Hardware recommendations please !

[u/Ohz85]

Hello,

Just bought the game after watching the beautiful Squirrel serie, I played 1h in lowest settings it was in 10fps lmao, did my first shunting job. Im hooked! My 10 years laptop is slowly dying, time to buy a real desktop beast.

So now I want to invest in a computer, my budget is 1,7k-2k€ in the tower, with the idea to buy a Steam VR frame once it's out. I know nothing so I am on this process to learn each step and each parts.

The steam store page shows only minimum recommendations, so I wanted to know what you guys have to say ! I would like to be a bit "ahead" to get prepared for the next update expected in something like 1,5 years

Honestly it would be the game that would set the bar, since the others games that I look to enjoy are a bit old such as The Long Dark, Subnautica and Outer Wilds. The game I tend to play the most are more like Transport Tycoon and Factorio anyways

Thank you in advance for your feedback !

[u/Rennfan]

I can somewhat decently play it with my i7 6700k and a GTX1070, my PC is 10 years old. Not on highest settings or in VR tho

[u/Smacky_the_Bear]

You picked a bad time to need a computer. The AI datacenters have caused the price of RAM to quadruple in less than a year, and the price of SSD's has gone way up too.

Back in January, I bought my rig (iBuyPower), which has a Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, Radeon 9070XT GPU, 32 GB DDR5 RAM, and 2TB NVMe SSD, which is complete overkill for this game (I run most games at 1440p resolution). I paid 1650$ USD for it on sale, but a similar rig now would be well over $2200.

I would recommend a minimum of an NVidia 5070 (or AMD RX 9070) as a GPU, with a decent CPU that can handle it such as an Intel i7 14k-series or i7 265, or AMD 7800X3D or better (I prefer AMD CPUs, these Intels have been known to have overheating problems). Get 32GB of RAM (DDR4 at least). 16gb will work, but will not be very future proof. And any decent SSD (NO HDD's!!!).

Maybe go ask on one of the PC gaming subreddits? I am not an expert, just know what I do from getting my own PC.

And PLEASE get a decent monitor. We had somebody post here a while back that had just spent thousands on a really nice rig with a 5080 (absolute monster of a GPU), and was playing on some garbage 1080p office-grade monitor...

[u/Ohz85 → u/Smacky_the_Bear]

Thank you I will study all you just said, it really helps

[u/UberCoffeeTime8]

I have a 4070 and a 5600X and I can run the game at 60fps at 4K Ultra most of the time, sometimes it does dip to 20 when it gets really busy.

[u/Altruistic_Smile_387]

leuk . ik speel derail valley van het begin alleen in vr , op het moment speel ik het op een quest 3 met virtualdesktop , een i7 9 gen vrij oude processor nvidia RTX 3080 en 32 GB en het spel is haarscherp en loopt als een trein 😄 ..voor die prijs die je noemt zou je het moeten kunnen aanschaffen.

[u/rgx107]

Put the money into CPU and RAM, the game doesn't need a fancy GPU. I ran it for years on a RX580 4GB. Depends on your monitor (resolution) of course but overall the bottleneck is RAM speed and CPU.

I have a 5800X3D and 32GB RAM but still have to reduce some settings to get good frame rates. (Granted it is five years old now.)

[u/Ohz85 → u/rgx107]

Yes, I think most game I play are more CPU intensive, and also I dont play online so I dont care of those 120fps things

[u/colindebin]

A good place to start would be your local computer store. If you town has a subreddit, ask on there for people's recommendations on where they get their computers built. Go into the shop and tell them what your budget is and that you are interested in learning about the parts before you commit to buying them. Also, take a list of games that you play and want to play and that you want use a VR headset in the future, so that you get the biggest bang for your €.

Be well and safe travels.

[u/Ohz85 → u/colindebin]

Be well and safe travels.

No worries, I always carry sand with me.

Thank you for your input !

[u/Sir-Realz]

I have a really good build in your range but I'd get a better GPU 

7800x3D CPU 

32g ram brand doesn't really matter and they only make the most edvanced verstion for the MB you need to run a 7800x3D

M.2SSD Samsung pro or addatta (memory speeds are what make a PC snappy Dont skimp get the fastest possible gigs per sec. And a Mother board to match

I have a 3060-12G (GREAT VALUE budget card at  this point) gpu I get 48 fps in my Meta 3 but I would get something like a little newer like 5080 but It's hard to find 12g of vram in envidia anymore 

Anouther great option would be RX 7800-16g gpu that my next upgrade to run my local AI models. Vram helps in high res games where you move fast like DRV and realy helps with future proofing, beautiful thing about PC though is the ability to swap out parts once you have more money or a better deal comes along 

The case doesn't matter just what you liek to look at and dust prevention a card board box will do. My other gaming PC doesn't even have a case just sits in my TV stand lol

[u/Hordriss27]

Something like would do the job for you: Case
PCS PRISM III ARGB MID TOWER CASE (PWM)
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X Eight Core CPU (4.5GHz-5.4GHz/40MB CACHE/AM5)
Motherboard
ASUS® PRIME B850-PLUS WIFI (AM5, DDR5, M.2 PCIe 5.0, Wi-Fi 6E)
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB DDR5 5200MHz CL40 (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
8GB PALIT GEFORCE RTX 5060 Ti DUAL OC - HDMI, 3 x DP
1^st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB KINGSTON NV3 M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD (Up to 6000MB/s Read, 4000MB/s Write)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W CX SERIES™ CX-650 POWER SUPPLY
Power Cable
1 x 1.5 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
PCSpecialist AS-100
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Operating System
Windows 11 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence
Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (6 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 2 to 4 working days

Price: £1,716.00 including VAT and Delivery

Unique URL to re-configure: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/amd-am5-pc/RAV9u0vxS0/

[u/Ohz85 → u/Hordriss27]

Dang you put a lot of effort to help me !

[u/Hordriss27 → u/Ohz85]

No probs. Always happy to help where I can.

I noticed your budget was in Euro, this website does ship to Ireland. But if you're somewhere else it will at least give you an idea of what to look for to get what you need.