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You'll Need Heavy Duty Hardware for the games in 2004

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jrphoenix

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For those of us who haven't upgraded and were hoping to hold off a bit more.... Check out these hardware requirements in my latest issue of Maximum PC:

(looks like you'll need a fast AMD 64 or 3.6 GHz Intel & 2 Gb ram & the latest video cards to play all the upcoming games with all the eye candy on)

Top 10 3D Game of 2004:

1. Doom 3
3GHz+ / FX-51
Radeon 9700+ / Nvidia Geforce 5900+
2Gb Ram

2. Half-Life 2
2.5 GHz
Radeon 9700+ / Nvidia 6800+
1Gb Ram

3. Far Cry
3GHz+ / FX-51
Radeon 9800+ / Nvidia 5900+

4. Lord of the rings: Battle for middle earth
2.5 GHz
ATI 9500+ / Nvidia 5700+
1Gb Ram

5. Unreal Tournament 2004
2.5 GHz
ATI 9700+ / Nvidia 5900+
1 Gb Ram

6. Rome: Total War
2.5 GHz
ATI 9500+ / Nvidia 5700+
1Gb Ram

7. Lineage II
3.5GHz+ / FX-51
ATI 9800+ / Nvidia 5900+
2Gb Ram

8. Vampire teh Masquerade: Bloodlines
2.5 GHz+
ATI 9700+ / Nvidia 6800+
1Gb Ram

9. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
3 GHz+ / FX-51
ATI 9800+ / Nvidia 6800+
1 Gb Ram

10. Dungeon Siege II
3 GHz+ / FX-51
ATI 9800+ / Nvidia 6800+
2 Gb Ram

WOW!:roll:
 
I saw that and cannot believe the specs that are associating with those games...2GB of RAM...Hell, everyone is just starting to use 1GB.
 
Originally posted by: jdogg707
I saw that and cannot believe the specs that are associating with those games...2GB of RAM...Hell, everyone is just starting to use 1GB.
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I know!!!! I saw that article and was left stunned... I was waiting for the punchline on the next page? How can Doom3 expect to sell with those kind of requirements? The article didn't say if this was only if you intend to play at 1600 x 1200 maxed out?? Just left it open?
 
The 2GB is for Lineage, which is an MMORPG (you're playing a game which involves hundreds of people on your screen simultaneously... ever wonder why multiplayer FPS games never have that sort of limit?).

But these can't be recommended requirements... these are most likely max settings requirements.
 
That sucks, I was just geting ready to purchase a new AMD motherboard and they only have 3 RAM slots and I have 3 512 sticks!!! now I'm going to have to buy at least 1 stick of the super expensive 1gb dimms.
 
Then the industry wonders while Pc gaming is down. With ridiculous requirements, high end systems would have trouble playing the games. Hopefully as the guy above mentioned, these are the settings required for max eye candy. If not, I will have the absolute Minumum or less, and I have a 3200+, 9800 PRo and 1GB.
 
Linesge 2 also sucks horribly, its based on the Unreal Engine 2 (UT2003-04 generation) graphics engine, and hardly pushes the limits of my Geforce FX5600NU + 3.4ghz + 1GB PC4200 system.
 
Ummm, those are definitely not the bare minimum settings obviously....I'm running Far Cry with a 2.5 P4 (400MHz FSB) with 512 MB ram and a ti4600 just fine at 10x7 with medium AA/AF.

Those must be the specs for running those games with at least 4x aa/af at 12x10 or something like that.
 
Yes, these numbers are what you'll need to have everything maxed out. Shame on the OP for not making this a little more clear in his/her post.

It will be a few years before these are the minimum requirements. Anyhow, I find that these numbers that MaximumPC has put up to be highly assumed anyhow. So you'll need a 3GHz, 1GB RAM, and a top of the line graphics card to get full eye candy out of next-gen games........Far Cry has already proved this, who would think Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 would be any different?
 
It's obvious these Maximum PC guys know what they're talking about, with exclusive info from the games developers.

...or not. They seem to have a habit of this sort of thing, it's all I ever hear from Maximum PC, last time it was about some HL2 requirements, which they said quite plainly in the article they pulled them out of a hat, completely invented.

Anyway, even if they were right, "You'll Need Heavy Duty Hardware for the games in 2004" is wrong because you forgot the "with all the eye candy on" that you snuck into the post. FC runs more than fine for me on customised settings with everything medium or more, and my spec is half what they say. Most coming games, like far cry, seem to be adding loads of pointless extra stuff just for the highest settings just because, well why not (and wy not indeed). It's far from anything anybody should really case about though - dunno about you but wow a few fishies in the water is a totally essential for my gaming experience.
 
To be fair to Lineage II, it has the requirements, because the number of characters on screen will be much greater, than it is in other games.
 
I would not worry about now. If some of those games keep pushing back the release date you'll prob. need 2 gigs of ram to run Internet Explorer....😉



Kwatt
 
What a load of absolute tosh.

The most ram guzzling game there is right now (BF1942), if you give it all the ram it wants takes up 500MB ram (for a total of around 700MB while running windows). FarCry only uses 340MB ram.

Even if you are talking about MAXIMUM settings, you dont need anything more than 1GB ram. Its plain rediculas. How come you are all accepting this junk?


Btw, I have ben playing FarCry on a GeForce2GTS 64MB for 2 weeks now, and yes its not great, but the fact is it works. Bottoms out at 8fps in 1024x768 if I use max detail settings (of course it cant do shaders which is why its relatively fast), and it gets up to 56fps indoors, except when you start shooting 😀

Point is:
Don't believe this rediculas notion

We are going to have to wait a good 2 o 3 years to see recommended 2GB ram, for games like Unreal 3 [demo was shown at nVidia 6800 launch].
 
Originally posted by: Alkali


Btw, I have ben playing FarCry on a GeForce2GTS 64MB for 2 weeks now, and yes its not great, but the fact is it works. Bottoms out at 8fps in 1024x768 if I use max detail settings (of course it cant do shaders which is why its relatively fast), and it gets up to 56fps indoors, except when you start shooting 😀
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You say you are using a geforce2 to run Far Cry, why not use the 9700pro that you put in your sig? 😕
 
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