Playing a game with a CPU lower than minimum requirements.

francisco javier

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Jun 2, 2015
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Specifically Battlefront 2. The minimum requirement here is the i5-6600K 3.5GHz, while i have the i7 860. Also my pc has 8gb of ram and my GPU is the amd r9 380x.
I tried the beta at medium settings (auto), and although i normally had 60fps, i experienced frequent and significant drops (35-40 fps), which arguably makes the game unplayable. I tried the lowest settings, but did not see much of a difference.
The question here is what should be my priority to upgrade in order to see better results?
Is the fact that i have an old cpu so severe, or the results with this gpu are to be expected?
Thanks in advance.