debuggers gone as of patch im told. i forced VSync through nvidia options. 2.0, 2.x shaders checked. bloom disabled. games runs good sometimes, terrible most times.
its too bad, ill keep on tweaking this beta until its over but as of yet, i cannot buy this game.
to be honest i ve seen enough problems in the beta ( and i know its only a beta ) to cancel my pre order untill i see how well this game runs in a trial . lets hope they dont leave it too long or i may be happily playing warhammer and age of conan wont get a look in .
What mmo has trials before a year or so? Not very many at all.
I've launched the game for the first time, seems like it took around 5 minutes for the initial load (black screen during that time, right after hitting play). Then it seems to be very heavy on the cpu for a while while the main menu displayed.. Went into create char process.. lots of sturrering and i assume building of caches, then it was smooth. So I guess running it for the first time means one has to be patient while stuff renders and caches etc. Love the fact that my g15 lcd picked up right away
I will have a pc that meets and excells the recommended requirements and i will have 2x geforce 9800gtx to take care of graphics.
But if the game is too "ahead of time" and grouping up for raids etc will be impossible cause the pc's to meet up with the games req isnt made yet or too expensive for the normal gamer, i wont play it for long.
----------------------------------------
If you dont understand what i write, ask a damn question instead of going into autoflaming-mode. And dont read in stuff between the lines, i say what i mean.
to be honest i ve seen enough problems in the beta ( and i know its only a beta ) to cancel my pre order untill i see how well this game runs in a trial . lets hope they dont leave it too long or i may be happily playing warhammer and age of conan wont get a look in . i m running a pentium duo 2.8 ghz nvidia 8600 gt with 3 gb ram... somewhere inbetween recomended and required specs . if (please note i say IF meaning that i m not saying it will be , i know what some of you are like )the released version is anything like the beta those specs are misleading .
Sorry you seem disapointed. I am running a 1.8 duo with 8600gts and only 2gb ram........It runs very smooth on low settings and personaly i am really enjoying it, definately going to buy this and it can only improve. Lots mention to take out the .shader files, i tried this and sure enough if those loading screens are getting to some of you i went from 5-7mins load time into thirsty dog down to about 2 seconds. Of coarse this effects some of the appearance, but even prior to doing this...near the beach area i was running at 60fps
and this is during a stress test!
Get real people..this game is bloody fantastic and if there are a load of bugs to clear...so what...i can cope. I blame consoles for everything! back when you used to have to wait 10-15 mins everytime you had to load a game on the spectrum and listen to them crash over and over and start all over again, used to happen so much you could sing along with the tune of the screeching noises...and you would know exactly where it was going to crash and waited with heart in mouth hoping it would carry on to the next bit lol. Spoilt..the lot of ya....and we had to walk to school bare foot in the snow. Where am i going with this,,,ahh right....nowhere ^^. Look..its great....don't listen to these little anklebitters or jaded gamers, it will only get better.
"Trump is a blunt force, all-American, laser-guided middle finger to everything and everyone in Washington, D.C." - Wayne Allyn Root
My Rig: AthlonXP 1700+ 1.4GHz. 2GB RAM DDR ATI X1650 512MB AGP
Just to ask before I try to download the beta. Does the processor fall too small, or could the video card make up for it?
----- Required OS: Windows Vista/XP Processor: 3GHz Pentium IV RAM: 1GB RAM Video Card: Shader Model 2.0 and 128MB RAM: NVIDIA GeForce 5800 or ATI 9800
---------- "Anyone posting on this forum is not an average user, and there for any opinions about the game are going to be overly critical compared to an average users opinions." - Me
"Hello person posting on a site specifically for MMO's in a thread on a sub forum specifically for a particular game talking about meta features and making comparisons to other titles in the genre, and their meta features.
oh - we got new requerments for the game now ? Basicly - If my 8800gtx and 5.4 rated PC can't handle Conan without some extra tweaking then the game isn't ready for launch. Its still not performing well enough for me. 4gb of ram.... Seriously .... The game has serious memory leak right left and center. Two loading screens and you crash. Thats great in a MMO game where you group up with ppl - just to find them dcing every 10-20 mins.... Seriously Stability of the client is none existant atm. Its the basic of good gameplay - And Funcom can't provide it.
This tbh. Why release a minimum & recommended spec when people that own the recommended spec are stuttering and flopping around like a fried fish? god help the people trying run on funcom's minimum spec.
i was hoping for good things out of this game and got EA with funcom's recommended spec and was sorely let down. Why is a 'tweak' guide being released already? because the client's fubar'd and this game should have stayed in development for a LOT longer to iron out problems such as memory leaking and compatibility with a whole rangeof cards not just '8800 or GTFO', so yet again the gaming community is treated to a sub-par retail release with the promises of future patching; wtf ever happend to the days when a game went gold it would be a finished product? This forum appears to be choke full of raging fanboi's that are determined that this turkey will be the best thing since sliced bread simply because it comes from a great IP.
I think this game will require to much from my pc, and it will require to much for a lot of other peeps I imagine. As gay as it sounds i'm gonna stick with my WoW until the specs get brought down a bit to run on middle of the road systems. I have been playing mmo's for a long time, and imo the best way to shoot yourself in the foot is to tell everyone they need a new cpu to run a game they want you to buy and pay for monthly. Lots of peeps just wont do it. Not everyone lives in there parents basements and can afford a new system every other year. FunCom wants a huge player base get with the program. Make it visually pleasing but put more effort into the mmo content then the eye candy.
Simple quick tip (probably already mentioned), but turn off 'bloom'.
I found myself getting an instant 10-30 fps higher just by turning that off. Also, 2 gigs of ram is FINE, but I have a pretty fast system. In the beta, I saw a lot of different FPS reports by players, so your results may vary.
The game ran well on my system, even with 16x AF, 1600x1200 res, high settings, and 8x AA. Probably the best graphics I've seen to date in any MMO, and I've played "a zillion" of them, including all the free ones!
Well to the above questions about graphics cards..
I have a pretty new laptop (cannot remember the exact name, at work atm) with 4GB RAM, a 300GB hard drive, dual 2.2GHz processor. These attributes are MORE than enough to run the game. HOWEVER when I purchased the laptop nearly 2 months ago I hadn't heard much about Conan, and the graphics required, so didn't look much into laptop graphics card. Mine came with a Nvidia GeForce 8400M GT GPU.
I have very patchy FPS, anything between 25 and 10. On the lowest graphics possible 1024x768, with the current settings the graphics are FAR worse than WoW, which I can run on full graphics on 1440x900. I cannot improve the graphics quality without major lag problems. I have had a few errors whilst loading (not sure if this is the game, or my card) and there is no smoothness at all in my gameplay.
Now the decision remains, try and flog the laptop back to Sony for a refund (not sure how possible as there is nothing actually wrong with it) and buy something better or struggle on with this amazing game on very poor graphics, with very low performance. Then again I could just go back to WoW...
Shadow Guild Leader of Dynasty, Stygian Casual Core PvE based guild on EN Fury PvP.
nVidia 7300 GS video (upgraded from built-in 6100 video)
Internet connection: 128k ISDN
Performance:
1024x768 @ lowest settings
5-10 fps (typically 8-9 fps)
ping latency 120-180
I can run on this (got 1 char to lvl 15 so far), but it is painful and I probably look drunk to other ppl watching me run by. Video quality is still fairly nice. No crashes or other glitches so far. Upgrades coming this summer (4 Gb DDR2-800 next, then new Mobo/video).
I can run on this (got 1 char to lvl 15 so far), but it is painful and I probably look drunk to other ppl watching me run by. Video quality is still fairly nice. No crashes or other glitches so far. Upgrades coming this summer (4 Gb DDR2-800 next, then new Mobo/video).
Don't bother upgrading your memory beyond 3GB unless you have a 64bit XP or 64bit Vista OS, it will mostly be a waste!
The weak link in your set-up is most likely your internet connection, must be a pain for you just updating AoC?. Even a very low end 512kb DSL connection would be a wast improvement.
The 4Gb of DDR2-800 will later move to a new PC. It also looks like my system can handle an 8600(512Mb) cladd video card. Both items will later migrate to a new system. This approach allows me to upgrade piecemeal w/o buying a whole new system in one shot. FC has never listed minimum or recommended Internet speeds/latency but in-game the latency indicator at the bottom of the screen is green. Faster Internet is not in the cards for the foreseeable future and, yes, downloading the initial patches was a 24 hour process.
Hey guys, I'm getting a new laptop and was wondering how it would handle age of conan, as well as what graphic settings I should disable. here are the specs.
Acer Aspire 6920g gemstone blue.
Processor - Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 2.0 GHz Dual-Core
RAM - 4 GB (installed) 4 GB (max) - DDR II SDRAM
Hard Drive - 250 GB
Operating System - Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
Graphics - NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS - 512 MB
I understand that because it's a notebook it wont run high end, but will it give me good fps on low to medium settings?
Comments
debuggers gone as of patch im told. i forced VSync through nvidia options. 2.0, 2.x shaders checked. bloom disabled. games runs good sometimes, terrible most times.
its too bad, ill keep on tweaking this beta until its over but as of yet, i cannot buy this game.
any
chips, dips chains & whips.
What mmo has trials before a year or so? Not very many at all.
I've launched the game for the first time, seems like it took around 5 minutes for the initial load (black screen during that time, right after hitting play). Then it seems to be very heavy on the cpu for a while while the main menu displayed.. Went into create char process.. lots of sturrering and i assume building of caches, then it was smooth. So I guess running it for the first time means one has to be patient while stuff renders and caches etc. Love the fact that my g15 lcd picked up right away
This is what i need in a game.
Fun.
loadingscreens of up to a minute isnt fun.
I will have a pc that meets and excells the recommended requirements and i will have 2x geforce 9800gtx to take care of graphics.
But if the game is too "ahead of time" and grouping up for raids etc will be impossible cause the pc's to meet up with the games req isnt made yet or too expensive for the normal gamer, i wont play it for long.
----------------------------------------
If you dont understand what i write, ask a damn question instead of going into autoflaming-mode.
And dont read in stuff between the lines, i say what i mean.
거북이는 목을 내밀 때 안 움직입니다
Sorry you seem disapointed. I am running a 1.8 duo with 8600gts and only 2gb ram........It runs very smooth on low settings and personaly i am really enjoying it, definately going to buy this and it can only improve. Lots mention to take out the .shader files, i tried this and sure enough if those loading screens are getting to some of you i went from 5-7mins load time into thirsty dog down to about 2 seconds. Of coarse this effects some of the appearance, but even prior to doing this...near the beach area i was running at 60fps
and this is during a stress test!
Get real people..this game is bloody fantastic and if there are a load of bugs to clear...so what...i can cope. I blame consoles for everything! back when you used to have to wait 10-15 mins everytime you had to load a game on the spectrum and listen to them crash over and over and start all over again, used to happen so much you could sing along with the tune of the screeching noises...and you would know exactly where it was going to crash and waited with heart in mouth hoping it would carry on to the next bit lol. Spoilt..the lot of ya....and we had to walk to school bare foot in the snow. Where am i going with this,,,ahh right....nowhere ^^. Look..its great....don't listen to these little anklebitters or jaded gamers, it will only get better.
"Trump is a blunt force, all-American, laser-guided middle finger to everything and everyone in Washington, D.C." - Wayne Allyn Root
My Rig:
AthlonXP 1700+ 1.4GHz.
2GB RAM DDR
ATI X1650 512MB AGP
Just to ask before I try to download the beta. Does the processor fall too small, or could the video card make up for it?
-----
Required
OS: Windows Vista/XP
Processor: 3GHz Pentium IV
RAM: 1GB RAM
Video Card: Shader Model 2.0 and 128MB RAM: NVIDIA GeForce 5800 or ATI 9800
I'm wondering the same thing.
My rig:
AMD 3000+
1.81Ghz
2Gb Ram
ATI X1300 512mb AGP
Can I run it even at lowest settings?
And any suggestions on a new proccessor?
This is now very outdated.
----------
"Anyone posting on this forum is not an average user, and there for any opinions about the game are going to be overly critical compared to an average users opinions." - Me
"No, your wrong.." - Random user #123
"Hello person posting on a site specifically for MMO's in a thread on a sub forum specifically for a particular game talking about meta features and making comparisons to other titles in the genre, and their meta features.
How are you?" -Me
Thanks for that, how about a suggestion on a new processor or board and chipset?
OP...where can I find the full post? There is a reference to a page #4, post #73.
Thanks in advance.
I played the PVPBeta on my
AMD Athlon 64x2
Vista 32Bit
3GB DDR2
Ati 3870x2 (BTW, that's the model, not two 3870's.)
@1680x1050.
I ran smoothly with most of the settings, (All but Sound Hardware, got a crappy AudigySE card), Maxed.
Smoothly at 40-60FPS. 40 being populated areas, 60 in standard PVP..
So, doesn't have to be the best, just something to run the latest DX10 shaders...
i was hoping for good things out of this game and got EA with funcom's recommended spec and was sorely let down. Why is a 'tweak' guide being released already? because the client's fubar'd and this game should have stayed in development for a LOT longer to iron out problems such as memory leaking and compatibility with a whole rangeof cards not just '8800 or GTFO', so yet again the gaming community is treated to a sub-par retail release with the promises of future patching; wtf ever happend to the days when a game went gold it would be a finished product? This forum appears to be choke full of raging fanboi's that are determined that this turkey will be the best thing since sliced bread simply because it comes from a great IP.
I think this game will require to much from my pc, and it will require to much for a lot of other peeps I imagine. As gay as it sounds i'm gonna stick with my WoW until the specs get brought down a bit to run on middle of the road systems. I have been playing mmo's for a long time, and imo the best way to shoot yourself in the foot is to tell everyone they need a new cpu to run a game they want you to buy and pay for monthly. Lots of peeps just wont do it. Not everyone lives in there parents basements and can afford a new system every other year. FunCom wants a huge player base get with the program. Make it visually pleasing but put more effort into the mmo content then the eye candy.
Am I doomed? I mean System Requirement Labs says I have minimum standards yet I failed according to them.
II have a laptop with:
SRL Says:
Video Card
Video Card Features - Minimum attributes of your Video Card
Video RAM: Required - 128 MB , You have - 128.0 MB
Video Card 3D Acceleration: Required - Yes , You have - Yes
Video HW Transform & Lighting: Required - Yes , You have - Yes
Vertex Shader Ver.: Required - 2.0 , You have - 2.0
Pixel Shader Ver.: Required - 2.0 , You have - 2.0
Should I call their bluff and get the game to see if it works?
I don't know much about video cards and I have a Radeon 9550 256m. will the game run on this or should I start looking for another card?
Thanks.
Simple quick tip (probably already mentioned), but turn off 'bloom'.
I found myself getting an instant 10-30 fps higher just by turning that off. Also, 2 gigs of ram is FINE, but I have a pretty fast system. In the beta, I saw a lot of different FPS reports by players, so your results may vary.
The game ran well on my system, even with 16x AF, 1600x1200 res, high settings, and 8x AA. Probably the best graphics I've seen to date in any MMO, and I've played "a zillion" of them, including all the free ones!
Well to the above questions about graphics cards..
I have a pretty new laptop (cannot remember the exact name, at work atm) with 4GB RAM, a 300GB hard drive, dual 2.2GHz processor. These attributes are MORE than enough to run the game. HOWEVER when I purchased the laptop nearly 2 months ago I hadn't heard much about Conan, and the graphics required, so didn't look much into laptop graphics card. Mine came with a Nvidia GeForce 8400M GT GPU.
I have very patchy FPS, anything between 25 and 10. On the lowest graphics possible 1024x768, with the current settings the graphics are FAR worse than WoW, which I can run on full graphics on 1440x900. I cannot improve the graphics quality without major lag problems. I have had a few errors whilst loading (not sure if this is the game, or my card) and there is no smoothness at all in my gameplay.
Now the decision remains, try and flog the laptop back to Sony for a refund (not sure how possible as there is nothing actually wrong with it) and buy something better or struggle on with this amazing game on very poor graphics, with very low performance. Then again I could just go back to WoW...
Currently looking for core members, feel free to visit http://www.aoc-dynasty.webs.com/ for more info, and forums link.
thanks for the info
System:
======
Dell E521 (Wal-Mart Special)
AMD Athlon X2 3600+ (duel core 1.9Ghz)
3 Gb DDR2-533 (upgraded from default 1Gb)
nVidia 7300 GS video (upgraded from built-in 6100 video)
Internet connection: 128k ISDN
Performance:
1024x768 @ lowest settings
5-10 fps (typically 8-9 fps)
ping latency 120-180
I can run on this (got 1 char to lvl 15 so far), but it is painful and I probably look drunk to other ppl watching me run by. Video quality is still fairly nice. No crashes or other glitches so far. Upgrades coming this summer (4 Gb DDR2-800 next, then new Mobo/video).
~\_/~\_O
The weak link in your set-up is most likely your internet connection, must be a pain for you just updating AoC?. Even a very low end 512kb DSL connection would be a wast improvement.
The 4Gb of DDR2-800 will later move to a new PC. It also looks like my system can handle an 8600(512Mb) cladd video card. Both items will later migrate to a new system. This approach allows me to upgrade piecemeal w/o buying a whole new system in one shot. FC has never listed minimum or recommended Internet speeds/latency but in-game the latency indicator at the bottom of the screen is green. Faster Internet is not in the cards for the foreseeable future and, yes, downloading the initial patches was a 24 hour process.
~\_/~\_O
Hey guys, I'm getting a new laptop and was wondering how it would handle age of conan, as well as what graphic settings I should disable. here are the specs.
Acer Aspire 6920g gemstone blue.
I understand that because it's a notebook it wont run high end, but will it give me good fps on low to medium settings?
I'd assume it would be fine... But what do you think you'd be able to run Age of Conan at with the new iMacs running Bootcamp:
Is 10k enough to play in high quality ?
nice tips, but 4 gb od ram it is the solution