# Is my PC fast enough? **URL:** \ **Category:** Community & Industry Discussion\ **Tags:** unreal-engine\ **Created:** [November 4, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/is-my-pc-fast-enough/102198 "2017-11-04T17:26:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Christaleon](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Christaleon](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Christaleon)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/is-my-pc-fast-enough/102198/1 "2017-11-04T17:26:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ZacD](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@ZacD](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/ZacD)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/is-my-pc-fast-enough/102198/2 "2017-11-05T03:16:13Z")
Well, here’s the recommended specs from the UE4 wiki. > **[A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/a-new-community-hosted-unreal-engine-wiki/141494)** > > After over a year in maintenance mode, the official Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline. These resources now live on a new community-run Unreal Engine Community Wiki — ue4community.wiki! You will be able to find content from the official... - 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. ---
**Author:** ![Christaleon](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Christaleon](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Christaleon)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 7:19am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/is-my-pc-fast-enough/102198/4 "2017-11-05T07:19:42Z")
> [@ZacD](#): > > Well, here’s the recommended specs from the UE4 wiki. > > [A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki - Announcements - Epic Developer Community Forums](https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Recommended_Hardware) > > - 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. But for which things should I need this? It ran a bit slow on my old computer with 4gb ram and 2x3ghz ---
**Author:** ![ZacD](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@ZacD](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/ZacD)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 8:41am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/is-my-pc-fast-enough/102198/5 "2017-11-05T08:41:29Z")
Dual core CPUs will be slow for UE4, and I’d guess your GPU was lacking as well. ---
**Author:** ![Christaleon](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Christaleon](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Christaleon)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 11:40am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/is-my-pc-fast-enough/102198/6 "2017-11-05T11:40:28Z")
> [@ZacD](#): > > Dual core CPUs will be slow for UE4, and I’d guess your GPU was lacking as well. 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.