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[Cpl_Krunch]

Is there any work around to allow game to play for a desktop video card ATI X300 or am I just going to have to buy a new video card?  Thanks in advance!

[Nathan Willis]

cormagus77 wrote...

...Do they seriously expect us to get a new PC or graphics card every four years???

I think we did a pretty good job trying to keep the game playable on lower-end systems. The minimum spec we listed for Dragon Age: Origins is as low-as-we-comfortably-dare to go. Whether or not a game is playable at minimum spec and lowest video settings is in the eye of the beholder, kind of -- but on the minspec system we tested it met certain critera that was considered acceptable and so it earned its listing on the game box.

What you're presenting gives way to a sort of catch 22 for us as a developer. We need to keep moving with the industry, developing games that look, play and feel modern by the gaming populace's standards, and yet you want us to continue to support a video chipset that was originally released in 2004 I think? But if we were to make something that could do that, then the graphics would be considered dated no matter how shiny or stylistic we made it look. Look at the lambasting a certain popular MMO-type game by another respected game development company regularly takes from critics on the intertronz for looking dated.

So, no - it's not that we expect you to get a new video card or PC every X number of years, it's more that the whole industry kind of does. We tried to make an effort to make it playable by more systems, taking into account that not everyone will have updated the PC's yet. But, even somebody who champions game consoles as having longevity -- as far as I know, the current average lifespan is about 6 years or so for a game console to date?

So if there's to be wailing and gnashing of teeth at somebody, then... then your fellow gamers are the culprit, here. The nature of the business is such that it responds to what's in demand - and that means that you will need to upgrade your gaming PC components from time-to-time in order to keep up with the software that's being developed, whether it's operating systems, games, or even word processors. I wish it wasn't so, but there is a cut-off line that exists for supported hardware and software - that's just the name of the game, so to speak.