The "Would my PC be able to run M2TW?" thread (all such queries here pls)

[Lord_Phan]

goto Run in the Start Menu, then type in "Dxdiag" then hit enter.

Direct X will tell you what you have

[PwnageBot2000]

Exactly what i was looking for. Thanks Lord_pham, this will help a lot and in coming years lol.

[Belgolas]

I currently have a...
2.8 Ghz pentium D 533mhz FSB
NO HT 256KB L2 Cache
ATI 256mb X700 GPU
128-bit
400 VPU clock
250 Mem clock
3g of DDR2 533mhz
Intel® Desktop Board D945PSN


I am thinking of upgrading to a...
3.2 Ghz pentium 4 800mhz FSB
with HT and a 1mb L2 cache

and a...

EVGA GeForce 7950 GT KO SuperClocked
512MB GDDR3
46.4 GB per second memory bandwidth
1450MHz
600 MHz clock
256-bit

Would this be a good setup for M2TW and other games and how much of an improvement is this? Should I wait or buy a different setup? All post are welcome. Or should I just upgrade the CPU or buy a dual core. I would like to keep it cheap. Do I need just to upgrade the GPU?

[PwnageBot2000]

Hey guys I've been looking on gamespot, which does a 2006 graphics card roundup. It separates cards into high-end, performance, mid, and budget. even looking at the budget cards, I see nothing close to my ATI Radeon x700 (Infact the lowest of the X1000 series hapened to be the x1300, which made me think my card was utter crap). Upon playing the demo however, without any shadows, the game ran quite smoothly. Does this mean i could get superb performance for purchasing budget cards that are $170 at the most?

my comp specs are
Pentium 4 2.99 GhZ
512 RAM
ATI Radeon x700 pro PCI express 256mb

[Shaitan]

(Infact the lowest of the X1000 series hapened to be the x1300, which made me think my card was utter crap).

Actually the X1300 is the budget card of the X1x00 series, while your x700 is the mid card of the preceeding Xx00 series. My X850XT for example beats some of the X1800 cards.

So don't judge by the higher model number. Look into performance tets.

Shaitan

[PwnageBot2000]

Actually the X1300 is the budget card of the X1x00 series, while your x700 is the mid card of the preceeding Xx00 series. My X850XT for example beats some of the X1800 cards.

So don't judge by the higher model number. Look into performance tets.

Shaitan

Ok, in what order do these ATI cards come out?? I know your x850 beats my x700, but what about the latest ones such as the x1900 and x1950?! Someone please tell me how my x700 compares to other cards.

thanks.

[R'as al Ghul]

1.8 Ghz AMD Duron
1 Gbyte DDR1 RAM
128 MB Radeon 9600XT Bravo

I can't believe it but the game runs actually very good on this machine. I've no idea how many fps I have nor do I care but with almost all settings turned to low and unit detail on medium it's very playable. No noticeable lag.

R'as

Edit: Correction: When modding custom battles with full armies, it lags mercilessly.

[gunslinger]

I've been looking at a few bargain cards including the Radeon X850 PRO and the Geforce 6600 and the Radeon X700. All are AGP cards with 256mb RAM. Sometimes I have trouble figuring out whether they have the proper SHADER support, though. If the card supports DX 9, can I assume that it will work? Assuming that the rest of my system is ok, will these cards run M2TW?

Ok, in what order do these ATI cards come out?? I know your x850 beats my x700, but what about the latest ones such as the x1900 and x1950?! Someone please tell me how my x700 compares to other cards.

thanks.

I can answer that one! Check out tomshardware.com. It takes a little bit of navigation, but they have tools showing how tons of vid cards performed on certain games when installed on similar systems. They also have a great little article called "best video cards for the money 2006" which lists their top picks in certain price ranges.

[maestro]

I am thinking of upgrading to a...
3.2 Ghz pentium 4 800mhz FSB
with HT and a 1mb L2 cache

and a...

EVGA GeForce 7950 GT KO SuperClocked
512MB GDDR3
46.4 GB per second memory bandwidth
1450MHz
600 MHz clock
256-bit

Would this be a good setup for M2TW and other games and how much of an improvement is this? Should I wait or buy a different setup? All post are welcome. Or should I just upgrade the CPU or buy a dual core. I would like to keep it cheap. Do I need just to upgrade the GPU?

That processor would be OK and the graphics card more than adequate

You didn't say how much RAM you have.. in order to get the most from the rest of your setup you ought to be running at least 1Gb, and 2Gb for the best @D

[Belgolas]

I have 3GB of ram. I think I am just going to upgrade the CPU, and am going to wait for Quad cores and DX10 GPU's.

[redcolor]

I currently have a...
2.8 Ghz pentium D 533mhz FSB
NO HT 256KB L2 Cache
ATI 256mb X700 GPU
128-bit
400 VPU clock
250 Mem clock
3g of DDR2 533mhz
Intel® Desktop Board D945PSN


I am thinking of upgrading to a...
3.2 Ghz pentium 4 800mhz FSB
with HT and a 1mb L2 cache

and a...

EVGA GeForce 7950 GT KO SuperClocked
512MB GDDR3
46.4 GB per second memory bandwidth
1450MHz
600 MHz clock
256-bit

Would this be a good setup for M2TW and other games and how much of an improvement is this? Should I wait or buy a different setup? All post are welcome. Or should I just upgrade the CPU or buy a dual core. I would like to keep it cheap. Do I need just to upgrade the GPU?

M2TW would be happy with GF 7950GT. If upgrade CPU to P4 3.2 or Core 2 dual, you may also need to upgrade you mainboard to support the CPU. The cheaper way is upgrade the VGA first to 7950 GT, but first check you 945 PSN on how to support PCI-E x16 first (since the Intel spec just says it has "One PCI Express x16 bus add-in card connector", not sure what exactly means). and 7950GT may not reach its max. performance on a 533 Mhz Bus.