System requirements...

[Tidenburg]

Yeah, but then you're not spending money to upgrade your computer. Why do you think all games which have microsoft involved either have high specs required or DX10? It's because it makes you upgrade your PC to play it, that way they get money from hardware aswell, or windows Vista for the new drivers. The new flight sim is an example of this.

BTW the people on the sc forums who say "oo I can run RS Vegas & oblivion but not SC DA" need to know that just because a game looks better or nearly the same it doesn't mean the way its programmed and designed. People need to take into account their drivers may be out of date or there are conflicts goin on in their system, there a whole lot more to how good you pc is than its specs.

[Overstatement]

Same here - my PC runs CT on highest settings (res 1024x768 - my monitor suxx)
But it gets like 5-10 FPS on lowest settings in DA... conspiracy???

That's just bad porting/programming.

Yeah, but then you're not spending money to upgrade your computer. Why do you think all games which have microsoft involved either have high specs required or DX10? It's because it makes you upgrade your PC to play it, that way they get money from hardware aswell, or windows Vista for the new drivers. The new flight sim is an example of this.

Yeah, that was my point. But making system requirements more than you actually need is fraud that they profit from it. It's a shame too, I really liked Vietcong1...

[Bionic-Blob]

do you have a geforce 4 ti or something?

[Overstatement]

Yes

[Tal]

im totally with overstatement. Look at the awesome graphics of Chaos Theory. All it needs is Pixel Shader 1.0 to run the game... I mean when DA was released I talked the game over with many people and nearly all of them thought "why didnt they have an option for people who have lower graphics 2 play". I dont mind the graphics as long as the gameplay is good and I too would rather be playing at 20fps then not at all!

[Gui Brazil]

It's all about priorities, period.

I agree that some game specs are quite high to what they offer. But cmon, a guy with a Geforce 4/Pentium 3 800mhz/256mb of ram has to realize that he desperately needs an upgrade if he wants to keep playing games. As Zed would say "it's not rocket science".

[Succubus Dryad Of The Undying Comet]

Right, but I with my FX  5200 (own3r graphics) played a bunch of games - i played:
CT
Doom 3
HL2
Quake 4
FarCry,
and i didnt manage to run DA... what a crap - i ran Q4, (wich has better graphics btw) and i cant run DA...
What a crap.

[Gawain]

this whole discussion is absolutely mindless and unproductive. we all know that hardware is expensive, and that ubi fucked up sc4 ::)

[Succubus Dryad Of The Undying Comet]

Aggreed. Topic for deletion.

[Tidenburg]

FFS, where do you people buy your hardware from? Scams'r'us?
2GB Ram - Ã,£50
Duo Core Processor - Ã,£100
^ Those thing are what you need to dramatically speed up a pc. Ã,£150 is not much in the grand scale of things.

And yes, UBI fucked up DA ;)

and no topic doesn't have to be deleted, just because it goes off on a whim it's still relevant to the subject

[Overstatement]

The graphics don't match the requirements. BF2142 looks like it could run on my PC if it were given the chance. I can play Half Life 2 but not S.T.A.L.K.E.R? WTF?!

This is one of the reasons I still support using an open-source engine. You have to freedom to make the game as beautiful as you'd like but have fallback options for when you can't.

[Tidenburg]

So long as the normal "quality" is looking nice then I'm not gonna protest against a radio button for Low quality, just so long as it doesn't come with any balance issues.

[Succubus Dryad Of The Undying Comet]

The graphics don't match the requirements. BF2142 looks like it could run on my PC if it were given the chance. I can play Half Life 2 but not S.T.A.L.K.E.R? WTF?!

This is one of the reasons I still support using an open-source engine. You have to freedom to make the game as beautiful as you'd like but have fallback options for when you can't.

Yeah just look at Warrock or AssaultCube - both games own, and they have a p2p netcode (it owns server-centric netcode)

[iservealot]

To play PS, you better have at least a good SM 3.0 card. To be efficient, get a dual core processor and a DX10 compatible card.

One of the many reasons I think UE3 is a good choice is for it's lighting engine. One of the major gameplay aspects of CT game play is if you in bright or dark areas. We can take this a step further with fully dynamic lighting environments.

[Gawain]

To play PS, you better have at least a good SM 3.0 card. To be efficient, get a dual core processor and a DX10 compatible card.

One of the many reasons I think UE3 is a good choice is for it's lighting engine. One of the major gameplay aspects of CT game play is if you in bright or dark areas. We can take this a step further with fully dynamic lighting environments.

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