Post your computer stats if vanguard is working well for you.....

kuzseamer

im wondering how much i need to upgrade, and i've heard some differing opinions.....so if you are able to play vanguard well compared to what you've read about others experiences...please post what you have regardning your computer's hardware and anything els that may help us still deciding on whether to make certain "investments"......

Kuzseamer

Kutch

1) Install windows Vista advisor, it'll tell you if your computer can run windows Vista and more importantly if it can run the Aero GUI or not. If it doesen't hold up to Aero, you're going to be in deep demand of serious gfx upgrades.



IF your computer meets the Aero specs, then it's more iffy. I've posted a question about anyone running this piece of <insert your comfort level with Vanguard here> and their performance index in Windows Vista.



Vista has this VERY nice feature that gives you a performance number ( i.e. "4.9")  for your computer.  So instead of asking how much of this and that you need to run a game, you can simply ask "What's the minimum performance index required to run this game"



I'm guessing it's going to be up in the high 7 to run this game smoothly. on my 4.5 laptop, it sure as hell does NOT run smoothly at all.

mvddonk

I have been playing Vanguard for 2 days now (buddy key) and can run it on full graphics on this system (you might wanne lower some graphics when you really need the fps):

Pentium 3GHz

2GB DDR RAM

Ati Radeon x850 XT (AGP)

swede2

AMD X2 4800 , 2 gigs PC 6400 800 ram  8800GTX i play with every setting maxed at 1920x1200 and it runs awesome i dont lag anywhere but i still get that little pause on chunk lines but it beats a loading screen by far , my old system that my wife is using now is a AMD 3200 ,2 gigs PC2700 and a x850 xt and i was running it on highest quality but lagged a littled in citys Ive tweaked it down for the wife and it plays the game great

Even put the game on my son's computer bought it so long ago cant even remember whats in it but for sure 1 gig of ram and a 9600 pro and it lagged forsure but he stll has fun on it

Fignar

would help if you guys also post what resolutions you are running and your average FPS and also what settings you have on high.

mague

AMD 3500+

2 gb memory (interleaved at 333 mhz)

x1900gt  256 mb

1280x1024 fullscreen

win2k



= 30-60 frames/sec



Average is 30 fps. never drops below 25. No matter if there are 20 players around or not.

Using tweaked settings it looks like this

Orgone

AMD 64 3200

2 gig cheapo ram

nvidia 6800LE (with 128 ram)

running in 1280 * 1024 and getting average of around 30fps. (slightly less if I go into windowed mode)

I'm astonished but happy, having had some terrible fps just before end of beta

 

 

 

 

 

7hunderstorm

AMD FX-55 (around $100)

2GB 3200 RAM (around ($200)

Geforce 7800GS AGP (around $200)

XFI ? Sound Card (around $100)

320GB SATA 7200.01RPM HD (around $100)

19" Monitor max resolution 1280x1024 (around $200)



With my old geforce 6800 I ran the game on 1024x768 with balanced settings(3/5) With my 7800GS I run it on 1280x1024 with highest quality(5/5) in the wilderness and balanced in town or other laggy areas, which is the highest my 19" monitor will support. I'm sure if I upgraded to PCI-Express I would get even more perforance, but with this monitor i'm pretty much set.



You could play the game on a cheap computer with low settings, but it would look like runescape lol. It just depends on how much graphics mean to you. Also, look into the tweaks, they might help a slower computer run smoother.



Good Luck



-EDIT- I get around 15-20FPS in laggy areas like towns and 30-50 in the wilderness ect. If im going to be doing business in town I can turn the settings down real fast and when i'm sightseeing in the wilds I crank it up. It's very easy to change the settings back and fourth.

Ex0dUs101

AMD 3000xp, 1GB DDR400, Sapphire ATI x1950 Pro 512MB



Running everything on max at 1280x1024 with 16xAF,

Average 20 fps, hits 14 at lowest in busy areas, 25-30 when out of towns.

Enigami

I'm running VG on a Dell XPS 600. It includes:

Intel Pentium 3.0 Ghz Dual Core Processor

2 GB Ram

160 GB HD @ 7200 RPM

Nvidia Geforce 6800 with 256 MB Video RAM

DSL connection

I get anywhere from 15-20 FPS in towns and around 20-35 outside of towns. Indoors, and in dungeons, I get around 45 FPS. I run the game on High Quality settings. I hope this helps.......

 

 

 

Andir

AMD 3500+ (Winchester Core)

2 GB running at 266 mhz currently (don't ask)

Leadtek 6800GT 256MB PCIe

1280x1024



20-30 FPS (INI Tweak Disabled shaders, no apparent visual difference)





Game runs great.

Dragohr

My laptop runs it only at lowest end graphics, so ill just post my gaming comp.. A few years old but still goling pretty strong



AMD Athlon 64 CPU 3700+ 2.2 ghz

1024 RAM

GeForce 7800 GT



I easily run at high settings, tried highest and was able to crank out 20 FPS in a very low populated place, but that didnt last long

If you do some of the tweaks, and remove some of the things you dont like yourself (I removed the nice texture on the rocks, which improved performance dramatically in some areas), youll be fine with a medium system.

People are still stuck at the beta feeling.

Kazzer

Nvidia gforce 7950X2 1GB



2gb ddr 2 ram

processor 2.4    (2 of them)

500 GB hardrive ATI

 

I run vanguard in highest quality, btw   20-40 FPS

gunn0r

I have a AMD X2 4400,

2 x 7900GTX graphics cards in SLi

1.5gb Corsair PC4200 Memory

XP Pro

And it runs at 30fps in the wilderness on balanced and 10-15fps at best in crowded areas.

scottns

Athlon 64 3700+

Nvidia 6800 GT - 256 ram (pci-e)

Asus nforce4 MB

SATA HDs

Sound Blaster Live (oldie but a goodie)

On board NIC - cable modem



Running on balanced at 1080x1024. I didn't do any of the .ini tweaks but AA is off (from the control panel) and I have things like the shadows low and the vol clouds off. Usually get FPS in the 20s consistantly unless there are a ton of other toons around but it's still very playable. I'd get a new video card now but I can't see the point until the DX10 cards come down in price.

 

scottns

Whoops... and 2 gigs of ram

Arclan

I upgraded earlier than usual and spent more than usual, due to Vanguard.

Dual Core Intel, 2.4ghz overclocked to 3.4 ghz

Nvidia 880GTX (made by EVGA)

2gb corsair dominator (high speed) ram.

EVGA 680i motherboard

1920 x 1200 res.

On high, I rock 60 FPS in wilderness and 30fps in cities.  On Balanced I rock 100fps wilderness and 45fps in cities.   yes it roolz.   There is the occasional 5 fps spots when you first enter a city and the abundant detail (boxes, tables, rocks, etc) are first loaded.

Cabe2323

AMD 64 X2 4200+, 2 gigs of DDR2 800 ram, 2 nVidia eVGA 7600GT 256MB video cards running in SLI. 

I get around 58-60 FPS on balanced (with some options turned up) in the Vulmane area.  In the largest city I have been to I was getting around 45-50 FPS.   If I move my settings up to highest quality I get around 25-35 FPS. 

IMO it runs very nicely and I don't notice any lag causing me problems in the game. 

shae

Intel Duo2 6700E CNX

Asus P5N-32 DE, 2 x16 SLi +3x Added Trans +680i Upgrade

4 Gig OCZ Gold 667 Memory

2 x BFG 7950OC GX2 in SLi+ 1 x BFG Physix Extreme

SB Audigy FX2

PC Power & Cooling 750i PSU (1000 Watt)

2 x 74Gig Raptor Drives in non raid + 1 x WD 16mb Buffer 350 Gig Drive

XP specific partition, driver specific partition, standard build 2600 w/SP2.

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For comparion sakes, I test anywhere between 13,500 and 14,500, depending on statistical ann's and temps.

Rainbow Six: Vegas (Pure UE3.0): Runs pretty much maxed with only shadows turned to medium, max FPS.

Oblivion: Run at high Detail, Max FPS

FEAR: All options turned on to max, getting around 60-90

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Vanguard:

Run at  High Quality, does not recognize the FX2, does not recognize the Quadcore, does not recognize the SLi without an altered profile.

Getting anywhere between 1-75 FPS out of towns outdoors, 1-45 in towns, 1-55 in doors.

Obviously since theres no specific FPS Test for the game itself you can't get any more specific then that, which is just plain silly if you ask me. What can be said is that the FPS are extremely unstable and over the last 2 days stutering and thrashing has gotten progressively worse. But that's very subjective and not really tested.

Anyways, hopefully that helps some folk.

Masta22

Originally posted by mvddonk

I have been playing Vanguard for 2 days now (buddy key) and can run it on full graphics on this system (you might wanne lower some graphics when you really need the fps):

Pentium 3GHz

2GB DDR RAM

Ati Radeon x850 XT (AGP)

Thats strange because i have similar to you but with an pci-e x850 xt pe and a 3.6ghz p4 and it runs crap, lucky if I can get 20 fps out of town on balanced. Thats on 1900 x 1200 resolution tho.

cerinox

Intel E6700 Core 2 Duo
4 MB L2 cache
2.66GHz clock speed
1066MHz frontside bus

2GB DDR2 800 (PC2 6400 ) memory

Graphics card: XFX GEFORCE 8800GTX 768MB

Cable internet connection

But, the game is very buggy. Don't expect to avoid crashing, clipping, lag, etc etc etc No matter how high-end you go. Here's an example from lastnight... I crashed out to the desktop. When I logged back on I was ROLLED BACK 2 HOURS!!!! Damn near quit the game, but fortunately after a few minutes it kicked me to a reloading screen and I was reset to the point I had crashed. So, those are the types of bugs you will experience.

JackDonkey

Xforce nvidia 6600GT

1gib of corsair 2-2-2-5 ram

gigabyte motherboard

2.2 ghz AMD 64

trying 1280x whatever resolution



plays: kind of choppy and shitty, says I have decent frame rate at times, so I imagine it's more of a only having 1 gig of memory thing, then it is a video card thing.  I gave up on playing because it was pretty crappy, if bestbuy was as cheap as newegg.com though I probably would have impulse bought a video card and more memory last friday night.

Lazarus71

P4 3.0

1gb pc3200 ram

Nvidia Geforce 7600GS 512mb

SB Audigy 2

 

Running it on 1024x768 on balance and get 15-29 out of towns, dips to about 5-10 in town. Must need more ram or soemthing. My performance is going to probably stop me from buying the game. (playing on buddy key)

squeaky1

Wow, me and my old computer feel so insignificant...

Asus P4B mobo, 1Gb SD133 Ram, P4 2.4 Mhz CPU, ATI x1650xt(512 Mb) AGP.

The video card is new as my 128Mb ATI 9500 Pro ran the game at about 2-4 FPS

I generally run it at 1024x768 High Performance and get about 8-12 FPS in towns, 15-25 FPS outside, and 30-35 FPS indoors. I can run as high as 1280x1024 Balanced but I lose around 3-5 FPS overall. The game will start to lag significantly if more than 3-4 players are in close proximity and will freeze for several seconds at times when crossing chunk boundaries. Not great performance but generally playable.

I'll be replacing my computer in 1-2 months anyway so this is very livable for now.

Orca

Athlon 64 4000+
OCZ 3200 1gb Dual
7200rpm HDD
Leadtek 7800GTX 256mb
ASUS A8N

getting 30FPS in cities, at medium details, 1600x1200 windowed.

Alchemda

P4 Prescott 3.2GHz

1.5Gb PC 3200 DDR

7200 RPM WD 80gb HDD

BFG 7800GS AGP 256mb vid card



1280x960 High quality with grass maxed



15-20 FPS in wilderness and soloing

10-15FPS  grouped doing a dungeon

10-15FPS in cities



I'd rather have beauty and deal with pretty good FPS (in my book), it's not choppy or like a slide show I enjoy it and dont have any eye strain.