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[CeeKay Boques]

Dev's be careful with how you say stuff... a 4850 is actually better than 5000 series until you get the 5770 where they even up... and a 3850 is up to 5600 so hopefully people won't use the numbers to figure out if their card is good, but look at benchmark etc...

[CCC Dober]

@Sam
Russ told us that they are optimizing the game to better handle dual cores. The current specs aren't optimized yet, so you can expect them to drop eventually. Honestly though, I wouldn't even begin to dream of running this game on an ancient single core. Some crazy russian dude is prolly gonna prove me wrong, so yeah I'm expecting it LOL

Edited by CCC Dober, 18 June 2012 - 01:44 PM.

[KelethDragon]

The computer I had built back in 2002 can run this game. (It's still alive. It's just been given to my dad 4 months ago when I built my current rig)

So your computer is at least a DECADE old you can upgrade the video card and be golden!

[Gremlich Johns]

I quit using a single core AMD 2800+ (running @ 1.66 GHz) and a GT220 almost three years ago when MW:LL would not run at medium on my computer.

How can any serious gamer not already have a quad-core and GTX460 or better by now? Money as a reason does not count.

[Spartan]

This is a CryEngine 3 title. What do you expect? And a free one at that, which is honestly a steal.

The minimum specs should be common for any PC gamer at this point with a good deal of them approaching or exceeding the recommended specs. Most of the hardware on that list is 5+ years old

My system as a reference, runs anything I've thrown at it and can be had for well under $1k USD at this point:

Phenom II X4 955BE @ 3.6GHz
8GB DDR3 1600
HD 6950 2GB

[trycksh0t]

Giverous, on 17 June 2012 - 02:54 AM, said:

Well, i seem to recall admitting being hazy on the AMD details, but the point still stands that there isn't a 6900 card, and someone bragging that hard about their hardware would have made sure we knew exactly which card he was running.

As for CPU's, this is one area you REALLY should have checked yourself before calling ME out

The ivy cpu's released in may. The laptop models launched after that. It's impossible that he bought it over a year ago. The i7-3930K is a desktop processor, NOT a laptop processor. It also didnt release until the last quarter of 2011, NOT over a year ago.

The specs he listed are bullshit. It's an impossible machine to buy/build

Gah, you would be correct, I misread the spec sheet I looked up for the 640m, so that was definitely a screw up on my part. I also completely overlooked the fact he said it was a quad-core i7, I'm gonna chalk that one up to it being 5 a.m. and I was stuck at work with no coffee. The only thing in his build that could be true is the dual 6900s, there is an AMD 6900m that's used in many gaming laptops, but beyond that, after re-reading with come caffeine in my blood stream, I'd have to agree with you, don't know where that build came from if it's over a year old.

My apologies.

[PirateLincoln]

Aesaar, on 18 June 2012 - 01:39 PM, said:

Also, did you bother reading this? There are requirement specs at the bottom.

Heh, y'know, I had completely forgotten about that (thanks, beer!) so thank you for pointing it out again. I also didn't know that the new CryEngine was optimised for lower-spec systems, that makes me REALLY happy.

Gremlich Johns, on 18 June 2012 - 01:46 PM, said:

How can any serious gamer not already have a quad-core and GTX460 or better by now? Money as a reason does not count.

Maybe not to you, but many of us have things like bills that take up what little we earn. I, for one, would rather spend a few hundred bucks going to GenCon instead of spending it on upgrading my computer. "Serious gamer" can mean a lot of different things, and I've got a library of books that'll still be useful in a decade or two and probably cost less than your rig.


Afterthought: I'd also rather give my money to Piranha than spend it on new hardware that I frankly don't need.

Edited by Samuel Graves, 18 June 2012 - 01:58 PM.

[McScwizzy]

I right in the middle of the recommended/minimum requirements. I got my Q9550 @ 3.8gz and 2x EVGA GTX 460's SLI and 8 GB of RAM we shall see how the ol gal handles it.

[Spartan]

McScwizzy, you should be ok I would think. If anything at all a faster single GPU would be the only thing I'd touch, but I doubt you will need to.

For any of you wondering how well your machine will run, look for Crysis 2 benchmarks and use that as a bottom end for performance. I would hope you will get better performance out of this game than you would with Crysis 2, as the developers will surely keep that in mind.

EDIT: Use this for assitance: http://www.anandtech...bench/GPU12/372

Edited by Spartan, 18 June 2012 - 01:57 PM.

[Roh]

Its a sad but true fact that you can't expect to keep up with current gaming on decade old technology.

And another sad fact that many people dont understand.. that they got decade old technology brand new.. five years ago.

[Big Iron]

Time to upgrade...

[Grokmoo]

Although keeping compatibility for low end computers is nice (so I wouldn't mind seeing a lower minimum spec), I am pretty happy with the recommended spec. It is good to see that this game will have some high end visuals.

[Jakebob]

I should just need a new video card, but I already knew I needed one...

[Zensei]

Serious? I think my GranPappy had a 5400 series Radeon, dude, serious? Go mow some lawns and then come back and play with the big boys not being mean, just saying........

[Inquisitor Pain]

My 86 year old father has a PC that can run this (he takes his Duke Nukem, golf and flight sims seriuosly) and if you don't already have a machine ready to run this than you just really aren't a PC gamer at all then are you?

[trycksh0t]

Gremlich Johns, on 18 June 2012 - 01:46 PM, said:

I quit using a single core AMD 2800+ (running @ 1.66 GHz) and a GT220 almost three years ago when MW:LL would not run at medium on my computer.

How can any serious gamer not already have a quad-core and GTX460 or better by now? Money as a reason does not count.

I would classify myself as a fairly serious gamer, and don't have a GTX460 or better. Why? Because I do have a family to support, and my Phenom X4 9750 and HD5670 run everything I have thrown at them perfectly fine. One can be a "serious gamer" and not be obsessed with having every setting maxed out. Serious gamers appreciate solid gameplay, pretty pretty pictures should be an afterthought.

[Gremlich Johns]

trycksh0t, on 18 June 2012 - 02:28 PM, said:

I would classify myself as a fairly serious gamer, and don't have a GTX460 or better. Why? Because I do have a family to support, and my Phenom X4 9750 and HD5670 run everything I have thrown at them perfectly fine. One can be a "serious gamer" and not be obsessed with having every setting maxed out. Serious gamers appreciate solid gameplay, pretty pretty pictures should be an afterthought.

Okay, serious gamer defined as one who enjoys serious gameplay - ceded to you. Perhaps "Psychotic gamer" has the gnarly equipment no one really needs. (yes, I said "gnarly" - and I still wear checkered Vans)

That HD5670 I would submit is more than equal to my GTX460.

Even at 50+ years old, I still have family to support and I managed to get a "competent" system (like yours), not the screamers other guys might have (I figure that I am at the 25% of equipment, serious being upper end systems with 4.0+ GHz OC'd, liquid cooled everything, only SSDs, etc)

Still, I am just surprised most do not even have systems closer to ours since the X4 tech has been around for a while.

3.2 GHz quad, 8GB RAM (but it is DDR2 and was the most expensive components I bought), GTX460 SE OC'd to 751, water cooler on the CPU (48 deg C max/28 deg C idle) bought on sale), Arctic cooler on the GTX (42 deg C max/27 deg C idle) also bought on sale.

[ZenithOCT]

F2P model implies people will spend money on things, well if you arent going to spend money on a half decent rig Vis-à-vis you probably won't spend money in game like the guys who have gaming rigs.


"**** or get off the pot." - Directed at thread starter.

trycksh0t, on 18 June 2012 - 02:28 PM, said:

I would classify myself as a fairly serious gamer, and don't have a GTX460 or better. Why? Because I do have a family to support, and my Phenom X4 9750 and HD5670 run everything I have thrown at them perfectly fine. One can be a "serious gamer" and not be obsessed with having every setting maxed out. Serious gamers appreciate solid gameplay, pretty pretty pictures should be an afterthought.

If you can't see your enemy at max range then its probably going to be harder to pound him into dust at max range. Just a though.

Edited by ZenithOCT, 18 June 2012 - 03:32 PM.

[grimzod]

Drathorin, on 18 June 2012 - 01:46 PM, said:

The computer I had built back in 2002 can run this game. (It's still alive. It's just been given to my dad 4 months ago when I built my current rig)

So your computer is at least a DECADE old you can upgrade the video card and be golden!

Um, no. You need to come back to planet earth.

[KT Grim]

I for one am VERY glad that the graphics are up to snuff. I actually hope they improve quite a bit post launch.


The devs themselves said one of the primary goals of MWO was to show the world what MechWarrior could look like with the latest tech.


If this looked like a game from 2005 I would not be nearly as excited.