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Official AoC PC specifications, please sticky.
Agricola1
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Too many people asking if thier PC can run AoC so got this from Funcom's official site.
Minimum configuration:
(1024x768, detail reduced)
OS: Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3Ghz or equivalent
RAM: 1GB
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or better
Video memory: 128MB
DVD-ROM: Quad-speed (4x) DVD-ROM drive
HARD DRIVE SPACE: 30GB
Recommended configuration:
(Up to 1280X960, most features on)
(Up to 1280X960, most features on)
OS: Windows XP SP 2 or Windows Vista
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz or equivalent
RAM: 2048MB Dual Channel DDR2
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX or equivalent
Video memory: 512MB
DVD-ROM: Quad-speed (4x) DVD-ROM drive
HARD DRIVE SPACE: 30GB
Online Gaming
Broadband connection required.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
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(Up to 1280X960, most features on)
HARD DRIVE SPACE: 30GB
::about spits her coffee out:: LOL!
A problem with those specs? The 30GB HD space is a bit extreme but maybe it'll help reduce lag if as much as possible is client side.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
A problem with those specs? The 30GB HD space is a bit extreme but maybe it'll help reduce lag if as much as possible is client side.
Minimum configuaration usually means that the game would be barely playable.
Recommended usually means game is playable but not at the high / highest setting, so you probably need a bit above recommended configuration.
I am no expert but if one is not heavily into gaming this is one hefty machine and one big demand for potential players. Therefore Teala's LOL makes sense:P Nice post though, it should definitelly be stickied.
True the specs are pretty high unless you're a basement dwelling pizza eater such as myself
. Actually I suggested moving into live with my mother, she said it was fine aslong as I pay all the bills. I decided what was the point of having two women nagging me for the price of one and declined. Damn why can't I be one of those lucky freeloaders like on "Jeremy Kyle" and "Trisha"? I mean I don't do drugs and I'm responsible, maybe that's why I'm expected to pay for myself? Damn life is so unfair 
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
If Vanguard has thought me anything about system specs its this:
Minimum config means that while yes the game will run on those specs, it will run badly and look awful. Essentially, it's not worth playing the game at all if you meet only the minimum config.
Recommended config should mean that you can run the game fine & it should look pretty good. In Vanguards case, the box lies and the game still doesn't run to an adequate level imo. In AOC's case, only time will tell if people who buy the game meeting the recommended specs get a satisfactory performance out of it. If they dont, no doubt the AOC forums, & probably these forums, will be flooded with performance complaint posts.
However, in the end, it's going to be the players with the top-end machines when the game goes live who will truely benefit from all that the game has to offer. I envy them.
I think it is safe to assume that the recommended specs are the real minimum specs if you want the game to look even remotely pleasing.
On the other hand, if you're a PC gamer, I would assume that most people have that sort of hardware by now and wouldn't be surprised if a lot have rigs substantially above the recommended specs.
Well i shall be attempting to run it with the following set up, don't know a whole lot about these things so i just hope its enough without upgrading the processor....to which i understand is prob the least important part in the order of things...presuming i figure out how to overclock the damn thing lol.
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Your GPU is kinda lacking performance. You should upgrade to either HD3870 or 8800GT. Also you might consider HD3850 512 or 9600GT.
These are not expensive cards (~150$) and with those you will be able to run on high with no problems at all.
Cool, thanks for the advice
"Trump is a blunt force, all-American, laser-guided middle finger to everything and everyone in Washington, D.C." - Wayne Allyn Root
ill be playing the beta with a geforce 5200 fx (the client runs lol) until i get my new comp
Amazing that you can even run, hehe.
Those are really fairly high specs for that resolution; I dont remember ever playing at that low of a resolution and I don't really have that great of a computer right now. I can see people getting a little upset with that but hopefully people with 88xx/9xxx series Nvidia's should be good because those cards are way more powerful then a 7 series.
One of the biggest issues with AoC is going to be system requirements. I played it in two computers so far. On a latop with an Intel Dual Core (2x2.0GHz), 2 Gigs of RAM and a 256 MB Gforce 7300 card. I was barely able to run the game, slow-motion gameplay would be an understatement. I also ran it on my desktop with an Inter Core 2 Duo (2x2.66GHz), 4 Gigs of RAM and a 512 MB Gforce 8800 GT card. I was able to get decent frame rates at mid-settings with some performance issues in the cities.
Both machines had a high speed cable connection and were running XP, I believe the performance goes down with Vista. It does look better with Vista (Dx10) if you got the rig to back it up.
i have an E8200 and 4 gig of RAM and a HD3850 so i think i will be able to run it on medium
"One day all will die, surely you but never I." Wheel of Time
A problem with those specs? The 30GB HD space is a bit extreme but maybe it'll help reduce lag if as much as possible is client side.
Minimum configuaration usually means that the game would be barely playable.
Recommended usually means game is playable but not at the high / highest setting, so you probably need a bit above recommended configuration.
I am no expert but if one is not heavily into gaming this is one hefty machine and one big demand for potential players. Therefore Teala's LOL makes sense:P Nice post though, it should definitelly be stickied.
Because the specs are false if you wish to really be able to play this game with any kind of performance. Why game companies continue to post bogus specs is really frustrating and wrong. I feel seriously sorry if anyone goes by the recommended because you're in for a worst performance than people saw in Vanguard when it first came out.Want to know what you should have?
That'll get you started with better than average graphics. Anything less and I suspect we're going to see the AoC forums erupt with - games "current" recommended specs are BS!
Well it seems I'll be OK wether you're correct or not, but I hope you're wrong as I have friends who're gonna play with lower specs than that. If you're right then things could get nasty pretty quick, we must all pray to FunCrom, now!
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
For those folks running with 3GB or less on a Vista OS, I would suggest making an optimized user account for the game only. I'm not a big fan of turning off anti-virus software so do so at your own risk, but that can save a goodly chunk of RAM if you absolutely don't use the internet with that user account. Also, turn off all programs a that are non-essential at start-up especially Adobe, MS Office, Vista Sidebar, all vendor update garbage for those who buy Dell/HP/Sony etc, and so on.
You can buy back several hundred MBs of RAm usage by making a gaming user account doing this with care.
Your GPU is kinda lacking performance. You should upgrade to either HD3870 or 8800GT. Also you might consider HD3850 512 or 9600GT. However, I played with a slightly faster Core2Duo and 8Gigs of RAM.
These are not expensive cards (~150$) and with those you will be able to run on high with no problems at all.
His GPU is fine. Why do I know that? I played the PvP weekend on the same 8600GT. I played on medium settings at 1280x1024 resolution. I ran anywhere between 30-45 FPS. The game still looked good.It is lacking if you the kind of player that has to have max settings at a higher resolution, kinda like me.
The problem Teala is that gaming companies are like the government. They have to say 'something' and if 'something' is TOO BIG....people start rioting. If 'something' is 'too small' then riots still occur after the fact. Then the powers that be can say..'Well, we gave our best guess. Sorry about any errors but it is how it is...' (followed by a behind the hand 'So Suck It Up'...)
A problem with those specs? The 30GB HD space is a bit extreme but maybe it'll help reduce lag if as much as possible is client side.
Minimum configuaration usually means that the game would be barely playable.
Recommended usually means game is playable but not at the high / highest setting, so you probably need a bit above recommended configuration.
I am no expert but if one is not heavily into gaming this is one hefty machine and one big demand for potential players. Therefore Teala's LOL makes sense:P Nice post though, it should definitelly be stickied.
Because the specs are false if you wish to really be able to play this game with any kind of performance. Why game companies continue to post bogus specs is really frustrating and wrong. I feel seriously sorry if anyone goes by the recommended because you're in for a worst performance than people saw in Vanguard when it first came out.Want to know what you should have?
That'll get you started with better than average graphics. Anything less and I suspect we're going to see the AoC forums erupt with - games "current" recommended specs are BS!
1280x960 is not that high resolution.
I'm so broke. I can't even pay attention.
"You have the right not to be killed"
What a load of BS!
I play on medium or so setting with shadows off at 1400x900.
My fps goes from 25-50 depends where i am at.
Specs...
8600GTS
AMD 4200x2
2gigs of ram
the game is very playable for me.
"Negaholics are people who become addicted to negativity and self-doubt, they find fault in most things and never seem to be satisfied."
^MMORPG.com
I personally never had any illusions about the specs needed to run this game well. Any game that raises the bar graphically as much as much as this game appears to in screenshots should be expected to require a very high-end machine. I just hope my beefy rig can handle it on high with a decent framerate:
Windows Vista Ultimate
Athlon X2 3.0Ghz
2x Geforce 8800GT 512MB SLI
4GB RAM
You will be fine just keep bloom off.
"Negaholics are people who become addicted to negativity and self-doubt, they find fault in most things and never seem to be satisfied."
^MMORPG.com