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> I had to return that game because it was totally unplayable on a 2009 iMac with Radeon 5850. That should be plenty of computer Skylines came out only this ye

> I had to return that game because it was totally unplayable on a 2009 iMac with Radeon 5850. That should be plenty of computer Skylines came out only this year. 6 years is a long time in the gaming world. I wouldn't expect to play many games from this year on any computer from 2009.

thrownaway2424 11y ago
Lots of games run fine on this computer including games that came out this year or recently, including Kerbal Space Program, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and XCOM: Enemy Within, and Papers Please. Cities: Skylines is the only one that was a slideshow, which is weird because city sims don't need graphics. I'd be perfectly happy with Transport Tycoon-level graphics from 20 years ago.
- yareally 11y ago
  > Papers Please That could potentially run on a Pentium 4 with integrated graphics, not exactly the best comparison. Great game, but not sure why you felt you needed to include it in that list. Quite a few of those games are not overly demanding either and mostly forgiving of older graphics cards. If you can run things like Arma 3, Witcher 2 or 3, I'd be more curious. Cities Skylines is a simulation, it's going to eat up a lot of CPU and a lesser extent, GPU.
  - simoncion 11y ago
    I can run The Witcher 3 with quite playable performance. Pertinent system specs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372389 If Bohemia Interactive wrote ARMA 3, I wouldn't take its requirements for a beefy machine as indication of anything other than the... interesting design choices those guys make when designing and implementing their games.
yrro 11y ago
I'm playing Cities: Skylines just fine on a ~2009 computer (Core i5 750, Radeon HD 5850), on Windows. So the difference is in the software.
- thrownaway2424 11y ago
  That's interesting. I'll admit I haven't tried it under Windows. Maybe it works fine under that OS.
simoncion 11y ago
> I wouldn't expect to play many games from this year on any computer from 2009. I run many, many, many recently released (and not-yet-released) big-name 3D games on 5 [0] and 6 [1] year old hardware. Console-first development has done terrible things to video game design, but it has let cheap bastards like myself get enormous mileage out of our gaming rigs. (BTW: Cities runs juuuuuuuuust fine on my "ancient" PC. :) ) [0] Radeon HD 6950 [1] AMD Phenom II X4 955

thrownaway2424 11y ago

Lots of games run fine on this computer including games that came out this year or recently, including Kerbal Space Program, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and XCOM: Enemy Within, and Papers Please. Cities: Skylines is the only one that was a slideshow, which is weird because city sims don't need graphics. I'd be perfectly happy with Transport Tycoon-level graphics from 20 years ago.

yareally 11y ago
> Papers Please That could potentially run on a Pentium 4 with integrated graphics, not exactly the best comparison. Great game, but not sure why you felt you needed to include it in that list. Quite a few of those games are not overly demanding either and mostly forgiving of older graphics cards. If you can run things like Arma 3, Witcher 2 or 3, I'd be more curious. Cities Skylines is a simulation, it's going to eat up a lot of CPU and a lesser extent, GPU.
- simoncion 11y ago
  I can run The Witcher 3 with quite playable performance. Pertinent system specs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372389 If Bohemia Interactive wrote ARMA 3, I wouldn't take its requirements for a beefy machine as indication of anything other than the... interesting design choices those guys make when designing and implementing their games.

yrro 11y ago

I'm playing Cities: Skylines just fine on a ~2009 computer (Core i5 750, Radeon HD 5850), on Windows. So the difference is in the software.

thrownaway2424 11y ago
That's interesting. I'll admit I haven't tried it under Windows. Maybe it works fine under that OS.

simoncion 11y ago

> I wouldn't expect to play many games from this year on any computer from 2009. I run many, many, many recently released (and not-yet-released) big-name 3D games on 5 [0] and 6 [1] year old hardware. Console-first development has done terrible things to video game design, but it has let cheap bastards like myself get enormous mileage out of our gaming rigs. (BTW: Cities runs juuuuuuuuust fine on my "ancient" PC. :) ) [0] Radeon HD 6950 [1] AMD Phenom II X4 955