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 !
Maybe clothmap.
If that's the only PC you have to play this on, then I'd recommend waiting for the demo.
7300 is better than 6800.
Not much better, but still.
Despite the model numbers, the 7300 is a low end card. The 6800 wasn't and was the better card when these two cards came up and the forums were filled with 6800 vs 7300 questions.
Hmmm. Sorry, I had PC with 6800 for some time and then notebook with 7300 - and the notebook was slightly better. I guess it's because it's Asus notebook - they usually make some tuning to GPU.
so true
harpo
Explain yourselves please.
All those numbers! Usually a bigger number means a more high-tech piece of equipment, but not quite always. Don't worry, they were just having a little dig (minor joke). There was no malice intended.
Best regards,Steven.
Hmm, ...
I'm wondering how my Athlon X2 3800+ on an Asus A8N-E board with 4 Gig PC3200 RAM and an XFX GF7900GT 256MB DDR3 will fare...
This is my first thread I read for today, so any news when the demo will be out?
StevenAus, you see, I'm programmer and there's word "endineer" in my diploma so I've suddenly felt that all my career and years of study filled with wiring, assembling and processor codes were lies and all this knowledge and skills are meaningless.
Still I hope I would be able to run game fine on my GeForce 7300. Or at least run. Some betatesters claimed it could be played on GeForce 5xxx series and some developer said it should run on netbooks...
I would take your diploma back for a new one. They spelled "Engineer" wrong on it....
I remember researching for a new Nvidia card a month or two ago. I was wondering whether to get a 230 or 320. Apparently, the first digit is the generation or something number and the second one is the model number. So, the 230 is better supposedly.
The number system is a little strange, especially the first time around. I assume the reason you are looking at the lower-end cards is to save money, size or maybe even a PSU limit?
A high end GPU would bottleneck, but you could go for what today is a lower end or midrange card and it would still blow what you have now out of the water. Even something like a 250 would be a dramatic upgrade.
(as for the numbers... video card naming schemes are designed to be as confusing as possible. Particularly from Nvidia, who re-released the same 9800 under a number of different names because they simply had nothing to fill in gaps for a while.)
Which was unfortunate really because up until the 2xx cards, the number scheme was becoming predictable and fairly easy to follow. Without actually looking at the individual cards I could dismiss cards and focus/research on just a few based solely on the model number. As we've seen in this thread though, this winding number scheme they've concocted actually works in their favor as people will buy upgrades that aren't actually upgrades.
All this talk about PC requirements makes me doubt if my computer can handle this game. Sorry if the answer is obvious, it certainly isn't to me.
Windows XP Home SP3
Intel Core 2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz
3GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
Should I wait for the demo?
starfighter, IT WILL run, but based upon beta4 you might want to use clothmap to improve the speed, but it should play fine with a bit of a pause while the computer is doing the end of turn.
I have been testing with an amd x2 6000+ (3ghz dual core) with 4gb ddr2 800 ram and a geforce 8800gt and it was playable, but not as fast as a faster comp.
The end of turn wait doesn't bother me too much but only playing on the clothmap makes all the work that went into the landscape and unit design unaccessible for me.
Anyway, thanks, harpo. I remember never having to wonder whether my pc was powerful enough and suddenly I realize how old and obsolete it really is.
are the recommended system req out yet? i assume that a dual core with w7 64 will run the game faster than xp would.
That's going to run the game just fine.
I've got a Intel i5 clocked at 3.2 ghz if I'm not mistaken, 2 gb ram and a geforce 9800GT with 512mb. Wondering if that's enough to run the 3d side of the game? I'm not that bothered by the waiting on the end of turns.
daermoth, it should, but you might want to add ram to the motherboard, the video card is fine, the processor is fine, just the total ram on the omtherboard could stand a bump.
Do you think my PC can run it all right?
Intel dual-core E5200 @ 2.5ghz
4gb ram
ATI 4830 512mb video card
alos what do you guys mean when you saying "use the clothmap"?
How much stronger must a computer be to run this game, than to run sins of a solar empire?
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