Early guesstimate of system requirements?

[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.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Keep in mind two things. First, the promo shots are done on very good rigs. Second, if you work hard on it, you can really optimize a game and still make it look good and play on old hardware. Bioshock does a pretty good job of it, from what I understand.

[Kraggenmor]

So what do you think? Vista compatible?

[BoyarPunk]

So what do you think? Vista compatible?

Probably. Just hopefully not "Vista exclusive". Don't trust it yet to replace my old faithful reliable XP.

[makkyo]

Keep in mind two things. First, the promo shots are done on very good rigs. Second, if you work hard on it, you can really optimize a game and still make it look good and play on old hardware. Bioshock does a pretty good job of it, from what I understand.

My friend has a four year old rig that handles Bioshock pretty nicely. Prey does a similar job in my opinion.

even 8600 is a peace of crap actually, take at least 8800gt. You wont regret of this..

Actually, the 8600 gt is very nice and has pretty good overclocking potential and should work nicely for most people. It's hard to argue though that the 8800s are fantastic, especially for the price/performance that they offer (ie the 8800gt).

Minimum, my guess for a minimum is:
3.0 GHz Pentium 4
1Gig RAM
Geforce 7400

My E6600 with an 8600 should be just fine.

[TosaInu]

My friend has a four year old rig that handles Bioshock pretty nicely. Prey does a similar job in my opinion.

Hello makkyo,

Has he upgraded his graphic card or is it also the original 4 years old (GF5 series or ATI9XXX)?

[gardibolt]

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.

That's the point. Rendering moving water well is one of the most difficult computer graphics tasks out there. And if those are real screenshots, they're putting a lot of detail into the water. It's going to chug like a dying moose if you try to run in on a FX 5200 or a 7300--which can barely run M2TW at low detail. And what's the fun of that?

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.

[Ethelred Unread]

If it's out in 08 then it'll be on vista, and that means DX10.

Time for an upgrade!

[Charge]

DX 10 strategy? I think you wrong. In 2008 only some shooters/RPGs will fully require DX10.
Crysis is mostly DX9 game with some dx10 features. There is no need (I think) in dx10 for ETW. Maybe dx10 perfomance improvements, by I'm not expert in it.

But I can do not care about it . After army in 09 I'll buy new comp, and it willn't be something like my current celeron-northw.@2.7,512 ram-266,geforce fx5200 128mb 64bit!

[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.

[icek]

P4 3,0
1 Ghz ram
geforce 6600
not working on Vista

[Charge]

P4 3,0
1 Ghz ram
geforce 6600

Lowest...
Max: Core2Duo@3GHz
2gb ddr2
8800

[TuuSaR]

From looking at the screenshots:
System Requirements: whatever you got - it aint enough.

If you compare pics from say Pirates of the Caribbean(2003 PC) or to any recent sea-battle game then pics CA released arent anything revolutionary. Just something you naturally expect to see in good 2008 games.

Of course I cant remember any sea game with actual soldiers boarding other ships.(in larger numbers) That would be new and require extra power.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Hmm, there's the Video Options you know. IIRC M2TW requires 128Mb of Video memory with shader support. This will require some more; say a good 256Mb one should do.
RAM: M2TW could do with 512Mb; so 1024 Mb would be reasonable.
Processor: there are more demanding processes out there than a TW one. So I think if you have some 2.0Ghz you should be (more than) fine.
Leaves us with OS requirements. M2TW was cool with older version than XP too; I imagine that this game won't require Vista just yet.

We will know in 2008; and if my guesses are worth anything, we will know by Christmas 2008.

EDIT: Of course CA will (highly) recommend more powerful systems.

[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?

[Incongruous]

I doubt they're going to be breaking heads with amazingly high specs guys. This is CA, where all are welcome. They want the biggest market, that isnt exclusive to hardcore gamers.

[Hooahguy]

better tell that to CA

[pevergreen]

CA are generally kind. Take M2TW specs, up that a bit.

[Pode]

Please do all the wonderful graphics tricks with DX9 instead of DX10. I love TW, but nothing is worth having to buy Vista.

[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.