Early guesstimate of system requirements?

**Rhyfelwyr** · 08-23-2007, 20:08

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** · 08-23-2007, 20:11

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** · 08-23-2007, 20:19

So what do you think? Vista compatible?

**BoyarPunk** · 08-23-2007, 20:30

Originally Posted by Kraggenmor

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** · 12-05-2007, 07:52

Originally Posted by 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.

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** · 12-05-2007, 11:23

Originally Posted by makkyo

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** · 08-24-2007, 17:10

Originally Posted by Caledonian 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.

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** · 08-24-2007, 17:51

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

Time for an upgrade!

**Charge** · 08-24-2007, 18:41

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!