Official System Requirements

**USMCNJ** · 08-21-2004, 23:52

thanks DragonIce84, i;ll gues we have to wait till monday to test the demo.

**Lonewarrior** · 08-22-2004, 01:23

How big is the demo?

**Tamur** · 08-22-2004, 01:31

The English version of Windows? Oh dear...

I've never actually seen a game specify a specific language install of the OS. Anyone have any idea why they'd require this?

**The Witch-King** · 08-22-2004, 03:11

Hmmm, if you can play the english version of MTW you should be fine regarding the language issue. I just checked the back of my MTW copy and it has the same requirements about an English Windows version. So if you can play MTW everything should be fine.

Important videocard question!

Alright, I checked my motherboard and it has 1 AGP 4x slot. Now, my question is this: Can I put a videocard with an AGP 8x interface in that slot, or am I restricted to cards with 4x interface only? Can't find anything about on the web, so that's why I ask it here. I don't want to buy a useless videocard, though I would consider a minor performance loss (if that would be the only sideeffect) to be acceptable, since upgrading from a 32 MB card to a 128 mb card would be a marked improvement anyway.

**Blodrast** · 08-22-2004, 03:15

Originally Posted by The Witch-King

Important videocard question!

Alright, I checked my motherboard and it has 1 AGP 4x slot. Now, my question is this: Can I put a videocard with an AGP 8x interface in that slot, or am I restricted to cards with 4x interface only? Can't find anything about on the web, so that's why I ask it here. I don't want to buy a useless videocard, though I would consider a minor performance loss (if that would be the only sideeffect) to be acceptable, since upgrading from a 32 MB card to a 128 mb card would be a marked improvement anyway.

I'm almost positive that you can; of course, only at most 4X AGP will be used (or whatever your stuff supports: 1x, 2x).

**Tamur** · 08-22-2004, 04:09

Yes, I've run 8x AGP cards in a 4x slot... though you might want to be 100% sure and check with the mobo manufacturer to make sure they don't list the card you have in mind as a no-go.

At work they bought HP systems that have AGP 8x slots but they don't boot with ATI cards above the Radeon 7500, nor nVidia cards of the same caliber. Nice feature, that. I asked HP and they said, "Too Bad, you shouldn't be playing games at work anyway".

**Zawath** · 08-22-2004, 08:44

Originally Posted by Tamur

The English version of Windows? Oh dear...

I've never actually seen a game specify a specific language install of the OS. Anyone have any idea why they'd require this?

It doesn't require it. Some games "require" a Pentium processor or Geforce card and still they work on AMD and Radeon

**Louis de la Ferte Ste Colombe** · 08-22-2004, 14:12

And that's for playing a 1v1 Demo...

I guess we'll need to be much better than that for 4v4 MP games; I hope ther will be at least 8 players meeting those requirements :(

Louis,