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AoC System Requirements
asupermane
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What are peoples guesses on this?
and will this hinder your decision to get this game?
I'm probably going to guess the minimum here:
2.0ghz or higher
1gb of Ram or Higher
128mb Video card or Better
10-20 gbs of HDD space available.
WIll you get this game if the game is a huge resource hog? or will you wait for the Console version!
we dont want this to be another Vanguard!
and will this hinder your decision to get this game?
I'm probably going to guess the minimum here:
2.0ghz or higher
1gb of Ram or Higher
128mb Video card or Better
10-20 gbs of HDD space available.
WIll you get this game if the game is a huge resource hog? or will you wait for the Console version!
we dont want this to be another Vanguard!
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Every time a new game comes out, people with old hardware are afraid they'll get "left behind". Every developer out there is always pushing the envelope, hardware-wise. It prolongs the potential life (read: earning potential) of a game and even if some people can't field the hardware to play the game at release, chances are that they'll upgrade to something that is able to run AoC within the games lifespan.
Of course, waiting to play a game sucks, but hey...it's a priority issue. Do you want this enough to upgrade?
I'm going to go with:
CPU: 3.0 Ghz P4 or equivalent
RAM: 1GB
GPU: 256MB RAM (roughly a 6800GT card)
...as being minimum or thereabouts.
This machine struggles to run Oblivion well.
But of course, who'd want to play AoC on a minimum spec PC?
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
2GB G.Skill Ram DDR2 PC-800
eVga 8800GTS x2 in sli
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I am waiting for Vista to become more stable, and the AoC hardware requirements to be released. The game looks great in DX 10 right now, but my current setup would probably struggle just to run Vista.
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Try checking out:
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest
Admittedly its still in BETA but they have an option for it, so they've got to have SOME data about requirements.
If you try that it will just state it is in beta and can test for you,Though not final.
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/235780/page/8
Sorry to say but those requirements will most likely be more leaning towards the low settings.
Vram and ram is way to low for such a high detail game.
your CPU will bottleneck you in massive events also imo.
HD, well depends games can easly take up 7GB for install and then it will probably increase alot due to save games, patches.....
But HD is cheap 100 bucks for 500gb of a good brand.
Yep really isnt worth while,The game is still 3 months from release and even those specs will change but as the previous poster said they are leaning to the lowest specs
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/235780/page/8
DX9 will be fine but the DX10 portion will have issues and No I won't buy it if its a memory hog.
Yeah the release is still a couple months away, so the data from http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest isn't the last word on system performance. I just wanted to throw that link out there for people who wanted a ballpark idea of where they stand, and what components they may want to look at upgrading before the game goes live. I've used it to test for a couple different games I'm looking at in the near future and saw the trend that my vid card was the weak link in my setup.
So, that site certainly isn't the last word on specs or performance (especially for games in beta) - but it's a nice bit of feedback for AoC stuff and can be useful in deciding if you want to upgrade, or just get a whole new setup. I'm sure things will change as we head into Jan/Feb.
They used E6600, 2gb Ram and a 7900gs at the last Dragon*Con event.
Just for reference again.
Personally though just make sure your graphics card supports shader model 2.0. (Guild Wars needs 1.1, LotRO needs 1.4 (see the evolution here;) ) ) and aim for 2gb ram if you can.
10-20gigs is overated. But I guess it more likely will be 8-10 gigabyte at least. But even that is a lot for a basis MMO´these days. I think to recall that even Oblivion (The Elder Scroll) took about 8gigs of my harddrive. But that was also full of bugs and errors. Bad programming etc.
Damn, that's me!
But hey...
10-20gigs is overated. But I guess it more likely will be 8-10 gigabyte at least. But even that is a lot for a basis MMO´these days. I think to recall that even Oblivion (The Elder Scroll) took about 8gigs of my harddrive. But that was also full of bugs and errors. Bad programming etc.
Not to suggest you might be off base....
But at DragonCon the client was right around 17 gig, and when it released Vanguard was also over 17gig, so you really think it'll be in the 8-10 gig? They'll manage to add everything that was not in that client, as well as remove un-needed stuff, and optimize the code and cut it in half? You must think more of Funcom than you give them credit for in most of your posts! I obviously misread that.
I don't have a doubt in my mind that this game will be 10+ GB. The textures, and size of the map will contribute to this alot, this won't be a small game, I actually just added a 160GB HDD because my 80GB HDD only had 20GB left and I wanted a decent amount to be left after AoC was installed in March 2008.
Funcom is pushing the graphics, as they should. You cannot expect developers to cater to people with 3-4 year old computers forever, the hardware is available and is and should be taken advantage of by both developers and gamers. The technology is available and being used. You can build a PC that will run this game comfortably at what I'm guessing will be medium settings for 400$ USD.
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More M.B.A.s in the sales and marketing of the games and less computer programmers.
From a business perspective, PC-friendliness is as important (perhaps more so) than world immersion.
Why developers make these games that are not PC-friendly is beyond me. I think they tend to love graphics and over-estimate their importance. Audio is also something that is often underestimated.
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AMD x2 5600
X1800xt
2gb ddr2
Considering I run a 1680x1050 res with my 22 inch wide monitor, I think this game is going to struggle on medium settings from what im reading.
Sigh...I can remember when I bought my video card and thought "hey this will do me for awhile"
I really hope this game has good performance, Vanguard made me cry.
I know what you mean, I have almost the exact same setup, the difference being that I have a Intel 640 instead of AMD.
I'll be upgrading my computer to a Quad (since its been announced that the game is being optimized also for Quads) and probably I'll just go SLI or Crossfire, depending on what's in the market at the time.
That system requirements lab is an epic fail. I maxed out everything except for the OS (I have XP, not bothering with Vista yet) and it put me half way between minimum and recomnded, when the truth of the matter is I should have maxed the thing out. The only part of my system that it said was not a full 5 bars was my OS.
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Yeah, I got just over Minimum because my graphics card is 256MB instead of 512MB, lol.
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