minimum System requirements

because some of us limp through life with inadequate equipment  

yes we are not all 10 year old kids who have parents paying all the bills feeding us and waiting on us hand and foot so we can stay glued to the 5,000 dollar comp they bought so we can waste every waking moment getting dumber hehe


but seriously i do want to know what the actualy system needed that will run with no lag. Not what you rich people think is acceptable lag i mean no lag at all, and still be on the affordable side.

I doubt this game could do any good on anything less then 2 ghz from what i saw in the trailer.

*praying that he doesn't have to buy a new vidcard*

yeah, no such luck I fear.

[idiot] ps. you must have been REAL fast to put the fist topics in here, the New thread button is nowhere to be found [/idiot]

i'm as slow as you Alcari, my post is right after yours.

but to the stardocks/ironclad teams, will my 1.8ghz with 512ram and an upgraded or basicly cavemans card of 6200 pnyGeForce AGP 8x be able to work this game? i really need to know, school really doesn't come cheap  

System requirements haven't been determined yet, but we'll be posting them once they are. I would say you're probably okay with the exception of the 512MB of RAM. That will likely meet the minimum requirements, but honestly (and this goes for all AAA games) I would save up towards 1GB of RAM or more. I have 2.6GB RAM in my gaming PC and it makes a noticable difference with the Windows swap file usage, etc.

A good gaming pc should have at least 2GB of memory and a good video card. Video cards are probably the weakest link in most PC that users have. It is easy and cheap to add memory, but video cards improve every 3 or 4 months and they cost what a barebones PC costs (since that is what they are)

thanks alot weyrleader and yarlen.

not to be rude or mean but i guesse my girlfriend will have to get used to me saying no on things that she want's. i'll just have to come up with an excuse of why she doesn't get any more cookies. thats the hard part.  

the good side of it is that i'll be able to play this without the worrie of impurities. from the looks of it, i believe every detail on this game will be thoroughly looked at by these 2eyes of mines.

hehh... i hope my girl won't get jelouse! 

Hi, I happened to read a newspost from gamereplays (no registration required to view the forums, we have over 46k members) (which I happen to be staff) about Sins of a Solar Empire, and it is interesting. I also happen to be a techie. I will help you guys out.

What minimum budget do you have, and would you plan on playing other games?

Btw, 2GB doesn't equal gaming computer--you can have 2GB memory in a Pentium D or an AMD Sempron processor, does that make it a gaming PC? No. The Video Card is usually the bottleneck for most games, so before all others, get a good videocard. You can actually run this game, imho, with 512MB without lag as long as you have a good videocard.

The optimal choice would be a middle high end processor (E6300, Core2Duo), a Middle high end video card, (7900GTO would be optimal, but 7600GT would run it fine), and 1 or 2GB of value RAM. (unless you can afford the extra $150 more for high end RAM, which is only to overclock anyway.)

Think a 3.9ghz Intel single core with 4 gigs of DDR2 and a Radeon X1800 512 drr will be enough?

That will do just fine...if you have a Core2Duo LGA775 socket ready, I would recommend spending $180 to upgrade to an E6300. However, this will EASILY run your system.

Unless your being sarcastic

god dam druid... wanna switch pc's!?!?!?!?
ummm my b-day is coming up and my grandparents just won the lottery so i am gonna be eextra nice and get them to get me a new comp

Nah, not being sarcastic. I've had this rig for a good year now. Its all about tiny investments. Board, few weeks later, processor, few weeks later, 2gigs ddr, few weeks later x1800, few weeks later, 21" low ms lcd, etc.. Rather easy to do primarily for 2 reasons (1) I'm in college and thus have plenty of spare cash (2) A friend of mine can get me a lot of parts at wholesale. So its all good. As far as upgrades go, I'm gonna wait till quadcores are out, DX10 too. Blowing money now on DX9 non-quadcores is just stupid IMHO. Not to mention I threw around 2500 USD into this, gotta keep it awhile ya know

Quad=upwards of $a whole shitload.
DX10 (AKA R600, nVidia's DX10 card for the future)=upward of $600.

However, if you can't afford this, wait till they come out and practically ALL CPUs and GPUs price will go down.

rite , Ive read this thread and it looks quite technical, will some one explain , (I have a quite good understanding of dual core)where a , say 1.5 core 2 duo processors will perform , when u have clearly said a minimum of 1.8ghz , I have scoured the net and the best I have found is that the old games (meaning every game with linear single core requirments), only have requiremnets relating to 1 core , I am well aware that dual cores dont mean twice the speed , but more like 1.7x the clock speed if that, when applications take advantage of multithreading utilizing both cores.

I am desperate now for some one to clear this up, will this game being one on the newest and in my view the flagship in space rts games, have the specification requiremens of dual cores. I mean its not just me being a geek , I think this would be very very helpful not only in this genre but a step forwards in all computer games being clear when dealing with these sorts of new technologies. As I am only coming up with word of mouth and nothing concrete. So plz some one whos a technician or with knowledge of this , tell me a clock speed of a dual core when dealing *with* multi threading applicatios.

(I am presuming being a new game, that sins of a solar empire will be using multi threading technology)

Its quiet easy to understand...

A dual core CPU running at 2.0Ghz is running 2.0Ghz per CORE. I currently have a 2.5 Ghz Dual core CPU.

Applications are written with instructions sets that can be divided per core, hence dual core / quad core support.

Sins is currently a single core game. 1.8 Ghz I believe is the minimum for Sins to run, it has been shown to run on systems that are much less than that minimum.

Dual core CAN mean twice the speed if an application is set to support it hence (multi-threading). It would run certain parts of its code on each Core, effectively making it execute twice as fast. (Or finish in half the amount of time on a single core). Take that with a grain of salt as the code for 1:1 distribution across cores is difficult to implement perfectly.

Also , as I've seen it , running a game that is supported for dual core, say COH, runs closer to your 1.7x example. as there are other things in the background running, and its hard to optimize any code perfectly to run on both cores equally.

What you must understand is even a new Dual core CPU running at say 1.5 (your core duo example) IS FASTER than a single core CPU running at say 2.0Ghz. This is due to the new architecture of the CPU. Integrated memory controllers are new, faster hyper-tansport buses, memory buses, L1 and L2 cache amounts, 40 bit address spaces, SSE 1,2,3 registers and new MMX instruction, all affect the CPU cycle time, in new chips, both single, dual, and quad core.

So umm I hope I answered your question...

Oh and also take into consideration, that when you are running SINS on a dual core vs a single core, even though it is not going to use both cores, your operating system will be. So SINS will have 100% of one of the cores, while everything else on your PC will run on the other.

You can if you want, even set the CPU affinity for one core to focus only on running Sins. Otherwise it might bounce back and forth between Cores, ( I have yet to see it ever bounce ). And I believe AMD and Intel both put CPU patches out over the last year or two to prevent this from happening.

And if anyone thinks I am smart, don't worry as I am not, but I am educated, there is a difference!

What he said.   

i think with a normal pc you will run it, ram is very important and a video card like a 7900 gs or X1950 Pro will do the job.

For the record I have a three year old laptop with way under specs intel 1.73 GHz and 504 MB of RAM and play perfectly at anything less the the highest graphical settings. Though I must say I prefer to play at medium..

Kl yea tht answers my question , thanks , but is there any way for this game to have specifications which are focused on dual cores as well, I know theres many factors but, I mean there must be some bare minimum technologies on every dual core , so can this games developers create a mim spec dual core , for people tht mite have be slightly confused like me , and the laptop Im getting is the Rock 770 xtreme

can u tell me if my laptop will run this easily?

I've been trying the game on two different systems. On my newest system, which is a Core2 with X1950Pro Sins runs smoothly, slowdown is very rare (but in odd places.. ie. not in battles or things).

My older system, a AthlonXP1800+ with 512MB Ram, Geforce6600LE, seems to struggle with big battles or when there's multiple highly developed players. This is on the lowest graphics; but it is still just about playable.

Not yet tried it on my laptop; might do so when I can find some space. A Turion with .75GB of ram and a RadeonX80 Mobility or sometihng along those lines.

Adding to the question of minimum system requirements, do we know if Sins will be introduced to the Mac platform after its initial release?

There are no plans to support or port the game to the Mac.

hey, I want ur view on how this game would play on a rock xtreme 770 , they have given me the option to upgrade a 8700gt to a 7950gtx , what shud I do??

There are four questions:
-Does this game support dx10?
-Which one is best for the high demand games?
-Is the market going to be swamped with d x 10 games in the next couple of years?
-Would it be worth upgrading to a 7950gtx for a £100, and then in 3-4 years upgrade to a 8800 (gt/m/gtx) series card which will play alot of games faster? (in concideration that this series does indeed come out, as up till now its pure speculation)