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[Drake-Shepard]

thanks for the response.

I found the origin folder/me3 demo/binaries to use the config utility
i switched off:
anti-aliasing
motion blur
antistropic filtering

Everything speeded up..so much so I could leave all the shadows and lighting options on and my laptop handled it fine, none of that frame rate drop or jerking.Nice and fluid..how its supposed to be (i have the xbox 360 demo too).

I'l keep an eye on the cooling issue and i'm willing to take the damage risk...

Just one last question... i didn't fully understand the last paragraph in your response.....in your opinion if i can play the demo is it safe to assume I can play the full game ( you will not be held accountable for this answer- if your worried i may moan at you later lol)

Thanks a lot for your detailed response. You have been a great help

[Gorath Alpha]

AlanC9 wrote...

Gorath Alpha wrote...

Actually, it will be six years old in a few months, The X1600 Pro had been a bit slow compared to the Geforce 7600, even though it handled shaders ten times better, and had to be replaced midway into the X1n00 generation's lifetime, with the X1650.

Yeah, I remember now that the X1650  was a "new" card that wasn't all that new. At $65, IIRC, it seemed like the best value around.

FRAPS tells me that combat framerates are 27-29. That's at whatever settings the demo defaulted to when it was installed.

It's a bit far in the past for me these days; I think that the original X1600 "XT" was involved in one way or another to get to the X1650 Pro, with the X1650 XT actually being new, or related to the X1800 GTO.  The silliest thing that happened at the time was trying to save their unshipped stock of X1600 Pro chips by reflashing them to "X1300 XT", and really confusing things that way. 

Truthfully, the X1600 Pro had excellent image quality, while none of the Geforce 7n00 cards could say that. 

[Gorath Alpha]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

The Mainline cards from AMD are the ones in the "600s", such as the HD 6670, which is a Medium card for Medium Quality settings and medium screen resolutions.

We won't know right away whether the officially announced requirements for the Demo were actually overstated for it, and more appropriate for the game, or if they are going to prove to be overstated for both.

Drake-Shepard wrote...

thanks for the response.

I'l keep an eye on the cooling issue and i'm willing to take the damage risk...

Just one last question... i didn't fully understand the last paragraph in your response.....in your opinion if i can play the demo is it safe to assume I can play the full game ( you will not be held accountable for this answer- if your worried i may moan at you later lol)

Thanks a lot for your detailed response. You have been a great help

Maybe you are unaware of it, but Bioware is practically techo-phobic, really, when it comes to hiring anyone with decent understanding of PC hardware.  Their games' requirements are nearly always screwed up, sometimes very seriously.  In the present instance, from all indications (I'm not a digital download fan, and have not done much with the Demo yet -- there is a little extra real life in my world lately), it seems to me that the requirements were wrong the other way, more strict than the facts supported. 

The actual game having passed its "Gold" status, the real game's requirements should be known in their offices in Canada, and should be published soon.  THEN we know how predictive the Demo is "supposed" to be. 

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 16 février 2012 - 06:37 .

[sheppardatlantis]

i haven't played the demo yet, but i think that i should be able to play the game on max settings. my cpu - athlon II x4 640 3.01ghz, video card - nvidia geforce 9800 512 mb, ram - 4gb. what do you guys think ? will i be able to play it on max settings ? thanks in advance

[Gorath Alpha]

Please review what I told Drake-Shepherd.

Thank you.

[Erepyon]

i dont know whats going on but im still getting the same message of cant't download ive got windows 7 running with the following
AMD Phenom II x2 555 processor 3.2GHz
8GB ram
ATI Radeon HD 5770 series graphics card
and i believe everything is up to date

[SSV Enterprise]

If you're getting a "can't download" message, it likely has little to do with your system specifications. Instead, you probably have Origin installed incorrectly. Try uninstalling and reinstalling Origin.

[Ealos]

I've seen the question asked once or twice, but not sure if I've seen an answer: if a machine runs the demo, can it be confidently expected to run the game? Cheers.

[xyno]

sheppardatlantis wrote...

i haven't played the demo yet, but i think that i should be able to play the game on max settings. my cpu - athlon II x4 640 3.01ghz, video card - nvidia geforce 9800 512 mb, ram - 4gb. what do you guys think ? will i be able to play it on max settings ? thanks in advance

I have more or less the same system. I have the 620 processor and a 9800 with 1GB. The demo ran silky smooth on max everything at medium resolution. My screen isn't that big to begin with. So probably for a larger 1080p screen you might want to turn off AA and motion blur and anything not essential (in your opinion). 

Ealos wrote...

I've seen the question asked once or twice, but not sure if I've seen an answer: if a machine runs the demo, can it be confidently expected to run the game? Cheers.

 

Depends when they made the demo and if they have done any further changes to the engine. Most likely it will run better. From my experience with different games it may vary--like Battlefield demos and betas run better than released games both performance and server stability. XD 

Modifié par xyno, 22 février 2012 - 02:59 .

[trekker1701]

Hey guys,

I have a gtx geforce 460 in my computer, I was able to run ME2 butter smooth at 1920x1080, do you think I will be able to do the same for ME3? I notice the requirements are very similar to ME2. Thanks

[SSV Enterprise]

Yes, a Geforce GTX 460 should be just fine.

[DeadPoolX]

I think it's pretty safe to say that if you could run ME2, then you can run ME3. It's practically the same engine, only with a few tweaks here and there.

I've got an old PC and yet ME2 and the ME3 demo run perfectly.

My specs:
Pentium 4 3.6GHz
Windows XP SP3
2GB of RAM
512 MB ATI Radeon HD 3870

Yeah, as I said, it's old, but it had NO problem running ME2 and the ME3 demo. I'm sure what's helping me here is that there are very few graphical options to set (when compared to most other games) and I use DX9 running at a resolution of 1280x1024. All of that combined has allowed me to play ME2 and the ME3 demo with all graphical options turned on and a very, very acceptable framerate.

Now I have a feeling someone is going to yell at me, call me a liar, etc. I've had that happen on the Steam forums, where the woefully misinformed believe that I couldn't run any recent game without it looking like a slideshow.

Well, I can. I've run Borderlands, Fallout 3, Batman Arkham Asylum, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, in addition to Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, ME2 and the ME3 demo. Oddly enough, ME1 ran extremely poorly for me. I don't know why, either. I could barely get framerates in the double digits, yet the sequels work wonderfully. Go figure.

(PS -- I'm sorry if I sound somewhat defensive, but I've grown tired of having to defend my so-called lies. I'm not lying, nor have I ever said that if I were to play at a higher resolution and in DX11, would I get anywhere near the framerates someone with a dual-core or quad-core would.)

[trekker1701]

I played the demo last night and it ran great at 1920x1080. Thanks. Although I have to say I did not care for the origin interface.

[MefRaz]

I'm curious about running ME3 on Macbook pro 13 and iMac 21.5 base models via Bootcamp. Specificly on Macbook Pro, because it has only intel HD graphics. Will it takes 30 fps?

[Gorath Alpha]

Doubtful. Intel video is quite dreadfull.

[DeadPoolX]

MefRaz wrote...

I'm curious about running ME3 on Macbook pro 13 and iMac 21.5 base models via Bootcamp. Specificly on Macbook Pro, because it has only intel HD graphics. Will it takes 30 fps?

Why not try the demo and see for yourself?  The only way to really find out is to try it, as everything else is just guesswork. 

[Realmana]

Can anyone get a confirmation on what graphics cards are supported? I have the Geforce 540m and it seems to crash a lot. That shouldn't happen.

[Gorath Alpha]

Laptops are not supported because the manufacturers won't agree on fixed standard specifications, among other things (very poor cooling capacity is a big count against them also). With a Geforce laptop, chances are good that the graphics card won't play because it lets the Intel onboard chip take over and fails to step up to the plate properly when it is supposed to.

[Kriton57]

I just tried to download the ME3 Demo, and is displays "Operating System Unsupported: You need to upgrade to a newer version of Windows to play Mass Effect™ 3 Demo". I meet and exceed the requirements listed above.

Here's my PC specs:
Win XP/SP3
Pentium D 3GHz Dual Core CPU
2 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512MB RAM
Latest DirectX version

What's up? How come it won't download?

[Gorath Alpha]

Pentium Ds don't qualify. They aren't anywhere close to C2D equivalent. Not that it isn't barely, almost capable, but it's really a poor old antique when faced with modern games. You don't pass either the ME-1 or the ME-2 minimum CPU.

[SSV Enterprise]

DeadPoolMK wrote...

I think it's pretty safe to say that if you could run ME2, then you can run ME3. It's practically the same engine, only with a few tweaks here and there.

I've got an old PC and yet ME2 and the ME3 demo run perfectly.

My specs:
Pentium 4 3.6GHz
Windows XP SP3
2GB of RAM
512 MB ATI Radeon HD 3870

Yeah, as I said, it's old, but it had NO problem running ME2 and the ME3 demo. I'm sure what's helping me here is that there are very few graphical options to set (when compared to most other games) and I use DX9 running at a resolution of 1280x1024. All of that combined has allowed me to play ME2 and the ME3 demo with all graphical options turned on and a very, very acceptable framerate.

Now I have a feeling someone is going to yell at me, call me a liar, etc. I've had that happen on the Steam forums, where the woefully misinformed believe that I couldn't run any recent game without it looking like a slideshow.

Well, I can. I've run Borderlands, Fallout 3, Batman Arkham Asylum, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, in addition to Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, ME2 and the ME3 demo. Oddly enough, ME1 ran extremely poorly for me. I don't know why, either. I could barely get framerates in the double digits, yet the sequels work wonderfully. Go figure.

(PS -- I'm sorry if I sound somewhat defensive, but I've grown tired of having to defend my so-called lies. I'm not lying, nor have I ever said that if I were to play at a higher resolution and in DX11, would I get anywhere near the framerates someone with a dual-core or quad-core would.)

I won't call you a liar, but I will say that you are very lucky to get the performance out of your PC that you do.  Your graphics card actually isn't half bad, but indeed, single-core processors are going the way of the dinosaur.  Mass Effect 2 specifically had single-core related problems on release, related to video playback and crashing -- both ME2 and ME3 name a dual-core processor in the minimum requirements.  The game is simply made to use multiple threads simultaneously. A patch alleviated some of the issues, but still, ME2 was never intended to be played on single-core systems.  Your CPU must just be fast enough to handle the multiple threads on a single core without running into problems.

[Elentar01]

LisuPL wrote...

How do you think my 3 year old lappy will run Mass Effect 3?

It's a ASUS with:
T5800 2Ghz C2D
4GB of DDR2 ram
9650m GT 1 GB
Win 7 64-bit

Mass Effect 2 ran at very playable settings for me, with all the shadows turned on, but Mass Effect 3 seems to have improved textures and more advanced shading what concerns me a bit...

I've got a similar laptop, and until now haven't yet played anything on it:

asus pro72sl series:
t5850 @ 2.16 ghz
4gb ram
9300m gs 512mb
win 7 64-bit

I think this should be enough for mass effect, but I'm getting lag on the lowest resolutions.

[SSV Enterprise]

Elentar01 wrote...

LisuPL wrote...

How do you think my 3 year old lappy will run Mass Effect 3?

It's a ASUS with:
T5800 2Ghz C2D
4GB of DDR2 ram
9650m GT 1 GB
Win 7 64-bit

Mass Effect 2 ran at very playable settings for me, with all the shadows turned on, but Mass Effect 3 seems to have improved textures and more advanced shading what concerns me a bit...

I've got a similar laptop, and until now haven't yet played anything on it:

asus pro72sl series:
t5850 @ 2.16 ghz
4gb ram
9300m gs 512mb
win 7 64-bit

I think this should be enough for mass effect, but I'm getting lag on the lowest resolutions.

Oh, no it's not.  I'm sorry, but your laptop falls a good deal short of the minimum requirements, particularly with the GPU.

[Muzouka]

Is a GeForce GTX260 good enough for the video card? The demo keeps hanging up on me. My specs:

Windows XP SP3
Core2Duo E7400 @ 2.80Ghz
4GB Ram
GeForce GTX260

[Muzouka]

Sorry, double post

Modifié par Muzouka, 27 février 2012 - 02:17 .