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Game play on very low end video cards and min system requirements
Fizblix
Member UncommonPosts: 130
in Guild Wars
The requirements are pretty low on this game, and I was checking to see how low could you go and still play this game.
Used the 8500LE 128mb video card on a Athlon +2400 XP 2ghz system with 1 gig of ram and game ran extremly smooth at max settings...not many games run even close to as smooth as this on this card.
I went ahead and hooked up my old pc from almost 4 years ago - Geforce 2 MX 32mb Pentium 3 800mhz with 384MB of ram. The video card(below minimum requirements) is the worse anyone should have installed nowdays... you can't get much worse then it heh. The game was pretty low fps at max settings. On min settings the game was actually very playable, and the game still looked pretty good.
If this pc had 512 ram(Windows XP is using most of what it has now) and a non MX card it would probablly run at or near full settings.
So those of you with old pc's, you should be able to play this game at/near max settings without needing to upgrade... unlike most games comming out now. (not sure though if you happen to have only 256 MB of ram and are running windows xp)
- GRAFFiX -
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Yeah, their graphics are wonderful. Despite using a very-low poly count, they manage to create astonishing landscapes and people with just nice textures, and lotsa work on the layout.
3 cheers for Arena.NET! But who expected anything worse from former Blizzard members, who left (it seems) just before the crappy WC3 could poison their game-making skills?
K.Rool,
Master of unnecessary knowledge...
Blame your fate!
Played on Athlon 1.4ghz with GeForce FX5200 (128 megs) and 512 RAM. Very smooth and fast on max graph settings. With antialiasing 2x was a little bit slower, but playable.
Arena.NET, just perfect work!
Ahh, I was looking for a post like this. The family computer has the good 3D card (Radeon 9600XT) but I was playing Guild Wars mainly on my crappier PC with the integrated card. The card is called 'VIA/S3G UniChrome IGP' (64 MB) and as I just said, it is integrated. With FRAPS checking the FPS I got a 10-20 FPS range, higher populated areas getting as low as 8 FPS. Regardless of that however, it was MUCH more playable than the FPS leads you to believe. Here are some screens I took w/ the card.
There are most of em. The images themselves are lower quality and look grainy, but that was just to reduce the filesize. It was crisper in game.
I also have a question. Since I am using a integrated card and am getting playable framerates, which card would give me a more enjoyable framerate if I installed it? ATI Radeon 9200SE 128 MB or Geforce 4 MX420 32MB? Please don't tell me they're both bad cards, I just need to decide which would give me the most FPS boost.