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Is AOC Playable
UbberGoober
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How's the state of the game so far, the game is coming out in March are they going to further delay it? In terms of performance is it playable, has the game been optimized because from what I seen it will probably take a monster rig to run the game.
I have not been invited to participate in the beta so I was wondering if anyone knows or has a clue on the overall state of the game.
I think the game looks very nice, but I hope they optimized the engine and did everything they needed to do from their side to make it stable and playable on lower end systems as well as the newer technology that is out.
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well from what ive seen it well run pretty ok on some machine of lesser value. a guy point some pics up of beta on his machine and u could tell teh graphics werent all that great but it still looked good.
Yeah, it should be playable. Nothing to say that it shouldn't be. From rumours I'm hearing its almost a functional game at this point.
I'm hoping for a early February Open Beta.
I hope it's stable and optimized, I hope it runs on my 3200+ AMD, I got over 1k in ram and Geforce 6800 GT 256mb. I don't have the newer rigs with dual and quad cores but i think overall my system is not that bad, granted not new technology but if Funcom does their job and optimizes AOC I should be able to enjoy the game reguardless of having a monster rig.
Most of the games out right now don't even support multi core setups. I doubt AoC will either. All I can suggest to you is get a load of ram, a good vid card with plenty of memory and I think you should be fine.
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im not sure guys but if im correct, those who are playing the beta phase right now cant talk like anything about it since it would be against the agreement of few terms like not telling anything about the game or upload screenshots and videos to internet.. im not sure if they can even really make a comment in this post or even tell that they are in the beta.
but from the second newest podcast they talked about recent trip to San Francisco where one of the podcast host, Keith Cross took part in a hands on demo of Age of Conan. he mentioned that game was quite well build already, even though he admits that there wasnt all water implemented yet and he got stuck in a glitch if i remember correctly, but Funcom has 3 months to polish this game and fix few thingies, along with the bugs with beard, hair and some female characters. you can see few videos in the youtube about Age of Conan, im sure those were from that san francisco hands-on-demo play. it looked like quite good to be launched already
oh and here's something for those who are wondering if they can run Conan properly
http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=47897
and heres one place where you can test if your computer can run games, theres Age of Conan test as well which made me feel really depressed
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest
Keep in mind that the settings client-side may not be utilising what the client itself is capable of. If the graphics didn't look all too spectacular, then I'd say the user was running the game on low to medium settings, because judging from what we've seen in screenshots, trailers, etc., the game's graphics are mind-blowing for an MMO. Don't forget that Age of Conan will be the first fully DX10-capable MMO (note that I said "fully", because I know that LOTRO can utilise DX10 as well, but only partially).
and heres one place where you can test if your computer can run games, theres Age of Conan test as well which made me feel really depressed
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest
OMG my system passed it with no problem, thanks for the link.
That is so unaccurate it's ridiculous, whether or not the developer's helped or not. I barely got over minimum only because I didn't have 512MB of VRAM which is totally off, my computer will run it fine, I'm confident.
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did you look at the recomended page or just minimum ? since theres two pages. and there is text where reads that requirements isnt final, and are only estimated by publisher, but no worries mate, im sure that you will get to play with your current computer, you might have to take graphs down a bit though
AoC has been optimized for Dual Cores and its being optimized for Quads.
Granted that the processor isn't everything that's why I'm waiting for the game to release, only then will I even consider upgrading my computer to a Quad or Dual, buying a new Graphic Card (D9E from nVidia is coming out in February) and acquiring more RAM.
That is so unaccurate it's ridiculous, whether or not the developer's helped or not. I barely got over minimum only because I didn't have 512MB of VRAM which is totally off, my computer will run it fine, I'm confident.
maybe you should try out the upper link i made in my original post, if you arent confident yet, you should read the thread, i hope you will get your answer mate
did you look at the recomended page or just minimum ? since theres two pages. and there is text where reads that requirements isnt final, and are only estimated by publisher, but no worries mate, im sure that you will get to play with your current computer, you might have to take graphs down a bit though
I got a Geforce 6800 GT 256MB, the game should run on it a while back this was the best graphix card on the market that anyone could get. Granted there are better cards out there now, but they are PCI and I only have an AGP slot so it should still be good for at least 2 or 3 more years till I get a new PC. The graphix wont be stellar, but they will still look good with the card that I have and I am ok with that.
You can still upgrade gf cards with agp. I remember something about ATI had a 512 mb card released couple of moths back.
Edit: I am to lazy to google it and link it. You will find it if you are interessted.
I think that your setup will be ok on a mid to lower setting. They have said that the game is very scalable in the graphics settings area.
I always say just make sure you have a shader model 2.0 capable graphics card. As might be a shock for some people (Guild wars requires pixel shader 1.1 and LotRO requires 1.4) some might not understand why it will not run.
Anarchy Online when it was release was designed to be top of the line in other area's as well as this. Funcom like the tech angle, they like to push and squeeze they best they can without affecting the overall experience.
For example your Graphics card seems alright but it is very nearly 4 yrs old now.
If you can try to maybe upgrade the graphics card and cpu after you have tried out the AoC client. There are some really nice AGP still being put out, and more often than not the DX10 cards even though you aren't running D10 provide a far better experience that specific DX9 cards. Plus check out your socket type on your motherboard google it and search for compatible proc's AMD are pretty cheap in this area right now.
Probably the most important question, people forgot to ask
Does it run on PIXEL SHADER 2.0
?
Thats just something that cant be answered publically yet as optimization is still ongoing.
Suffice to say people in my opinion will need to look for:
Some Shader model 2.0 supporting cards can also not support Pixel Shader Version 2.0, or Vertex Shader Version 2.0.
These are just guidlines and guesses at the moment, but its pretty reasonable to assume that this will be a minimum requirement.
So people might have to dig a little deeper for this extra information if they dont know forsure. As an example I have a few PC's at home one of them has a shader model 2.0 complient graphics card but also comes with Vertex Shader Ver 1.1 and Pixel Shader Ver 1.4 which allows me to play games like guild wars and LotRO just fine but probably wont be upto spec for AoC, which is understandable for me due to the age of the machine.
Sites like System Requirement Labs are good to find this info out about your graphics card. I suspect that Funcom will have a FAQ addition to their site like NC Soft employs with their games for situation just like this.
As open Beta approachs so will minimum spec guidelines for Age of Conan, for now those who are curious to know more will just have to sit tight and hang in there, but these suggestions above do come with some reasonable assumptions of the different technology used say at conventions that have used the client and became public knowledge. Amongst other comments such as if you can play the game 'Oblivion' you should be more than fine in playing Age of Conan, from a pure technical perspective. One dev even has gone as far to say that his PC offers pretty poor performance in game when playing Oblivion, but runs the beta client quite well for Age of Conan. Oblivion was pretty punishing for some people PC's when it launched and if you still find it punishing is also safe to assume to some degree that AoC will offer just the same type of experience if you still have the same components from a few years back when Oblivion was launched, a game that has gone on to sell nearly 4 million copies I believe.
The stage where minimum specs are known is close, but one of the main reasons why FC hasnt said forsure is two way. One the game is still being optimized and two, if they do come out with a definate minimum and people go out and spend $$$ on a new graphics card and fine they could of brought a cheaper one to run the game, alot will complain.
I brought a game called Star Trek Legacy, and tried playing it on my old PC with the specs mentioned above, it didnt run whatsoever, however, there was some manual work arounds and I just cut out the loading screen at the start which employed pixel shader 2.0, and had no bearing on the actual game itself and now I can get it to work on that PC, but only thru the game giving issues to alot of similar setup people and some guys found a work around on the games forums. With AoC though, these technical aspects are likely to be included in the actual game itself rather than say in a loading screen as this is an mmorpg and not primarliy a single player game.
Not using 2.0 pixel shader cuts out huge bulk of older gfx cards that would be able to run the game at medium-low settings
Here is a compatibility chart to for pixel shader 2.0:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_shader
Your see alot of cards support it.
Again I must stress that this is NOT final, its just my guess at the requirement.
Also I'll ask when im there in 15 days time
although again I think might not get the answers for a while yet.
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The best to do is to wait until AoC is out, try the game in open beta if you can, or take a trial or a budy key. Once the game is out and you know you wanna play it then upgrade your system.
http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=47897
check that thread out, it should help alot.
The game is going to look pretty sweet even without a top-of-the-line card. I've got an 8600GT XXX 256mb (overclocked), and while its no 8800, I expect it to run and look just as good as the eventual 360 version.
I was wondering about the PC demands myself. I dont have a great graphics card and the pc is quite old really so i was wondering wheather i should get a new graphics card or to get a xbox360. Thing is that i dont think the AoC will be out on xbox for some time.
They did say that they have set the pc demands to equal the Oblivion game so if you can run that game you will be able to run AoC. So i got Oblivion and tryed it out which was a great success. Oblivion runs well on my pc although a lot of the settings are low. So if i get a new graphics card (a Sapphire x1950 pro 512 mb for around £100) i should be just fine. I might not get to seeall the loveliness of AoC but it will be enough to get my foot in the door and if i can get an upgrade later that will be great.
It would be good if they have account subs for pc and xbox the same so i can start out on my pc and when the xbox release comes out (and hopefully cost of xbox comes down a bit) i can switch and keep my account.
They did say that they have set the pc demands to equal the Oblivion game so if you can run that game you will be able to run AoC.
I can run Oblivion fine, i get decent Fps on medium settings so hopefully on low to medium I can duplicate a decent experiance using AOC. Hopefully my 2 gigs in ram will pitch in and help make things a tad bit easier.
I looked at Geforce 7900 supposedly it's AGP, and the highest card still avaliable; just not sure how big it is and if it will fit into my pc... heard is sucks up much power so i am not even sure if its possible for me to even upgrade my 6800gt to 7900.
My current specs are as follow: 3200+ AMD Anthlon, 2GIG Ram, 6800 GT 256mb. Not superb, but i will see how scalable AOC is upon release and if there are any major problems in terms of performance, hopefully funcom will polish up and optimize this game before release and wont release another Anarchy Online.
I hope they have an open beta, would not mind giving this game a ride on my system pre-release.
Actually, the best card available for AGP motherboards is the 7950GT 512MB. I've got one, and it runs even the more recent games, resource hogs like Bioshock, Oblivion, etc., like a dream.
That is so unaccurate it's ridiculous, whether or not the developer's helped or not. I barely got over minimum only because I didn't have 512MB of VRAM which is totally off, my computer will run it fine, I'm confident.
It told me to "upgrade" my 8800 GTS 640 MB to 7900 with 512 MB. Also, instead of over 1.5 TB it found only 400GB.