Quote Originally Posted by AlJabberwock
King,

The X1300 comes in a few different flavors so I cannot be certain exactly what is supported in the version you have, but the ones I scoped had Shader 3.0 and Open GL 2.0 which is GOOD (mostly -although I saw a few that only had shader 2.0 and Open GL 1.5).

It only has 4 pixel pipelines in all the versions I saw which is similar to 6200's and FX or 5000 series NVidia cards, but not quite as good as, say the NVidia 6600 which has 8, but had the same GL and Shader model support as the better 6600s. Pixel pipelines can impact speed when large quantities of data need to be transmitted so having only 4 is not good, but makes it at least tenable that the card could function well enough not to look for the sledgehammer...right away at least The clock and corespeeds I saw were reasonable, and the card should allow you to at least look at the demo unless it is some very budget version of the x1300.

The rest of your machine, uh, well 512 Ram will "technically" work, again, its borderline.

A 2.8 ghz CPU is ok, but we need to know what kind. A kind poster earlier listed CPU types that support SSe2, which appears to be needed to run the demo, if not the game, and the SSE2 thingy notwithstanding, 2.8 on an AMD is one thing whereas on an Intel it is something entirely different. If an Intel, it is also probably "ok" but you will simply have to try it out or wait for more definitive info from CA which appears not to be forthcoming before Monday next, the 16th.

Wait as long as you can, as both seriously superior CPUs and Vid Cards have and/or should experience sharp falls in price. CPUs because of the price wars between Intel and AMD over dual-core chips and the vid cards because of the new version of DirectX about to relegate current cards to the has-been category.

Cheers!

AlJabberwock

Hey,

It's a Intel,does that help you at all??