Endless Space Question

[Doopliss64]

Okay, I'm kind of an idiot about these things, so stick with me:

I'm not really a PC gamer, but I have an old-ish rig I use to play low-spec games sometimes. I've recently been interested in Endless Space, so I checked the system requirements on Steam. They are:

Minimum:

OS:Windows XP SP3 / Vista / 7
Processor:Core 2 Duo Processor or Equivalent
Memory:2 GB RAM
Graphics:256 MB DX9 Compliant
DirectX®:9.0c
Hard Drive:2 GB HD space
SoundirectX 9 Compatible Audio

Recommended:

OS:Windows XP SP3 / Vista / 7
Processor:Core i5/i7 or equivalent
Memory:2 GB RAM
Graphics:512 MB DX9 Compliant with PS 3.0 support
DirectX®:9.0c
Hard Drive:2 GB HD space
SoundirectX 9 Compatible Audio

I honestly have no idea what to do with this, especially the "or equivalent" part. I don't know how different processors stack up against each other. I have:

OS:Vista
Processor:AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ 2.00 GHz
Memory:3.00 GB
Graphics:NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
DirectX: ? can't find this anywhere

So, will this fry my computer?
Help a stupid console gamer out?

 

[Geekiest]

Well, it looks to me like you meet the minimum system requirements, but not the recommended, so while it probably won't fry your machine, you will have to keep the settings pretty low and possibly let it breath every once in awhile: in other words, treat her gentle. Although frankly I'm not sure how well it'll run... I grew up and live with a family of game-obsessed technophiles. I don't remember the last time I ran on minimum settings. Maybe for Crysis. Although that's not really a game designed for it by any stretch.

That said, you haven't listed sound or hard drive space. Presumably that means you have something comparable? Don't worry about the DirectX, your graphics card indicates that's already covered.

 

[Doopliss64]

Thanks for the help. I've got enough memory (I can just delete stuff anyway), but I didn't realize sound might be a problem.

Action games just chew up my computer's framerate, but I figured a strategy game might be more reasonable (especially turn-based). I'm not sure if this helps but I recently played Majesty 2 no problem, so unless this is much more graphically-intensive than that, I'd be fine just lowering all the settings to minimum.

I'm used to playing with N64-era graphics. :/

 

[nomzy]

Thanks for the help. I've got enough memory (I can just delete stuff anyway), but I didn't realize sound might be a problem.

Action games just chew up my computer's framerate, but I figured a strategy game might be more reasonable (especially turn-based). I'm not sure if this helps but I recently played Majesty 2 no problem, so unless this is much more graphically-intensive than that, I'd be fine just lowering all the settings to minimum.

I'm used to playing with N64-era graphics. :/

When you get later into the game it starts to lag at the end of turns when all the AI's are moving their fleets around and all that. But this is 150 or so turns in with 8 players.
Other then that it should be pretty smooth.