Age of Conan

Hey gang,

I'm looking at playing Age of Conan, and checking that "Can You Run It ?" site, it looks like my new (to me) video card (Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT) more than meets the recommended setting, but my system RAM of 1 gig does not... though that is the minimum setting.  They recommend 2 GB. 

So, my question is... is Funcom telling the truth about 1GB of system RAM being a runnable minimum ?  With my video card, will I be able to get by, or will the memory just not be able to keep up ?

I'm kinda not wanting to upgrade to 2 GB of RAM because I look at all my other games that I'm playing or plan on playing any time soon, and no other game has that requirement on RAM.... and I play a lot of games.  I mean, yeah, maybe it's inevitable, but... upgrading RAM for one game at this point ?  Not so much what I want to do.   So... would I have to ?

AoC needs all the Ram Windows XP (2GB)and Vista(3GB) can allow it to have. Otherwise except massive Yes Massive GFX issues with 1 GB.

I beleive it will run AoC.

But why oh why dont you upgrade to 2 GB of RAM?????

You say you play a lot of games, and tbh it will help all your games if you upgrade to 2GB of RAM.

Note also that windows will take most of yuor 1 gig and once that is finished Windows will use virtual memory and things will still run, but sooo much slower.

In this day and age when RAM is so cheap you really should be upgrading.

Graphics in Conan are quite good. Do your self a favor...  (In this day and age) I feel two gigs is minimum for game playing. Isn't the age old adage true here? "Better to have to much, then too little" I have a 8800 GTX with 6700 duel processer and two gigs of DDR2 PC2-8500 and just yesterday looked into getting another two gigs. (Not sure if it will be effective in making my computer any better) I am a gamer, not a computer wizard, so I have no clue. People have told me that Vista wont utilize more then three gigs,  but I'm going to talk to some experts before I buy. Plus ram is the cheapest thing you can upgrade. One gig of ram is so cheap I can't even understand the question.

Hope things go good for you, and good luck with your future gaming.  :)

Thanks for the suggestions... admittedly, most of my *current* gaming is stuff that's a few years old (WoW, CoH, Civ IV, Medieval II, Warhammer 40K: DoW, NWN and NWN2), and they all run fine. 

But maybe some of these games I'm looking at getting in the next year *will* require 2 gig, I guess... the next games I anticipate getting are ES IV: Oblivion, Titan Quest, Marvel Ultimate Alliance and LOTRO (of games that are out) and this fall or in 2009... Empire: Total War, Warhammer: DoW II, WAR and Champions Online.

As you can see from my game list... I'm not someone who really plays like high end FPS games... so adjusting to graphics requirements is something I don't necessarily think as important, just because ?  Strategy games for example... generally not super graphic heavy you know ?

YEh u can run it on 1 gig if u turn everytthing down and have free hd  space for virtual ram- about 3 gigish, but yeh i would have to agree with the others u should upgrade ur pc, i mean 1 gig isnt enough for the gamer anymore,

Originally posted by verdantrex

Thanks for the suggestions... admittedly, most of my *current* gaming is stuff that's a few years old (WoW, CoH, Civ IV, Medieval II, Warhammer 40K: DoW, NWN and NWN2), and they all run fine. 

But maybe some of these games I'm looking at getting in the next year *will* require 2 gig, I guess... the next games I anticipate getting are ES IV: Oblivion, Titan Quest, Marvel Ultimate Alliance and LOTRO (of games that are out) and this fall or in 2009... Empire: Total War, Warhammer: DoW II, WAR and Champions Online.

As you can see from my game list... I'm not someone who really plays like high end FPS games... so adjusting to graphics requirements is something I don't necessarily think as important, just because ?  Strategy games for example... generally not super graphic heavy you know ?

Some nice games u got on that list oblivion had some awesome side stories like this quest that takes u into a painting, and yeh im waiting for DOW 2 and empire total war as well. I liked titan quest but it wasnt too great of a game.

you say you have Civ IV? Then you HAVE to get another 1gig of Ram, it's imperative. I'm willing to bet that in that game your seeing slowdowns after about an hour, if you add more ram you'll last twice that. Ram is the cheapest and most effective way to boost computer performance, especially multi-tasking and long-term playability in games.

Originally posted by Kram59

Graphics in Conan are quite good. Do your self a favor...  (In this day and age) I feel two gigs is minimum for game playing. Isn't the age old adage true here? "Better to have to much, then too little" I have a 8800 GTX with 6700 duel processer and two gigs of DDR2 PC2-8500 and just yesterday looked into getting another two gigs. (Not sure if it will be effective in making my computer any better) I am a gamer, not a computer wizard, so I have no clue. People have told me that Vista wont utilize more then three gigs,  but I'm going to talk to some experts before I buy. Plus ram is the cheapest thing you can upgrade. One gig of ram is so cheap I can't even understand the question.

Hope things go good for you, and good luck with your future gaming.  :)

64 bit OS on a 64bit system allows upto 128GB of memory to be recognised

This is maybe sliding off the subject of AoC, but about what I just said about strategy games and graphics... might Empire: Total War's graphics be comparable to AoC ?  Is that an example of a game that might require 2 gig of RAM in the very near future ?

Sounds like I am going to upgrade sooner rather than later then (E:TW comes out in the spring).