Will My Oldee Be Able to play?

Hey I am psyched about Guild Wars, but I am wondering if my PC can run this game:

1.4ghz amd athlon
384mb ram
128mb GeForce FX 5200

I suppose that is sufficient

~prime

Yep, it will work, but probably on worst graphics ( still great though ). Try getting some more ram, if you can, maybe a 512 stick. Then, when you get a new processor and vid card ( you will, eventually ) you can just move it into the new computer.

Here's mine...
1.2 Ghz Cereron (running at 1.4)
512/133 ram
5200 fx card
Windows 98 SE

If I were you I'd swap out that 128 meg for a 256 first chance you get so you have at least 512. I have no lag at 1024x768 with anti aliasing off and medium to high quality settings as in-game settings. I am on DSL. If you are not you might have some lag until you are actually using the release version of the game with CD.

Oh and don't use the latest drivers. I use 61.77, now if you do that too, go to the nvidia settings for the desktop manager and set the image quality setting to "high quality." There is an issue with the 5200 FX and guild wars, and what I just told you gets rid of it. The new drivers also seem to have a problem.

Anyway, I hope this was helpful. Cya in the game.


***NOTE***
If you are using Spybot, uninstall it and try something else. I replaced it with SpySweeper from www.webroot.com. Spybot interferes miserably with GuildWars, or at least it did for me. Character would lag and stand there, then attack for a second then 5 more seconds of lag and stand there, not frozen, they just weren't getting any commands. Just a fair warning.

http://www.guildwars.com/faq/default.html

What are the system requirements for Guild Wars?

heres some of my specs..

256 MB RAM
Celeron D Processor
2.80 GHz

and thats all i can think of right now. but will GW work on a computer like this without lag or something?

LostSoul, you probably need another 256 ram, preferably get a total of 1 gig if you can.

However what video card you got? at least a Radeon 9200 or nvidia 5200 FX if you want to be able to at least have 1024 x 768 res with reasonable quality. Any radeon "SE" card is half "crippled," so to speak so best to have just a 9200, 9600, etc. "XT," is good though.

If you only have on board graphics it might run but it'll probably be the lowest possible settings and then you definitely need more ram.

Nvidia "SE" editions are actually better than the original card.

Anyway, what video card you have?

well srry if this is confusing but..i have an
Intel(R)82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller
if u want i can post like a screenshot thingy that will tell you more info

You will need more ram for sure and likely the game won't be as nice as it could be but it shouldn't be totally horrible, you might be able to get to 1024x768 res with not too bad a quality so long as you get more ram. I'd suggest getting another 512 megs myself.

would the graphics look laggy or something like that? would it look decent tho like what year would the game look like it came out lol

Go to www.guildwars.com and download the client, then run it and it should take you to the login screen after it downloads all the updates. If it is laggy there make adjustments using the options in the lower right corner of the login screen. If you can't get rid of the lag you know what you are dealing with. If you can get rid of it then you know you need to turn it down a little more so that you won't be lagging while playing, alright? I would get the RAM first though as I am sure you will lag horribly without it.

Yea, i have a POS dell too. once i upgraded the driver, it let me in the game, but if I tryed to move ANYTHING in my invitory my comp would freeze. After this happened afew times, I just got me a new GC and no probs sence.

so the client and the really thingy will look the same? like if the client lags, then the reall thing will lag too?

Okay, yes and no. If the graphics is lagging now you can expect it can only get worse with more graphics as you play the game with more people and object. You see? So it isn't exact but it is a good guide, a good reference point.

i oh see now but theres one problem with the client..i dont have the acess code thingy so i cant log in

That's okay for now, I mean, until you buy a preorder or the release is in your hands you won't have a code to put in. If you buy a preorder you'll have a code. So you might be able to play 1 day early then, and depending where you get it from you might get a special item. Check www.guildwars.com to see the items. But if it came up and isn't lagging, you're half way to knowing if you can play without problems.

I'd still make sure to buy the ram though, no matter what.

ok. thanks for the help..and er one last question..how much for a 512RAM stick thingy lol

I haven't a clue, lunarbunny might know somewhere good, usually does. So does Loviatar, he'd recomment www.newegg.com.

One more thread about using the onboard graphics too....

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...6906#post36906

Check that out, you might find more help there also.

when i get the 512 RAM thingy, how would i put it in my computer? and the client stuff runs pretty decent..would a pentium 4 processor make anymore faster?

If you don't know how to put one in, get help, even before you order it. Do not attempt to put it in without some wise overseeing eyes near by. Yours is a celeron running at a good clock rate, well this game runs fine on my 1.3 ghz celeron, yours is like twice mine. I would say, don't worry about it until you play and realize an actual problem. And then, I'd say look at video first. Graphics cards are important because the graphics "offloads" to them. So say you have a processor like mine, the better the graphics card (to a point) the more the card does the graphics so the processor can handle the game itself. See? Yours is probably gonna be ram, and then graphics card. You aren't gonna need to go beyond that unless you get into a far more complex video game.

ok thanks sin for all the help i apreciate it

SIN, no, any SE card, no matter what company is bad. Its better to get the XT or PRO of the last generation then a SE or LE or etc of the current.

256 ram is ENOUGH but you will want 512 once you start playing.

SE with radeon cuts it in half bandwidth wise.

nVidia actually adds to the card to make it special, like when a new type of ram is available or some new fan or heatsink design and they are between designs. Seriously I thought the same thing you did till I started looking at the specs. Their SE cards are actually better then their original numbers. It surprised me too.

what about me.

AMD Athlon 2600+ 1.92 GHz. 1 gi or ram
radeon 9600xt 256
??

Shady_Knife you have nothing to worry about

Have fun and cya in the game after release.

Lol sin...thanks for the recommendation. What I do is research the prices at the time I want to purchase, which generally means www.pricewatch.com (the great thing about pricewatch is that it forces vendors to compete). When you're on pricewatch though, there are two main things to look at:

What is the seller's rating? (Look for one with a good number of positive responses)
Check if the item is what you actually want. It may be a lesser or version because the search is not completely exact, i.e. LE versions of video cards or rejected RAM (which can be just fine, but it's like the new celery *cough* celeron processors which are mostly just throwaway P4's.)
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Unless you're picky about having a good looking box and a full paper manual, OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer, which means that normally it would be shipped to a company that premakes computers) can sometimes be the way to go. You will most likely recieve OEM products in blank boxes with .PDF manuals because if you buy a computer at a store, you don't expect to get the fancy boxes from the store along with that computer. Beware, though: OEM is sometimes used as a synonym for the above mentioned rejected products, so look at the fine print.
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The last purchase I made was at a local retailer though. It cost me a little more than on Pricewatch, but I got the safety of an easy return policy and the satisfaction of getting your parts right there at purchase.
The place I got my last upgrades was Computer Stop, which only has 2 locations, one in north Seattle and one in Bellevue [both WA for those who don't know]. They have online sales, too, which are a little cheaper than in-store prices before S&H. www.computerstop.com

A video card and ram are both very easy to install. As they can only go in one way. It would be very hard for you to make a mistake.

Sorry to add more ignorance to the conversation, but how well will a PNY - Verto GeForce4 MX 4000 Graphics Card with 64MB DDR SDRAM work with a PIII 800 mhz 384 RAM? My card now won't work, the client is laggy, but will this card help at all?

Wait, that's not your system at the beginning of the is thread....ug!

What are your system specs again? Sorry.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=4262