It is very playable on your setup. I played stalker 2 from beginning to the end on epic settings + DLSS Qality + FG on my 12400F + RTX 4060 + 64GB DDR4 3200. CPU usage was 50-60% most of the time.
I heard about a lot of Nexus mods, but I'm little bit afraid of modifying game files. I don't know why. Its better for me to wait officiall patch, that to install some untrustable mods from unknown sources 😅😅
@@qm1s Can confirm it's very safe, the mod only includes Engine.ini file which is already found in the game's directory. You will see a massive difference input in lag and perf
@@qm1s it would be very safe and fully trustable. I've been modding games for 10+ years, mainly skyrim and all through Nexus Mods. Devs generally will never roll out official patches that will come close to what the mods do. For example, the skyrim unofficial patch mods. they're incredible and made the game actually playable and fixes alot of major gamebreaking issues that Bethesda just would not address, and anything Bethesda did put out still never really fixed enough compared to the mods. Vanilla was unplayable you had to have the mods to make it a good experience. Try it out dude trust! Nexus is amazing and have amazing mod developers.
The CPU is stuck at 3.3GHz. Since it's a e5-1xxx model, it should be possible to OC easily it by increasing the multiplier in the BIOS settings. Alternatively you can at least lock its all-core turbo frequency at 3.5Ghz by modding the BIOS with 'S3TurboTool'. Despite being 10+ years old, these Xeons are surprisingly good, mainly because they offer a lot of cores dirt cheap. So good in fact that I think the bottleneck source here is the GPU and lack of game's optimization, not the CPU.
@@kostyan941 I know that this CPU is overclockable, up to 4.5ghz stable working on branded motherboards. BUT i need to flash bios to unlock CPU overclocking feature, because its not working on stock x99-f8 bios. But I'm little bit afraid of flashing bios, afraid to turn ny motherboard into brick 🤣 I have no external programmator to come back to life bios chip after unsuccessful flashing
@@kostyan941 but as you can see in this video, CPU usage not even close to 100%, usually 50-60-70, so stalker2 performance depends on GPU, not CPU, in my case
If it was a GPU bottleneck the GPU would be pegged at 100% usage, this is still a CPU bottleneck. Even on EPIC settings the GPU usage stays almost the same (60-80%) as Low settings= CPU bottleneck.
I have a similar setup with Xeon e5 1650 V3 on the Machinist MR9A (with GTX 2060 Super) and I was not sure if that could be enough to play Stalker 2 on a 1080p Low stting even. Now maybe I'll give it a try, thx for a video.
@@victorspencer4885 without frame generation and image scaling - yes, its impossible to play even on my setup. But! With this two features this game becomes absolutely playable on your pc setup on some low some medium parameters on 50-60-75 fps i think (better to turn on v-sync also in addition to FG and IS, and set max frame to 60 or 75)
You should be surprised at how well it will run and look. I was on my i7 8700K with a 1070ti and 32GB RAM. The only problem was trying to reduce the mouse lag. Eventually finding a setting that minimized it enough to be playable. You can get it running and looking very nice, but find the mouse lag so bad it's unplayable.
🙂 i believe thats an Intel X99 cpu motherboard ddr4 ram combo right? well alot of content creators have showcased it and its performing somewhere near a Ryzen 5700G, of course it depends on the video game, but yeah its a pretty decent platform for many video games
@@qm1s Proof is in the pudding, as they say. Your CPU (16 treads) is hovering around 50-55%. i5 12400 (12 tread) is around 65-70% utilization. 8 tread CPU-s are hammered at 100%.
@@brtcobra my 1660v3 is equal to i7 7600k, its two generations down from your 9700k, and my CPU usage while gaming is about 50-70%.. how its possible that your 9700k cant handle this game?
@@mikymouse7525 yes 60 but fake 60 aka huge input lag. just turn it off and turn on TSR - which you didn't in this video. The slider for TSR that switches modes is broken, you have to use the one under called RESOLUTION SCALE. Believe me I'm using TSR too.
It is very playable on your setup.
I played stalker 2 from beginning to the end on epic settings + DLSS Qality + FG on my 12400F + RTX 4060 + 64GB DDR4 3200. CPU usage was 50-60% most of the time.
Input lag can be fixed with Ini adjustments, can find them on stalker 2 Nexus. Also, they offer performance increase too.
I heard about a lot of Nexus mods, but I'm little bit afraid of modifying game files. I don't know why. Its better for me to wait officiall patch, that to install some untrustable mods from unknown sources 😅😅
@@qm1s Can confirm it's very safe, the mod only includes Engine.ini file which is already found in the game's directory. You will see a massive difference input in lag and perf
@@SourceMan808 okay, I'll try! Thank you!
@@qm1s it would be very safe and fully trustable. I've been modding games for 10+ years, mainly skyrim and all through Nexus Mods.
Devs generally will never roll out official patches that will come close to what the mods do.
For example, the skyrim unofficial patch mods. they're incredible and made the game actually playable and fixes alot of major gamebreaking issues that Bethesda just would not address, and anything Bethesda did put out still never really fixed enough compared to the mods. Vanilla was unplayable you had to have the mods to make it a good experience.
Try it out dude trust! Nexus is amazing and have amazing mod developers.
@Velakor9150 thank you for feedback!
The CPU is stuck at 3.3GHz. Since it's a e5-1xxx model, it should be possible to OC easily it by increasing the multiplier in the BIOS settings. Alternatively you can at least lock its all-core turbo frequency at 3.5Ghz by modding the BIOS with 'S3TurboTool'.
Despite being 10+ years old, these Xeons are surprisingly good, mainly because they offer a lot of cores dirt cheap. So good in fact that I think the bottleneck source here is the GPU and lack of game's optimization, not the CPU.
@@kostyan941 I know that this CPU is overclockable, up to 4.5ghz stable working on branded motherboards. BUT i need to flash bios to unlock CPU overclocking feature, because its not working on stock x99-f8 bios. But I'm little bit afraid of flashing bios, afraid to turn ny motherboard into brick 🤣 I have no external programmator to come back to life bios chip after unsuccessful flashing
@@kostyan941 but as you can see in this video, CPU usage not even close to 100%, usually 50-60-70, so stalker2 performance depends on GPU, not CPU, in my case
If it was a GPU bottleneck the GPU would be pegged at 100% usage, this is still a CPU bottleneck. Even on EPIC settings the GPU usage stays almost the same (60-80%) as Low settings= CPU bottleneck.
@@advanceddarkness3 no, GPU usage up to 100%, almost in all scenes, usually 90%+
1080ti pretty old for this game
I have a similar setup with Xeon e5 1650 V3 on the Machinist MR9A (with GTX 2060 Super) and I was not sure if that could be enough to play Stalker 2 on a 1080p Low stting even. Now maybe I'll give it a try, thx for a video.
@@victorspencer4885 this setup is absolutely enough to play on low/medium settings with frame generation and image scaling, trust me
@@victorspencer4885 without frame generation and image scaling - yes, its impossible to play even on my setup. But! With this two features this game becomes absolutely playable on your pc setup on some low some medium parameters on 50-60-75 fps i think (better to turn on v-sync also in addition to FG and IS, and set max frame to 60 or 75)
You should be surprised at how well it will run and look. I was on my i7 8700K with a 1070ti and 32GB RAM. The only problem was trying to reduce the mouse lag. Eventually finding a setting that minimized it enough to be playable. You can get it running and looking very nice, but find the mouse lag so bad it's unplayable.
@JaspenKerplunk 💯💯💯👆👆👆
🙂 i believe thats an Intel X99 cpu motherboard ddr4 ram combo right? well alot of content creators have showcased it and its performing somewhere near a Ryzen 5700G, of course it depends on the video game, but yeah its a pretty decent platform for many video games
Cheapest way to build up PC that still can be good in 2024 - x99, xeon, ecc reg mem 🙃
2696v3 at 4000+ MHz , all fine and smooth
@@АлександрГромов-г3щ yea, Xeon power 💪💪💪
"! How can 10-years old 18$ CPU still be so good!?"
I don't know, why don't you figure it out and tell us.
Good demo of the chip, though.
Thank for your feedback 🙃
The X99 platform dies hard. I still roll my ASRock X99 mobo with an i7-6950X at 4200MHz.
@@Ivan-pr7ku still alive 💪💪💪
This game will not use more then 8 core/treads. All16 tread CPU-s are on 50% utilization!
@@Baki-EGW any proofs?
@@qm1s Proof is in the pudding, as they say. Your CPU (16 treads) is hovering around 50-55%. i5 12400 (12 tread) is around 65-70% utilization. 8 tread CPU-s are hammered at 100%.
my 9700k cant handle this game. i have a 3070ti and at 1440p the bottleneck is insane. cpu is always at 99% load so an older cpu is a no go.
@@brtcobra my 1660v3 is equal to i7 7600k, its two generations down from your 9700k, and my CPU usage while gaming is about 50-70%.. how its possible that your 9700k cant handle this game?
@@brtcobra maybe try to turn on fsr and frame generator
Something seems off, at 1440p you should have even less of a CPU bottleneck with a more powerful CPU than the OP.
@@jskop566 damn right! I can't understand from where he have 99% CPU load, while his CPU 2th gen higher than mine one
Yeah I'm on an i5 8600k with a 4070ti and even at ultrawide 1440p I'm cpu limited. Gpu is at like 50% utilization. Time for an upgrade
40 fps no frame gen > 80fps with frame gen
@@83Bongo what?
@@qm1s Frame gen sucks. The game is more responsive with it turned off, even if the frame rate is half. Also, the image quality is worse.
@@83Bongo No, 40 fps means 60 fps with frame gen.
@@mikymouse7525 yes 60 but fake 60 aka huge input lag. just turn it off and turn on TSR - which you didn't in this video. The slider for TSR that switches modes is broken, you have to use the one under called RESOLUTION SCALE. Believe me I'm using TSR too.
HARD LAG !
@@andrews4379 wheeeere?
@@qm1s ignore this bot