recommended hardware for MoHAA?

[soulm4tter]

My brother wants to get this game, but i dunno how it will run on his machine. I've never played it before, but i played RTCW and its rather laggy fps wise on my system. Here are my brothers specs

PIII 750@878
Abit BX6-2
256MB PC100
TNT2 Ultra

How do you think the game would run on that setup?

 

[Vapour]

He'll be able to play with some settings lowered.

 

[billyjak]

Should run alright with that setup, my son has a 500 oc 750mz with a TNT2 Ultra and it plays for him.

 

[Insane3D]

Ummm..it will run..but probably you will need to lower a lot of the settings and run at a very low resolution.. I think MOHAA is a bit more demanding at times than RTCW..

 

[jcmkk]

It would run much much better if he upgraded his video card. That looks like the bottleneck in his system to me. You can pick up a GeForce 2 Ti 200 for under $100 now.

 

[m1ke101]

yeah you can probably play it, my friend has a 450 and he runs it on low settings. i would recommend upgrading the video card as well, would probably help more than anything else.

 

[BreakApart]

Video card needs upgrading...
Playable with TNT, but the game would/will be alot better with the graphic details turned up with a better card.-Geforce2 Ti would be an excellent budget card for him.

 

[MichaelD]

Heh, MoHAA is the first game I've played that has actually taxed my system w/all the details maxed-out. I had everything cranked up as high as it would go. 1152 x 864 res, max textures/highest details/triple buffering....and the framerate sucked!!!! I couldn't believe it...GF3 and it looked like THAT? :Q

Lowering Details to high and the buffering to Double solved it. Plays smooth as glass now. Gotta love that GF3. Once I get my new mobo/CPU combo (welcome to the world of 133MHz FSB!) It'll be even better.

ps
This game is also the only one Iv'e played that has pushed my CPU over 51C. Not even Prime95 does that!

 

[lorlabnew]

I play MOHAA all detail maxed out at 1600*1200*32; while framerate is decent (very smooth) , I get "tearing" effect on certain textures when I move view left/right fast.... neither vertical sync off or lower res (1280*1024*32) would solve that. (RTCW is less demanding and I don't experience any tearing, with all detail and max res as well).

I don't like the game, but the graphics are excellent, particularly interiors. (and best sound effects/music, great atmosphere). Wish OperationFlashpoint 2 ( hope there will be one ) will get graphics like that....

 

[Thor86]

Upgrade the video card if you want to keep some of the details and effects in. I'd suggest at least a Geforce 3 Ti200 which will work great on that computer of your brothers.

 

[Mavrick007]

Yep, that is the consensus, upgrade the vid card to at least a GF2 flavor or higher and it shouldn't be too bad at all.

 

[DN]

I'll 2nd the video card upgrade suggestion.. By the way, that game IS schweeeeeeet.. I gladly gave EA my $..

 

[microAmp]

See my sig. but ran fine for me on my setup, but a bit more that what you got. Ran it at 1024x768, you could get the res. at 800x600 and should be fine.

 

[NeoMadHatter]

yea, get a new video card. TNT is really old. especially since Geforce4 is coming out and new Radeons. btw, great game.