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Yajyuu
03-07-2010, 10:54 PM
I really don't think my computer piece of crap can play this game. What are the Graphic requirements?

Kittypretty
03-08-2010, 12:00 AM
Minimum
Processor
Intel Pentium 3 800 Mhz or AMD Duron 900 Mhz or superior
Memory
256 Megabytes of RAM or superior
Video
ATI Radeon 7500 or nVIDIA Geforce 2 and superior

Recommended
Processor
Intel Pentium 4 2.4Ghz or AMD Athlon XP 2400
Memory
512 Megabytes of RAM
Video
ATI Radeon 9600 or nVIDIA Geforce FX5700

Though I do highly doubt them, as I do not know if they updated the specs to take into account the last few engine reworks they have done lately.

Wikid
03-17-2010, 11:14 PM
I'll throw this out there... the lowest video cards I've been able to play in the War Zone without my framerate dropping to unplayable are a Radeon HD3400 on my laptop and a Radeon 4350 on my desktop. In both cases the game was virtually unplayable on anything other than fixed pipeline. I have since upgraded to a GeForce 9600. For the sake of comparison, I've included 2 screenshots below... the max playable specs on the 4350 and 3400 compared to the max playable specs on the 9600:

http://wikid.no-ip.org/shaders/water_1.jpg
http://wikid.no-ip.org/shaders/water_4.jpg

http://wikid.no-ip.org/shaders/town_1.jpg
http://wikid.no-ip.org/shaders/town_4.jpg

I have seen people with lower end video cards than I've used. I just depends on what you consider "playing the game." When they upgraded to the new engine, I decided it was time to get a new card, as it wasn't worth it to me to keep playing in fixed pipeline.

Neliel_
03-18-2010, 01:39 AM
Though I do highly doubt them, as I do not know if they updated the specs to take into account the last few engine reworks they have done lately.
Yup. I run RO on a quite crappy computer:

Amd Sempron 3200+ (1.8 ghz, o/c to 2 ghz)
_Integrated_ nvidia geforce 6100 (+30% voltage)
2 GB DDR2 667 (o/c to 800)

And well, it runs smoothly... in safe mode + some game.cfg tweaks xD 30 FPS in case of zergish invasions (we're talking about Ra, so it's 200+ people rendered). If there wasn't for wars, i could run shader 2.0 without any problems. But anyway i don't care much about the graphics, it could have 1995 graphics, i would still enjoy the game ;)