I'm doing a PC build for an $800 budget for 1080P gaming with up to 7 cars at a time and running at 60 FPS while using large maps like West coast USA. some other hardware i will be using will include, an AMD A8 7670K, 8 GB DDR3 1600MHz (single so i can upgrade to 16GB later), and a Evga GTX 1060 single fan 3GB. oh and also a 240GB SSD. i will be using a micro ITX case called the Fractal Design Node 202. links for all of the page on amazon below: GPU: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KUADE3O/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I3MUMBK0IRBWDK&colid=3R7884IPB8NWF&psc=1 CPU: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B011BD60S0/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I3FO66OWHJQ931&colid=3R7884IPB8NWF&psc=0 CPU cooler: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0069CQ7BE/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I3Q1UV22W3SAS&colid=3R7884IPB8NWF&psc=0 RAM: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008LTJJM2/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I3HFZZ634TTZLK&colid=3R7884IPB8NWF&psc=1 thank you for any suggestions.
Get a Ryzen or Intel instead of a A-Series APU. Pre-Ryzen APUs are crappy while running Beam. Avoid them. Get a 6GB version of the GTX 1060, although the 3GB and 6GB versions are pretty much the same, but if you want to run more cars on that game, the 6GB ram can run better than the 3GB one. I'll recommend at least 16GB for BeamNG, 8GB is sufficient, but 16GB is more worthy to run such a game in that much cars. Also, to extract as much performance as possible, try to get a dual channel or more, depends on your motherboard.
Tells us alot. Your CPU matters more than your GPU on running vehicles. I think you should be fine running the game but you won't expect 7 cars at 1 time and especially WCA. You need an i9 7900X and 4 gtx 1080 ti s to actually get this to run with what you expect.
i don't think beamng drive is that demanding that it needs really overkill parts. also forget the 60 FPS as long as it is at least 30 fps i will be good.
No. Most people with shitty PC specs like me run BeamNG fine. Although not running 7 cars in one big map.
Nobody here has said it... why? THAT CPU SUCKS. BeamNG is very CPU intensive, a low end last generation AMD APU will not work at all. It's ridiculous to pair such a crappy CPU with such a nice GPU. Drop down to a 1050 Ti and get a nice Intel or Ryzen CPU/Mobo set.
just so all of you know i did put a Ryzen 1500X on my list i wont be using the A series APU, also i still had room left in my budget for the 1060 (non ti version), if the 1050 TI doesn't make much of a noticeable difference i will use it. but any recommendations for a cheaper motherboard? the ones i looked at on newegg and amazon with an AM4 socket are $105 at minimum price for a mini ITX. as long as it has a USB 3.0 header and 2 rear sub 3 ports and 4 USB 2.0 ports it should be good but they aren't necessarily a requirement. --- Post updated --- also i loosened up my requirements for what i will be doing. west coast USA at least 30 fps highest setting with lighting quality at max. and an average size map such as industrial site with 2 cars and 1 large trailer, and my last setting environment would be a track like Hirochi raceway at 60 FPS Medium setting with low lighting setting in a race type setting 1-2 cars with smooth frame rates. each setting i will be using 1080p (1920x1080). hope this helps with recommending parts. --- Post updated --- if you look at the first post you can see he mentions the CPU
Ryzen 1600 is the CPU you go for when you do an 800$ build. Skip the few-bucks-cheaper 1500X. They will both clock to within 100mhz of one another than the 1600 has 50% more cores. X-series CPU's don't come with a cooler (usually), the non-X ones (the 1600) DOES come with a cooler. The OEM spire and wraith coolers that come with the AMD CPU's are actually decent, they'll do for now. Crucial MX300 SSD is a good drive, avoid the BX300, it's rather sub-par. The crucial MX300 and the Silicon Power S55 (if I remember the ## correctly) are two of the cheapest half-decent SSD's out there on Amazon. Get a half-decent motherboard. Seriously. Asus owns 70% of the motherboard for a REASON. *HINT* B250 board will be fine. RAM should be something made with samsung B-die's (read reviews and forums!!!) and be on the QVL for the motherboard. Make sure it's on the QVL so it works with it. Better ASUS boards will allow booting-to-flash-BIOS without RAM or CPU on the board in the event the bios needs to be updated for your RAM to be supported. Brand should take a backseat to features normally, but it's your money in the end. Get the 1060 Ti 6gb if you can help it, though the 3gb version will be VRAM limited much sooner, it will process more stuff than the 1050 Ti 4gb will. Never ever ever at this day and age buy an FX-series or APU-series CPU from AMD. Just *NO*, it's throwing money down the drain. Time to replace the system with Ryzen or Intel. They will have Ryzen APUs out eventually for the desktop but not quite yet. March-April maybe. Maybe. If you have OEM Windows and you are upgrading your PC within the same case, you will have to call microsoft for it to be activated and they may demand you buy a new copy of Windows. Can get it very cheap if you know where to look. Don't be a shameful pirate now.
When you have yet a genuine Windows license (OEM sticker or boxed version), I do not think you have to buy a new one. I made the reactivation process by phone dozens of times for me or for customers with completely upgraded computers, and never asked me at MS to buy a new license of their operating system ... Just call by phone, it is an automatic service that generates a new key. It takes about ten minutes to complete the procedure. The Windows activation is directly effective. I find it strange that you are asked to pay. OEM versions of Windows at a low price are normally available when buying a new HDD or CPU.
gtx 1060 = rx480 i do not recommend you to get that card my pc has a rx480 4gb and it cannot get 60fps when i spawn up to 4 cars
Any 1060 6gb should be fine bud. If you want super-smooth all the time you have to move up to the 1070 Ti and it's a lot more money. The 1060 should get you most of the way there with few issues if any. This game will run more cars smoothly when it's more optimized as we're still in alpha, refining comes with beta territory.
I find out there are many truths, this is 1050Ti in Eco mode (25Mhz underclock) High with everything on, except reflections 1080p: High with only anti aliasing checkbox and no reflections 1080p: Setting details bit lower, removing shadows, while retaining somewhat decent visual quality (except no shadows killing visual quality): I can get over 170fps if really lowering graphical details down, I'm sure with some graphical detail adjustments you can get that 60fps without a problem: But yeah, if goal is to play at maximum settings @ 1080p, then 1070 or better, or 970 or whatever card was around there in terms of computing power, getting 2nd hand saves a lot. It would be more beneficial to give some information of what settings and which maps are hard to get that 60fps, because as can be seen, even lesser hardware can do over 170fps, it is kinda hard to know which are conditions where this claim is true if there is nothing concrete data available on how person making such claim is using the software.
It really can't be that bad card as I have seen it praised quite a bit? I think Bob has 480 too and if I remember correctly he gets bit better fps than what I do. If you really get slower fps than I do, then perhaps there is some other issue that could be solved and you would gain performance?
Yup Bob's got an XFX RX 480 8gb, RS-model (hotswap fans), it's a good card, has enough grunt. It's around what a 1060 6gb will do. A little worse on 1080p but better on higher resolutions where the 1060's memory bandwidth is shorted. The 480 has 256-bit memory bus, and a lot of cores, but it's a mid-range card. 1060 has 192-bit, IIRC. It will likely have 'full speed' driver support longer, also, then the 1060 (nvidia tends to de-optimize older cards when new series comes out quicker and more-so than AMD has been doing as of late - causes older cards to run worse). AMD cards are less likely to scream like a dying rodent (Coil whine, the sole reason I won't buy Nvidia). 4 and 8gb of VRAM will make sure you can handle all the texture-mods you could ever want. Roane County on high can use 4099mb of VRAM (just a smidge over 4gb, though I'm working on dropping that some). I don't really regret buying this Rx 480, my 7850 2gb served me very very well. The biggest thing here, is with Vulkan, and DX12 stuff, the AMD card normally steps ahead of the 1060 quite a bit. So don't regret it, either one will do the job. The RX480 will most-certainly enjoy a longer life, barring any mechanical failure of-course, they're yet to shine until we get more DX12 games or even more-so VULKAN games. Is it the best you can buy for your money? Well I can't tell you, but it will certainly run the game well, and my map will be about the ONLY map in the entire Beamng.drive community that might give you slow spots (if you call 45fps slow - it doesn't go too much lower unless you *CRANK* reflection detail).
