ETW System Requirements

[Pinxit]

Don't buy the 9800 series. Nvidia really messed up in naming the 9000 series. Essentially, the 9800GTS would be the same as the 8800GTS, but overclocked, which you can do easily as long as you are careful about temperature and stability.

A better upgrade would be to their new GTX 260 or GTX 280

Possibly. Hopefully the GTX 260 and 280 will suffer from a rather severe price drop until February. The difference between my GPU, 8800 GTS 640 MB and the GTX 260? Is it worth it? It seems to me that the hardware is far more advanced than the software which uses it nowadays. My two year old GPU handles Crysis, Far Cry 2, etc without any serious problems.

[TevashSzat]

Possibly. Hopefully the GTX 260 and 280 will suffer from a rather severe price drop until February. The difference between my GPU, 8800 GTS 640 MB and the GTX 260? Is it worth it? It seems to me that the hardware is far more advanced than the software which uses it nowadays. My two year old GPU handles Crysis, Far Cry 2, etc without any serious problems.

Yeah, it won't be a tremendous upgrade, but it would be enough so that it is noticeable.

I would recommend that you wait since the 8800 GTS should run ETW with no problems. Don't upgrade your GPU until the next generation of cards come out so you can either get a much greater upgrade or the GTX 260/280 will be alot cheaper

[Eusebius86]

Yeah, it won't be a tremendous upgrade, but it would be enough so that it is noticeable.

I would recommend that you wait since the 8800 GTS should run ETW with no problems. Don't upgrade your GPU until the next generation of cards come out so you can either get a much greater upgrade or the GTX 260/280 will be alot cheaper

No kidding. The 9800gt was selling for $250 when it came out in the spring. Now it's only $99 on newegg.com!

[Pinxit]

Yeah, it won't be a tremendous upgrade, but it would be enough so that it is noticeable.

I would recommend that you wait since the 8800 GTS should run ETW with no problems. Don't upgrade your GPU until the next generation of cards come out so you can either get a much greater upgrade or the GTX 260/280 will be alot cheaper

Hm. Does anyone know when the next generation of GPUs will come out?

[TevashSzat]

The next line of the Nvidia GPUs would be the GTX 270/290 which are essentially the same as the GTX 260/280, but with a die shrink. I think it would be out around November 2009 since the 260/280s were only released over the summer. Waiting would still help since the GTX 280 already fell by like $250 since its launch

Currently, the best powerhouse out there is the Radeon 4870 X2 which is available for desktops and should be available on laptops in a few months.

[Belgolas]

guys with 1 gig of ram or less just get more. 1 gig of ram is cheaper then the freaking game.

Anyways I recommend you should be looking at least getting a dual core CPU for this game.

[Megas Methuselah]

Heh heh, my new laptop's gonna pwn Empires soooo bad! Yay! Have fun, ye rascals who're fruitlessly attempting to up ur comp!

[Polemists]

dual core CPU

This is not required, if you plan to do future gaming sure, but this will doubtfully be a requirment for ETW, MTW2 worked fine without dual core, and as devs have stated multiple time, ETW has similiar requirments do to same engine.

[Belgolas]

Heh heh, my new laptop's gonna pwn Empires soooo bad! Yay! Have fun, ye rascals who're fruitlessly attempting to up ur comp!

Um no laptop today is nearly as fast as a comparable cost desktop. Also laptops are generally more expensive and if you have a high end gaming laptop you only have a few hours of battery life anyways so it is kinda pointless. A $1000 desktop will smoke a $1000 laptop. A $2000 desktop will pwn any laptop ever made, even the $6000 ones.