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2012-07-24, 02:12 PM | [Ignore Me] #47 | |||
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And no, Recommended specs will be out when tech test ends. Iek. |
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2012-07-24, 02:44 PM | [Ignore Me] #48 | |||
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I was pretty much in your situation. This system is miles ahead of the last one I had, but now if I want to upgrade I'll have to shell out the money for a new motherboard first. At least it was mostly free and it came with a really nice easy-access case! |
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2012-07-24, 02:44 PM | [Ignore Me] #49 | ||
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AMD Phenom II X4 840T processor 2.9
6 gigs RAM And my coworker (who upgrades his computer like clockwork) lent my an old Radeon HD 4890 and a 500 watt power supply. I spent more then an hour trying to get the damn things to fit in the small tower (The graphics card barely fits) and I had to move the CD drive in order to fit the new power supply, but it took me a half hour to realize that I had been trying to pull out my CD drive the wrong way and had been raging about what infernal contraption was holding it, then I realized that the front cover comes off. Yeah...I'm still gonna play this game. Last edited by Rico Suave; 2012-07-24 at 02:46 PM. |
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2012-07-24, 03:24 PM | [Ignore Me] #51 | ||
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All I can do is wish you luck. They've pretty much come right out and said that a Nvidia 8800 "won't be fun"... What exactly that means, I don't know, but it's not a good sign.
I will say that once you dial graphics down all the way (hopefully they'll allow that to make a difference) Two things will affect your gameplay more than anything else: Internet Connection A decent connection is a must, just from the sheer volume of players/data being transferred. CPU To handle the huge number of calculations required by the hundreds of people, thousands of rounds flying, all the little "details" that you normally don't notice. RAM For the above, also Basically, the same things that hampered X3, for the same reasons. The sheer scale of the game, by it's very nature, makes it demanding on these particular things. Graphics, you can tweak. This other stuff, there's not a damn thing you can do about. |
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2012-07-24, 03:41 PM | [Ignore Me] #52 | |||
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...and I go and look up an Nvidia 8800 and that's like a $220+ card! Who said this and when? Last edited by Rivenshield; 2012-07-24 at 03:44 PM. |
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2012-07-24, 03:57 PM | [Ignore Me] #55 | ||
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Nvidia 8800 is an old card. Probably 5+ years old. It's not that it's BAD persay, it's just very old. That's probably why it's 200+ bucks. Not as many available. But they are still respectable.
Higby or some such tweeted it within the last two weeks or so. My laptop has an ATI Radeon 5470 I think it is. They actually have a number scheme these days. 1st number is series, second number is a performance scale (higher is better) and third number is also a performance scale, within that model. Example 5(series) 4(low-to-midrange) 7(high end of, with more memory and higher speed). In other words, it's a moderate card. Nvidia uses something similar. My brother's desktop is a 560. 5 (series) 6 (mid-to-high range). 580 being the highest one. Anyway, you get the idea. Also, on the older 8 and 9 series cards, something they've been doing is making DUAL cards, so they are still "appealing" as a budget performance card. That is, it is ONE physical card, but it has TWO cores in it. It's like an SLI, but not, kind of. Anyway, that's probably why some of them you're looking at are more expensive. Anybody that is not incorporating multi-cores into their programs are just big BOOBS. Whatever an individual's opinion of SOE may be, they are assuredly not THAT stupid! Multi-cores have been around too long now. |
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2012-07-24, 04:17 PM | [Ignore Me] #56 | |||
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Blah. I searched for Nvidia 8800 at TigerDirect and was getting stuff like this for some reason: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...450&CatId=3669 Never mind me. I dumb. |
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2012-07-24, 04:58 PM | [Ignore Me] #57 | |||
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2012-07-24, 05:25 PM | [Ignore Me] #59 | |||
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Yeah, they were wanting that originally, then as they got into it they were like... "Damn. That ain't happenin'" It's not really "their fault" they just underestimated what they were doing. Like I said above, by nature of the scale of the game, it doesn't matter what kind of graphics card you have, the system on whole, needs to be high-end, because of the VOLUME of information being processed. I never did put any stock in that "promise" because when I saw "low-end computer" and "2000+ players" used in the same sentence, I burst out laughing. They seriously did not think that through. We can't rock it like it's 1995 forever... Eventually, we have to come back to 2012 |
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