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[Dark_Ansem]

I passed the minimum requirements at the SRL analisys (also a bit more, but not much). How do you believe should I set the game in order to enjoy it? and will I suffer alot in the toolset?

[Gorath Alpha]

You should ignore any recommendation from that place, and anyone who suggestion that you go there.  They are so inaccurate that they are a laughing stock.  The only thing they are good for is getting a fairly accurate list of your PC's internal organs. 

If you or anyone you know refuses to take the small amount of time and minimal trouble to learn a few of the basics regarding what is going in inside of a gaming PC, you really ought not buy PC games.  Folks with that stiff-necked attitude ( or perhaps it's laziness } toward tech should stick to console games instead. 

For those whose intentions are normal, they just haven't had time, or they don't take advice very well, whatever it might amount to, the Game-o-meter on the YouGamers site is ten to twenty times more accurate than SR Labs.


Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 07 novembre 2009 - 06:53 .

[Dark_Ansem]

no need to go insane with that retort. I just wondered what to do before investing my money in a product.



Checking that other meter...

yes. a bit more of the minimum (it is double, actually, but still far from "Recommended")



my specs anyway:

GPU: Geforce 8600M GT w/NBF MobileForce 190.38

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 Ghz

HDD: 7200rpm with enough space

[Gorath Alpha]

Not even the official requirements are particularly accurate.  The CPU requirements are seriously exaggerated, while the GPU requirements are mostly underestimated, and this is where relying strictly on either EA or SR Labs falls apart, and YouGamers shines, because they will do their own testing and recognize the GPU errors in the official lists, at least. 

(The Geforce 6600 GT really isn't good enough, and the Radeon X1550 isn't anywhere close to adequate.)

Gorath
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[Dark_Ansem]

yougamers said I passed the minimum requirements, I am worried about the toolset though.

[Dark_Ansem]

how much do you think not having recommended requirements will penalize me?

[Dark_Ansem]

which are the minimum settings for this game? I talk about resolution, effects, etc..

[Chief_Suspect_75]

The game has a 4 postion slider for graphics detail, texture detail and a slider for AA, plus a checkbox for "Frame Buffer Effects".



I run the game at the highest level it lets me, i have a decent GFX card (DX10 capable) with an old 3.0ghz single core cpu. Game runs choppy for me in gameplay , which I tolerate, but smoother in cutscenes. I'd rather have the game look good and run slow, then run slightly better and look horrid.

[Dark_Ansem]

I know, but I'd rather have a middle ground: neither atstounding detail neither 2D graphic XD

[levigarrett]

you will be fine, specs are similar to my laptop and im running everything on max



if you have 4+ gigs of RAM, you will be fine

[ZootCadillac]

You will be able to run the game on low settings. Your CPU will manage ok but the GPU is at the bare minimum for 3D gaming, especially one such as this.

As Gorath says the minimum requirements stated by EA are skewed. The game may run on low end DX9.)b cards but that's not the same as being playable.

Not sure about the toolset, I've not tried it yet. I expect that will be more cpu and system memory intensive and you have not mentioned how much RAM you carry ( and how much of it is shared by the GPU which if the case, will be a game crippler )



The problem with this game is that it has so many incompatibility issues and bugs that it's impossible to say how well it will run on any system until you try it because there are fairly high end systems out there still unable to get a smooth enough performance to play it.

[ZootCadillac]

levigarrett wrote...

you will be fine, specs are similar to my laptop and im running everything on max

if you have 4+ gigs of RAM, you will be fine

If you have an 8600M, are running the game on max, and if I had a hat, I'd eat it right now.

[levigarrett]

8800m running game on max, no problem. Game runs at 50+ FPS

[levigarrett]

The game runs great on ridiculous low hardware.



For giggles i loaded up my steam version on my buddies 500$ basic Dell-like machine



game ran fine on low settings and the machine is a pos.



systems that can not run a 2 year old game, Mass Effect, can run this game without a hitch

[ZootCadillac]

Ah right, there is a big difference with the 8800 compared to the 8600 of course.

I know what you mean about hardware though. I am running the game on very high, 4xAA ( don't see a need for more ) high textures, 8xAF ( forced through my nvidia console ) windowed 1600x1024 with v-sync and frame buffer effects on.

So that's almost as max as you can get ( I could turn the AA and AF up but that's it )

This system I'm gaming on as an AMD X25200+ (black edition) running at 2.95ghz per core, 8GB xms2 800mhz ram, with two xfx o/c 8800GTS 640mb in sli.

According to EA and yougamer my system is below the recommended spec and yougamer says I will have to play it on low settings at low res but I play with a constant 40-60fps (every now and again at transition points it may blip and drop down to 15fps for a second or two ) but overall it's smoking on a system that fails the spec test.

[levigarrett]

no idea who did their system tests, but they completely failed on them



could sell so many more copies if they put the real lower specs on the game.



However, i will say, props to the engine of the game running so well on older systems

[Dark_Ansem]

I have 4gbs of ram I forgot, my problem is that I have Vista XD

[hangmans tree]

You've got Vista? Man, I'd change to '98 as soon as possible, it has no problem whatsoever running the game on max.



My decepticon consists of:

2800+ Athlon

1,5G RAM

Geforce 7800GS OC 1G RAM

HDD - some PHONOGRAPH speed CIRCULAR SAW

running the game...

1024x768

hight textures

high (?the other thing)

no AA or AF

vsync

...smoothly. Exception - when few mages try to organise a spell fest all at once - the fps drops a little...actually it drops to zero due to my death experiencing all those fireballs in my face

[Dark_Ansem]

I'm not sure that can be done freely. I would however. or to Se7en.

[hangmans tree]

the problem is seven is really vista with cosmetic changes really...nevertheless its much better optimized that vista.

[Dark_Ansem]

well I can't go back to 98 now... neither XP.

[Dark_Ansem]

so... anyone can confirm how intense the resource usage from the toolset is?

Modifié par Dark_Ansem, 12 novembre 2009 - 05:54 .