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Winner of the AoC Beta weekend!
Shannia
Member Posts: 2,096
HP, Dell, Gateway, AOpen, etc.
I think the clear winner of the AoC weekend was the PC manufacturers and part retailers like Newegg. One thing is crystal clear. If you do not have a high end machine, you are nothing more than a road bump in PvP in AoC. Seriously, don't try to "cheat" the system and go with medium or low end system.
Funcom, the game is looking a lot better than when I saw it DragonCon. Good job. Keep up the hard work.
Fear not fanbois, we are not trolls, let's take off your tin foil hat and learn what VAPORWARE is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
"Vaporware is a term used to describe a software or hardware product that is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge after having well exceeded the period of development time that was initially claimed or would normally be expected for the development cycle of a similar product."
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My comp:
Intel Pentium IV 3.0 ghz processor
2GB of RAM
Crappy standard sound card
Nvidia GeForce 8800GT 256MB
I ran the game very well on medium, with a steady 35-40 FPS.
And, I have to say I did quite well in pvp this weekend. Was also top 2 in kills on my Assassin, and I didn't fail too hard on my HoX
Uh, you can build a PC that'll run the game maxed or nearly maxed out for less then $1,000. You don't need to buy expensive hardware for it to be effective.
Example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115037
Best freaken gaming CPU money can buy.. only 210 bucks! That's EXTREMELY affordable for the performance. P.S. It can overclock to 4ghz ON AIR! GL getting one though.. constantly out of stock heh.
G.Skill ram is also very affordable and can clock nearly 50% higher.
Asus MOBOS will cost you, but they're very good. Either them or EVGA is the way to go.
8800gtx evga card is only 270 bucks after rebate.
See where i'm going with this? People need to stop making excuses and upgrade their ancient piles of crap. Stop buying Dells and crap... you're paying double or more for the same frikin hardware. If you don't know how to assemble the PC. Read the dang manuals. If you don't know how to overclock. Run at stock speeds or research it.
You CAN have a top end PC at affordable prices. Hell you can even do financing and pay monthly for your parts bundled into 1 order and 1 payment at newegg.. it can't possibly get anymore simple then that.
I have a lower-end system and I did fine in pvp [after a few changes of course].
I need to upgrade soon, I didn't even think my 7600gs would even touch it, but I was running with full shadows, normal textures, particles raised, good view distance [little above medium] with around 20-30 FPS, without hitching or slow-downs.
So it is possible to PvP with those FPS.
You people that keep saying you need a top end pc to run this game must own a computer store or something. Either that or you are graphics junkies that need to get 100fps on max settings to be happy. Even on low settings the game looks fine and can be run on an average system easily. Everyone has their own standards on what they consider acceptable performance. I wouldn't suggest trying to run this with a min spec pc but you certainly do not need a top end brand new pc to run this. Keep in mind this is an older beta client so the retail client will almost certainly run better than this one.
I do agree. I turned it down to low to see what it was like, it is still beautiful. Most games can't say that, if you turn everything to as low as it goes, textures are blurry, models look bad. But not here.
No, not really. I just come from Unreal and such. When it comes to PvP, if you are playing in slideshow mode, you are as good as road kill. I'm stuck between a rock and hard spot. I have a Vista lap top with 4gig of ram and 4.2ghz processor but the graphixs are on board (so I think AoC was cause my mother board to choke and fry on load)... then I have a desktop with 2.2 ghz with 2gig of ram, but has 2 ATi 1meg x1950XT in crossfire mode. Can't just upgrade the processor on the desktop because of the crossfire thing... like 912 pin or some crap like that.
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Fear not fanbois, we are not trolls, let's take off your tin foil hat and learn what VAPORWARE is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
"Vaporware is a term used to describe a software or hardware product that is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge after having well exceeded the period of development time that was initially claimed or would normally be expected for the development cycle of a similar product."
Hee hee, well newegg definitely got some of my business. But my video card desperately needed an upgrade (and got a new power supply). I don't mind though, I was planning on doing it anyway for AoC and Aion later this year.
my specs
2.6ghz quad core processor
4 gigs ram
8800gtx(768mb)
vista 64
this runs everything i own at max with the exception of crysis, but crysis won't run well on a supercomputer so i don't count it.