Can I Run A Game Even The Processor Is Not Matched With The System Requirements

I’m pretty sure it’s Crysis 3. Really any Crysis game. They all have ridiculous requirements and make absurd usage of dynamic lighting. The games are all really pretty, but they don’t run all that well because they’re so graphically intensive.If you played Crysis 3 today, it probably wouldn’t look out of place at all.Now, to really answer the question, we’d have to look beyond games that completely utilize all your system to games that utilize your system poorly. The king of this list, undoubtedly, is Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (MK). MK runs like absolute dogshit for absolutely no reason! It’s baffling. It runs so bad I returned the game within 30 minutes of playing it! I couldn’t even squeeze out 60 fps on a rock solid gaming rig. In other titles I could hit 150 fps no problem, for the whole session. In MK, I hit maybe 45 fps on average. It was nuts. The crazier part is that the game doesn’t even look good. It looks pretty average compared to other games that came out at the time.Runner Ups include:DOOM 2016 - Well optimizedFallout 4 - Runs like a dying hamsterThe Witcher 3 - Well optimized but still intenseFar Cry 5 - Runs like a dying hamsterAny of the Metro games - Somewhat optimized, still graphically intense

Here is an explanation for laymen:A CPU - Central Processing Unit, or “processor”, such as “Intel Pentium” - is the brain of the computer. Different types and models of it can be understood as students from different grades and schools, so an Intel Pentium may be a 5th grader, an Intel Celeron can be a 6th grader, and Intel Core-i7 Kaby Lake can be an MIT graduate “magna cum laude”.A computer game uses massive amounts of mathematical formulas used over and over and over to find out how the “game world” or “game situation” changes depending on player inputs, time elapsed and other factors (Artificial intelligence of the in-game characters, gravity etc.). Let’s say that for a particular evaluation, the game needs to calculate the “3rd power of [N]” (“N to the power of 3” = N x N x N).The MIT graduate is perhaps so super smart or experienced that she can calculate it in her head and give the answer in 10 seconds.A senior high-school student will take the calculator, type the code in, and give you the answer in 20 seconds.The 6th grader will turn the calculation into (N x N) x N, and first calculate “N x N = M”, and later calculate M x N = R, which will take 60 seconds.The 5th grader doesn’t know how multiplication works, so he will first have to do N + N + N + N ……{N-times} …. + N to get M, and then doM + M + M + M ….. {N-times} ….. + M to get R, which will take 7 minutes.Unfortunately, for the game to run reasonably, the result must be ready at the latest in 60 seconds (resulting in 60 frames per hour), so on the “5th grader” computer, the game will refuse to run.Ultimately, there are 3 basic categories of what can happen if you try running a game on sub-specs CPU:The game will run just fine; perhaps the developers underestimated the performance of such CPU, perhaps there was an incentive to promote newer hardware, perhaps you have other components which make up for the lack of power (such as a very powerful Graphics Processing Unit - GPU).The game will run with fewer frames per second than would be optimal; typically, 60 frames per second is considered smooth, with 45 frames per second still OK, and 30 frames per second a bare minimum. With a sub-specs hardware, you may get 20 or 12 or 6 frames per second, resulting in a “slide-show” of sorts, and making the game unplayable.The game won’t start at all, because the computer simply doesn’t offer the type of calculations necessary for the game to run.

To answer this question properly, we’d need a bit more information (specifically the game you’re trying to run); but to give something even resembling an answer, I’d have to assume that NO, you’d not likely be able to run it at 60 frames per second.This all, of course, depends on the game you’re playing. For instance, a game like Kerbal Space Program (which is a space simulation and rocket building / flying game) is far more physics dependent than graphically dependent. In that case, you could run a GeForce 550Ti (about a 5 - 6 year old card, and budget at that) with decent frame rates. If you are rocking a lower GHz processor, however, you will notice stuttering and slowdowns which will result in slower / slower looking FPS.Alternately, a game like GTA V or Witcher 3 or any more modern Graphically Intense games will run just fine on the slower processor, but would kill a 550Ti card on High or Ultra graphics settings.Finally, any consideration of VR gaming will require both a speedy processor and a high-end graphics card to be able to handle at the moment.

It really depends on which 1.8 GHz processor you have. Because GHz isn’t the only defining feature of a processor.Something I suggest checking for is called Turbo Boost. This is an automatic feature built into some CPUs that will automatically boost a processor’s clock speed to handle a greater than normal load. It’s very useful for single-threaded workloads (many games use only one core).If you don’t have Turbo Boost, another thing you can check for is overclocking. Can you overclock your CPU? This will require checking two sources: motherboard and processor. If both support overclocking, it shouldn’t be too hard to overclock the extra 0.2 GHz the games ask for.If neither overclocking nor Turbo Boost are available, you might still be able to run it, but I’d suggest you be very careful. Turn settings down as soon as you launch the game to reduce the impact it will have on your hardware. If things start to bog down, be ready to save and quit. Let your computer rest a bit after you stop playing (to help the temperature get back down to safe levels). If your computer handles the games, great! If not, you may need to upgrade.