Is my PC fast enough?

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My old PC is broken and I want to buy a new one. But I’m not sure, if the recommended hardware is good enough for real developing. I want to make a bigger indie game with less detailed graphics, because I’m alone. I don’t know, if this will be fast enough, especially, when I’m using Visual Studio for C++
Processor: round about 4x3GHz
16GB RAM
Graphic Card: 4GB VRAM
SSD: 128GB
HDD: 500GB

The owner of my computer shop thinks, that this is not enough.

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Well, here’s the recommended specs from the UE4 wiki.

  • Desktop PC or Mac
  • Windows 7 64-bit or Mac OS X 10.9.2 or later
  • Quad-core Intel or AMD processor, 2.5 GHz or faster
  • NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series card or better
  • 8 GB RAM

This has not been updated for years, for a new desktop computer I’d adjust it to:

  • Recent Intel i5/i7 or AMD Ryzen/Threadripper processor
  • NVIDIA GeForce 1050ti GTX or Radeon RX 460 or better
  • 16 GB RAM
  • And a 256GB+ SSD with extra HDD space

Buying previous generation GPU and CPUs don’t often save much money per performance, unless a new product just came out and they are trying to get rid of stock. The amount of vram a GPU has doesn’t tell you much about how it will perform.

4

But for which things should I need this? It ran a bit slow on my old computer with 4gb ram and 2x3ghz

5

Dual core CPUs will be slow for UE4, and I’d guess your GPU was lacking as well.

6

It was slow at compiling C++ Code, but it worked well for all other things. And the graphics lagged only with high settings. Low and mid grapics had 30fps, higer settigs hat round about 5 fps.