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Main problem is whether the PCs powersupply can handle the X1950pro.
Whether it will handle empire's or not is anyone's guess though.
Makes the eventual upgrade to PCIE that much harder too, since a bunch of money got sunk into that X1950pro & It'll have to be replaced when the next mobo/CPU is purchased :drama1:
I have never been able to play any Total War title at full detail and the largest unit sizes until years after its' release. Every one seemed to be beyond current technology when new. My current rig isn’t the absolute latest and greatest but it’s only 6 months old and M:TW2 defies smooth frame rates when large armies enter huge cities at max detail.
I expect to play Empire:TW at full detail sometime in 2010 or later, regardless of when I next upgrade.
Poster on last page was correct, resolutions is what really matters. Graphics card memory for instance, if you have an 8800gts 320mg on 1024x768 it will run almost exactly the same as an 8800gts 640mg...
Memory isn't as important as speed (which btw those two cards will still run same since they're exactly the same cept for memory iirc)
I'm absolutely fine with 1024x768...
Usually you need to upgrade your RAM sooner than your CPU; provided that you keep playing RTS, or such genres. (With FPS it becomes cleary a different matter.)
Originally Posted by hoom:
True enough. PSU's are pretty cheap though.
Main problem is whether the PCs powersupply can handle the X1950pro.
Originally Posted by :
Its that age old question: upgrade a little bit or scrap the whole thing and buy a completely new system. Obviously we'd all rather buy a whole new system but sometimes finances dont allow that.
Makes the eventual upgrade to PCIE that much harder too, since a bunch of money got sunk into that X1950pro & It'll have to be replaced when the next mobo/CPU is purchased :drama1:
2.4 Dual-Core AMD overcloccked to 3.1
7600 gt Nvidia
2 GB RAM
22 Inch LCD
I can play M2 at high with no problems, and I got this rig for only 1300 Canadian NEW. Look up this stuff man it rocks. Oh and it has a media card and Media XP or whatever its called
Originally Posted by ratbarf:
OMG, if thats true I must be the biggest sucker on the PLANET
2.4 Dual-Core AMD overcloccked to 3.1
7600 gt Nvidia
2 GB RAM
22 Inch LCD
I can play M2 at high with no problems, and I got this rig for only 1300 Canadian NEW. Look up this stuff man it rocks. Oh and it has a media card and Media XP or whatever its called
My PC is in my sig, and with that I can play M2TW at max settings and units sizes with only a little bit of lag, usually at the start of battles and only if I zoom in on the units. Also I only tend to get it during sieges. I reckon I should be OK with ETW on medium settings, especially considering Overclockers UK owe me another 1GB RAM since I got a dodgy one with my PC that caused all kinds of crashes. With 2GB RAM and an 8800GS, I should be OK for ETW on medium shouldn't I?
ya- u should be. im revising my choice of video cards, so instead of the Nvidia 7400, it will be the Nvidia 8400. hows that? and my processor will be a 2.40 ghz processor, not a 2.0 ghz.
My specs are those :
AMD Athlon 64 Dual 3800 +
2 GeForce 6600 LE Vid Cards (SLI)
1 Gb RAM
Do you think those will be suffinceint to play ETW ?
What changes should I make ?
somehow, i doubt it. sorry. you may be able to, but on the lowest settings and even then you will probably have a lot of lag. i would get a RAM upgrade, another gb would be sufficient, and a better graphics card.
That should, at a guess, be fine Tristan de Castelreng. I would predict that the specifications you have should be able to play the game on around about average settings - the CA usually make the requirements suitable for a rather average PC around about the time of the release date.
I read a while ago that Shader Model I would be phased out by DirectX 10 - all games designed upon the new version would no longer work correctly with it. If Empire: Total War does choose to utilise DirectX 10, and the information which I read was true, then I would expect possession of a Nvidia Geforce 5 Series or an ATi equivalent GPU to be required to run the game.
Originally Posted by K COSSACK:
OMG, if thats true I must be the biggest sucker on the PLANET
Hmm yah its true, I got it at Best Buy last christmas. Twas totally rocken.
I hope this will be the minimum system requirements:
2 GHZ Quad Core Processor
3 GB of ram
10 GB Hard drive space
Nvidia 8800 gts 640 mb
I would say that that would be a little extreme Galapagos. My PC rig is reasonably high-spec and it fails to meet the majority of those drastic requirements. If that was to be the minimum, many players would be forced to purchase an entirely new PC to be able to play - as you may expect, a large majority of customers will be unwilling to do this. I do doubt that they CA would go that high for that reason.
I was only joking but i wish there was any game that has this requirments :beam:
Do you think i will be able to play that game at maximum settings with this computer:
Intel Quad Core Q6600 2,4GHz Socket 775 FSB1066 8Mb BOX
4 of Kingmax DDR2 1GB PC6400 800MHz
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC2, 640MB GDDR3
Yep, at a guess, based upon my previous presumptions, you should be able to run it on reasonably high settings, if not the highest.
2.8 GHz
512 RAM
Radeon X1300/1550 256 MB Card
I don't think my comp can run it. :laugh4: :sweatdrop:
1.4Ghz
256 RAM
I wont even bother to go on..
I presume I just get away with RTW on low settings. I'll invest in a better computer I only have a 3 year old cheapo laptop.
my Desktop is almost 3 years, but I can run games like ELder Scrolls IV on High or Very High, don't remember, RTW on High, and MTW2 on Medium/Low and I can play BF2 on Medium also.
my stats I posted above.
you think 1 Gig of Ram would be good for my comp or should I shoot for 1.5-2Gig??
Oblivion on your machine at high or even very high? Are you joking?
Originally Posted by Charge:
Oblivion on your machine at high or even very high? Are you joking?
nope....not lying....
Yup, it said that, I don't remember which one, but it ran perfect....
Oooooh my PC is almost low end compared to the stats set here.......yet I can play M2TW with full details with a slightly greater than slight lag, :laugh4: , if the number of my soldiers is less than a 1000.........
Processor : AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3600+
RAM : 1 GB
Card name : NVIDIA GeForce 6100 nForce 430
I don't think I'll get those seascapes with this :thumbsdown:
But Oblivion sure does look good here......
Total War games are unique in that they are more CPU reliant to calculate all those little guys' attck defence armor experience and fatigue....
So while Bioshock or Crysis run fine maxed on 3.0ghz single core CPUs if coupled with an 8800GTX that same CPU wont even dare to run M2TW with 25k troops... I even seriously doubt that a QUAD core will run M2TW maxed...
Windows vista home premium
Intel core 2 duo E6550 2.33 ghz
2.00gb RAM
NVIDIA Geforce 8400 Gs
320 Gb hard drive
Do you think i will be able to play empire total war with this?
Video card is a bit suspicious...
what do you mean?
When is Geforce 9 series due? I read somewhere it was delayed until Q1 2008.