to be honest i ve seen enough problems in the beta ( and i know its only a beta ) to cancel my pre order untill i see how well this game runs in a trial . lets hope they dont leave it too long or i may be happily playing warhammer and age of conan wont get a look in .

i m running a pentium duo 2.8 ghz nvidia 8600 gt with 3 gb ram... somewhere inbetween recomended and required specs . if (please note i say IF meaning that i m not saying it will be , i know what some of you are like )the released version is anything like the beta those specs are misleading .

I've played almost every MMO ever since 1997. Also fortunate enough to be in a lot of betas. I was in Vanguard beta as well. I saw first hand what happened to that game when they released it when it wasn't ready.

All the pre release hype that got stirred up. How excited everyone was. When are people going to wake up. The more you hype up a game the more you get disappointed when you see what a POS it turns out to be. For myself, I don't get pulled into the hype of ANY new mmo. I take all the fanboi speak and all the complainers with a grain of salt.

So it should be no suprise when I tell you from first hand experience... This Game Is Not Ready. And it will be months before enough bug fixing and polish is done for it to not cave in on itself on launch day. They better get their heads out of the sand if they think they are going to release in under 20 days from now. And yes I said first hand... I forsee another Vanguard coming. People aren't so forgiving when you frack up something they have waited and anticipated for so long.

Let's hope they can work a miracle in 20 days and I'm wrong.

Originally posted by googajoob7

to be honest i ve seen enough problems in the beta ( and i know its only a beta ) to cancel my pre order untill i see how well this game runs in a trial . lets hope they dont leave it too long or i may be happily playing warhammer and age of conan wont get a look in .

i m running a pentium duo 2.8 ghz nvidia 8600 gt with 3 gb ram... somewhere inbetween recomended and required specs . if (please note i say IF meaning that i m not saying it will be , i know what some of you are like )the released version is anything like the beta those specs are misleading .

as for warhammer, bleh, waiting 6 months (maybe 4 now that open b is running smoothly) is what i am willing to go waiting for the mandatory trapsing through posts until i find the truth (yes scully, its out there) by then i may or may not be playing, and well warhammer, unless aoc falls on its face, wont get a look. i can only stand one of these things at a time and bow my head to anyone playing multiple mmo's at the same time (and if so, you need help..................really) 

Originally posted by Terrapin54

Special thanks to Hugh.

Stuttering:

Q:so where's that magic button ?

When you are in game, first open the debugging menu:

ctrl + ù for french keyboards
ctrl + \ for UK keyboards.
strg + ö for german keyboards.

Then press "dump shaders" because that is the magic button to save the results.

I think this tool has been removed as of todays patch.

So, I'm half retarded and was wondering if my pc will run AoC decently.

AMD Sempron 3000+

1.81 Ghz    2GB ram

ATI x1300 512md vid card

turn view distance down to around 500k for beta you cant see the other gazillion k any way why load it it solved my left or right turn crashes

debuggers gone as of patch im told. i forced VSync through nvidia options. 2.0, 2.x shaders checked. bloom disabled. games runs good sometimes, terrible most times.

its too bad, ill keep on tweaking this beta until its over but as of yet, i cannot buy this game.

any

Originally posted by googajoob7

to be honest i ve seen enough problems in the beta ( and i know its only a beta ) to cancel my pre order untill i see how well this game runs in a trial . lets hope they dont leave it too long or i may be happily playing warhammer and age of conan wont get a look in .

 

What mmo has trials before a year or so?  Not very many at all.

I've launched the game for the first time, seems like it took around 5 minutes for the initial load (black screen during that time, right after hitting play).  Then it seems to be very heavy on the cpu for a while while the main menu displayed..  Went into create char process.. lots of sturrering and i assume building of caches, then it was smooth.   So I guess running it for the first time means one has to be patient while stuff renders and caches etc.  Love the fact that my g15 lcd picked up right away

This is what i need in a game.

Fun.

loadingscreens of up to a minute isnt fun.

I will have a pc that meets and excells the recommended requirements and i will have 2x geforce 9800gtx to take care of graphics.

But if the game is too "ahead of time" and grouping up for raids etc will be impossible cause the pc's to meet up with the games req isnt made yet or too expensive for the normal gamer, i wont play it for long.

Originally posted by googajoob7

to be honest i ve seen enough problems in the beta ( and i know its only a beta ) to cancel my pre order untill i see how well this game runs in a trial . lets hope they dont leave it too long or i may be happily playing warhammer and age of conan wont get a look in .

i m running a pentium duo 2.8 ghz nvidia 8600 gt with 3 gb ram... somewhere inbetween recomended and required specs . if (please note i say IF meaning that i m not saying it will be , i know what some of you are like )the released version is anything like the beta those specs are misleading .

Sorry you seem disapointed. I am running a 1.8 duo with 8600gts and only 2gb ram........It runs very smooth on low settings and personaly i am really enjoying it, definately going to buy this and it can only improve. Lots mention to take out the .shader files, i tried this and sure enough if those loading screens are getting to some of you i went from 5-7mins load time into thirsty dog down to about 2 seconds. Of coarse this effects some of the appearance, but even prior to doing this...near the beach area i was running at 60fps

and this is during a stress test!

Get real people..this game is bloody fantastic and if there are a load of bugs to clear...so what...i can cope. I blame consoles for everything! back when you used to have to wait 10-15 mins everytime you had to load a game on the spectrum and listen to them crash over and over and start all over again, used to happen so much you could sing along with the tune of the screeching noises...and you would know exactly where it was going to crash and waited with heart in mouth hoping it would carry on to the next bit lol. Spoilt..the lot of ya....and we had to walk to school bare foot in the snow. Where am i going with this,,,ahh right....nowhere ^^. Look..its great....don't listen to these little anklebitters or jaded gamers, it will only get better.

My Rig:
AthlonXP 1700+ 1.4GHz.
2GB RAM DDR
ATI X1650 512MB AGP

Just to ask before I try to download the beta. Does the processor fall too small, or could the video card make up for it?

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OS: Windows Vista/XP
Processor: 3GHz Pentium IV
RAM: 1GB RAM
Video Card: Shader Model 2.0 and 128MB RAM: NVIDIA GeForce 5800 or ATI 9800

I'm wondering the same thing.

My rig:

AMD 3000+

1.81Ghz

2Gb Ram

ATI X1300 512mb AGP

Can I run it even at lowest settings?

And any suggestions on a new proccessor?

This is now very outdated.

Thanks for that, how about a suggestion on a new processor or board and chipset?

OP...where can I find the full post? There is a reference to a page #4, post #73.

Thanks in advance.

I played the PVPBeta on my

AMD Athlon 64x2

Vista 32Bit

3GB DDR2

Ati 3870x2 (BTW, that's the model, not two 3870's.)

@1680x1050.

I ran smoothly with most of the settings, (All but Sound Hardware, got a crappy AudigySE card), Maxed.

Smoothly at 40-60FPS. 40 being populated areas, 60 in standard PVP..

So, doesn't have to be the best, just something to run the latest DX10 shaders...

Originally posted by Alan0n

oh - we got new requerments for the game now ?

Basicly - If my 8800gtx and 5.4 rated PC can't handle Conan without some extra tweaking then the game isn't ready for launch.   Its still not performing well enough for me.

4gb of ram.... Seriously ....  The game has serious memory leak right left and center.  Two loading screens and you crash.  Thats great in a MMO game where you group up with ppl - just to find them dcing every 10-20 mins.... Seriously

Stability of the client is none existant atm.  Its the basic of good gameplay - And Funcom can't provide it.

i was hoping for good things out of this game and got EA with funcom's recommended spec and was sorely let down.  Why is a 'tweak' guide being released already? because the client's fubar'd and this game should have stayed in development for a LOT longer to iron out problems such as memory leaking and compatibility with a whole rangeof cards not just '8800 or GTFO', so yet again the gaming community is treated to a sub-par retail release with the promises of future patching; wtf ever happend to the days when a game went gold it would be a finished product?  This forum appears to be choke full of raging fanboi's that are determined that this turkey will be the best thing since sliced bread simply because it comes from a great IP.

I think this game will require to much from my pc, and it will require to much for a lot of other peeps I imagine.  As gay as it sounds i'm gonna stick with my WoW until the specs get brought down a bit to run on middle of the road systems.  I have been playing mmo's for a long time, and imo the best way to shoot yourself in the foot is to tell everyone they need a new cpu to run a game they want you to buy and pay for monthly.  Lots of peeps just wont do it.  Not everyone lives in there parents basements and can afford a new system every other year.  FunCom wants a huge player base get with the program.  Make it visually pleasing but put more effort into the mmo content then the eye candy.

Am I doomed?  I mean System Requirement Labs says I have minimum standards yet I failed according to them. 

II have a laptop with:

• Intel pemtium R
• 2.8 GHz
• Rated at 4.19
• 2 g of ram
• Pemtium 4
• 120 Gigs

SRL Says:

Video Card