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[QuentaSilmarillion]

sounds pretty ossum

[jheise4321]

I have

AMD Athlon™ II X4 640 Quad-Core CPU
4 GB [2 GB X2] DDR3-1600
NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 - 1GB

Since I know nothing about computer hardware could someone tell me where I fall in the lines of running this game and possible how well? This will determine whether I buy it or not.  DA:O was awesome on PC but I couldn't stand it on Xbox.

Modifié par jheise4321, 22 février 2011 - 11:44 .

[Gorath Alpha]

The GT 430 was designed for HTPC use.  It is supposed to be quiet, cool-running, and good at decoding some of the movie encoding formats, but not particularly good for games.  The GT 220 was better, and was on the borderline between business and games.  The GT 430 is more expensive than a business class card, but far slower than a gaming card. 

Currently, a Geforce 7900 GS is being published as the minimum, and here is how the two compare:

www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php

The architectures have changed so dramatically, it is difficult to be certain, but it certainly appears to me that your 430 is equal to that minimum card, which should mean Medium Resolutions, Low Image quality, and acceptable (30 FPS and upward) animation frame rates.  

[jheise4321]

Ok thanks!



If that's my only drawback I can shell out for a better card.



Thanks for the website too!

[Hayllee]

Okay, everybody's using this as their tech support thread, so I guess I'll ask too. (Did I already ask here? I don't think I did... nevermind.) Everything I'm pretty sure is fine, but I don't know about my graphics card. Is ATI Radeon HD 5400 okay or...? Every comparison website I've been on doesn't list mine. :\\

[Gorath Alpha]

You'll need an upgrade.  The HD 5450 is a real slug.  Sorry.

[Ruccard]

There's also the option of playing it windowed.

[wanted49]

Hay All,

I installed the Demo twice and both times the installer said the file ( d3dx9_43.dll ) is missing. Any idea where the file went? Help Please,

Wanted49 2/23/11

[Ruccard]

Hurlocks ate it.

[Jiggasaurus]

@wanted49 there is a thread on that particular issue in the technical support section...

here

Modifié par Jiggasaurus, 23 février 2011 - 06:14 .

[RaenImrahl]

wanted49 wrote...

Hay All,
I installed the Demo twice and both times the installer said the file ( d3dx9_43.dll ) is missing. Any idea where the file went? Help Please,
Wanted49 2/23/11

You need to install a newer version of DirectX9... a lot of people do.  See the first few stickies in the Demo Tech Support forum.

[Odell]

the demo is playable on an athlon 64 2800+, running at 2.1 ghz, 1 gig of ram , and a hd 3450, all low, 800 by 600, framerate drops when a lot of things are burning but never drops below 15

[Gorath Alpha]

Odell wrote...

the demo is playable on an athlon 64 2800+, running at 2.1 ghz, 1 gig of ram , and a hd 3450, all low, 800 by 600, framerate drops when a lot of things are burning but never drops below 15

Although I had totally forgotten that the AMD A64 was ever sold with a performance number such as "2800", you are either overclocking it, or have mixed something up when telling us this story about how low-demand the Demo has turned out to be.  The CPU you've named had a default core speed of 1.8 GHz. 

http://www.pcper.com...icle.php?aid=33

The older K7 cpu from AMD, the XP 2800, did run at 2.1 GHz.

P. S.  I still have an old (2005) build based on a K7 Barton 3000, that runs 24/7 to handle the files backup, printers, and plain old business stuff that I use Office 2000 applications on (running Win2000 most of the time).

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 23 février 2011 - 11:40 .

[Odell]

overclocked at 2.1,

[Gorath Alpha]

Odell wrote...

overclocked at 2.1

The slowest A64 I have runs at a default 2.0 GHz when I have it running -- I run DOSbox on it for oldie MS-DOS games.

[Hayllee]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

You'll need an upgrade.  The HD 5450 is a real slug.  Sorry.

Knew it. Thanks for telling me.

[BioWare lover]

hi guys. i can run dragon age 2 demo on my pc easily on 1024x768 resolution with medium graphics and i can play demo easily without any crash to the end. Can anyone tell me that i can run the full version game on my machine?

[Gorath Alpha]

Given the wide range of results seen, I really doubt that the Demo is going to prove to be that useful for predicting what a low end machine may be able to do, really; wait until the game is out to ask whether anyone with a similar machine has had success, then we'll be more certain of the quality barometer we have with the Demo.

[flexxdk]

I'm actually wondering if the game will run fine on my GTX 275... It has 869 or 865 Mb. I hope it'll do.

[ArrowBringer]

can any one help me over . i played the demo and it runs smoothly . miner 24 fps slowdown on kirkwall . i have

Intel Pentium D 3.40gh

4 gb ram

9800gt 512



u guys think i can run it ?

[james1976]

I got the recommended beat on everything but the processor, and I have 3.33ghz core2duo so I imagine it will still run pretty smooth.

EDIT - I noticed a Core2quad was recommended.  Will the game actually take advantage of more than 2 cores?

Modifié par james1976, 25 février 2011 - 02:54 .

[basdoorn]

james1976 wrote...
EDIT - I noticed a Core2quad was recommended.  Will the game actually take advantage of more than 2 cores?

Dragon Age Origins already took advantage of more than 2 cores real well. Personally I would be sorely dissapointed if Dragon Age 2 would not take (decent) advantage of existing 6 core and upcoming 6 and 8 core processors. If anything, the world is going towards more cores, especially for higher end processors. Hyperthreading in Intel Core i7 processors makes them look like 8 or even 12 cores already. Mind you, this time Hyperthreading actually improves performance in virtually all benchmarks that provide enough threads with 5-30%, unlike the older Pentium 4 Hyperthreading that could even hurt performance in several cases.

[james1976]

basdoorn wrote...

james1976 wrote...
EDIT - I noticed a Core2quad was recommended.  Will the game actually take advantage of more than 2 cores?

Dragon Age Origins already took advantage of more than 2 cores real well. Personally I would be sorely dissapointed if Dragon Age 2 would not take (decent) advantage of existing 6 core and upcoming 6 and 8 core processors. If anything, the world is going towards more cores, especially for higher end processors. Hyperthreading in Intel Core i7 processors makes them look like 8 or even 12 cores already. Mind you, this time Hyperthreading actually improves performance in virtually all benchmarks that provide enough threads with 5-30%, unlike the older Pentium 4 Hyperthreading that could even hurt performance in several cases.

Haven't played DA:O since 2009 so I either forgot that detail or didn't know.  Hard to say.  But thanks for filling me in on that.

[Apophis2412]

My specs are:



Intel Core i5 750 (2.67 GHZ)

4 GB DDR 3 RAM

Geforce 320 GT



How will this system perform? I already know that my video card is to old. It already has some problems running DAO. I'm thinking of upgrading it to an Asus Radeon HD 6850. How much of an performance gain wil I get?

[basdoorn]

Apophis2412 wrote...
Intel Core i5 750 (2.67 GHZ)
4 GB DDR 3 RAM
Geforce 320 GT

I'm thinking of upgrading it to an Asus Radeon HD 6850. How much of an performance gain wil I get?

The Radeon 6850 is in a totally different league than the Gefore 320 GT. Expect to go from low settings with low frame rates to high settings with high frame rates as your processor and memory are capable enough to show the (full) potential of the 6850.

Modifié par basdoorn, 26 février 2011 - 02:51 .