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[Bitey]

Currently the mod Mechwarrior living legends is probably the go to fix for any diehard fan of Mechwarrior. If you're someone who hasn't tried it out, I suggest hitting up the steam store and purchasing Crysis Warhead for the holiday sale of 10$.


http://store.steampo....com/app/17330/

http://www.mechlivinglegends.net

[CG Anastasius Focht]

Thats three games for 10 bucks, why wouldnt you do it, its worth it for Mechwarrior Living Legends alone.

[Bitey]

Well dont confuse people, the other two games are pretty garbage. The real deal is getting mech warrior living legends <3

[Alistair Marsden]

Is Steam still required to play this? I would have bought crysis/warhead/2 a long time ago, if it were not for steam.
I will not install steam or even create an account there.

[Sesambrot]

I'm pretty sure you'll be able to find a boxed "Crysis Maximum Edition" which contains Crysis, Crysis Warhead and Crysis Wars for 10-15€, that one doesn't require steam to run.

[saber15]

Worth it for MWLL alone, but don't ignore the Crysis itself; it's a great game

Bitey, on 25 November 2011 - 02:19 AM, said:

Well dont confuse people, the other two games are pretty garbage. The real deal is getting mech warrior living legends <3

I disagree with that assertion.

[CoffiNail]

Alistair Marsden, on 25 November 2011 - 02:32 AM, said:

Is Steam still required to play this? I would have bought crysis/warhead/2 a long time ago, if it were not for steam.
I will not install steam or even create an account there.

Where ever you can find a deal for crysis wars... IGN's direct drive might still sell it, Origin, Steam, local video game outlets possibly still have it kicking around.

[Belrick]

Also, be prepared to contact EA support to get a new CD key if your current one does not work with MWLL.

[KnowBuddy]

Belrick, on 25 November 2011 - 02:06 PM, said:

Also, be prepared to contact EA support to get a new CD key if your current one does not work with MWLL.

Actually it seems that if you purchase through steam, it's more likely that the problem is that the CD key is improperly formatted (it's missing all the dashes), which is easily fixed by editing a config file (and also a registry entry if that doesn't fix it).

[Frantic Pryde]

what are the system requirements? I'm pretty sure my machine won't run it

[SquareSphere]

Frantic Pryde, on 30 November 2011 - 09:38 PM, said:

what are the system requirements? I'm pretty sure my machine won't run it

• CPU Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz (3.2 GHz for Vista), Intel Core 2.0 GHz
  (2.2 GHz for Vista), AMD Athlon 2800+ (3200+ for Vista) or better
  
• RAM 1GB (1.5GB on Windows Vista)
  
• Video Card NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
  (Radeon X800 Pro for Vista) or better
  
• VRAM 256MB of Graphics Memory
  
• Storage 15GB
  
• Sound Card DirectX 9.0c Compatible
  
• ODD DVD-ROM
  
• OS Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Microsoft Vista
  
• DirectX DX9.0c or DX10

That's 4 years old level of system requirements. If you not able to hit that then you're probably not going to be able to play MWO. You're going to upgrade for MWO right? :3

[Catamount]

Frantic Pryde, on 30 November 2011 - 09:38 PM, said:

what are the system requirements? I'm pretty sure my machine won't run it

My laptop can't run the game much higher than low-med and maintain good frame rates (the GPU is mobility Radeon HD 5730). That card is roughly equal to a desktop 5570, for reference.


What are your system specs?

Edited by Catamount, 01 December 2011 - 06:52 AM.

[Catamount]

Patriot, on 01 December 2011 - 10:10 AM, said:

The only thing my machine doesn't cover is the video card type, but i'm running an average of 10-15 fps on my 3.0GHz Pentium 4

And i'm still wanting to upgrade, computer does have tendencies to just lock up for a second, and it takes about 10 minutes to load up everything while connecting to a server, which is a bit of a shame.

The GPU is the single most important factor in framerate. If you want to find out what you have, there's a lot of ways to do it. You can open your graphics control panel, you could run DXDIAG.exe (just use the run function on the start menu or hit Windows Key+r ; I assume you're using XP). You could also download a copy of GPUZ, which is really tiny and simple, and will give you loads of information.


If you're running a 3.0ghz Pentium 4 (Prescott, I assume?), you're probably running a Geforce 6/7 series or Radeon X series (eg X800XT) or X1000 series card, but that's still a huge range of GPUs.

[saber15]

SquareSphere, on 01 December 2011 - 06:48 AM, said:

• Video Card NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
  
  (Radeon X800 Pro for Vista) or better

Wrong in all sorts of ways, brah. I had a Geforce 8600 and on ultra-low setting (aka EVERYTHING disabled via an autoexec configuration), I'd rarely top 10 fps on some maps.
You pretty much need at least a Geforce 9800 in order to get a playable FPS.

[Catamount]

saber15, on 03 December 2011 - 09:16 AM, said:

Wrong in all sorts of ways, brah. I had a Geforce 8600 and on ultra-low setting (aka EVERYTHING disabled via an autoexec configuration), I'd rarely top 10 fps on some maps.
You pretty much need at least a Geforce 9800 in order to get a playable FPS.

Agreed; my Mobility Radeon HD 5730 is fairly comparable to a G92-based Geforce 8800 card (maybe an 8800gt?), and while it plays MWLL smoothly on low-medium settings, at very low resolutions, that means there isn't much room for less powerful GPUs.

Edited by Catamount, 03 December 2011 - 04:22 PM.

[armitage]

saber15, on 03 December 2011 - 09:16 AM, said:

Wrong in all sorts of ways, brah. I had a Geforce 8600 and on ultra-low setting (aka EVERYTHING disabled via an autoexec configuration), I'd rarely top 10 fps on some maps.
You pretty much need at least a Geforce 9800 in order to get a playable FPS.

What do you consider "playable" saber? On my old 8600 256mb card I averaged 25 fps in combat and it was playable to the point that I could end up GC or higher rank every match. Now i have a 9800 1gb and it runs mid 30's. But i do agree mwll is more demanding than the min specs for crysis

Edited by armitage, 04 December 2011 - 10:31 PM.

[wolf74]

For those of you get the Authentication Failed (3) failed connect or Bad CD error see the link. Before Contacting Steam or EA.
http://www.mechlivin...-cd-key-issues/

[KitLightning]

Bitey, on 24 November 2011 - 07:51 PM, said:

Currently the mod Mechwarrior living legends is probably the go to fix for any diehard fan of Mechwarrior. If you're someone who hasn't tried it out, I suggest hitting up the steam store and purchasing Crysis Warhead for the holiday sale of 10$.


http://store.steampo....com/app/17330/

http://www.mechlivinglegends.net

I approve of this post

wolf74, on 06 December 2011 - 01:47 PM, said:

For those of you get the Authentication Failed (3) failed connect or Bad CD error see the link. Before Contacting Steam or EA.
http://www.mechlivin...-cd-key-issues/

Thanks for adding that link Wolf74, I didn't catch this topic Also please bump any existing topics on the issue on MWLL/Beta Board/Technical Issues, we sadly have an excessive amount of those already.

[Gorthaur]

just got it up and running. i just went in a little while ago to get a few kills in before i have to go to work. cannot wait to get off work and play some more lol.

[clopin]

Why did I not remember this two weeks ago? Maybe it'll go on sale for Christmas...