Planing to buy Mirrowind but...

[ToXiCRaGE]

I know that the question by itself sounds lame but I have an old box and if you are too lazy to check out the specs I'll just lay them out for ya. They are:

PIII 550@606Mhz
TNT2-N64 (soon replaced by GeForce 2 GTS)
640 Megs of RAM

My question is.......how bad of a slide show can I expect playing the game? On the official site the min. requirenments are:
PIII 550Mhz
256 Megs of RAM
3D card with 32MB of RAM

What box do you run and how does the game play? Will the game look aweful with every video option on almost minimum?

Thanks.

 

[harbinger52]

Morrowind does put a crunch on your system. Not sure how it will perform when you turn down all the options. see my system specs and I average around 42fps running around outside.

 

[spp]

yea i'd say that your system is not going to make the gameplay enjoyable.... if even playable

 

[kazeakuma]

Wait til you get the GF2 GTS. The M64 won't cut it. Other than that it should be ok. Turn things like the AI distance down and you should be ok. I get 50fps indoors and 20-25 outdoors on a p3 733 with a GF2Mx and 512mb ram

 

[neomits]

I've got a friend that plays if fine on a PIII 800 with a TNT2 and 512 megs of RD RAM... I think it should work fine for you if everything is turned WAY down.... getting the GF2 will help out A TON

 

[Adrian Tung]

I think getting a GF3 would help a lot. With the right settings, I think the game is more fill-rate dependent than it is processor or poly-count dependent.


atwl

 

[ToXiCRaGE]

Thanks guys. The thing is that I dont want to get a GF3 or 4 untill I get a new system. I am getting the GF2 for dirt cheap so that is why I decided to replace the very limited and very cheap (performance wise and price wise) M64. I loved Daggerfall, and I was thinking of trying this game and see how it runs on my pc - sadly there is no demo! I need a DEMO - cheap Bethesda Software! There is no poing paying lots of $$ now and play on the lowest res to just be able to play.........I rather wait and buy the game for dirt cheap and then play it (hopefully on a new pc).

 

[LiekOMG]

Morrowind is heavily CPU reliant. Meaning you could stick a Geforce4 in your current system, but it wouldn't do anything because your being held back by your processor.
My friend was able to play the game on his 800mhz Athlon, but it never topped 15fps. Even on my Athlon 1600+ with a geforce3, the game runs terrible.

Might I suggest NWN? It runs MUCH better on my friends system, and i woudl think it would run very well on yours.

 

[Citadel535]

I have a 1.2GHz Athlon, 640MB PC133 SDRAM, Radeon 8500.

I get 15 FPS outside!!! WHY GOD WHY DIDN'T I BUY A GEFORCE4?!!?!?!?!

 

[techwanabe]

Originally posted by: DOACleric
Morrowind is heavily CPU reliant. Meaning you could stick a Geforce4 in your current system, but it wouldn't do anything because your being held back by your processor.
My friend was able to play the game on his 800mhz Athlon, but it never topped 15fps. Even on my Athlon 1600+ with a geforce3, the game runs terrible.

Might I suggest NWN? It runs MUCH better on my friends system, and i woudl think it would run very well on yours.

Just curious; since you've seen NWN and it runs better on lower end systems, how does it look in comparison to MW? They say MW is very nice, I'm wondering if NWN holds up well also.


kazeakuma,

Those framerates you report are pretty decent. You "get 50fps indoors and 20-25 outdoors on a p3 733" which seems to be as good or better than many folks are reporting with CPU's which are twice as fast. Does turning down the AI make that much difference? Do you have the no SD2/no CD patch which is supposed to improve FR too?

 

[LiekOMG]

Originally posted by: techwanabe

Originally posted by: DOACleric
Morrowind is heavily CPU reliant. Meaning you could stick a Geforce4 in your current system, but it wouldn't do anything because your being held back by your processor.
My friend was able to play the game on his 800mhz Athlon, but it never topped 15fps. Even on my Athlon 1600+ with a geforce3, the game runs terrible.

Might I suggest NWN? It runs MUCH better on my friends system, and i woudl think it would run very well on yours.

Just curious; since you've seen NWN and it runs better on lower end systems, how does it look in comparison to MW? They say MW is very nice, I'm wondering if NWN holds up well also.


kazeakuma,

Those framerates you report are pretty decent. You "get 50fps indoors and 20-25 outdoors on a p3 733" which seems to be as good or better than many folks are reporting with CPU's which are twice as fast. Does turning down the AI make that much difference? Do you have the no SD2/no CD patch which is supposed to improve FR too?

NWN is not a 1st person perspective game like Morrowind is. It is 3rd person (top down- kinda like diablo) and the camera can be zoomed in very close or very far out. You can also move the camera around.
The graphics are quite good. Of course, it won't look as good as morrowind, however it is full 3d and the shadows kickass. And in terms of gameplay, there is no competition.

 

[techwanabe]

DOA

I haven't played either, but I read Desslocks comments on both games over at Gamespot. He is a long time player of CRPGs and D&D fan. He actually said he preferred MW over NWN, but thought NWN to be very nice.

BTW, I've seen plenty of MW screenshots... it appears that it can be played as a 3rd Person game too... maybe not a top down perspective, but otherwise 3rd person.

Probalby the biggest difference is NWN is a 3rd ed D&D rules game and MW follows it's own game rules. MW is supposed to be very open ended (many sidequests) inside a story.

I do hope that Bioware wrote a good story like they did with BG for NWN... it is reported that NWN has a good single player campaign... not sure if that same campaign can be played by a cooperative multiplay party or what.

 

[Boogak]

I think it should be playable even on the TNT2-M64 if you crank everything down (and I mean everything) and play at 640x480. Might still be a bit choppy, but playable methinks. I have a GeForce4 Ti 4400 and a P4 2.26ghz and I run MW at 1024x768@2x AA and I usually get 25+ FPS but dips to 15+ alot.

On the question of MW vs NWN, I've played both now for over 4 hours each and so far I like the graphics in NWN better, the shadowing is really nice and the textures look better (at least with the 64mb texture option). However I think MW has the better gameplay (much more original and it feels alot more varied) while NWN feels like just another Baldur's Gate hack and slash type game. I think I'm just not a big fan of D&D rules... growing up on console RPG's makes me feel like 30hp warriors and 1d8 damage weapons are WEAK!!