Unfortunately, some newer titles like Far Cry 4 and Dragon Age: Inquisition have trouble starting on systems with dual-core, dual-thread CPUs like the Pentium. The limitation seems to be an artificial one, since unofficial workarounds exist for both games. Nonetheless, gamers looking for a no-hassle experience may prefer to spring for a quad-core AMD processor—or the Core i3-4160, which has a couple more threads than the Pentium.
OK the Pentium G3258 is a great value once you overclock it(or even if you don't), but it seems that some newer games run poorly on dual-core non-HT CPUs if at all. So is this a case of developers being lazy or will games in the near future start requiring HT enabled dual-core or even quad-core CPUs?