Early guesstimate of system requirements?

[woad&fangs]

The guys from CA seem to have been dropping in pretty frequently the last couple of days so I was wondering if they could give a guesstimate of the expected system requirements for Empire.

[iblewafuse14]

I would say something like a minimum of a

P4/Athlon 2.5 GHz
1 gig RAM
7300 GS 256 MB
14 gig HD

just a geuss... most definatly Shader 3 needed... I could be all wrong but that's what I would think

[BoyarPunk]

HAL 9000

[Daveybaby]

From looking at the screenshots:

System Requirements: whatever you got - it aint enough.

[gardibolt]

Word, brother. I don't think an 8800 can handle that in 3D. Maybe dual 8800s.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Isn't an 8800 one of the best graphics cards out there? They can't ask their customers to have dual 8800's, not even some hardcore gamers have those. 1GB of RAM seems a likely requirement though.

[Hoplite7]

Pentium 4 or equivalent
NVIDIA 6600 or equivalent
1 GB RAM

Considering Vista requires 1GB itself, if it's a DX10 game they'd be foolish not to require 2GB of RAM at minimum. Good thing there's a year to save up for that upgraded system.

It's not going to be a DX10 game, DX10 is for an entirely different customer base.

[Csargo]

From looking at the screenshots:

System Requirements: whatever you got - it aint enough.

Yeah

[Hooahguy]

i would definitely say if they want a big market for ETW, dont make it have ridiculously high system requirements. most of the gamers i know have ok systems, nothing big, including myself. i have 1.25 gb of RAM, the GeForce FX 5200 (256 mb) and a 2.53 ghz processor. do you think thats enough?

[Benandorf]

From looking at the screenshots:

System Requirements: whatever you got - it aint enough.

Well of course the screenshots they use to show off will be maxed out quality. And it truthfully doesn't look that much better than Medieval 2 graphics.

I'd say they will be a bit higher than Medieval 2, but if you can run that very well on low-medium (but run fine past minimum is the point), you should be able to run E:TW at minimum at the very least.

But this is just a prediction, of course.

[Mailman653]

AGP is yesterday?

And I thought I only needed to boost my 1.5 RAM to at least 2 or 3.