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PC upgrade for TERA!
Hi there, so i am trying to upgrade my PC, to be able to run Tera Online, in 1080p 60fps.
Right now i have:
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670, Haswell, 4 x 3.4GHz
RAM: Kingston 4 GB 1600MHz x 2 = 8GB of RAM
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D2V
GPU: Gigabyte HD 7750 1GB GDDR5 OC
STORAGE:
HDD 1: TOSHIBA HDWD130 ( Storage Drive )
HDD 2: WD6400AAKS-22A7B2 (Recording drive )
SSD: KINGSTON SUV400S37 120G ( Boot Drive )
OS: Windows 10 Pro 1803 x64 Bit
Now, i was gonna go for GeForce GTX 1050, but i am interested is that enough?
This is the difference between those two GPUs : Check the Difference
Right now i have:
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670, Haswell, 4 x 3.4GHz
RAM: Kingston 4 GB 1600MHz x 2 = 8GB of RAM
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D2V
GPU: Gigabyte HD 7750 1GB GDDR5 OC
STORAGE:
HDD 1: TOSHIBA HDWD130 ( Storage Drive )
HDD 2: WD6400AAKS-22A7B2 (Recording drive )
SSD: KINGSTON SUV400S37 120G ( Boot Drive )
OS: Windows 10 Pro 1803 x64 Bit
Now, i was gonna go for GeForce GTX 1050, but i am interested is that enough?
This is the difference between those two GPUs : Check the Difference
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Is a PC basic rule .
There is a way to do, but you need to change the render motor parameters. And that may crash your game every second.
you need to edit the video settings file inside the tera folder with some changes you get a little boost, and if you get better hardware you get a better boost, im not explaining you how because they will delete my reply, you should search in reddit about that file, i shared mine, i would recommend you to read it and see if those settings help you because right now you have a radeon card, its better to use it with an nvidia card
yes gtx 1050 is enough
Your upgrade plan seems quite spot on honestly, a 1050 (or 1050Ti) would be just enough or maybe even too much for TERA. Your CPU and RAM are definitely enough, I have almost the same stuff (processor one generation bellow but about same), even same OS build, and my GPU is a GTX 550Ti, and yes the GPU is quite matched to the CPU for TERA usage but slightly on the bottleneck side.
Remember: the game is terrible in optimization, and isn't fond of AMD cards. In this sense I think for TERA you're going to get about the best performance with the 1050 indeed as it's your only bottleneck (upgradeable one I mean, CPU is always a bottleneck but there is simply NO CPU in the market that works perfectly for this game). The 1080p 60FPS dream might be far fetched not because of your parts, but because of the game itself. I mean, you WILL hit that even on max settings easily, on some areas. Throw bunch of people in the mix and FPS floors down. That will still happen even upgrading, but I am pretty sure the 1050 will do the best possible results.
I can say for actual experience, having perfectly consistent experience over 4 years of TERA, that his setup is perfectly fine unless he's like running tons of tabs in the background (when RAM would be limited), and yes the GPU is for now, the bottleneck.
My 550Ti is slightly more powerful and it really hits 100%, overclocking it does give a liner response in FPS increase, and when I had to use my brother's GTX 750 for tests it performed better indeed. Hard drive or SSD also did not do any difference, I've ran this game on even external drives, and really, it's all just increased load times.
That said, the 1050 will more likely than not be breezing through this game. Not a bad choice since it will be very well used for other games, and if only for TERA, then I think it's value and power efficiency (which will impact heat production and thus also noise) are a great option nowadays, and I don't think upgrading for an older generation would be better value for the money.
There you go if you plan to upgrade solely for tera, the game is completely bottlenecked by CPU single core performance and memory speed
Correct me if I'm wrong: doesn't it also like, not make any use of newer instructions, and anything on the 2~3rd gen Core is at it's peak anyway right?
This is absolutely the case.
intel i5 7600k at 4.2ghz, 16gbs (2x 8gbs) of ram and a GTX 460 (almost 9 yr old gpu that is also 1gb gddr5 vram) in my system right now and pull 100+ fps in open world, 60+ during fights and in Highwatch.
Your gigabyte hd 7750 will take everything Tera can throw at it fine as is 100%.
8gbs of ram should also be fine (use about 6.8-7gbs with tera running and discord/chrome+ many tabs open and whatnot) but I've also heard before that somehow Tera might not use resources from dual channel sticks of memory, and only actually uses one or something? Idk about that bit, just something some rando said to me once and idk how to check that. But if that were the case the 2x 4gbs sticks maybe could also use swapping. Maybe not.
Primarily just need the CPU upgrade specifically it looks like.
This post makes me so salty I can season chicken for every Popeye's, KFC, and in the state.
Wanna know why? Because I'm rolling a i7 5820k (hexacore, woo), 32gb of RAM, and a g*ddamn 980ti FTW and the game still tries to put itself in a triangle lock when I try to use a solution from my hotbar. I can play Fortnite (standard Fortnite, not that BS Battle Royale) on max settings with no problem at all, but I can't just hit "LB + D-pad Right" on my controller without TERA kicking itself in the d*ck? WTF mate?
yup 6 cores don't mean crap in this game xD. 4.0ghz+ CPU with at least 8gbs of ram, and "a" gpu card is pretty much all it needs.