I wondered at this point if the actual PC requirements had been determined ? Minimum & Recommended.
I remember a long time back reading that the resources for this game would be surprising low. Not knowing
anything about C++ or whatever code the game is written with I'm a bit dissapointed with the graphic card
requirements. I still say that this is a great concept in gaming and if need be I will purchase a new PC at some
point. Thank you to all the designers for all the hard work and really ( and I mean really ) listening to all the
gamers out their !
Those requirements listed in the pre-order tab are minimum or recommended? While i have a 128mb 128-bit card it's a radeon 9550 not x1600. Will that mean the game won't work at all or in cloth map mode only?
The 9550 doesn't have Shader 2 support and is much, much weaker since it's two generations older--the game isn't likely to run well if it does, so I'd strongly advise waiting for the demo post-release if you can't upgrade.
I have a GeForce 6600GT with shader 3 and it runs decent on cloth map....I think you'll be like me and want to upgrade !
I do own a ATI 9550 card and it's worse than the GeForce !
Yea, that 9950 is almost 10 yr old technology now so it's certainly time for an upgrade.
Since you can get an ATI HD4350 for just $35 there is no reason not too.
Heck, you can get a current generation HD 5450 for under $50.
Now neither are screaming gaming cards for today's top games but are generations better then the old 9550 card.
I'm going to add to this thread and maybe post this under computing as well. Shortly before downloading the Elemental Beta 3B I upgraded my laptop from Vista to Win 7. Its running an AMD turion ML-40 and an Nvidia 7500GS go 512MB. When I'm running elemental 0.98 the CPU is normally clocking between 70 and 100%. It hangs regularly and occassionnally crashes.
I was playing around with different hardware settings when I noticed something I consider very strange. I checked out the windows experience index and under vista it was 4.2. The lowest score was for the hard drive at 4.2. The processor was running at 4.6. Now under windows 7 the experience index has dropped to 3.6 and now the lowest score is the processor. Has anyone experienced something like this where the processor just drops in its performance index? The only thing I can imagine is the machine was overclocked originally and by installing Win 7 I reset the overclocking. However I thought overclocking was controlled in the bios and not the OS, so I don't think that is the issue. Any suggestions on how I can get the processor performance back to where it was, or why it dropped in the first place?
Windows 7 changed some values for how the experience index works. It could be you got hit by that change, or it could be that your processor is having some kind of problem that's slowing it down in 7. Have you checked event viewer for errors or warnings?
I have and aside from the individual application crashes (civ 4, NWN 2, turbo tax, MS money) there's been nothing in the event viewer. I initially thought it might be a virus or spyware as the machine never logs into my network automatically anymore (got verizon fios right before loading Win7) but I've run malware bytes, Norton and one other program I don't remember off the top of my head and they all came back with no results.
My computer has an Intel Dual Core CPU
T7250 @ 2.00GHz each with 2.00 GB of RAM
I have windows XP Service Pack 3
and a NVIDA GeForce 8400M GS video card
Will I be able to run Elemental?
as I can play elemental beta in clothmap on a amd 64+x2 5200 w 4gb ram geforce 7600gs, the answer should be yes, just slower than a more powerful computer
harpo
Does anyone know how well Elemental will run on the latest Macbook Pros with 4 GB RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce 320M on Windows XP?
Also, is this game comparable to Civ IV in terms of resource use? I.e., is it more graphics-intensive?
I'm wondering whether my system will be up to snuff:
Opteron 165 dual core CPU 1.81 MHz
2 GB RAM
GeForce 7900 GTX 512 MB
XP Pro
Thanks.
Processor is definetly up to snuff (if you clock it by x1000 so it becomes a 1.81 GHz )
2 GB DDR or DDR 2? I actually don't know how a previous memory generation affects games.
GeForce 7900 GTX 512 MB uses Pixel Shader 3.0 and is definetly strong enough. You can completely forget about maxing graphics & resolution though
Yeah, I guess I'm running about a 22 year old processor. Heh. Memory is DDR2.
I tried so hard to future-proof this system when I built it 4.5 years ago. And now I can't max graphics on a turn based strategy game?!? Argh!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the feedback.
I tried so hard to future-proof this system when I built it 4.5 years ago.
4.5 years is ages, if you manage to future-proof for 2 years you are doing well. A gpu upgrade from a 7900 shouldn't be too expensive though...
4.5 years is a pretty long time, and in terms of video cards it's an eternity. You could probably drop a card in there and have things humming along for Elemental. Shouldn't take more then $150.
Hum.
I wounder if my computer can handle this.
I have:
Intel i7 3.1 Ghz, 6gig ram, dual nvidia 240 1gig cards and its water cooled...
Maby i should try a diffrent game...
Drop in a new GPU, hmm. That's a thought. I looked at upgrading my CPU, but the whole form factor has changed. I can't even get upgrade CPUs for my MOBO. I can get a new GPU, you're right, but won't my CPU bottleneck my system anyway?
Thoughts?
If keeping my Opteron 165 and pairing that with a mightier GPU will really give me a big performance boost, I may do it instead of building a new system. I usually build a new one every 3 years, but my desire to pay off my house keeps interfering with my hardware desires. Dammit.
Considering that alot of CPU power will be used to power the A.I, you're a bit behind. But if the A.I is programmed to just take longer instead of cutting corners then you just have to wait longer for the A.I to take its turns (I think there will be an option to give additional CPU power to the A.I like there was in Twilight of the Arnor.)
You'll definetly get good performance on a high resolution (game is turnbased after all ) but there will be Shader 4.0 things which your card don't support. The games engine will scale the graphics according to your GPU so after release, Brad can (will) put up a video/image on how it runs'n'shows on maxquality.
....Wonder if my GeForce 8800GTS 512MB (G92) can max it....
The best bang for the buck right now (in Sweden atleast) is the GeForce GTX 460. Reference model is recommended since they blow the hot air OUT of the case. If you get another model, get a cooler that blows out the hot air.
I think my I7-920, 4 gigs of coursair ram, and 2 ati 5770s in Xfire can't wait to get this puppy on my 23" widescreen at 1920x1080. I love my pc and it didn't cost that much to build it about 5 months ago.
Is it a safe guess that you need a good CPU (Core 2 Duo f.e.) and not-so-good GPU (GeForce 7xxx should work on low)?
buladelu, I AM running it on a dual core amd at 2.7ghz with a geforce 7600 on clothmap only as the 7600 is not quite good enough for the full 3d game.
Harpo99999, so you can't get decent FPS rate even on low graphics? What about tactical battles?
I suddenly want to check demo before buying game.
buladelu, it is not the frame rate, but the lag per turn in the betas, and I have not tried a tactical in 4b on the 7600 system, but in earlier betas I was only getting the dreaded white screen even with the latest driver versions.
I have an old PC and am wondering how/if the game will run.
CPU: Athlon Barton 2500
RAM: 2 GB
V. Card: GForce 7300 GT
Processor seems to barely beat the minimum specs and I think the 6800 (min. spec from ordering page) is a better card than the 7300.
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