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Recommended Specs Too High?
Farseen
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Look amazing and all, but aren't the recommended specs a little high for the average public? I mean, I just purchased a new Alienware m15x Lap Top and apparently it doesn't even meet recommended settings! 
Just wondering how others feel ! I'm, sure it will still run, but setting the recommended so high scared me a little!
- Farseen
Current Game: Panzar
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The required system specs will certainly keep the sub base down. Part of what makes WoW so popular is that it will run on just about anything made in the last 5 years. Even if this is the killer game all MMO players have been waiting for, it certainly won't kill WoW .
no...not really....pc games have to go next gen sooner or later...
It runs well on a middle-of-the-road computer (2.4-3ghz, low-mid 8series equivalent 512mb GPU, 2 gigs of ram). On my such rig I put it on high, using 3.0 shaders, DX9, Anti-Aliasing x2, but with shadows off. My average FPS in a PvP match was around 45. My average FPS in PvP lobby (roughly 30-50 people casting/runningaround on my screen) was around 35-40.
The mature rating, and the high system specs are 2 of the best aspects of this game. Keep the kiddies away (better community).
Someone said it earlier. A good game will still feel like you have the entire world to explore and interact with once you've maxxed out or finished the storyline. Oblivion was one of the examples used. AoC tried to make the singleplayer aspect present for i'm sure a number of reasons, but i'm going to guess 2 reasons. First I'm guessing they added singleplayer-type content because they want you to have the option to have the solo feel you get with epic singleplayer rpgs, second i'm guessing they added the singleplayer-type content because certain parts of singleplayer games can't be thrown into multiplayer without bringing along the important playstyles.
Ok now to explain. Oblivion was a perfect example, it has extremely high-quality graphics, requires a powerhouse machine (or did) to run on high and would still give a lot of people frameskips if the settings were a bit over what their system could handle, even strong systems. The reason the graphics were never bashed on oblivion as opposed to AoC, is because oblivion fanbois know oblivion is a singleplayer game, but the graphics are required to be high because the playstyle is free and open with no end in sight and unlimited terrains and views to be seen, not to mention the better the graphics, the more awe-struck you will be when you solo your way through a forest, come to a clearing, and see a beautiful sunset behind a vast lake with trees and plants as far as the eye can see.
AoC has announced multiple times that they want their 3d world to emmerse the players and leave them feeling like part of the game. So ontop of building a massive 3d world with incredible landscapes and detail, they also raised the graphics bar to match this awesome world.
There are plenty of games out there with crappy graphics and low system requirements, so if your system cant run AoC, or if you don't think insane graphics belong in an mmorpg, then you are missing the most important part. Massively Multiplayer Online is nice and all, it really just says 'we have a lot of people and our world doesnt turn off' but the important part is RolePlaying Game, roleplaying games are fun because they involve you in the story, they suck you into the action, they let you read the book as though you lived it. Many games try different tactics to involve thier players in a fantasy world. Some try insane amounts of quests, others try player structuring like guilds or factions, others simply stick with the original storyline and hope they have enough of a fanbase to enjoy it. Sometimes a game comes along that includes the right amount of quests, the right type of player guilds or factions, a widely popular storyline, a detailed 3d world, and the graphics to make it feel as real as possible. In my opinion, this is the definition of RPG, and if you're going to have an MMO be an RPG, why not make it a real RPG?
"Sometimes, things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. People are basically good. Honor, courage, virtue mean everything. Power and money, money and power mean nothing. Good always triumphs over evil. Love, True Love Never Dies."
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
sorry i meant mmo
Amazing, so you've played it!
Think I'll be ok on average-slightly high settings?
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5GHz T9300
nVidia GeForce 8700M GT
3GB of DDR2 RAM
Keeping in mind its a lap top, but a gaming one so... hehe.
- Farseen
Current Game: Panzar
Think I'll be ok on average-slightly high settings?
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5GHz T9300
nVidia GeForce 8700M GT
3GB of DDR2 RAM
Keeping in mind its a lap top, but a gaming one so... hehe.
yest it shall be fine
sorry i meant mmo
Still a ludacris statement mmos & next gen graphics atleast in theory (we'll see in the end after a year of AoC being in release) are not compatible. MMOs are about Massive Multiplayer...hard to have massive when several Million Players are left out. PC companies & some developers have yet to learn that just because they make their product super awsome steller doesn't mean a mass amount of people will suddenly spend 2000 dollars to make it run on their machine. Thats what pc enthuisists do not the average mmo gamer & pc owner.
If the Mid to low specs of AoC are good enough to make such players happy then AoC will do very well for itself and it'll be a good step up...but I'm guessing like with Everquest 2 .. who's middle to lower end looked like Ultra Crap it'll find itself having a hard time with the 'massive' part.
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Amazing, so you've played it!
Think I'll be ok on average-slightly high settings?
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5GHz T9300
nVidia GeForce 8700M GT
3GB of DDR2 RAM
Keeping in mind its a lap top, but a gaming one so... hehe.
You should be able to run atleast on high settings without much trouble,I was getting 50-60 FPS average with all settings except AA and gloom turned to max .
Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz,GeForce 8800 GTX,2GB ram,windows SP2.
Elvenangel: I don't normally respond to personal posts, but what the hell
I saw some NDA breach screenshots from closed beta, the poster claimed all graphic settings were turned either off or close to as low as they can go. The game looked as good as EQ2 on MAX HIGH graphics.
Just thought I'd let you know before you get all bent out of shape and cancel your pre-order
"Sometimes, things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. People are basically good. Honor, courage, virtue mean everything. Power and money, money and power mean nothing. Good always triumphs over evil. Love, True Love Never Dies."
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
personally, I think they are simply trying to make sure that the game still looks good 5 years down the road.
Kind of "future-proofing", as it were.
At low-ish settings, the game still looks great. A lot of people won't HAVE to upgrade to play, but will choose to.
People always have this tendency to get cranky if they can't run a game on max settings. Well, they might just have to deal with it this time around.
Ok, so the game will look great even at minimum settings. But it will still at a very minimum require descrete graphics. With most computer owners out there buying the sub $1000 laptop or $399 wal-mart PC with integrated graphics, its just out of reach of most people. I'm a gamer with a 8800GT video card so it won't be a problem for me but there just isn't 10,000,000 others out there with a computer like mine.
Welcome to PC Gaming!! If you can't keep your rig updated then go buy a console.
I ran it on:
AMD64 3200
2GB DDR400
ATI X1650 512 AGP
10,000 RPM SATA HDD
Not exactly a cutting edge system there. With some tweaking, the game runs fine on older machines, and doesn't look like ass in the process.
ATI 1650 AGP is still a dedicated graphics card. AoC will not run on integrated graphics. WoW will run on a crappy intel GMA900. There's no question that PC gaming meens keeping your system up to date but in terms of raw numbers AoC will not bite that hard into WoW simply because of the number of players out there running it on crappy systems that can't play anything else.
well, it's also an "M" rated game, pretty much excluding 75% of WoW's playerbase
I like it like this, hopefully it will keep the wow kiddies away. My 4.0 Ghz Xeon and 8800GT should chew it up for breakfast anyways.
well, it's also an "M" rated game, pretty much excluding 75% of WoW's playerbase
I'll defintely give it a try, but the M rating doesn't stop many parents from buying a "game" for their kids. Saw a parent at gamespot the other day buying her 10 year old a pre-order of GTA4. The clerk tried to talk her out of it but the little guy was sure this was the game he wanted.
Not just any console, xbox 360...that is if you want to play AOC.
Well the technology is out there for developers to actually make bang for the buck.. You want bang in your visuals and awesome visuals for movements but you only want to spend 400 bucks on your whole computer. Then you get what you pay for..
On a personal note, I am really tired of paying more for my video card then most people pay for their whole computer and having to suffer in the MMO world on the great visual graphics front because other people spend more on their beer and drug habits then they do for their PC hardware.. Life is not fair, it's working as designed.
If I buy the race car to race and they allow the yugos on the track and they complain they can't compete, how is that my problem?
I will not address the laptops, people should know by now they were not designed as a gamers rig, you can fit a lot into them but 90% of the laptops will not run games great unless you invest big time cash and really at that point it can't sit on your lap safely so how is it a laptop anymore
Besides, if your in the US, you just got your tax return, invest in some really nice PC hardware, you will not be unhappy with that investment if your a gamer or as wow has made a lot of the casual gamers. They are happy too, just bite the bullet and get nice hardware even if you start a piece at a time.
Should i not bother if i don;t have a core 2 duo?
I meet all other recommended specs but have a P4 processor.
any advice? don;t want to buy it if it won;t run well for me.
well, it's also an "M" rated game, pretty much excluding 75% of WoW's playerbase
I'll defintely give it a try, but the M rating doesn't stop many parents from buying a "game" for their kids. Saw a parent at gamespot the other day buying her 10 year old a pre-order of GTA4. The clerk tried to talk her out of it but the little guy was sure this was the game he wanted.
that's because too many parents get whatever their kids want just to shut them up.
THEN, when they happen to see what their kid is playing, they raise a fit and start calling people.
It's THEIR responsibility to pay attention to the game's rating, and make their purchase choice accordingly.
mature rating doesn't equal mature community. the amount of chat that consist of nipple talk is alarming in itself. i think the system spec are about right i just don't think the game is coded well. nobody averages 50fps to say that is bs. maybe on low settings but the game looks like shit on low settings. if all you know is how it looks on low/med then you might think it looks great but if you ever see high settings you realize there's a big difference. i wouldn't play the game if i couldn't play it on high and i'm being 100% honest. the games best feature is the graphics.
if you think about it you hear people talk about how their fps suffered during the pvp matches so think about how many people where in those matches and how tiny the zones were. now think about how you're gonna fair in the supposed hundreds of players at a time sieges in a much larger zone. its gonna be a slide show on anything but the highest end pcs and they're still gonna have to lower their settings.
i don't know how control the client will be for the may 1st "open beta" but i do know you'll get to see tortage so i will tell you don't think you know how you're gonna fair performance wise until you experience that.