Skyrim Special Edition on a Core i3

[masten]

Hi

For the upcoming Skyrim Special edition the specs are:

Minimum
OS: Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit Version)
Processor: Intel i5-750/AMD Phenom II X4-945
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 470 1GB /AMD HD 7870 2GB
Storage: 12 GB available space

Recommended:
OS: Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit Version)
Processor: Intel i5-2400/AMD FX-8320
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 780 3GB /AMD R9 290 4GB
Storage: 12 GB available space

I have a core i3. Does the above mean that it won't run at all, or it'll just not run great on an i3?

Thanks

Masten

 

[Aretak]

I'm assuming you mean an i3-2120 based on your other posts, in which case it'll run absolutely fine. Certainly better than it will on a Phenom II X4 945.

 

[Seanspeed]

Certainly better than it will on a Phenom II X4 945.

Yea, if it weren't for that, I'd be a bit more skeptical.

That said, here's how the game scaled with CPU's back in 2011:

Big difference in performance with clockspeed, meaning a lower speed i3 might not get you the best performance, though it'll also depend on which generation i3. Worth noting that while the chart doesn't show an i3 in the comparison, the game wasn't built to use more than two cores, so the i3 and i5 would perform similarly here(of the same generation) at similar clockspeeds.

Also depends on how much reoptimization went into this Special Edition in terms of CPU usage. I imagine they'll have had to do *some* with getting it to run on PS4 and XB1 adequately(hopefully), but who knows how that'd transfer over to PC. It's possible that the PC version is simply going to be the base PC version with the added graphics effects, *most* of which are GPU intensive and will have little effect on CPU. Meaning the above chart will be more relevant and the console versions will be the only ones that get any special reoptimization. Which honestly makes more sense to me and the way I'd go about it if I were them.

 

[masten]

Yeah it's an i3 2120. Ok,great good to know. Dunno why they list i5 as minimum requirements - makes it sound as though it wont run at all on anything less. Cheers. M