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I've got an old AMD 64 3500+ CPU with 3G RAM and Nvidia 9600GT running on WinXP. It plays AoC very well at high settings... as long as shadows are turned off and view distances are lowered a bit. Considering that I only boot into XP just for gamming, there is almost no other overhead at all.
I've heard that you can play this game with a single core CPU but I'm not sure mine will do it. The official forums show people playing it this way while other say it can't be done. Anyone here play on something as old as my machine? With the way things are these days, an upgrade will be quickly followed by a divorce :0 and the divorce will be costly.
Thanks!
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I've heard different stories about the single core systems when I was in beta...
I have an old 2nd computer here (P4 3Ghz single core 1Gb memory Windows XP RADION 9800XT), and I was able to play STo on it without any trouble. But on the old beta forums of STo I heard that other people with a similar CPU were unable to play STo at all.
I'd suggest to wait for a buddy key and give it a try before you waste your money on a game your computer might not be able to run.
I second this sentiment. The files for this game are HUGE. I highly doubt it plays well on old systems, but I could be wrong. I bought a brand new computer with a kick ass video card before installing this game so I don't know. I do know the video settings are set really low when you first come on and I had to crank them up.
Currently Playing: World of Warcraft
Thanks. Maybe I should just wait ....
A couple of months ago I built my 22 yesr old daughter a budget PC. It has an AMD 64 X2 5200+ CPU on a Gigabyte MB. She offered to switch out MB/CPU/RAM with me since all she does is cruise the net while I love to game. Also, with an AM2+ MB, I can plan for future upgrades.
It took me a little over an hour but I made the switch. She kept her case, drives, etc and since we both run Linux, we didn't need to load drivers or anything. It just found the stuff, installed it and off it ran.
I dual-boot with Windose for games only and had to load new drivers, chipset, etc but in the end it seems to work just fine. Windows is so lame ....
She hasn't seen much of a difference in speed. It makes sense in a way because she doesn't run any multi-threaded apps and the core speed difference is marginal.
With that plus a 9600GT I should be able run this game. I owe daddy's girl big time.
To the Op and anyone else who would like to know if your system can run STO properly, I'de go to Bing and type in
can you run it? and then choose the system requirements lab and type in the search box star trrek online and do a scan, it will scan your entire system to see if you meet the minimum or recommened system requirements, I hope that helps!