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[Argon3]

Inquisitor Pain, on 18 June 2012 - 02:16 PM, said:

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?

Yup
Where is the pick on
I have a machine that will run this game for years option
I ran the test and Mine is almost all the way to the right

[G1ggl3z]

Looking at the specs for this game, and what I've seen from the posted videos, it is video and processor, and ram intensive, but, what current game isn't?

Expecting to run something with this much eye-candy, and the physics and particles behind the cryotek3 engine, how could you expect anything else. This is still better suited to current hardware than a lot of games that came out 5 years ago, when you couldn't get a system to run them at max detail because the software development outran the hardware market. A top end gaming pc isn't really necessary, but if you're careful picking your parts on NewEgg or a similar site, you can likely piece together what you need in the $1k range, which is not at all excessive for gaming systems (especially if you compare to companies like Alienware).

[grimzod]

edger from THIS thread posted a link to THIS little thingy
http://www.crydev.ne...wnload.php?id=4

GO see how your systems run on this cry engine 3 sdk thingy and post back here fps per machine - mine got Five, 5fps. At 1024x768.

[Ozric]

theres so much tech elitism in this thread, I didn't know the community had it in it. It’s really not fair at all for anyone to give somebody else grief because of their computer. Obviously if everyone could have perfect computers they would have, but that’s just not how things work out. were are all mechwarriors here, and isn’t the very nature of a mechwarrior to keep you machine alive for as long as possible? It shouldn't suprise anyone that there are a lot of aged computers out there
to be honest, in these tough financial times, I’m surprised there are so many people able to shell out hundreds of pounds on top spec gaming pcs. Lots of rich dads, good jobs and lucky, lucky ******** I guess, which is good for the game at least.

I can just about run the game in most respects, but I don’t have enough ram. Given the age of my base system I may have upgrade the motherboard, and everything that comes with that, in order to get enough memory. This is all very worrying and quite depressing. But I think I’m still going to buy the founders pack anyway. In for a penny and all that.

Edited by Ozric, 18 June 2012 - 03:37 PM.

[ZenithOCT]

grimzod, on 18 June 2012 - 03:34 PM, said:

edger from THIS thread posted a link to THIS little thingy
http://www.crydev.ne...wnload.php?id=4

GO see how your systems run on this cry engine 3 sdk thingy and post back here fps per machine - mine got Five, 5fps. At 1024x768.

When it's done downloading in 5 minutes ill try it.

[stukinit]

pursang, on 16 June 2012 - 09:34 PM, said:

Slight nit pick: It uses the CryTek 3 engine, not the Crysis 3 engine.

Actually, Cryengine 3

[Xervitus]

Yeah...TBH I don't see what the whining is about. My vid card is over 3 years old and it is still above recomended specs as is the rest of my computer. Unless your computer is pushing 5+ year old or you are using your moms laptop, you should be able to run this fine really...

[Rixx]

OMG, the majority of the hardcore MW/Gaming nerds have great computers.

News flash, that ain't the norm. Believe it or not, these specs will GREATLY reduce the amount of people that will be able to play the game. And that could mean that mean reduced profits. If they don't get the operating cash they need due to low player population, they'll have to find ways to nickle and dime those of us that can play.

All of my hardcore gaming nerd friends can play, as can I, but I have just as many casual gaming friends that would be interesting in playing that simply can't, yet there are plenty of other PC games hitting the shelves that they still can play. Are they going to drop big wads of cash just to try a game they may or may not love when they have plenty of other options? Not likely. And the casual gaming friends are the ones most likely to pay for in game items if they like the game.

I'm simply a concerned fan voicing concern for what I hope is an awesome game. It's obviously too late to take into consideration, but it is a valid concern.

[CarlBar]

My main eyebrow raiser TBH was the memmory requierment, i meet or exceed all other minimum specs but only actually have 3GB of Ram, (easilly and cheeply upgraded thank goodness). Given that most people running anything anywhere down that low are running 32 bit, (hell i don;t know anyone with a 64 bit OS ATM), it's kind of an odd choice to me. In fact the dual core compatability almost seems pointless from my PoV. Back when i got my own rig, (had to get it off the shelf due to sudden failure of my prior system), there wasn't a way besides self built or custom built a a littile PC shop to get an off the shelf PC from a walk in store with 4GB on it, at least not in my area. So i find it highly unliky that the majority of cashuals running a dual core will have as much as 4GB given the age of system it represents. So i'm not understanding the logic behind making it compatible with them, uless as one technichial guys post suggests, that is a bit of a generous limit intended to handle memmory hogging secondary app's and OS's.

[grimzod]

Cmon guys results - how did your machines handle the SDK? I'm interested to see results from the high end machines as well. perhaps I can narrow my new machine and video card choices with some field tests from you blokes.

[Nev]

No problems here, will be able to run it without any issues.

Xervitus, on 18 June 2012 - 03:42 PM, said:

Yeah...TBH I don't see what the whining is about. My vid card is over 3 years old and it is still above recomended specs as is the rest of my computer. Unless your computer is pushing 5+ year old or you are using your moms laptop, you should be able to run this fine really...

It's not as simple as that.

A lot of people who have completely no clue about PC's whatsoever buy the "discount" PC's from Walmart, Dell, HP and so on, with on board graphics, a poor CPU, and overall poor quality parts. I'd recommend not to buy such computers, they are subpar at best.

Either build yourself, or find people who will pick the specific parts for you(Online stores can usually piece the parts together for a small fee).

The sites below are pretty decent when it comes to custom made PC's. It's worth to take a look if you're planning to upgrade. The first link is a Polish site, so it obviously won't be for everyone.
http://forum.pclab.p...abowicz%C3%B3w/
http://www.mmo-champ...s-Sample-Builds

grimzod, on 18 June 2012 - 03:51 PM, said:

Cmon guys results - how did your machines handle the SDK? I'm interested to see results from the high end machines as well. perhaps I can narrow my new machine and video card choices with some field tests from you blokes.

I'll do it as soon the download finishes, might take a while though.

Edited by Nev, 18 June 2012 - 04:02 PM.

[ZenithOCT]

grimzod, on 18 June 2012 - 03:51 PM, said:

Cmon guys results - how did your machines handle the SDK? I'm interested to see results from the high end machines as well. perhaps I can narrow my new machine and video card choices with some field tests from you blokes.

Ok so In full screen mode at 1920x1080 I was getting 15 fps, in window'd around 50 average.

Edited by ZenithOCT, 18 June 2012 - 04:02 PM.

[Gabriyel]

To the OP: Seriously?? The minimum specs that they've been able to make this work with are frankly astonishing. The hardware involved is close to 6 years old or more. You shouldn't be running a gaming PC that old. Heck, my 3 year old secondary machine has an i7-860 and Radeon 4890 with 8 GB Ram and 120 GB SSD. That's my secondary machine that my wife games with... I just upgraded to the new Ivy Bridge and Nvidia 670 and 16 GB ram as my main gaming machine.

Technology keeps getting cheaper. I understand some people are unemployed or you may be a high school kid depending on his Parent's machine, my advice... get a summer job, or quit living on unemployment and take anything you can working 2 part/full time jobs if it bothers you so much. There are still plenty of fast food and other stuff out there. I'm sorry to be harsh, but you may just have to play the game on the minimal settings or get some seasonal work to pay for the new rig.

Frankly, I'm glad to see a F2P game that pushes the envelope a bit and starts to use more than one core. Now if they'd just change the controllers so the joystick is a lefty and use the mouse or another joystick to aim with I'd be happy.

[grimzod]

ZenithOCT, on 18 June 2012 - 04:01 PM, said:

Ok so In full screen mode at 1920x1080 I was getting 15 fps, in window'd around 50 average.

How are you at 1024x768 in single player?

[vam]

So far this poll shows that 22% if the voters can only run the game at minimum specification. What exactly does that mean? You probably shouldn't even bother because the game will run poorly and reduce your overall gameplay experience. I hope MWO doesn't loose those people when they have a crappy gameplay experience.

[stukinit]

grimzod, on 18 June 2012 - 03:51 PM, said:

Cmon guys results - how did your machines handle the SDK? I'm interested to see results from the high end machines as well. perhaps I can narrow my new machine and video card choices with some field tests from you blokes.

It's unRAR'ing as I type, but I'd like to just wave a bit of e-peen around shamelessly here...

2 Years ago I built this:

AMD X4 955 OC'd 4.0Ghz
2x XFX 5850 *** Edition 1GB
Asus M4a78t-Deluxe
8GB G.Skill DDR3 1600 Cas 9
and ~ 2.4 TB of storage divided between a 1TB and 2 750GB (WD Black) in RAID 0

I am lucky enough that a friend of mine works at a place where they offer 0% interest loans as an employee incentive, so I actually paid him off this march, however all of these parts can be found for absurdly cheap in comparison to what they were before (I'm talking 1-1.5k cheaper) and it maxes out everything that I play.

The best part? A modern system with modern hardware (and only 1 GPU) will blow this out of the water, and is worth roughly the same.

[Gabriyel]

Nev, on 18 June 2012 - 04:01 PM, said:

It's not as simple as that.

A lot of people who have completely no clue about PC's whatsoever buy the "discount" PC's from Walmart, Dell, HP and so on, with on board graphics, a poor CPU, and overall poor quality parts. I'd recommend not to buy such computers, they are subpar at best.

Either build yourself, or find people who will pick the specific parts for you(Online stores can usually piece the parts together for a small fee).

Thought I'd help contribute something positive instead of simply pointing out that the whining is excessive. You don't have to have a custom built machine. You can do it, but as an aside the $1,100 Dell XPS I bought my Dad for Christmas would easily play this on the 'recommended settings'.

So considering your cheap home built machines run around $4-500 at Best Buy with the bottom of the line, another $500 or so will get you a decent gaming machine. Will it be as good as if you built your own (knowing what you're doing that is), no, but then you're getting a warranty and decent parts if not top of the line plus all the labor is included already. Took me 3-4 hours to build my last rig and get it just the way I wanted.

[Scorm]

I've run this on my phenom 965 be and 560ti w/ 4 gig of ram no problem. I'm sure that you could build a rig from scratch for less than 700 bucks that would play this no problem.

[Chillybill]

I purchased a laptop over a year ago for business purpose off the shelf computer that exceeds the specs for MWO and I know as i sit here that this laptop was behind the times for "off the shelf" computers 11 months ago so I also know that in another year the specs for this game will not be that high. I think that the devs done a good job setting the game into forward looking mode as well as allowing most gamers current systems to run it

[Gabriyel]

Rixx, on 18 June 2012 - 03:48 PM, said:

OMG, the majority of the hardcore MW/Gaming nerds have great computers.

News flash, that ain't the norm. Believe it or not, these specs will GREATLY reduce the amount of people that will be able to play the game. And that could mean that mean reduced profits. If they don't get the operating cash they need due to low player population, they'll have to find ways to nickle and dime those of us that can play.

All of my hardcore gaming nerd friends can play, as can I, but I have just as many casual gaming friends that would be interesting in playing that simply can't, yet there are plenty of other PC games hitting the shelves that they still can play. Are they going to drop big wads of cash just to try a game they may or may not love when they have plenty of other options? Not likely. And the casual gaming friends are the ones most likely to pay for in game items if they like the game.

I'm simply a concerned fan voicing concern for what I hope is an awesome game. It's obviously too late to take into consideration, but it is a valid concern.

Don't really agree with you here... I am a casual gamer now, albeit used to game pretty hard but own my own business and maybe game a few hours a week now. I can afford the latest hardware, but have friends pretty much in the same boat time wise. It happens as you grow up, have a family, and responsibilities.

I have a fairly powerful Dell Latitude laptop and my now 'secondary' gaming/home rig (see my earlier post). I wasn't planning on upgrading anytime soon as I hadn't found a reason to. Most games are ports and had yet to even stress my CPU on 'stock' settings, turned off my OC as couldn't really tell the difference and the location it was in had some heat concerns.

Well Guildwars 2 comes out and my friends or wife had been able to play Starcraft 2, ST:O, LOTRO and many more 'average' games at ok settings without dropping barely below 30 FPS on the laptop. Not a gaming laptop, but sufficient for her needs. GW 2 ate it's lunch, 5-10 FPS in starting areas at low detail settings. Soo... finally had the need to buy a new gaming rig for myself and gave her my old one.

If the casual gamer has enough demand and cash flow, they'll spend it. Same reason people come up with cash to see movies, eat out, go on vacations, buy the latest iPad even though they have an earlier version etc.... There's demand and they decide they want/need to have it. Better for the devs to aim high and people go oh, wow... that's awesome, I really want to play that than go mediocre.

Especially if you can max out the games settings with a $1,100 Dell XPS or equivalent machine. Doesn't take a buddy who knows what he's doing, just a little cash or some hard work on a summer job to upgrade that dinosaur.