Can I Run ESO?

Fishoscandi · May 2016

Currently I don't have a lot of money, so I have to work with a bit of a peasant PC. I'm wondering if I can run ESO on my PC. I know that the game is currently very CPU dependant so that might be a problem. Can I run ESO with these specs?

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 610
RAM: 4GB

susmitds · May 2016

Yes, but the performance won't be great.

Oh_Skrivva · May 2016

Yeah, I downloaded game on a relatives computer who has basically same setup when we were visiting for a week so I can collect hirelings and do writs on my toons. Didn't play game (as in do dungeons etc) but it was OK I suppose.

clocksstoppe · May 2016

With 4GB ram and win7 the game was unplayable for me. (Phenom II x4 and radeon 6850). Had to put in another 2GB ram stick and then it was smooth.

So yeah, i dont think you will be able to play it without major stuttering.

WalkingLegacy · May 2016

You could play it with everything on low and all eye candy off on on a fresh imaged W7 64bit with hardly any background tasks going on. It will be awful though.

Also lower than 1080p resolution like 1280x720.

Eshelmen · May 2016

It'll look and perform as bad as the consoles do... if not worst... but it's playable

Fishoscandi · May 2016

My OS is W10 and I have a 64bit client.

WalkingLegacy · May 2016

Fishoscandi wrote: »

My OS is W10 and I have a 64bit client.

You might want to try and get your hands on a 660ti then.

A newer GPU like a GTX960 or 970 will be bottlenecked by your CPU/mobo.

A 610 is bottom of barrel and not really a gaming GPU.

FortheloveofKrist · May 2016

LOL. I thought this was another complaint thread and the title meant you wanted to run the company. Then I read...

susmitds wrote: »

Yes, but the performance won't be great.

and I still thought that's what it was about.

phairdon · May 2016

https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3313/~/what-are-the-minimum-system-requirements-for-the-elder-scrolls-online:-tamriel

My rig died. More to the point, my motherboard crapped out. Got an old computer (11 years old) running while waiting for a new board. Windows Vista, 2gb ram, E2200, 4670 1gb card. Was able to run gw2. The game stuttered, froze, crashed from time to time, ran nonetheless. What a horrible experience. Did not bother installing this game lol.

IcyDeadPeople · May 2016

phairdon wrote: »

https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3313/~/what-are-the-minimum-system-requirements-for-the-elder-scrolls-online:-tamriel

It's definitely playable well below the published minimum spec, but there is a point where it's no longer playable even on lowest settings and old school display resolution. I suspect Core 2 Quad, Nvidia 610 & 4GB RAM might be below that point.

phairdon · May 2016

IcyDeadPeople wrote: »

phairdon wrote: »

https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3313/~/what-are-the-minimum-system-requirements-for-the-elder-scrolls-online:-tamriel

It's definitely playable well below the published minimum spec, but there is a point where it's no longer playable even on lowest settings and old school display resolution. I suspect Core 2 Quad, Nvidia 610 & 4GB RAM might be below that point.

More than likely. Playing the game would be far from fun.

scorpiodog · May 2016

Fishoscandi wrote: »

Currently I don't have a lot of money, so I have to work with a bit of a peasant PC. I'm wondering if I can run ESO on my PC. I know that the game is currently very CPU dependant so that might be a problem. Can I run ESO with these specs?

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 610
RAM: 4GB

I play on two different computers. My laptop is a 1.88 GHz dual core and 4 GB RAM and no graphics card at all. It runs ok in the three starting islands, and is ok for basic questing and instances at lower levels, but there is some lag. I also play at night when most of NA is asleep. So using an under spec computer is possible, but if you ever do PvP or Imperial City with an under spec computer you'll just die a quick death and not even know how it happened until you get the recap.

I did some research before buying my other (home) computer, and actually single core is better than Dual or Quad core for certain MMO engines like ESO. My main ESO gaming computer is a 3+ GHz single core processor and 16 GB RAM and has no more problems than what I hear other have with 10x more expensive machines (lag in Cyrodil and long load screens).

WalkingLegacy · May 2016

scorpiodog wrote: »

Fishoscandi wrote: »

Currently I don't have a lot of money, so I have to work with a bit of a peasant PC. I'm wondering if I can run ESO on my PC. I know that the game is currently very CPU dependant so that might be a problem. Can I run ESO with these specs?

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 610
RAM: 4GB

I play on two different computers. My laptop is a 1.88 GHz dual core and 4 GB RAM and no graphics card at all. It runs ok in the three starting islands, and is ok for basic questing and instances at lower levels, but there is some lag. I also play at night when most of NA is asleep. So using an under spec computer is possible, but if you ever do PvP or Imperial City with an under spec computer you'll just die a quick death and not even know how it happened until you get the recap.

I did some research before buying my other (home) computer, and actually single core is better than Dual or Quad core for certain MMO engines like ESO. My main ESO gaming computer is a 3+ GHz single core processor and 16 GB RAM and has no more problems than what I hear other have with 10x more expensive machines (lag in Cyrodil and long load screens).

I find this hard to believe. You're using a Pentium 4 or what? Let's see the screenshot.

ESO utilizes multi core. Hence why a devil canyons chip will greatly increase your experience over something like my nephalem i7.

Egonieser · May 2016

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Egonieser · May 2016

WalkingLegacy wrote: »

scorpiodog wrote: »

Fishoscandi wrote: »

Currently I don't have a lot of money, so I have to work with a bit of a peasant PC. I'm wondering if I can run ESO on my PC. I know that the game is currently very CPU dependant so that might be a problem. Can I run ESO with these specs?

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 610
RAM: 4GB

I play on two different computers. My laptop is a 1.88 GHz dual core and 4 GB RAM and no graphics card at all. It runs ok in the three starting islands, and is ok for basic questing and instances at lower levels, but there is some lag. I also play at night when most of NA is asleep. So using an under spec computer is possible, but if you ever do PvP or Imperial City with an under spec computer you'll just die a quick death and not even know how it happened until you get the recap.

I did some research before buying my other (home) computer, and actually single core is better than Dual or Quad core for certain MMO engines like ESO. My main ESO gaming computer is a 3+ GHz single core processor and 16 GB RAM and has no more problems than what I hear other have with 10x more expensive machines (lag in Cyrodil and long load screens).

I find this hard to believe. You're using a Pentium 4 or what? Let's see the screenshot.

ESO utilizes multi core. Hence why a devil canyons chip will greatly increase your experience over something like my nephalem i7.

Hey, don't knock pentium4, they still have a very powerful single core performance. Put it this way - 4x pentium 4's are more powerful than a modern i5 haswell, it might not be power efficient, it heats up like a cow during mating season, and good luck finding a mobo with 4 CPU sockets in it, butas a single core, it is unchallenged.
I was able to play a plethora of demanding games on my ancient streaming PC with p4 on it. Though it has a GTX 290 on it - the titan of the olden days, but P4 runs decent with it.

WalkingLegacy · May 2016

Egonieser wrote: »

WalkingLegacy wrote: »

scorpiodog wrote: »

Fishoscandi wrote: »

Currently I don't have a lot of money, so I have to work with a bit of a peasant PC. I'm wondering if I can run ESO on my PC. I know that the game is currently very CPU dependant so that might be a problem. Can I run ESO with these specs?

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 610
RAM: 4GB

I play on two different computers. My laptop is a 1.88 GHz dual core and 4 GB RAM and no graphics card at all. It runs ok in the three starting islands, and is ok for basic questing and instances at lower levels, but there is some lag. I also play at night when most of NA is asleep. So using an under spec computer is possible, but if you ever do PvP or Imperial City with an under spec computer you'll just die a quick death and not even know how it happened until you get the recap.

I did some research before buying my other (home) computer, and actually single core is better than Dual or Quad core for certain MMO engines like ESO. My main ESO gaming computer is a 3+ GHz single core processor and 16 GB RAM and has no more problems than what I hear other have with 10x more expensive machines (lag in Cyrodil and long load screens).

I find this hard to believe. You're using a Pentium 4 or what? Let's see the screenshot.

ESO utilizes multi core. Hence why a devil canyons chip will greatly increase your experience over something like my nephalem i7.

Hey, don't knock pentium4, they still have a very powerful single core performance. Put it this way - 4x pentium 4's are more powerful than a modern i5 haswell, it might not be power efficient, it heats up like a cow during mating season, and good luck finding a mobo with 4 CPU sockets in it, butas a single core, it is unchallenged.
I was able to play a plethora of demanding games on my ancient streaming PC with p4 on it. Though it has a GTX 290 on it - the titan of the olden days, but P4 runs decent with it.

Anything that requires multichips in it will utilize multithread and while P4 was a beast in its hay day does not have the performance of today's multicore for the purpose of multiple threads, IE servers.

ESO is not a single core application though. Hence my disbeliefs at it running smoothly outside of low resolution (modern GPU will be beyond bottlenecked by it) and all eye candy off.

Egonieser · May 2016

WalkingLegacy wrote: »

Egonieser wrote: »

WalkingLegacy wrote: »

scorpiodog wrote: »

Fishoscandi wrote: »

Currently I don't have a lot of money, so I have to work with a bit of a peasant PC. I'm wondering if I can run ESO on my PC. I know that the game is currently very CPU dependant so that might be a problem. Can I run ESO with these specs?

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 610
RAM: 4GB

I play on two different computers. My laptop is a 1.88 GHz dual core and 4 GB RAM and no graphics card at all. It runs ok in the three starting islands, and is ok for basic questing and instances at lower levels, but there is some lag. I also play at night when most of NA is asleep. So using an under spec computer is possible, but if you ever do PvP or Imperial City with an under spec computer you'll just die a quick death and not even know how it happened until you get the recap.

I did some research before buying my other (home) computer, and actually single core is better than Dual or Quad core for certain MMO engines like ESO. My main ESO gaming computer is a 3+ GHz single core processor and 16 GB RAM and has no more problems than what I hear other have with 10x more expensive machines (lag in Cyrodil and long load screens).

I find this hard to believe. You're using a Pentium 4 or what? Let's see the screenshot.

ESO utilizes multi core. Hence why a devil canyons chip will greatly increase your experience over something like my nephalem i7.

Hey, don't knock pentium4, they still have a very powerful single core performance. Put it this way - 4x pentium 4's are more powerful than a modern i5 haswell, it might not be power efficient, it heats up like a cow during mating season, and good luck finding a mobo with 4 CPU sockets in it, butas a single core, it is unchallenged.
I was able to play a plethora of demanding games on my ancient streaming PC with p4 on it. Though it has a GTX 290 on it - the titan of the olden days, but P4 runs decent with it.

Anything that requires multichips in it will utilize multithread and while P4 was a beast in its hay day does not have the performance of today's multicore for the purpose of multiple threads, IE servers.

ESO is not a single core application though. Hence my disbeliefs at it running smoothly outside of low resolution (modern GPU will be beyond bottlenecked by it) and all eye candy off.

Yeah I know that, just saying - it's still very good for a old CPU and in applications that are single thread only, it performs admirably (older games and programs). Was just mentioning it from a single core perspective.

MasterSpatula · May 2016

I thought sure this was going to be a troll thread with OP claiming he could do a better job than ZOS....