You could, technically, put a system together with a Pentium D or Athlon 64* X2 (both are 2 months away from being 20 years old), and a Radeon 5450 or Geforce 420 (both are roughly 15 years old), and be able to play Eve within its minimum requirements.
It would be a horrible experience, even with potato mode, but could be done.
They have dropped OS support and raised DirectX and hardware requirements over time. 15 years ago is 2010, EVE came out around 2003 and at the time would have run on older hardware than just it’s release year.
The problem is not that they don’t support 13 year old CPUs.
The problem is they used to work just fine, but an update broke support for people who already bought it.
It’s a bait and switch.
Don’t live service games do this all the time? Try running an early 2000s MMO like EVE on 20 year old hardware now.
You could, technically, put a system together with a Pentium D or Athlon 64* X2 (both are 2 months away from being 20 years old), and a Radeon 5450 or Geforce 420 (both are roughly 15 years old), and be able to play Eve within its minimum requirements.
It would be a horrible experience, even with potato mode, but could be done.
They have dropped OS support and raised DirectX and hardware requirements over time. 15 years ago is 2010, EVE came out around 2003 and at the time would have run on older hardware than just it’s release year.