In Eve Online 200 people in one area is a lagfest on my 512 card, with the amount of detail this game has should I expect a serious upgrade to my computer.

The majority of the lag you get in Eve is from the server side. No idea about Aion though...

Well, a lot of people at the same time means that you do need a good computer. So it all depend on what you have now.

The 1GB GFX memory is not as important as the speed of the GFX card in this case but it also helps of course.

I would say that you could probably do with 2GB ram as long as you got a good GFX card, it will take the hardest work.

So if you plan to do massive PvP you might have to consider upgrading the GFX card but it depends on what you have. But don't do it now, just put away a few bucks and don't be suprised if you have to upgrade it, but there is no need to do it until you actually gets the problem.

Besides are the new GFX cards from ATI and Nvidia releasing in september and the prices will go down then, just be sure to look so your PSU (The power thing you know) can handle it.

 You wont need that in Aion,I admit I have not taken part in large scale pvp,but in the 1st beta test there was easily 200+ around me in the starting area and no lag at all,this game is very well optimized and runs great,yes I do have 4gb ram with vista but only use a 512 8800gt card and did not lag 1 bit.

It was normal to see around 100+fps in the wild and around 40-60 in cities,all that with the settings set to max,rest asured you will be fine with a 512 card.

Originally posted by daylight01

 You wont need that in Aion,I admit I have not taken part in large scale pvp,but in the 1st beta test there was easily 200+ around me in the starting area and no lag at all,this game is very well optimized and runs great,yes I do have 4gb ram with vista but only use a 512 8800gt card and did not lag 1 bit.

It was normal to see around 100+fps in the wild and around 40-60 in cities,all that with the settings set to max,rest asured you will be fine with a 512 card.

Thats good to hear, and now that you mention it I remember reading in a few previews of the game that even the critics were immpressed with the frame rate in high traffic areas.

This is the very first thing that impressed me about Aion. The preview events were very crowded, and even on my older computer running a 512mb GFX Card and 3 gigs of ram I had no problem, no spikes, nothing even resembling lag when I had easily 200+ people all gathered around me doing their emotes and spells and what not. The game has a very very well designed graphics engine that allows people, even with lesser computers, to participate in the large scale PvPvE aspect of the game.

Availability is something that affects a games success very much, and I believe that the majority of MMO gamers at the moment will have no problem playing all aspects of Aion without frustration.

tell you what whatever system you got , even top notch ...you lag out as hell when you got +200 moving and shining  shit in your area

Originally posted by CoffeeGrunt

tell you what whatever system you got , even top notch ...you lag out as hell when you got +200 moving and shining  shit in your area

Did you even play the game?

Ive seen vieos of people in massive RvR with mediocre system specs in aion with little to no lag, and I haven't noticed ANY lag anywhere in the game that might reduce gameplay(does 2-5 fps reduction count?) and my system has a radeon 3870 (512mb) non-overclocked with GDDR3 memory.

Originally posted by Jimmydean

Originally posted by CoffeeGrunt

tell you what whatever system you got , even top notch ...you lag out as hell when you got +200 moving and shining  shit in your area

 

Did you even play the game?

ok maybe my fault here i didnt specialy adress Aion in that matter , more a general approach

To make it clear, 15 minutes after the beggining of the European preview event a /who would show 5200 players. Those players were distributed in 4 channels, nobody lagged.

Originally posted by CoffeeGrunt

Originally posted by Jimmydean

Originally posted by CoffeeGrunt

tell you what whatever system you got , even top notch ...you lag out as hell when you got +200 moving and shining  shit in your area

 

Did you even play the game?

 

ok maybe my fault here i didnt specialy adress Aion in that matter , more a general approach

So you did not mean Aion even though you posted in the Aion forum?

In other words you just decided to type BS in the 1st forum that came along?

Dont worry about this guys opinion as he admits he does not have 1,Aion is very well optimized  and I think it will suprise alot of people when they go to play it,I know for a fact I never had any lag with alot of players on screen.

Only if you want to turn everything all the way up during the big battles.  You can lower settings to compensate for big battles, and the rest is up to your internet connections.