A few questions that I have

Mikkilla

I have 2 quick questions that'd i'd appreciate someone answering.



1. My computer can run WoW almost perfectly smooth, even in rough situations. I assume that WAR won't require too much more than WoW?



2. I have researched about the 3 racial pairings that will fight each other...question..can you go over and help another race that isnt trying to go for the same capital city as you? What what's the benefit or point?



Thanks

Areel

Originally posted by Mikkilla

I have 2 quick questions that'd i'd appreciate someone answering.



1. My computer can run WoW almost perfectly smooth, even in rough situations. I assume that WAR won't require too much more than WoW?



2. I have researched about the 3 racial pairings that will fight each other...question..can you go over and help another race that isnt trying to go for the same capital city as you? What what's the benefit or point?



Thanks

WAR will require a little more power from your PC than WoW, but since WoW has very low requirements, that isn't saying much.  We don't know much about system specs, but you can get a general idea of the graphics behind it simply by checking out some screenshots here:

Mythic official screenshots

Yes, you can travel to any ally's battlefront to aid in their particular pairing.  Dwarfs can go help the Empire, for example.  The point of doing this is two-fold.  First, it gives you options, so you're less likely to get bored.  Also allows multi-racial guilds to play together.  Second, it allows for a more dynamic war strategy.  If the Dwarfs are taking a pounding, but the Empire is holding its own, some players may leave the Empire and go help the Dwarfs.  Or perhaps all the Destruction races will congregate on the High Elves with the plan of taking them down hard.  It'll be interesting to see what happens.

Tyfreaky

Well, WoW does not require much to run, and as you said WAR looks freaking good but will not have insane specifications (most likely). So I am going to guess that you will be able to run on your computer, maybe not with everything turned up, but it will probably be able to run at average settings with no problem.



And for the second part of your question, Areel answered it pretty well.

Kyleran

Actually, DAOC would be your best comparison, since Mythic has said that WAR is going to run on an upgrade version of the original engine....



You'll need a pretty good system if you dont' want to be lagged out all to heck when there's 50 -100 other players on the screen...

Sornin

Well, here are World of Warcraft's minimum requirements:

• Intel Pentium® III 800 MHz or AMD Athlon 800 MHz
• 512 MB or more of RAM
• 32 MB 3D graphics card with Hardware Transform and Lighting, such as NVIDIA® GeForce™ 2 class card or above
• DirectX® 9.0c (included) and latest video drivers
• 6.0 GB available HD space
• 4x CD-ROM drive
• A 56k or better Internet connection

Here are the recommended requirements (only changes listed):

• Intel Pentium® IV 1.5 GHz or AMD XP 1500+ MHz
• 1024 MB RAM
• 64 MB 3D graphics card with Hardware Transform and Lighting, such as NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX 5700 class card or above
• Broadband Internet connection
• Two-button scroll-wheel mouse

I am guessing that WAR's minimum will be more like WoW's recommended, which is still a very modest computer (my current PC built in 2003 exceeds WoW's recommended, even). Of course, that will likely result in needing to run at very low settings, so to get the quality we see in the screenshots at a playable FPS, you will need more. I am guessing WAR's recommended will be more like 2048 MB RAM (maybe only 1024 MB still, especially if not using Vista) and a 128 MB discrete video card from the NVIDIA 6 series / ATI X series, and maybe a slightly better processor. That still will not be capable of full settings, but it will be a good start.

Skyles

We don't know what specs will be required yet, but at the February Press event, they reported these specs for the demo machines:

"The system we were playing on for the test was a Laptop system with an Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 Ghz with 2Gb of Ram, Radeon x1600 Mobile gfx card and other standard goodies. The game was at almost max setting (no antialiasing) and was running perfectly fine with no performance issues at all."