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[Tommygun]

I Googled this question and am glad to see that people with similar systems to my own are having luck getting this game to run. But I have a bone to pick with a few of you, namely Elios. Please refrain from commenting on things for which you have no legitimate advice.

You were the ONLY person b**ching in this entire thread. They wanted to know if it would play. You had no idea what the answer was and you still have no idea because you aren't in the same boat. Even after several people had results, you still spouted ignorance.

I get really tired of going to these threads to find trolls spreading misinformation. Minimum system specs have ALWAYS been set high to insure that there is less chance of a problem. Its called a buffer.

HOWEVER, that does not mean that a game will not work. These people can READ the box and, unlike you, know how these system specs really work. So continue wasting your money to keep up. We'll wait until it's necessary.

Modifié par Tommygun, 07 mars 2010 - 04:58 .

[OneBadAssMother]

ME2 runs smooth enough on a single core (2.0 ghz at least - well, that's just my computer), to line up headshots on moving targets. Can't do that in ME1.

[jujdred619]

Well, I am using a socket 939 AMD Athlon 64 4000+ single core with an Nvidia 9800gtx on 2gigs of RAM and it seems to play ok except for some coloring issues where certain areas of game are pretty much colorless, but that's a driver thing or so I heard.

[LeoInterVir]

Except for the two areas I get the "blue" crashes, ME2 runs really good, not to mention I don't meet the "requirements". The "blue" crashes are cause by a conflict between the game and the nVidia card.

P4 3.2ghz

DDR2 3.0gb

nVidia 8500gt

Windows 7

[jujdred619]

I am running ME2 on this just fine:

SINGLE core AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (2.9ghz oc)

2 gigs DDR400 RAM

24" Viewsonic LCD at 1920x1080

Geforce 9800gtx 512mb gpu (stock/oc- core,755/804 Shader,1890/ 2012 Memory,1150/1200)



Via available GAME opted settings, I have everything on as high as it can go except I turned off Dynamic Shadows and Grain Effect.



I will take some screens of my settings in RivaTuner control panel, and Task Manager in case anyone wants to see the detailed settings of everything else that is not default ME2 applicable, as there is a literal ****ton of em. I played Dragon Age with the same settings for 12 hours a day non stop and while it was slightly hitchy at times of mass mobs on the screen within rendering/interaction range, ME2 is significantly more complimenting and thus far I have not experienced a single crash, long loading black screen, long load time ever. I have had on occasion some mild fps drops, but it seems to only happen around water, so it's probably a shimmer effect or perhaps a distance thing as my rendering distance is set pretty high.

Anyway, hope I can help someone.

[Promaxim]

The game works just perfect now that they fixed single core issue, and true game seems to be running much better than ME1 did.
I got athlon +3600Mhz, 3 gigs of DDR1 memory and ATI Radeon HD2600 PRO as vid card 

[MysterD]

I've got ME2 PC running on....

P4 single-core 3.2 Ghz HT

2 GB RAM

512 MB GeForce 8800 GT



Running the game at 1024x768.

Dynamic shadows are on.

Bloom is on.

Light Shadows is on.

Grain is off.

[StuntmanMikeL]

I agree that they might release some kind of patch to fix these issues, but I'm not a programmer and as far as I know, such thing could be impossible (at least not entirely), because game was written with Dual Core CPU's in mind and it would take months to make it compatibile wit Single Core. And I'm sure Bioware won't care, 'cause only handful of users still have cheap a** systems and it would simply be not worth all the hassle.



I'm playing on Athlon XP 2400+ 2GB RAM and Radeon HD3850 AGP - in 1080p resolution after switching off all the effects it runs fairly smooth. Although I ran on some problems on few occasions, mostly with sound (it was randomly cutting out only to pop up after few moments), I don't seem to have them now.



I'm waiting to upgrade my PC, and as for now I'm glad that ME2 runs as it is, because ME1 is virtually unplayable on my machine.

[Gorath Alpha]

StuntmanMikeL wrote...

I'm playing on Athlon XP 2400+ 2GB RAM and Radeon HD3850 AGP - in 1080p resolution after switching off all the effects it runs fairly smooth. Although I ran on some problems on few occasions, mostly with sound (it was randomly cutting out only to pop up after few moments), I don't seem to have them now.

I'm waiting to upgrade my PC, and as for now I'm glad that ME2 runs as it is, because ME1 is virtually unplayable on my machine.

Five or six years ago, my neice needed a desktop PC in addition to the inexpensive laptop she used at college, and I built her one with a Barton XP 2600 CPU in it, and either 512 MBs of RAM, or perhaps as much as 1 GB -- not sure about that, but the Hdd was 60 GBs, and the DVD wasn't a burner.  Between that point and Grad School, she wanted upgrades, and I put all the still-useful older parts in a deawer.  Last winter, using a spare Mid-Tower case, I used all her old parts to reassemble something specifucally for playing an occasional round in KorOR-1, or NWN-1. 

It's just fine for that, but the system is literally the same age as those games, seven years since it was competitive.  It is my last single core system, in the sense that I'll buld no more that do not have more than one core.  There is one PC here with a single core A64 4000, that does duty for a variert of chores, although not for any games newer than Bethesda's Oblivion. 

There really is no reason for anyone to hold onto anything as long out of date as either a Pentium P4 or an AMD XP.  By now, every possible penny of value has long since been extracted from it, and unless you save it for old games, it's time has passed.  It would be a total waste of time to ask for any official change to a game such as this one to make it run a bit better on such antique hardware.  It will never happen.


Gorath

[Tercio]

tommygun, your words in my mouth! im just waiting for 2-3 really outstanding games to literally force me to buy a new pc. dragon age 2, thief 4 and a new fallout or something, thats what im talking about



nice being able to play this great game. i really like how bioware mangages their games and help their costumers

[Krud42]

Not looking to get into an argument about "when to upgrade" or anything (though I've been chomping at the bit to do so for a while now). But I have an AMD64 3400+ (1.8Ghz? 2.0Ghz?) single-core system with 2GB DDR1(!) RAM, and a Radeon 1650 Pro with 512MB GDDR3 VRAM. And with few exceptions (mostly games made by a company who rhymes with "NewbieCoughed"), I've been able to run games I've purchased with almost no problems whatsoever. Granted, I keep my system crap-free so that nothing else bogs it down, but even so, it literally is enough to run most games that says can't run it w/o slowdown or glitches.

Having played computer games since the days of memory-management, boot disks, multiple configurations, and all sorts of other hoop-jumping just to get the dang thing to run, period, I am patient enough to play a game that isn't running "optimally."

So imagine my surprise and delight when I discovered that not only could I play ME2, but that it runs WELL*. Better than ME1. (Maybe better than Dragon Age, which I think has lower spec requirements.) I keep thinking I'll hit a snag at some point in the game, but so far it's been one of the more glitch-free gaming experiences I've had.

(* - Even at high resolutions, with every possible bell and whistle turned on. [Though I suppose there may be more options visible to faster systems, I don't know. But my in-game screenshots look just like the in-game screenshots I've seen online, so...])

Anyway, I am about to invest in a quad-core system here soon, but I've been happy with my single-core's overall performance, and will be somewhat surprised if the new system actually runs four times as smoothly.