Early guesstimate of system requirements?

[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.

[Brighdaasa]

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.

That's largely what i was thinking too, but probably a little faster processor like maybe a non celeron 2.5ghz?
That would be the absolute minimum requirements. Possibly also shader 2.0 as a requirement for vid cards, which wasn't the case for MIITW iirc.

I would also guess that this engine won't be using dx10 yet as it wasn't around when they started building the engine. I predict that the evolution of this engine (the tw game after empire) will be using optional dx10 effects. The next revolution will probably use dx10 standard, with maybe some barely playable legacy support for dx9. My personal guess.

[The Spartan (Returns)]

If it's much as a hog as Oblivion, that would be just sad; I dunno wanna use 60 men units, I rather have at least large.

I have
1 gig
3ghz
Pentium 4 HT
7600 GS

Do you think I can run it well?

[Akeichi Mitsuhide]

I got:

AMD Athlon 64 3800+ 2,4 GHz
Raedeon x800 video card
1 gb RAM
XP.

Hopefully, thats enough cuz i dont think i got enough cash for a big upgrade in mid 2008.

[trickydicky]

This is my current machine - by no means a top end spec.
(About 9 Months Old)

Intel Core2Duo 2.2Ghz
Radeon X1950 512MB
2GB DDR2 800mhz Memory

This runs MTW2 fine, with most settings maxed at 1280 x 1024 res.
I would imagine that the new game should run OK with these sorts of specs, and by the time it's released, you will be able to pick something like this up for very little.

[Abokasee]

I have a 1 GB of ram, and my PC struggles running CoH and it have fairly powerful graphics card (Nothing like a 8800 though) so im getting a new one soon, well around this time next year, which will be alot more powerful (2 GB OF RAM , well the one im looking at now) But strangly MTW:2 works a treat in a dream

So I think getting a new one will be... very much necessary

[Belgolas]

I think the minimum system requirements will be...
3 GHZ P4 or AMD equivalent
1 GB ram
8GB Hard drive space
256MB video ram with DX9.0c vertex/shader 2.0 (Nvidea 6800 or better)

Recommended...
Dual core 2GHz or more
512mb GPU or 320mb 8800 GTS
2GB ram
8GB hard drive
DX10 optional



Seriously it shouldn't be that expensive to buy a computer to run this at least medium-high settings. 8800's should be $150-200 by the time this game comes out. No worries. If you can only play M2TW on low settings then time for an upgrade. Ram is so cheap too. 2GB of DDR2 800mhz @ $100.