Need help, Buying GW. Is my system good?

mrcarta

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jul 2006

Hey im about to buy the game but i wanna know if the game will work well in my pc.

here are the sats:

3.2 Ghz
80gb Hard drive
64 mb video card (G-Force FX)
512 mb ram

this stuff is integrated, i own a Toshiba Satellite Laptop.

mrcarta

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jul 2006

So will it work well?
anybody?

Ashleigh McMahon

Ashleigh McMahon

Site Contributor

Join Date: Apr 2005

North East England

WoTU[Warlords of the Underworld]

Mo/Me

Yeah. It'l definately work. My only worries is the video card. It'l run definately, but the game might not show full potential, and might load slow due to a 64mb Video card. I'd suggest getting a 128mb one atleast.

I ran GW slow, but well on:

1.79Ghz
60 or so Hard Drive
64 MV NVidia G-Force FX(No pixel-support, this disabled me from seeing a bosses auras)
256RAM

It ran slow, but it was playable. The game itself was fine, was just the loading.

I'm now on the same as then, but with 512MB RAM, and a 128MB Nvidia-5500 G-force- It works great on high detail( No anti-aliasing).


Hope this helps.
Ashleigh

us3rX

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2006

W/

i know someone running GW on 500mhz and with well it was 256mb of ram with a 64mb card... loading times were kind of killer but it played
but yeah yours should play it, but like McMahon said, you should upgrade the video card.

~us3rX

Aurgorn Notnaw

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2005

Robin Hood Country, Nottinghamshire, England

Swords of Justice

R/

This should help you -

http://www.srtest.com/referrer/srtest

Just select Guild Wars from the drop down menu and click the button.

mrcarta

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jul 2006

Wow thnx ok but i own a laptop i dont think you can upgrade video cards on laptops. Ok another question. the reason i asked this and im a lil worried is because i baught Age of Empires 3 last year and it just ran so freakin slow i could barely do anything. I hope this game wont be another flashback to Age of Empires 3 because that would be horrible :P.

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005



this will analyze your system to tell you yes/no and if yes there is a graph that gives a fairly good idea of how well.

http://gameadvisor.futuremark.com/ga.../game_scan.jsp

Helll is for Heroes

Helll is for Heroes

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2005

True Cinema

W/

it will work, the only thing is you will be running at 20fps maximum at any one time.

lightblade

lightblade

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

The Etereal Guard

Me/Mo

You CAN run GW with it, but...

At the lowest setting and get around 10~20 FPS

swaaye

swaaye

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

what GeForce FX is it? A 5200 won't run the game very well at all. A 5600 will be semi-ok, but still not so hot.