Age of Conan

    i win

Originally posted by Warblaze

Hey guys, here's a small question. My current spec is as follows:

Intel Pentium Dual Core 2.8 Gig,  2048MB ram,  ATI X1900GT,  Windows XP.

If i would upgrade my videocard with a geforce 8800GT, how much would that boost my fps for AoC?

Also, would you recommend me buying a 8800GT 256 MB, or a 512MB card?

Thanks :)

Its $189 after a $30 mail in rebate. Till end of March then its goes to $219.

I would say over your current system you would see maybe a 30% increase: here you can see the breakdown between the two: http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=544&card2=415

If you notice the 8800GT has a higher memory bandwidth and a much better texture fill rate. Thats not to say the X1900GT is shabby because its not. The 8800GT will give you the option of DX10 too for this game or others in the future.

Best way to judge is to go for Open Beta (make sure you applied to beta already) if not wait for a buddy key at release - im sure there will be a few going around ;) Frame rates right now are hard to say because the game is still going optimsation.

Crap I forgot to say that I was told by some devs too, that with dx10 capable cards, these have unified shaders on them which the game will take advantage of whether you run in dx9 or dx10. You can hear a bit on this in the Q&A videos part 1 and 2, I believe from the community event.

The Xbox 360's Graphics Processing Unit developed by ATI also has Unified Shaders!

Unified Shaders are present in Shader Model 4 capable graphics cards read more here for those interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_shader_model

This is also why the game engine was built up from scratch and loosely based on Anarchy Onlines game engine, because AO's game engine was based around Dx7 ! So AoC's game engine was done pretty much from scratch to take advantage of new hardware. A big time evolution.

Allrighty, a 30% increase sounds pretty good to me... i'll be sure to pick one of 'em up before release then. Thanks for letting me know Avery!

AMD 2.2ghz  turion 64 (single core), 2 gig ram, dual 7900GS go running SLi. vista OS>.

What do you think.?

I surpass  or meet the requirements, but I plan a few upgrades for Conan (and other non MMO's)...

Current                        Upgrade

E6600 @ Stock          Quad core Intel (not sure of speed or model yet)

2 GB DDR2 800         4 GB DDR2 800

8800 GTX                     9800 GTX or GX2 (depending on final performance.  One guy got 19k on 3dmark 06 with                                        a single 9800 GTX...Not too shabby...)

74 GB Raptor               N/A

750  GB + 250 GB       N/A

funny thing is...i got this sweet computer that can run AoC but with no internet access.  unfortunately i dont control the net either so i am stuck with this company that refuses to allow more than 1 computer to access the net.

i'l find a way around this before AoC gets here

4GB Ram, 4Gz Quad Core... I have recommended Graphic card, but i want a new one, i want everything running smooth.

Only thing i need to buy is Vista, so i can use all the preformance my computer can provide.

Currently, I have a:

AMD 64 Athlon X2 4600

4 GIG DDR 800 RAM

8800 GTS  320 Graphics Card

Now, lets just say, If you guys dont have at least 2 gigs of ram and a 7900 GT + Graphics card, along with a Dual Processor, you WONT BE ABLE TO RUN THE GAME RIGHT NOW.

How do I know this? Well,,,,,I'd be breaking the NDA If I Finished this sentence.... If that doesn't explain myself without explaining myself, then well,,,ask someone a bit smarter than you what I'm referring to. :)

So, If you really has aspirations of playing AoC, it may be a good idea to save those nickels in your piggy bank, cause come May, the ones with PC's older than 2 years won't be very happy... Thats all I'm gonna say and this post could get deleted since the Administrators aren't stupid..