lets all list our system specs here and explain how they performed in vanguard on different settings

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ CPU with 2gigs of 400Mhz DDR RAM

ATI 512mb X1650 DDR2 graphics card

on highest settings my game ran poorly in busy areas and pretty well in quieter areas

on highest performance settings my game ran very well in public areas and even better in the wild

Originally posted by sepher
Pentium 4 630 - 3.0Ghz
2 Gigs of 533mhz RAM
GeForce 7950GT 256mb

I play at 1280x1024 resolution, and in general keep framerates between 15-30 on Highest Quality settings with only one .ini tweak whether in most towns or not. That one .ini tweak is the shader cache one.

What I mean by most towns is, Halgarad for instance is playable at Highest Quality for me, but Khal isn't. High Quality will do there, but I usually go to Balanced and play smoothly.

I'd probably have FPS over 30 if I wasn't lazy about .ini tweaks or even moving the sliders in-game. But I play smooth enough with just the default settings.

Originally posted by Jokkocze
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 (socket 939)
2GB Corsair TwinX ddr533
WD Raptor 74gb (10000rpm)
Leadtek GeForce 8800GTX 768MB

Game runs decent on highest settings.. I get around 30fps in crowded areas and 60-70 in the wilderness.
Havent tweaked anything and I should reinstall windows.
Havent tried highest performance, but I guess that it'd be great :)

I dont really know why, but I kinda think that crysis will run better than VG..

P4 3.2 W/HT

2 GB Ram (Kingston 333)

Radeon 9800 Pro 256

Resolution 1024*768

Omega Drivers 3.8.205

Everything on Highest except for shadows which are off, vsync off, environmental settings at 50-70%

Outdoors Alone : 35-60 FPS

Indoors Alone : 40-90 FPS

Dungeon: 25-45 FPS

Outdoors Populated :20-45 FPS

Indoors Populated: 30-50 FPS

Dungeon Populated: 18-30 FPS

Now when I say poulated, I mean my full group with another full group beside us, and populated indoors I mean like hathor Zhi crafting hall.

Originally posted by sepher
Vanguard's graphics are great, but I don't think anyone believes they're at all nearly great enough for the hardware they demand.

That seems to be happening a lot lately wonder if dev's think everyone has a super computer and they don't need to do any optimizations I can play oblivion with everything on max including HDR+AA along with forced AF and still stay above 30fps everywhere including outside with lots of trees and water yet LOTRO runs pretty poor on high quality and the graphics in it aren't up to oblivion's standards!

3.6 Ghz Pentium      Geforce 8800 GTX        2 gigs of Ram

I run on the highest settings in 1600X1200 with a few downward tweaks in some key areas.  I'll get around 50fps in the open and it will drop to 10-20fps in crowded areas.  I'm willing to take the fps hit for the detail.

I have found that with a few important adjustments, I can keep the beauty and still maintain good fps.  For example, I pushed the clipping plane all the way up.  Well, it provided very little additional value, but had a big system impact.  So I dialed it down to about half way on the slilder bar which helped alot.

Originally posted by Gangster-Man

P4 3.2 W/HT

2 GB Ram (Kingston 333)

Radeon 9800 Pro 256

Resolution 1024*768

Omega Drivers 3.8.205

 

Everything on Highest except for shadows which are off, vsync off, environmental settings at 50-70%

Outdoors Alone : 35-60 FPS

Indoors Alone : 40-90 FPS

Dungeon: 25-45 FPS

Outdoors Populated :20-45 FPS

Indoors Populated: 30-50 FPS

Dungeon Populated: 18-30 FPS

Now when I say poulated, I mean my full group with another full group beside us, and populated indoors I mean like hathor Zhi crafting hall.

 

E6600 2.4 ghz Intel Dual Core

2 Gigs DDR-2 800 Mem

PNY 8800 GTX NVidia Video Card

My performance is completely dependent on where I'm at in the game and who's around me.  When hunting, the game is smooth and graphics are good.  In some cities, it stutters.  If there's a bunch of people in a small area, it's a slide show.  It also depends on how long I've played.  Anything over 3 hours or so, and I know I'll be crashing to desktop soon.

I run on custom settings in graphics, and keep tweaking it.

Originally posted by elemence
AMD 64 2.2ghz
1.5gb RAM (weird, I know)
Radeon X1900 GT 256mb

needless to say, my dear vanguard doesn't run to well. I keep it on "high performance" most of the time to get 35.-45 fps and to keep things smooth incase of a pvp encounter. I play on Tharridor, the PVP FFA server so it's more of an issue to keep framerate high than more pretty trees on screen.

My friend has a staggeringly sick rig with which we lan-party (figuratively) so I watch the difference between high performance and high quality simultaneously often. While the differences are obviously pretty huge, it's not the kind of game where you say, "what's the point of playing on this graphics setting?" The originality and effort put into the design still shines through, it's still visually simulating.

I support Vanguards decision to put out a game that demands a lot from the current PC. C'mon folks, what's recommended requirements today are going to be minimum not to long from now, developers have to think ahead or they're going to have a game that looks like it's from a previous generation within a year! WoW circumvented this by making easy to run cartoony graphics that in my opinion leave little room for immersion (especially when coupled with the incessant humor and teamspeak like tools. I loved the humor in WoW but eventually I craved something that took itself more serious).

Well that's how my computer runs and a little of my 2c as well.

Asus P5B 3gb DDR2

Core2Duo E6300

Asus 880GTS 640mb

22' Viewsonic Widescreen LCD 1680x1050 res

I usually run on balanced, with no ini tweaks (i'm lazy) I get 30-50 fps out hunting, 20's in town. Sometimes I'll play in high performance and get 45-70FPS, and sometimes I'll play in high quality and still get 30-40FPS outside, but I rarely fight mobs on that setting, too high of a chance of some vid lag at the wrong moment.

The problem isn't the steep hardware requirements, I don't mind buying new hardware for quality graphics. The problem is that the graphics of this game, while really nice, shouldn't bog down high end systems. It's more of a problem with code that needs to be changed and optimized. Our 8 series cards especially are not being fully utilized. There's no reason why we shouldn't be able to get 70-80 FPS on highest quality.

I also should mention that until I bought  my 8800, I was using a 6200TC and the game was quite playable on high and highest performance.  Usually on highest, since I also only had 1gb of ram at the time and the TC used a lot of that.

Originally posted by Terminus-Est

Originally posted by Gangster-Man

P4 3.2 W/HT

2 GB Ram (Kingston 333)

Radeon 9800 Pro 256

Resolution 1024*768

Omega Drivers 3.8.205

 

Everything on Highest except for shadows which are off, vsync off, environmental settings at 50-70%

Outdoors Alone : 35-60 FPS

Indoors Alone : 40-90 FPS

Dungeon: 25-45 FPS

Outdoors Populated :20-45 FPS

Indoors Populated: 30-50 FPS

Dungeon Populated: 18-30 FPS

Now when I say poulated, I mean my full group with another full group beside us, and populated indoors I mean like hathor Zhi crafting hall.

 

That is interesting, because you have the same system as I had before 'upgrading' my graphics card. I also have a P4 3.2GHz, with 2GB of RAM. I used to have a Radeon 9800 Pro, but recently upgraded to a GeForce 7800 GS.

I get nothing like the framerate you get. In good conditions, with nothing moving on screen, I get about 15-20fps and this goes down to about 10fps with reasonable amounts on-screen activity (eg in a group), and even lower in town. And this is with balanced settings (not high as your was).

So it looks like this is a graphics card issue. I wonder what would happen if I put my old card back in....?

also, try the omega drivers im using. i have upgraded a few times my drivers, but found the best performance in the old omega ones.( in pretty much every game)

Core 2 Duo 2.4, 2G DDR2, Geforce Go7800 512M, 17" 1900x1200 LCD laptop.

On "Balanced" the game was passable at 15-18fps average (lower in town, higher alone in the woods) but to get anything 'smooth' out of it FPS-wise I had to turn things down to the point everything looked like mud and the trees turn into 2D placeholders.

Now, granted, this is my LAN-rig laptop, but it *far* exceeds even the preferred spec's on the box and turns a constant 30-40 fps in any other unreal-based game...

So, YMMV, but there's something messed up in V:SoH's implimentation of the unreal engine.

Originally posted by Rihahn

Core 2 Duo 2.4, 2G DDR2, Geforce Go7800 512M, 17" 1900x1200 LCD laptop.

On "Balanced" the game was passable at 15-18fps average (lower in town, higher alone in the woods) but to get anything 'smooth' out of it FPS-wise I had to turn things down to the point everything looked like mud and the trees turn into 2D placeholders.

Now, granted, this is my LAN-rig laptop, but it *far* exceeds even the preferred spec's on the box and turns a constant 30-40 fps in any other unreal-based game...

So, YMMV, but there's something messed up in V:SoH's implimentation of the unreal engine.