I have a similiar system and pickup DoW 2 the other day. It only lags a little on middling settings.
I will echo the sentiments of more RAM.
I will echo the sentiments of more RAM.
Aren't System Requirements Just A *****.
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I've got a great story to tell you, Escapist
The day i got the sims 3, before i could install it, i had to go to my guitar lesson a half hour away from my house, so i went there, had my lesson, and on the way home we got lost looking for my sister's softball game (took about 2 hours for all of this total)
Next, i installed the game, hooray! (Took about 40 minutes)
Next, i got all the updates on the launcher (took 5 minutes)
Then, i tried to start the game, and being impatient, i was ready to play the moment the updates were done, but then a message came up saying "IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT THIS GAME PREFORMS WELL ON YOUR COMPUTER AND DOESN'T CAUSE IT TO CRASH OR FREEZE, WE RECOMMEND HAVING A MAC 10.5.7. YOUR MAC IS A 10.5.6" So i went to the apple site and got the upgrade (Took 1 hour to finish updating)
After this, i started playing, but after fifteen minutes i had to go to bed because it was late and it was a school night
:,(
The day i got the sims 3, before i could install it, i had to go to my guitar lesson a half hour away from my house, so i went there, had my lesson, and on the way home we got lost looking for my sister's softball game (took about 2 hours for all of this total)
Next, i installed the game, hooray! (Took about 40 minutes)
Next, i got all the updates on the launcher (took 5 minutes)
Then, i tried to start the game, and being impatient, i was ready to play the moment the updates were done, but then a message came up saying "IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT THIS GAME PREFORMS WELL ON YOUR COMPUTER AND DOESN'T CAUSE IT TO CRASH OR FREEZE, WE RECOMMEND HAVING A MAC 10.5.7. YOUR MAC IS A 10.5.6" So i went to the apple site and got the upgrade (Took 1 hour to finish updating)
After this, i started playing, but after fifteen minutes i had to go to bed because it was late and it was a school night
:,(
Yes, but then again my PC is Pre-WWII.
And I only play Diablo 2 and Starcraft on the PC these days.
And I only play Diablo 2 and Starcraft on the PC these days.
only difference is instead of upgrading your computer and having absolute freedom you have to buy a new console and pay $10 more for gameskhaimera said:
. not mentioning controllers headsets xbox live etc etc.
System requirements have always been a pain in the ass. Just be glad you weren't involved in buying games back in the late 90s, when you were looking at which line of Pentium you had and how many megabytes of ram you needed (hundreds of dollars for an 8mb upgrade when I was twelve). System requirements are growing more slowly than ever right now.
yeah i always hate that.
the thing is i bought a portable a year ago and now i cant play cool games like prototype and such ( i dont know about u but i like it )
then i tought why dont i start saving money for new computer but a new computer who filled my requirements was 900 euros ( Portugal) or plus!!!
and then i saw the games i wanted also for ps3 wich costs 400 euros!!! its like... half the price!!! and now im sab«ving up for it in the hope that sony doesnt release a ps4 in 2 year time!!!
the thing is i bought a portable a year ago and now i cant play cool games like prototype and such ( i dont know about u but i like it )
then i tought why dont i start saving money for new computer but a new computer who filled my requirements was 900 euros ( Portugal) or plus!!!
and then i saw the games i wanted also for ps3 wich costs 400 euros!!! its like... half the price!!! and now im sab«ving up for it in the hope that sony doesnt release a ps4 in 2 year time!!!
Windows XP was first released on 25 October 2001YuheJi said:
Age of Empires III (AOE III) was Released on October 18, 2005
(Wikipedia so might be wrong)
So you were upset that they required XP on a game released 4 years after XP? At what point does it become ok?
On Topic the last time I was bummed by system requirements was when I had to use a "family PC". Once I got my own it was just a matter of saving lunch money or cutting a few lawns and I was able to keep up. Or if I wanted to forego both those things I waited till my dad had another mid life crisis, capped his PC and I got his old PC's remains which tended to play anything I wanted to play.
Then again I've never been beating off a boner when new games come out. The "gameplay" is just gone replaced with "graphics". I love graphics as much as the next guy but if it plays like a syphilitic sociopath I'm not going to enjoy it not matter how pretty it is.
I'd like to be the guy with the up to date machine who plays Crysis warhammer at full speed laughing, while torrents seed away in the background, but that particular delusional fantasy comes crashing down when I realise how crap my hdd is.
I can happily play half life 2 episode 2 at full speed and full graphics, but it stutters every time it need to load or save anything.
I also needed to steam the game direct, because my dvd drive is crap.
SO
I need a delicious new SATAII and a blue ray drive FIRST, then my four gigs of Ram, Radeon HD 3800 and Athlon X2 64 can make me proud.
Till then, it's lightning fast portal, between chapter points :/
I can happily play half life 2 episode 2 at full speed and full graphics, but it stutters every time it need to load or save anything.
I also needed to steam the game direct, because my dvd drive is crap.
SO
I need a delicious new SATAII and a blue ray drive FIRST, then my four gigs of Ram, Radeon HD 3800 and Athlon X2 64 can make me proud.
Till then, it's lightning fast portal, between chapter points :/
Age of Empires 3 came out in 2005. Windows XP had been out for four years and was by far the dominant operating system on the market, had received its second Service Pack by then, and ran on any decent midrange PC of the time. You had a dinosaur of a computer if it wouldn't run Age 3.YuheJi said:
I've been thinking about getting a good video card, but don't know if it will help much in my situation. If somebody could help me, that would be awesome! 3 GB DDR 2 Channel, AMD Phenom 9500 Quad Core 2.4ghz rated at 5.1 ghz (that's what systems requirements lab says anyways), 500 GB Hard Drive, and for a video card I have a Radeon X850. Running Vista 32, it is a Gateway GT5674.
Keep in mind I know little about computers. If I upgraded my card, is the rest of the stuff sufficient?
Keep in mind I know little about computers. If I upgraded my card, is the rest of the stuff sufficient?
A lot of people still used 2000 at the time (I ran across a number of forums complaining about it). Not only that, but the installer required XP to run. It wasn't like Storm Rise that can only run DirectX 10. The game ran fine on a Windows 2000 machine, but the installer would not let you install the game if you weren't running XP. Sort of like Halo 2 requiring Vista.theultimateend said:
Well that sucks ass. I didn't know anything about that. I basically had XP the second it was available (my father got the stuff free from the government) so it didn't seem like that big of a deal.YuheJi said:
I know what you mean about the installer though.
Windows Live works 100% fine on 64 bit windows XP but the installer won't let you do it. You have to find the individual installers to install it.
Pissed me off so bad.
Yeah exactly, I got a 2.4ghz C2D and a 8800GTX and it runs just fine.Slayer_2 said:
On topic yeah im moving towards consoles myself. Im just getting sick of all the crap PC ports we get, ie. Mass Effect and Bioshock. Im just getting sick of paying for a videocard that will last a while and it costs a lot more than a console would. If they allowed mouse and keyboard support for more games on console (maybe just for single player) im sure a heap of people will flock over.