Never Winter Nights

[heresiarh]

Whats the best system to run this game smoothly.

 

[Nebor]

Uh... some kind of Compaq I bet. Like a 700mhz P3. That would rock it.

The fastest thing you could buy, obviously. Look at Anand's new high end buying guide.

 

[Tom]

Anadtech has benchmarks of Neverwinter nights in the review of the ATI video card on the front page. They might have the same benchmarks in other reviews like for processors and motherboards too.

I would say that a medium priced athlon system, like a 2500+, and a medium priced video card like a ATI 9600 pro, would run Neverwinter nights very well.

 

[heresiarh]

thanks, ill check up on that.

 

[cbuchach]

Actually an NVidia card would do the job better than a comparable ATI card. NWN is an Opengl based game and NVidia hadware runs Opengl on average better that ATi. Just check out any of the recent reviews comparing Ati vs Nvidia and you will see the difference.

 

[heresiarh]

all these seperate brands just make life difficult!

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

WTF? Didn't this game come out like two years ago?

 

[Mloot]

The one thing you don't want to do is try to play it on a PCI video card. Even with a 2.4 P4, I could not get it to run without lots of choppiness with either a 9100 PCI or FX 5600 PCI, and at low details at 800x600.

 

[heresiarh]

pci cards are a big no no.

 

[Juice Box]

def big no no

 

[heresiarh]

game was out two years ago, i just woke up from my slumber right now

 

[nageov3t]

it plays alright on a Radeon 9000 (a little choppy, but only during high-action scenes).

I'd recomend a Radeon 9600, +1 GHz CPU, and 512 MB of ram.

 

[Quixfire]

Originally posted by: loki8481
it plays alright on a Radeon 9000 (a little choppy, but only during high-action scenes).

I'd recomend a Radeon 9600, +1 GHz CPU, and 512 MB of ram.

I agree, I can play it very well on my system.

AMD Althon 1.2Ghz
1024MB of ram
ATI 9600 Pro

 

[heresiarh]

this is my system, xp 2700+, 512ram and 9600xt vcard. i know about the vcard, i've already goten a beating over it, but my next buy with be the x800. ohh yes and im running win xp pro. 200gb WD 8mb Cache. good enough for NWN?

 

[Rellik]

Neverwinter Nights: Tested in Realworld (TM) by myself:

System 1: 2Ghz Northwood GF4 Ti 4200 / 512MB DDR 333 runs very well, occasional hickups and low fps when going over 1152 resolution
System 2: dual 2600MP 1GB reg ecc DDR 266 ATi 8500 retail 275/275: Slower, no hickups as bad as the NV in highres, but certainly not as smooth as on the NVidia card. (And I am more of an ATi then NV Fan.) I must admit that you need at least a 9600pro to get this thing to work really fluid. Even the 9800XT numbers arent that great. a 5900XT beats it easy.

In general, the game consumes ram (so 1GB dual channel does help) and needs a good vidcard. However, I doubt it is running well on those 1Ghz rigs. I played it on my dual when i still had 1800XPs, and it was slower then with my 2600. I would recommend the following:

2,4Ghz/2400XP
1GB DDR 333 dual channel
9600XT/5900XT
19 inch Monitor minimum. The text is tiny even at 1024. (yes I know about the high res text option)

heresiarh: Get another 512MB RAM and you should be fine.

 

[heresiarh]

so my system is fine, i should just get more ram? im thinking of getting two 1gig modules. i can expand to max 3gigs.

 

[dullard]

I play that game a lot. I have nice gameplay with my computer:

2.4 GHz P4 (533 MHz fsb)
Geforce 4 440MX (crap video card)
384 MB RAM.

About once every 10 hours of playing, I get a slowdown for ~5 seconds. This is caused by lack of memory (task manager shows 700+ MB RAM used during that slowdown). So I conclude that just about any computer built in the last 2 years can play it as long as it has enough memory.

Edit: Looks like your computer will run it too. Going up to 768 MB would help though.

 

[Acanthus]

That cant be correct i get much better frames than that...

P4 3.46ghz
Asus P4C800-E
OCZ Gold PC4200 2x512MB
NVIDIA Geforce FX 5600 128MB

I get 38-60fps running at 1600x1200 with everything cranked.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: heresiarh
so my system is fine, i should just get more ram? im thinking of getting two 1gig modules. i can expand to max 3gigs.

Anything over a gig is overkill, on top of that, check for compatibility with your motherboard if you are going to buy 1GB modules, as they are flaky in MOST motherboards.

 

[heresiarh]

I will check up on that. thanks for the info. have you guys played C&C Generals on any of your machines? please advise specs.

 

[Acanthus]

I dont have C&C Generals but im thinking about picking it up when its $20

 

[heresiarh]

I've heard its a fantastic game. I think u can find the deluxe edition on ebay for cheap.

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
I dont have C&C Generals but im thinking about picking it up when its $20

I love the game, buts its a little flaky. If your system can run it without dying, then you have a very stable system.

 

[heresiarh]

You're telling me its flaky on your powerhouse system ? Come on man, you are giving me the scares.

 

[thorin]

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