Customized Highest Settings: About 30-40 FPS in the wilderness, as low as 10-15 FPS depending on which city I'm in. Still annoyed by the burst of lag when crossing chunks...
I just got it loaded last night so didn't look for the FPS yet but ran on balanced at 1280x1024 just fine. Of course it lagged from time to time but it was not by any means unplayable, I expect lag when I turn up the "Clip plane" to max, quite enjoyable
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.
That 8800 of yours is a DX 10 card, if you ain't runnign vista then thats why your having problems, and even at that if you are running vista, the drivers are still really buggy themselves for that chipset.
75GB WD Raptor 10k RPM (For OS and game(s), other drive is for data, etc.)
The game does not run bad at all, outdoors it is usually somewhere between 35-60fps, but the average outdoor is often around 40-45. In very busy towns it can be 20fps, I rarely see 15fps but that can happen if there are about 60 people running around Tursh. Inside buildings, without Vsync, it can be 90-115, but I don't run without Vsync unless messing around with stuff.
This computer is almost 2 years old now and in my opinion is on its last legs, there isn't really much I can do for it. I got it right before EQ2 came out, and it ran EQ2 worse than this game back then.
The game runs fine with one of the video cards removed, and actually runs slightly better with 2GB instead of 4 because the timings have to be raised to address 4 banks. Though it seems that when I have both video cards back in and running in SLI mode that Fraps records smoother, and has no problem doing full resolution captures that are manually set to record at 24fps; also the game doesn't bog down when recording with Fraps.
As a test, I removed 3GB of RAM from this computer (XP here uses about ~90MB on boot) and the game framerates drop nearly in half, plunging into the teens and below 10fps often. Chunk loading takes forever and there is a LOT more stuttering, even in outdoor areas almost constantly; this gets worse after some amount of time. With 2GB (or the full 4) chunk loading takes about 1/2 second at most, and the only slight delays are when first going into an area. Going back to that same area later doesn't stutter and the hard drive is almost always silent.
I really think they should make the minimum at least 1GB on the specs, it just does not run well with even that much at all. This is with every XP service disabled that is not required to operate (gets it down to about 13 or so processes in Task Manager.)
I have 2 computers that I play vanguard on. Here are the stats for both of them.
Main computer which is used for grouping and for future raids. Average fps 20-25 in town, outside 30+
3.40 ghz duel core intel pentium d
ddr2 2.50 gigs of ram
ati x1950pro 256 video card
Game runs great usally run on balanced.
Office computer/back up average fps 15-20 in town 25+ outside. This computer is mostly used for tradeskills and/or harvesting. I run it on high performace.
2.80 ghz duel core intel pentium d
ddr 2 gigs
geforce 6600 512 video card
So it just depeneds upon what you want to do and how much money your willing to spend for the upgrades for the performance you want.
Working well on the kids' and my xmas boxes ("budget gaming" since I had to cobble 3 together):
PentiumD 3 GHz
P5nSLi mobo
1 GB Patriot DDR2 667
BFG 7950GT OC (single - no sli)
SB Audigy SE
WD SATA-II single drives (no RAID)
We're all playing 1280x1024 / balanced and getting 25-30fps generally. In cities and congested areas we sometimes bop into first person to withstand an otherwise chuggy experience - it seems to depend on how many players are in the area. We did bump up the clip plane a bit and I think grass is at about 30. The hitch when crossing into a new chunk is annoying - especially the first few times you play and aren't sure why it's happening. Otherwise we're not experiencing performance issues. Glad I put the extra $ into the 7950's instead of the 7600GT's - it paid off. Especially if the rebates come through
I am playing on the following system at 1280x1024 and the game runs great (except from 3 CTD's since official launch and the other known bugs):
Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 2.4GHz
Abit AB9 Mobo
2Gb 800MHz DDR2 RAM
Nvidia Geforce 8800GTX 768Mb
320 Gb SATA 2 7200rpm HD
Like I said the game runs well on this system, I am getting between 50-80 FPS in the wild and between 25-40 FPS in town with the occassional stutter. I am playing on Highest Quality with all the sliders maxed except the Distance Blur which is at zero and Environmental Shading which is at 80%. Clipping Pane is at maximum.
This is a 3 week old machine, however, I did play in Beta 5 on my old rig which was as follows:
AMD Athlon 2500+ 1.8GHz
Unknown Mobo
1.5Gb 333MHz DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 256Mb
80 Gb HD
On that system I could play on Balanced and get around 25 FPS in the wild which dropped to around 10 FPS in town or could drop down to High Performance or Highest Performance and get around 30-40 FPS in the wild and 15-20 FPS in town.
Hope this helps.
MMORPG History: Playing - EVE Online. Played (Retired) - AO, SWG, MxO, WoW, RFO, SoR, CoX, EQ2, GW, L2, Vanguard, LotRO, AoC, TCoS, Aion. Favourite MMO - Pre-CU SWG, 3 Years, 4 Accounts, 2 Pre-CU Jedi (1 Pre-9). Awaiting - Star Wars: The Old Republic, The Secret World, Earthrise.
Settings in game are default balanced and resolution at 1680x1050
Get around average of 27fps which looks smooth to me, but will chunk the first time I get to a city and after that it runs smooth. Will get a random hitch here or there but not all the time or half the time.
Goes to show that you guys with 512MB grafx cards who can't run the game: QUALITY is always better. Don't be fooled by higher stats because the cards quality depends on a lot of things. I paid 2 thousand for this rig 16 months ago from Alienware, but I'm pretty sure you could put this exact system together for between $700.00 and $1,000.
I miss the good ol' days when nerds were actually intelligent.
All settings maxed (except for one or two landscape affects).
E6700
2GB Corsair Extreme
Asus P5NSLI
EVGA 7950GX2 1GB
Aspire 680 PSU W/PFC
Razer Barracuda AC-1 sound
Flood
How is the Razer sound? How is the hardare souund support?
We'll eventually want to ditch our Audigy SE's and jump to something else NOT Creative - and we've been impressed with other razer products' attention to detail (granted their firmware flashing instructions BLOW).
Runs at highest details ay 1680x1050 without any slowdowns, but starts to become a huge system hogging beast if I alt-tab even once or play it windowed
How is the Razer sound? How is the hardare souund support?
We'll eventually want to ditch our Audigy SE's and jump to something else NOT Creative - and we've been impressed with other razer products' attention to detail (granted their firmware flashing instructions BLOW).
It sounds great IMO. I havnt read all too much bad about it either (see newegg.com customer reviews). I have always been a Creative buyer but my current rig has the Asus motherboard and at the time I was shopping for cards, the X-Fi's were know to have issues with those boards.
The sound positioning is very good. I had been playing BF2142 at the time of the sound upgrade (from a 2ZS) and immediately noticed the rear channels having better seperation. The explosions (if you have played, specifically the Titan going boom) were much clearer and refined.
Music and Video playback is fantastic, the Dolby features do their job well. This is probably what I notice the most. I have gone out and bought a new CD and tried it in the computer and gave it a listen. Then brought it into my car the next day (which has a pretty beefy 9 speaker system) and thought it sounded flat compared to off the computer. Never once thought that before with the old card, the car always sounded better.
Hardware support I have only had one issue with it and that was Quake 4 because of the OpenAL. It works...you can hear things...but the hardware support is not there. There are OpenAL Beta drivers for Vista (I believe XP also but not positive) but I havnt tried them yet as it works perfect with what I do play.
I have played...lets see: WoW, BF2142, FEAR, NFS: Carbon, VG:SoH, Neverwinter Nights 2 all with full hardware support and sounding very good.
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Athlon 64x2 4200+ (Dual Core)
2 Gb DDR2 PC4200
geForce 7950 gt 512Mb
Customized Highest Settings: About 30-40 FPS in the wilderness, as low as 10-15 FPS depending on which city I'm in. Still annoyed by the burst of lag when crossing chunks...
3.0 ghz P4
1 Gig DDR 400
128 Radeon 9800 pro
Audigy SC
I just got it loaded last night so didn't look for the FPS yet but ran on balanced at 1280x1024 just fine. Of course it lagged from time to time but it was not by any means unplayable, I expect lag when I turn up the "Clip plane" to max, quite enjoyable
AMD64 X2 4200+ 2.2GHz
Nvidia 7800GT (Two of these cards, but it barely makes any difference since SLI is not supported)
4x1GB OCZ Platinum DDR400 (2-3-2-5-1T timings @2x1GB) ; (2.5-3-3-8-2T timings @4x1GB)
75GB WD Raptor 10k RPM (For OS and game(s), other drive is for data, etc.)
The game does not run bad at all, outdoors it is usually somewhere between 35-60fps, but the average outdoor is often around 40-45. In very busy towns it can be 20fps, I rarely see 15fps but that can happen if there are about 60 people running around Tursh. Inside buildings, without Vsync, it can be 90-115, but I don't run without Vsync unless messing around with stuff.
This computer is almost 2 years old now and in my opinion is on its last legs, there isn't really much I can do for it. I got it right before EQ2 came out, and it ran EQ2 worse than this game back then.
The game runs fine with one of the video cards removed, and actually runs slightly better with 2GB instead of 4 because the timings have to be raised to address 4 banks. Though it seems that when I have both video cards back in and running in SLI mode that Fraps records smoother, and has no problem doing full resolution captures that are manually set to record at 24fps; also the game doesn't bog down when recording with Fraps.
I run with some modified settings which I posted in the thread near the end, after the screenshots. It is a mixture between Balanced and High Quality. www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/1175517#1175517
As a test, I removed 3GB of RAM from this computer (XP here uses about ~90MB on boot) and the game framerates drop nearly in half, plunging into the teens and below 10fps often. Chunk loading takes forever and there is a LOT more stuttering, even in outdoor areas almost constantly; this gets worse after some amount of time. With 2GB (or the full 4) chunk loading takes about 1/2 second at most, and the only slight delays are when first going into an area. Going back to that same area later doesn't stutter and the hard drive is almost always silent.
I really think they should make the minimum at least 1GB on the specs, it just does not run well with even that much at all. This is with every XP service disabled that is not required to operate (gets it down to about 13 or so processes in Task Manager.)
1 gig ram
250 gig hd
GeForce 7900 GS
Runs on High quality at about 35 FPS...25-30 in towns.
ATI 9800 Pro 128
1GB Ram
I have the game set to its lowest, at best I get 20 FPS most times its 6-8 FPS. Most nights I play with no audio for the boost in performance.
Game runs fine, doesn't look the best because of my system but the quality of the game play makes up for it.
I have 2 computers that I play vanguard on. Here are the stats for both of them.
Main computer which is used for grouping and for future raids. Average fps 20-25 in town, outside 30+
3.40 ghz duel core intel pentium d
ddr2 2.50 gigs of ram
ati x1950pro 256 video card
Game runs great usally run on balanced.
Office computer/back up average fps 15-20 in town 25+ outside. This computer is mostly used for tradeskills and/or harvesting. I run it on high performace.
2.80 ghz duel core intel pentium d
ddr 2 gigs
geforce 6600 512 video card
So it just depeneds upon what you want to do and how much money your willing to spend for the upgrades for the performance you want.
Thunderaxe server
Winterose-cleric
1.5 gb of ram
GF 6600GT 256mb graphics card
I run the game perfectly on the balanced setting which doesn't look bad at all and I am enjoying my experiance
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Lend a hand and break the chains of regularity you lean so closely upon
Pentium D 3.0 (duel core)
1 GB PC5300 667
Gforce 6800GS 256 MB
Cable Internet
Resolution: 1440x900
I usaly get between 20-50 FPS on Balanced. 20 being in the citys and 50 being alone out in the middle of no where
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PentiumD 3 GHz
P5nSLi mobo
1 GB Patriot DDR2 667
BFG 7950GT OC (single - no sli)
SB Audigy SE
WD SATA-II single drives (no RAID)
We're all playing 1280x1024 / balanced and getting 25-30fps generally. In cities and congested areas we sometimes bop into first person to withstand an otherwise chuggy experience - it seems to depend on how many players are in the area. We did bump up the clip plane a bit and I think grass is at about 30. The hitch when crossing into a new chunk is annoying - especially the first few times you play and aren't sure why it's happening. Otherwise we're not experiencing performance issues. Glad I put the extra $ into the 7950's instead of the 7600GT's - it paid off. Especially if the rebates come through
2.4ghz P4
2g DDR Ram
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
The game is playable but gets pretty choppy. If I upgraded to a Geforce 7300GT would I see a noticeable difference?
I am playing on the following system at 1280x1024 and the game runs great (except from 3 CTD's since official launch and the other known bugs):
Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 2.4GHz
Abit AB9 Mobo
2Gb 800MHz DDR2 RAM
Nvidia Geforce 8800GTX 768Mb
320 Gb SATA 2 7200rpm HD
Like I said the game runs well on this system, I am getting between 50-80 FPS in the wild and between 25-40 FPS in town with the occassional stutter. I am playing on Highest Quality with all the sliders maxed except the Distance Blur which is at zero and Environmental Shading which is at 80%. Clipping Pane is at maximum.
This is a 3 week old machine, however, I did play in Beta 5 on my old rig which was as follows:
AMD Athlon 2500+ 1.8GHz
Unknown Mobo
1.5Gb 333MHz DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 256Mb
80 Gb HD
On that system I could play on Balanced and get around 25 FPS in the wild which dropped to around 10 FPS in town or could drop down to High Performance or Highest Performance and get around 30-40 FPS in the wild and 15-20 FPS in town.
Hope this helps.
MMORPG History:
Playing - EVE Online.
Played (Retired) - AO, SWG, MxO, WoW, RFO, SoR, CoX, EQ2, GW, L2, Vanguard, LotRO, AoC, TCoS, Aion.
Favourite MMO - Pre-CU SWG, 3 Years, 4 Accounts, 2 Pre-CU Jedi (1 Pre-9).
Awaiting - Star Wars: The Old Republic, The Secret World, Earthrise.
Intel PD 945 3.4 GHZ
2gb DDR2 633 mhz
Nvidia 6800 GT AGP
I get 20-30 FPS on balanced. Very playable for me atm.
Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7600 2.33GHz, 4MB L2
2 GB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM
ATI Mobility Fire GL V5250 256MB
I'll have to take a look at the FPS and put em in later
Play as your fav retro characters: cnd-online.net. My site: www.lysle.net. Blog: creatingaworld.blogspot.com.
Asus P5B
Intel C2D E6600@ 3600Mhz
Gainward Geforce 8800 GTX 620/1960
2Gb Ram
Runs game at 1280x1024 with all video settings at max and i have a min FPS of 70
AMD Sempron 3200
2GB Ram PC 3200
GeForce 7300 GT 256 OC'd
Balance settings outdoors 15-30fps, Town 5 - 15 fps, Dungeon 20 - 30fps
7900 GS to be installed soon as UPS guy drops it off
AMD X2 4200+ Dual Core
2gb DDR800 ram
GeForce 7600 GT OC'd edition
Windows Vista Home Premium
SATA 250gb HDD
I run on high settings (a step below the top) and everything cranked between 80 and 100% @ 1152x864
The game looks amazing, best looking world I've seen in 10 years of playing mmorpgs.
I do chop a little bit in major cities (IE Martok) though. Burt that goes away after a few moments
Aside from that it's smooth sailing
AMD 64 3200
1GB Low Latency Corsair Ram
XFX 6800GT 256MB
MSI K8T
Everything is default no overclocking
Settings in game are default balanced and resolution at 1680x1050
Get around average of 27fps which looks smooth to me, but will chunk the first time I get to a city and after that it runs smooth. Will get a random hitch here or there but not all the time or half the time.
edited, because forgot to put resolution
Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 3500+ with HyperTransport Technology
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP
Power Supply: Alienware® 460 Watt Max Power Supply
Chassis: Alienware® Full-Tower Case - Space Black
Chassis Upgrades: Alienware® Acoustic Dampening with AlienIce™ 2.0 Video Cooling System
Motherboard: Alienware® motherboard based on VIA K8T800 Pro chipset
Graphics Processor: ATI RADEON™ X800 PRO 256MB DDR3
Memory: 2GB Ultra Low Latency Dual Channel DDR PC-3200 SDRAM at 400MHz
System Drive: High Performance - Serial ATA - 80GB Serial ATA 7,200 RPM w/16MB Cache (1.5 TB total HD space)
Primary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 16x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Drive w/LightScribe Technology
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy® 2 ZS High Definition 7.1 Surround Firewire (IEEE® 1394)
Network Connection: Integrated High Performance Gigabit Ethernet
Monitor: 22" Widescreen
Mouse: Logitech® MX™1000 Laser Cordless Mouse
AlienWiring: AlienWiring - Exclusive Internal Wire Management
Goes to show that you guys with 512MB grafx cards who can't run the game: QUALITY is always better. Don't be fooled by higher stats because the cards quality depends on a lot of things. I paid 2 thousand for this rig 16 months ago from Alienware, but I'm pretty sure you could put this exact system together for between $700.00 and $1,000.
I miss the good ol' days when nerds were actually intelligent.
E6700
2GB Corsair Extreme
Asus P5NSLI
EVGA 7950GX2 1GB
Aspire 680 PSU W/PFC
Razer Barracuda AC-1 sound
How is the Razer sound? How is the hardare souund support?
We'll eventually want to ditch our Audigy SE's and jump to something else NOT Creative - and we've been impressed with other razer products' attention to detail (granted their firmware flashing instructions BLOW).
ATI X1950Pro
2GB DDR2 RAM
Runs at highest details ay 1680x1050 without any slowdowns, but starts to become a huge system hogging beast if I alt-tab even once or play it windowed
2 GIGs of cheap RAM
Geforce 7600GT 256MB
ASUS A8N-SLI mobo
Running 1280x1024 at settings on High Quality with Volumetric Clouds OFF and all Shading settings toned down.
Average 25 to 35 FPS in and out of towns and battle. Feels fluid.
Note that I do need to type /flush about every 30 minutes to keep Vanguard continuesly running smoothly.
The sound positioning is very good. I had been playing BF2142 at the time of the sound upgrade (from a 2ZS) and immediately noticed the rear channels having better seperation. The explosions (if you have played, specifically the Titan going boom) were much clearer and refined.
Music and Video playback is fantastic, the Dolby features do their job well. This is probably what I notice the most. I have gone out and bought a new CD and tried it in the computer and gave it a listen. Then brought it into my car the next day (which has a pretty beefy 9 speaker system) and thought it sounded flat compared to off the computer. Never once thought that before with the old card, the car always sounded better.
Hardware support I have only had one issue with it and that was Quake 4 because of the OpenAL. It works...you can hear things...but the hardware support is not there. There are OpenAL Beta drivers for Vista (I believe XP also but not positive) but I havnt tried them yet as it works perfect with what I do play.
I have played...lets see: WoW, BF2142, FEAR, NFS: Carbon, VG:SoH, Neverwinter Nights 2 all with full hardware support and sounding very good.
133mhz AGP frequency (2128mhz PCIEx16)
1950xtx running at 720core 2240mem
2gb pc8000
sata2 7200 hard drive
Fully defraged
30-60 fps at the highest settings