD 7970 over to the R7/9 series name wise.

basically, yes 'normally' I would have been right wrt higher number is better, except in this one specific series... so my bad.

for direct compare of numbers:

7970 uses PCIe 3.0 x16
8570 uses PCIe 3.0 x8 (1/2 the throughput)

7970 tops out between 3.8 TFlops - 4.3 TFlops performance wise
8570 tops out around 560 GFlops (1/8th ish of the 7970)

7970 has 32ish compute units
8570 has 6 compute units

7970 is dx 11.2 (and can do dx12 stuff)
8570 is dx 11.1 (and may not do dx12 stuff, not sure)


the good news is that the HD 8570 is /slightly/ better than the min spec 5570.

it'd be worth the 200$ or so to upgrade. But since you're in a mini-tower/Lenova, that may be hard to do.

edit:

Modern top-of the line integrated graphics should be at or even above the HD5570, especially in a modern game.
It's a little bit strange that they have the 450 as "minimum" on the nvidia side though, back in the day the GTS450 was almost twice as fast as the HD5570

You'd think, but unfortunately not everyone gets the 'top of the line integrated' graphics cards when they pick up the random cheap prebuilt box (and/or laptop... which I have little clue as to if any laptop gpu could hit the minimum let alone come close to the recommended without being a seriously expensive laptop). Though, anything made in the last year or two should 'hopefully' be better than the 5570 -- which is an ATI card (tells you how old that is).

 

[Hajee]

To any one who has questions about if they can run the game or not

http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=23894&game=Civilization VI

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/civilization-6/13429 ( Although this one is not Updated yet)

 

[Grumpbeard]

oops, yeah, The HD 8xxx is actually not better than the 7970.

double checking AMDs own site, the 8xxx series is an OEM/mini series made after they flipped from the HD 7970 over to the R7/9 series name wise.

basically, yes 'normally' I would have been right wrt higher number is better, except in this one specific series... so my bad.

for direct compare of numbers:

7970 uses PCIe 3.0 x16
8570 uses PCIe 3.0 x8 (1/2 the throughput)

7970 tops out between 3.8 TFlops - 4.3 TFlops performance wise
8570 tops out around 560 GFlops (1/8th ish of the 7970)

7970 has 32ish compute units
8570 has 6 compute units

7970 is dx 11.2 (and can do dx12 stuff)
8570 is dx 11.1 (and may not do dx12 stuff, not sure)


the good news is that the HD 8570 is /slightly/ better than the min spec 5570.

it'd be worth the 200$ or so to upgrade. But since you're in a mini-tower/Lenova, that may be hard to do.

I'm going to see how it plays. Thank you again, the research on this was a pain and I was having trouble figuring it out.

 

[WiseGreen]

To any one who has questions about if they can run the game or not

http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=23894&game=Civilization VI

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/civilization-6/13429 ( Although this one is not Updated yet)

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Apparently I can run it on medium settings?? And it's my GPU (nVidia 820M 1GB) that's the bottleneck, not the CPU? ... Is this, like, trustable? I'm very tempted to pre-order now, but I'm afraid as hell it won't work T_T

 

[Magil]

To any one who has questions about if they can run the game or not

http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=23894&game=Civilization VI

That's pretty nice, it rates my 3rd gen i5 as above the recommended requirements (was thinking the i5 3570K 3.4 GHz might be a bottleneck). Helps out my only-moderately-tech-savvy self. Thanks.

 

[Mort_Q]

Is this, like, trustable? I'm very tempted to pre-order now, but I'm afraid as hell it won't work T_T

Or it, and a new GPU!

 

[Danthor]

Dammit, I bought a new car this year and heading on vacation to Europe for a month, so I won't be able to afford a new PC for a couple months

I know that my graphics card is more than enough (GTX 660 Ti), but hopefully my Core 2 Duo E8400 can still handle the pressure

 

[Disgustipated]

Got everything covered aside from my CPU which is 7 years old (and was about 1 year obsolete when I bought it).

I'm guessing this will mean slower turn times which I hate, but I'm not going to build a new computer yet. I'm trying to drag this computer out to 10 years. My video card is a Geforce GTX 970 so hopefully that helps somewhat.

 

[WiseGreen]

Or it, and a new GPU!

I'm afraid about the CPU actually. If the GPU isn't good enough to let me play above minimum quality but lets me run the game, I'm happy. Besides, I have a laptop, I don't have the faintest idea if upgrading it's GPU would even be worth it, money-wise.