Not sure but it looks like it may be. Wonder how soon the minimum ram amount will be 2 GB ? Guessing a while from now. Not that I care just interesting for gamers with older systems. I doubt anyone here has less than 2 GB of ram though and games. Would have to say most have 4 GB of ram or more here.
Stormrise first game to require 1 GB of ram?
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I have 3GB with XP, I think we'll be at the 1-2GB limit for awhile until there are more 64bit OS's out there. After everyone is comfortable that they can make a 64bit game I bet memory and CPU requirement will leap real fast because everyone would have a minimum of 3-6GB's
nitromullet
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While probably not the official min requirement, World of Warcraft ran horribly with anything less than 1GB and that was years ago.
Modelworks
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It is also DX10 only. So that means you have to have either vista or seven beta.
There is no dx9 client.
Makes sense to require 1GB, I would have said 2GB. Imagine a game running under vista with only 512MB installed !
There is no dx9 client.
Makes sense to require 1GB, I would have said 2GB. Imagine a game running under vista with only 512MB installed !
Yeah, uhh I couldn't see WoW running on less than 1GB of ram at all. I saw a pretty big performance jump when I went from 2 to 4 in WoW.
zerocool84
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There's a difference between require and run good. You could say the same thing about BF2. It required less but ran well with 2GB.
WoW definitely doesn't run well with 1GB of ram. I don't think it would run (at least the latest expansion) with something like 512mb. I imagine trying to load up the middle of Dalaran on a system like that would just result in a CTD.
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The difference is that by putting the 1GB in the requirements, the game dev is telling you the truth. If you've ever played WoW with 512MB you know this didn't meet the requirements, regardless of what it says on the box.
zerocool84
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Originally posted by: nitromullet
The difference is that by putting the 1GB in the requirements, the game dev is telling you the truth. If you've ever played WoW with 512MB you know this didn't meet the requirements, regardless of what it says on the box.
So it will barely run if you have everything set on low with a low rez without 1GB of ram??? I doubt that.
When I first started playing WoW I had a similar system. That system would not run WotLK at all right now though.
The official WotLK requirements are 512 for XP, 1GB for Vista, 2GB recommended, and 1GB required for OSX.
nitromullet
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Oh well, I guess our experiences are different then. I played WoW on my secondary box for a bit Sempron 2000+ /X800 XL with 512MB and doing a simple upgrade to 1GB made a huge difference. The game went from being choppy and laggy to nice and smooth.
Got nothing to do with the graphics... In crowded cities and in flight, there is just that much going on that you need a lot of RAM in my experiences.
I still don't understand why they made it require DX10. According to last months Steam survey only 25% will be capable of playing Stormrise.
I thought you might have meant 1GB VRAM rather than system RAM. 2GB seems to be the minimum standard even for a budget gaming PC (especially on Vista). You can pick up 4GB for $20 or less if you watch the deals forum.
I played WoW when it was first released and beta on a P3 with 512MB RAM. It was very playable in most situations, except for large PvP raids with 60 - 80+ players fighting. Huge amounts of players on the screen would freeze the game for many seconds, so I could end up dead without ever seeing who or what hit me. It was still okay in non-combat situations with lots of players, like in cities. I wouldn't want to play any of the expansions on that old system though.
I played WoW when it was first released and beta on a P3 with 512MB RAM. It was very playable in most situations, except for large PvP raids with 60 - 80+ players fighting. Huge amounts of players on the screen would freeze the game for many seconds, so I could end up dead without ever seeing who or what hit me. It was still okay in non-combat situations with lots of players, like in cities. I wouldn't want to play any of the expansions on that old system though.
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I played an early demo of it, and it isn't going to be winning any prizes on the pc side.
It is a console port of the worst kind
Even the console version is averaging a 6 out of 10.
http://www.metacritic.com/game...orms/xbox360/stormrise
By making it DX10 I can almost guarantee that with the poor gameplay they will not be making a profit on this one.
Thankfully this is coming soon to fill my RTS needs
http://community.companyofhero...any-heroes-tales-valor
jonks
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Probably because it's mediocre and wasn't worth the time of making for everyone, or was purposefully limited wrt its pc audience since multi-platform RTS games usually suck b/c of the console compatability.
http://www.metacritic.com/game...orms/xbox360/stormrise
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