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shimwooley
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Reply #26 August 10, 2010 1:07:35 AM
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Quoting Ranger932,
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I have an old PC and am wondering how/if the game will run.

CPU: Athlon Barton 2500

RAM: 2 GB

V. Card: GForce 7300 GT

 

Processor seems to barely beat the minimum specs and I think the 6800 (min. spec from ordering page) is a better card than the 7300.

 

Maybe clothmap.

If that's the only PC you have to play this on, then I'd recommend waiting for the demo.

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Reply #27 August 10, 2010 1:19:41 AM
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7300 is better than 6800.

Not much better, but still.

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Reply #28 August 10, 2010 1:28:11 AM
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Quoting Buladelu,
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7300 is better than 6800.

Not much better, but still.

Despite the model numbers, the 7300 is a low end card. The 6800 wasn't and was the better card when these two cards came up and the forums were filled with 6800 vs 7300 questions.

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Reply #29 August 10, 2010 2:11:19 AM
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Hmmm. Sorry, I had PC with 6800 for some time and then notebook with 7300 - and the notebook was slightly better. I guess it's because it's Asus notebook - they usually make some tuning to GPU.

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Reply #30 August 10, 2010 2:34:50 AM
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Quoting Buladelu,
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Hmmm. Sorry, I had PC with 6800 for some time and then notebook with 7300 - and the notebook was slightly better. I guess it's because it's Asus notebook - they usually make some tuning to GPU.
*sighs and shakes head walking away mumbling about people who know nothing about computers*

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Reply #31 August 10, 2010 3:01:11 AM
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Quoting dragoaskani,
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sighs and shakes head walking away mumbling about people who know nothing about computers*

so true

harpo

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Reply #32 August 10, 2010 6:47:02 AM
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Explain yourselves please.

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Reply #33 August 10, 2010 9:55:29 AM
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All those numbers!  Usually a bigger number means a more high-tech piece of equipment, but not quite always.  Don't worry, they were just having a little dig (minor joke).  There was no malice intended.

Best regards,
Steven. 

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Reply #34 August 10, 2010 10:57:02 AM
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Hmm, ...

I'm wondering how my Athlon X2 3800+ on an Asus A8N-E board with 4 Gig PC3200 RAM and an XFX GF7900GT 256MB DDR3 will fare...

This is my first thread I read for today, so any news when the demo will be out?

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Reply #35 August 10, 2010 12:41:48 PM
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StevenAus, you see, I'm programmer and there's word "endineer" in my diploma so I've suddenly felt that all my career and years of study filled with wiring, assembling and processor codes were lies and all this knowledge and skills are meaningless.

 

Still I hope I would be able to run game fine on my GeForce 7300. Or at least run. Some betatesters claimed it could be played on GeForce 5xxx series and some developer said it should run on netbooks...

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Reply #36 August 10, 2010 3:19:21 PM
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I would take your diploma back for a new one. They spelled "Engineer" wrong on it....

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Reply #37 August 12, 2010 4:16:46 PM
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I remember researching for a new Nvidia card a month or two ago. I was wondering whether to get a 230 or 320. Apparently, the first digit is the generation or something number and the second one is the model number. So, the 230 is better supposedly.

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Reply #38 August 12, 2010 4:24:46 PM
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Quoting andrewlt,
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I remember researching for a new Nvidia card a month or two ago. I was wondering whether to get a 230 or 320. Apparently, the first digit is the generation or something number and the second one is the model number. So, the 230 is better supposedly.

The number system is a little strange, especially the first time around. I assume the reason you are looking at the lower-end cards is to save money, size or maybe even a PSU limit?

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Reply #39 August 12, 2010 4:25:07 PM
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Quoting RagingSquirrel,
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Drop in a new GPU, hmm. That's a thought. I looked at upgrading my CPU, but the whole form factor has changed. I can't even get upgrade CPUs for my MOBO. I can get a new GPU, you're right, but won't my CPU bottleneck my system anyway?

 

Thoughts?

 

If keeping my Opteron 165 and pairing that with a mightier GPU will really give me a big performance boost, I may do it instead of building a new system. I usually build a new one every 3 years, but my desire to pay off my house keeps interfering with my hardware desires. Dammit.

A high end GPU would bottleneck, but you could go for what today is a lower end or midrange card and it would still blow what you have now out of the water. Even something like a 250 would be a dramatic upgrade.

 

(as for the numbers... video card naming schemes are designed to be as confusing as possible. Particularly from Nvidia, who re-released the same 9800 under a number of different names because they simply had nothing to fill in gaps for a while.)

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Reply #40 August 12, 2010 4:36:47 PM
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Quoting Tridus,
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(as for the numbers... video card naming schemes are designed to be as confusing as possible. Particularly from Nvidia, who re-released the same 9800 under a number of different names because they simply had nothing to fill in gaps for a while.)

Which was unfortunate really because up until the 2xx cards, the number scheme was becoming predictable and fairly easy to follow. Without actually looking at the individual cards I could dismiss cards and focus/research on just a few based solely on the model number. As we've seen in this thread though, this winding number scheme they've concocted actually works in their favor as people will buy upgrades that aren't actually upgrades.

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Reply #41 August 13, 2010 3:50:26 AM
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All this talk about PC requirements makes me doubt if my computer can handle this game. Sorry if the answer is obvious, it certainly isn't to me.

 

Windows XP Home SP3

Intel Core 2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz

3GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

 

Should I wait for the demo?

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Reply #42 August 13, 2010 4:04:27 AM
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starfighter, IT WILL run, but based upon beta4 you might want to use clothmap to improve the speed, but it should play fine with a bit of a pause while the computer is doing the end of turn.

I have been testing with an amd x2 6000+ (3ghz dual core) with 4gb ddr2 800 ram and a geforce 8800gt and it was playable, but not as fast as a faster comp.

harpo

 

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Reply #43 August 13, 2010 4:42:02 AM
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Quoting harpo99999,
reply 42
starfighter, IT WILL run, but based upon beta4 you might want to use clothmap to improve the speed, but it should play fine with a bit of a pause while the computer is doing the end of turn.

I have been testing with an amd x2 6000+ (3ghz dual core) with 4gb ddr2 800 ram and a geforce 8800gt and it was playable, but not as fast as a faster comp.

harpo

 

 

The end of turn wait doesn't bother me too much but only playing on the clothmap makes all the work that went into the landscape and unit design unaccessible for me.  

Anyway, thanks, harpo. I remember never having to wonder whether my pc was powerful enough and suddenly I realize how old and obsolete it really is.  

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Reply #44 August 13, 2010 5:37:33 AM
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are the recommended system req out yet?  i assume that a dual core with w7 64 will run the game faster than xp would. 

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Reply #45 August 13, 2010 5:54:55 AM
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Quoting Starfighter08,
reply 41
All this talk about PC requirements makes me doubt if my computer can handle this game. Sorry if the answer is obvious, it certainly isn't to me.

 

Windows XP Home SP3

Intel Core 2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz

3GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

 

Should I wait for the demo?

That's going to run the game just fine.

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Reply #46 August 15, 2010 12:37:13 PM
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I've got a Intel i5 clocked at 3.2 ghz if I'm not mistaken, 2 gb ram and a geforce 9800GT with 512mb. Wondering if that's enough to run the 3d side of the game? I'm not that bothered by the waiting on the end of turns.

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Reply #47 August 15, 2010 6:14:46 PM
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daermoth, it should, but you might want to add ram to the motherboard, the video card is fine, the processor is fine, just the total ram on the omtherboard could stand a bump.

harpo

 

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Reply #48 August 15, 2010 6:38:31 PM
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Do you think my PC can run it all right?

 

Intel dual-core E5200 @ 2.5ghz

4gb ram

ATI 4830 512mb video card

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Reply #49 August 15, 2010 6:39:53 PM
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alos what do you guys mean when you saying "use the clothmap"?

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Reply #50 August 15, 2010 8:21:21 PM
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How much stronger must a computer be to run this game, than to run sins of a solar empire?

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