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Pc Requirements ?

from Elemental Forums

I wondered at this point if the actual PC requirements had been determined ? Minimum & Recommended.

I remember a long time back reading that the resources for this game would be surprising low. Not knowing

anything about C++ or whatever code the game is written with I'm a bit dissapointed with the graphic card

requirements. I still say that this is a great concept in gaming and if need be I will purchase a new PC at some

point. Thank you to all the designers for all the hard work and really ( and I mean really ) listening to all the

gamers out their !

 

elemental
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Reply #26 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Ranger932, reply 25
I have an old PC and am wondering how/if the game will run.

CPU: Athlon Barton 2500

RAM: 2 GB

V. Card: GForce 7300 GT

 

Processor seems to barely beat the minimum specs and I think the 6800 (min. spec from ordering page) is a better card than the 7300.

 
End of Ranger932's quote

Maybe clothmap.

If that's the only PC you have to play this on, then I'd recommend waiting for the demo.

Reply #27 from Elemental Forums Top

7300 is better than 6800.

Not much better, but still.

Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #28 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Buladelu, reply 27
7300 is better than 6800.

Not much better, but still.
End of Buladelu's quote

Despite the model numbers, the 7300 is a low end card. The 6800 wasn't and was the better card when these two cards came up and the forums were filled with 6800 vs 7300 questions.

Reply #29 from Elemental Forums Top

Hmmm. Sorry, I had PC with 6800 for some time and then notebook with 7300 - and the notebook was slightly better. I guess it's because it's Asus notebook - they usually make some tuning to GPU.

Reply #30 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Buladelu, reply 29
Hmmm. Sorry, I had PC with 6800 for some time and then notebook with 7300 - and the notebook was slightly better. I guess it's because it's Asus notebook - they usually make some tuning to GPU.
End of Buladelu's quote
*sighs and shakes head walking away mumbling about people who know nothing about computers*

Reply #31 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting dragoaskani, reply 30

sighs and shakes head walking away mumbling about people who know nothing about computers*
End of dragoaskani's quote

so true

harpo

Reply #33 from Elemental Forums Top

All those numbers!  Usually a bigger number means a more high-tech piece of equipment, but not quite always. ;-)  Don't worry, they were just having a little dig (minor joke).  There was no malice intended. |-)

Best regards,
Steven. 

Reply #34 from Elemental Forums Top

Hmm, ...

I'm wondering how my Athlon X2 3800+ on an Asus A8N-E board with 4 Gig PC3200 RAM and an XFX GF7900GT 256MB DDR3 will fare...

This is my first thread I read for today, so any news when the demo will be out?

Reply #35 from Elemental Forums Top

StevenAus, you see, I'm programmer and there's word "endineer" in my diploma so I've suddenly felt that all my career and years of study filled with wiring, assembling and processor codes were lies and all this knowledge and skills are meaningless.

 

Still I hope I would be able to run game fine on my GeForce 7300. Or at least run. Some betatesters claimed it could be played on GeForce 5xxx series and some developer said it should run on netbooks...

Reply #36 from Elemental Forums Top

I would take your diploma back for a new one. They spelled "Engineer" wrong on it....

Reply #37 from Elemental Forums Top

I remember researching for a new Nvidia card a month or two ago. I was wondering whether to get a 230 or 320. Apparently, the first digit is the generation or something number and the second one is the model number. So, the 230 is better supposedly.

Reply #38 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting andrewlt, reply 37
I remember researching for a new Nvidia card a month or two ago. I was wondering whether to get a 230 or 320. Apparently, the first digit is the generation or something number and the second one is the model number. So, the 230 is better supposedly.
End of andrewlt's quote

The number system is a little strange, especially the first time around. I assume the reason you are looking at the lower-end cards is to save money, size or maybe even a PSU limit?

Reply #39 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting RagingSquirrel, reply 17
Drop in a new GPU, hmm. That's a thought. I looked at upgrading my CPU, but the whole form factor has changed. I can't even get upgrade CPUs for my MOBO. I can get a new GPU, you're right, but won't my CPU bottleneck my system anyway?

 

Thoughts?

 

If keeping my Opteron 165 and pairing that with a mightier GPU will really give me a big performance boost, I may do it instead of building a new system. I usually build a new one every 3 years, but my desire to pay off my house keeps interfering with my hardware desires. Dammit.
End of RagingSquirrel's quote

A high end GPU would bottleneck, but you could go for what today is a lower end or midrange card and it would still blow what you have now out of the water. Even something like a 250 would be a dramatic upgrade.

 

(as for the numbers... video card naming schemes are designed to be as confusing as possible. Particularly from Nvidia, who re-released the same 9800 under a number of different names because they simply had nothing to fill in gaps for a while.)

Reply #40 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Tridus, reply 39



(as for the numbers... video card naming schemes are designed to be as confusing as possible. Particularly from Nvidia, who re-released the same 9800 under a number of different names because they simply had nothing to fill in gaps for a while.)
End of Tridus's quote

Which was unfortunate really because up until the 2xx cards, the number scheme was becoming predictable and fairly easy to follow. Without actually looking at the individual cards I could dismiss cards and focus/research on just a few based solely on the model number. As we've seen in this thread though, this winding number scheme they've concocted actually works in their favor as people will buy upgrades that aren't actually upgrades.

Reply #41 from Elemental Forums Top

All this talk about PC requirements makes me doubt if my computer can handle this game. Sorry if the answer is obvious, it certainly isn't to me.

 

Windows XP Home SP3

Intel Core 2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz

3GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

 

Should I wait for the demo?

Reply #42 from Elemental Forums Top

starfighter, IT WILL run, but based upon beta4 you might want to use clothmap to improve the speed, but it should play fine with a bit of a pause while the computer is doing the end of turn.

I have been testing with an amd x2 6000+ (3ghz dual core) with 4gb ddr2 800 ram and a geforce 8800gt and it was playable, but not as fast as a faster comp.

harpo

 

Reply #43 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting harpo99999, reply 42
starfighter, IT WILL run, but based upon beta4 you might want to use clothmap to improve the speed, but it should play fine with a bit of a pause while the computer is doing the end of turn.

I have been testing with an amd x2 6000+ (3ghz dual core) with 4gb ddr2 800 ram and a geforce 8800gt and it was playable, but not as fast as a faster comp.

harpo

 
End of harpo99999's quote

 

The end of turn wait doesn't bother me too much but only playing on the clothmap makes all the work that went into the landscape and unit design unaccessible for me.  

Anyway, thanks, harpo. I remember never having to wonder whether my pc was powerful enough and suddenly I realize how old and obsolete it really is.  8C

Reply #44 from Elemental Forums Top

are the recommended system req out yet?  i assume that a dual core with w7 64 will run the game faster than xp would. 

Reply #45 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Starfighter08, reply 41
All this talk about PC requirements makes me doubt if my computer can handle this game. Sorry if the answer is obvious, it certainly isn't to me.

 

Windows XP Home SP3

Intel Core 2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz

3GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

 

Should I wait for the demo?
End of Starfighter08's quote

That's going to run the game just fine.

Reply #46 from Elemental Forums Top

I've got a Intel i5 clocked at 3.2 ghz if I'm not mistaken, 2 gb ram and a geforce 9800GT with 512mb. Wondering if that's enough to run the 3d side of the game? I'm not that bothered by the waiting on the end of turns.

Reply #47 from Elemental Forums Top

daermoth, it should, but you might want to add ram to the motherboard, the video card is fine, the processor is fine, just the total ram on the omtherboard could stand a bump.

harpo

 

Reply #50 from Elemental Forums Top

How much stronger must a computer be to run this game, than to run sins of a solar empire?