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Would the game be playable on my archaic system?
FrostWyrm
Member Posts: 1,036
Ok, here's what I'm running. Get all the laughs out now cuz I dont want you to be too light-headed to answer my inquiry.
AMD Athlon 64 2800+ 1.8GHz
Nvidia GeForce FX5900 Ultra w/ 256M RAM
1GB DDR1 333 RAM Single Channel
Done yet?...Can you breathe now? Ok, so obviously I'm much in need of an upgrade. In fact, I'm planning on upgrading to a 2.4GHz Athlon 64 x2, 2x GeForce 7800GT's running SLI, and 1g of DDR2 800 RAM in a few months. What I wanted to know, though, is do you think I'd be able to run Vanguard on low settings with my current setup, or should I wait until I upgrade to get the game?
I know I meet the minimal requirements to play the game, but as we all know, minimal doesn't always mean playable.
AMD Athlon 64 2800+ 1.8GHz
Nvidia GeForce FX5900 Ultra w/ 256M RAM
1GB DDR1 333 RAM Single Channel
Done yet?...Can you breathe now? Ok, so obviously I'm much in need of an upgrade. In fact, I'm planning on upgrading to a 2.4GHz Athlon 64 x2, 2x GeForce 7800GT's running SLI, and 1g of DDR2 800 RAM in a few months. What I wanted to know, though, is do you think I'd be able to run Vanguard on low settings with my current setup, or should I wait until I upgrade to get the game?
I know I meet the minimal requirements to play the game, but as we all know, minimal doesn't always mean playable.
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Simple answer is No! ow yes you will be able to start the game & maybe even move around but playable No .. maybe in a year if they decide at all to fix the code , then again in a year it may not even be around ..
I think you can play it on that rig...but it would have to be on the minimal graphic settings. Depending on your tolerance for some lag and lack of detail....it may or may not still be enjoyable. I don't require alot of eye candy to enjoy a game ...soooo for me...I would consider it playable on that rig.
Despite what people say about the code...it's not broken. You will hear that mostly from people that thought they had a killer rig and got their egos stepped on when they tried to play VG. The game was made to play great on your standard rigs a year or two from now. It's future proofed graphics wise. Silgil continues to find ways to streamline the game in such a way to allow lower end rigs ( by VG standards.anything older than a couple of months ) to play the game smoothly with high graphical detail.
In a year ..with continued optimizeation of the game and with the steady decrease in hardware prices...this will be a non-issue.
I'm really more interested in trying the game out for myself, after reading all the mixed reviews. I've been looking forward to this game for some time and am really anxious to see if it delivers what was promised, so no, I'm not going to play LOTR; please dont try to advertise it to me because I'm just not interested.
I enjoyed the old EQ more than any other MMO I've played to date, and unlike many of those who got into the genre along with WoW, I actually prefer that old-school immersion and difficulty which is why I'm hoping Sigil makes good on their promises. Dont get me wrong, I'm not some fanboi or WoW hater, or anything like that; I'm just not into the same thing that generation of MMORPG'er is into.
There are alot of variables with this question. If your system is really clean and your connection is really good ....I would guess you would be fine on minimal settings with about 10 fps in town and 20 fps out of town.
I'm on a amd 3500, Nvid 6600, 1 gig ram....on a fairly junked up , family used cpu and it get 10-15 fps and heavy lag spikes in towns and 25-30 fps with occasional lag spikes out of town and in combat. My graphis are set to high performance with the grass turned off. Game still looks great to me. Draw distance is good ...trees and mobs are well detailed for a good distance. I run into big problems only in really busy towns at peak hours ..where my fps can drop below 10 at times. Another gig or ram for you..and me really..would help things alot.
Yeah, I'd like 2gigs of ram, problem is, thanks to the big switchover to DDR2 RAM as a standard, I cant just add on to what I've already got. If I want to upgrade one thing, I'm forced to upgrade everything else with it pretty much, and it's kinda squeezing my budget as is. Of course I could still get it even further down the line, but at the moment, 1gig is the most I can afford in my upgrade.
As far as going SLI, you'd be much safer going with one 8800GT since the game isn't optimized for SLI yet.
Good luck, hope to see in Telon... eventually!
Athlon 64 4000 (2.41 GHz)
GeForce 7800GT
2GB RAM
And if there are more than two or three other players on the screen, my framerate drops into the single digits, even when I'm on the lowest graphics settings. Wait a few months - by the time you've built your new system, they'll have hopefully fixed the code, and you should be able to play Vanguard on medium settings
Have you tried toning down the shader settings? If you have, sounds like you need to update your drivers or try defraging. My specs are a step down from that (3100+ and a 7600GT) and I can healthily play in the 20s to 30s with settings on High Qual.
I don't see why you should be taking such a performance hit because of the code when I have the same brands and just lesser hardware.
Then again, I could be wrong.
Here are most of my settings (at the end) and some pictures of the results of those settings.
www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/1175517#1175517
As to this poster Bono.... I would say you dont have your system set up correctly . You should be getting excellent frame rates. The code really isnt broken as you state. the game pushes more polygons and textures than any MMORPG out there. It's meant to look good years into the future. Not understanding how to set up your system is not an indication of bad code.
If you'll notice, a lot of players here have nearly identical specs on their rig, yet DRAMATICALLY different performance overall.
I would advise waiting for a free trial. No sense is subtracting 50 bucks away from your 1 gig upgrade fund for a game you might not even be able to play.
Waiting for something fresh to arrive on the MMO scene...
Have you tried toning down the shader settings? If you have, sounds like you need to update your drivers or try defraging. My specs are a step down from that (3100+ and a 7600GT) and I can healthily play in the 20s to 30s with settings on High Qual.
I don't see why you should be taking such a performance hit because of the code when I have the same brands and just lesser hardware.
Then again, I could be wrong. Yep. I have the latest drivers (installed 'em yesterday), defragged, applied the settings tweaks in the sticky post at the top of this forum.
It's great when I'm soloing, and there are only a few other people on the screen, but grouping is out of the question, and Three Rivers Village is a slideshow. The only thing that's given me decent framerates is turning off the sound. But I'm not going to play a game with no sound.
As for my system, I'd appreciate any info you can give me on setting things up correctly. My copy is supposed to be delivered on Tuesday, and I don't want to tell the UPS man to take it back. I want to play this game so badly, I deleted my "blah blah you're wrong and I'm right" post and replaced it with this simple request for help. What could be set up wrong on my box? What can I change to make this game work for me?
second, My system
AMD XP 2100+ <--- doesn't meet game specs
ATI 9800 PRO 128
1GB RAM
Your system will run the game beter then mine, and I have no issues with the way my game runs
Here are most of my settings (at the end) and some pictures of the results of those settings.
www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/1175517#1175517
Those are nice screens. You say you have only one 7800GT? After reading some of the earlier posts here, I was thinking of starting off with a single 7800GT instead of 2 running SLI, and pick up another gig of RAM in place of the other. Not sure which would benefit me more for this game, though. Truthfully, I'm not sure how much benefit running 2 vid cards SLI is over a single card of the same type period. I've checked out a few bench charts and have also considered dual 6800GS' to save a bit of cash. Anyway, I still need to do a bit more research before making a decision.
mmmh. the giga of ddr2 ram won't do you much better than your current ram. Now i don't know what mobo you have, but it is prolly a slot 939. Now, i understand it is smart to change motherboard especially if you are planning to upgrade your whole comp, but maybe you can make couple calculations, not buy the new mobo, see if you can get a better processor for your old one (or keep that one, processor is almost the least thing nowadays), get a better card and 2 giga of rams, yes normal DDR work just fine.
These advices are purely technical...
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"
As to the 'hardcore' nature of the game, it isn't really. Levelling is slower than WoW (and EQ2 after all the changes) but so what? That doesn't make it hard, or even a challenge. It is not a challenge to spend hours trying to level your character - it is a challenge if it requires some sort of intelligence or skill. Vanguard doesn't. The mobs are incredibly easy to kill, and it is pretty hard to die. Even the grouped mobs are easy (when in a group) - so much so, that grouping becomes very chaotic, as the tank tries to pul everything he can see at once to make things faster (and no - he doesn't die, since healing is so overpowered).
Since you basically only die if you are careless, this makes exploration very easy. But surprisingly it seems that the 'hardcore' players don't like to explore. After 2 weeks into the game my level 10 cleric alt was making server wide discoveries for being the first character to explore an area.
Diplomacy is a joke - it is basically a card game which you can win pretty much every time once you have the system sussed. In fact, the only reason you might be blocked by a diplo quest is because you don't meet the requirements to speak to the guy.
The game is very buggy, but one should really expect that since it is stil in its first month since release. However, I must say that my main impedence to advancing is bugs. It is frustrating to travel half an hour to find that you can't complete the quest due to bugs.
Having said all that, my main is still <20 so maybe it becomes more challenging (in a good way) later. And if they can optimize the code to make it more playable, then it could be a good game. That is a big 'if' though, especially since the official statement was that in a year everyone will have a rig good enough to play the game.
I haven't seen this game yet, but the screenshots aren't that "amazing" to me it looks like EQ2 but "less pretty"?
Can anyone post a screenshot of how it looks like for you?
I can play EQ2 at almost maxed setting with :
Amd 64 -(2.4Ghz) 4000+, 2048Mb DDR400, Radeon X1900XTX, if this can run EQ2 (Gothic3/Elderscrolls4) at good quality and still playable why would V:SOH be any different? or is it just a piece of shit coding job?
It all depend on what kind of performance you can put up with. Some ppl can't even stand the performace with the newst nvidia card. Some ppl can put up with it on the same kind of card as you.
You probally have to put all the settings on low.
I have a AMD 3200 with 2 gigs of RAM , and I had a Nvidia 5200 videocard
I was getting 1 FPS even on the lowest settings. I couldn't even move.
I upgraded to a Nvidia 7900GS and the game plays fine now