Those requirements listed in the pre-order tab are minimum or recommended? While i have a 128mb 128-bit card it's a radeon 9550 not x1600. Will that mean the game won't work at all or in cloth map mode only?

I have a GeForce 6600GT with shader 3 and it runs decent on cloth map....I think you'll be like me and want to upgrade !

I do own a ATI 9550 card and it's worse than the GeForce !

I'm going to add to this thread and maybe post this under computing as well. Shortly before downloading the Elemental Beta 3B I upgraded my laptop from Vista to Win 7. Its running an AMD turion ML-40 and an Nvidia 7500GS go 512MB. When I'm running elemental 0.98 the CPU is normally clocking between 70 and 100%. It hangs regularly and occassionnally crashes.

I was playing around with different hardware settings when I noticed something I consider very strange. I checked out the windows experience index and under vista it was 4.2. The lowest score was for the hard drive at 4.2. The processor was running at 4.6. Now under windows 7 the experience index has dropped to 3.6 and now the lowest score is the processor. Has anyone experienced something like this where the processor just drops in its performance index? The only thing I can imagine is the machine was overclocked originally and by installing Win 7 I reset the overclocking. However I thought overclocking was controlled in the bios and not the OS, so I don't think that is the issue. Any suggestions on how I can get the processor performance back to where it was, or why it dropped in the first place?

I have and aside from the individual application crashes (civ 4, NWN 2, turbo tax, MS money) there's been nothing in the event viewer. I initially thought it might be a virus or spyware as the machine never logs into my network automatically anymore (got verizon fios right before loading Win7) but I've run malware bytes, Norton and one other program I don't remember off the top of my head and they all came back with no results.

as I can play elemental beta in clothmap on a amd 64+x2 5200 w 4gb ram geforce 7600gs, the answer should be yes, just slower than a more powerful computer

harpo

I'm wondering whether my system will be up to snuff:

Opteron 165 dual core CPU 1.81 MHz

2 GB RAM

GeForce 7900 GTX 512 MB

XP Pro

Thanks.

Yeah, I guess I'm running about a 22 year old processor. Heh. Memory is DDR2.

I tried so hard to future-proof this system when I built it 4.5 years ago. And now I can't max graphics on a turn based strategy game?!? Argh!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the feedback.

4.5 years is a pretty long time, and in terms of video cards it's an eternity. You could probably drop a card in there and have things humming along for Elemental. Shouldn't take more then $150.

Drop in a new GPU, hmm. That's a thought. I looked at upgrading my CPU, but the whole form factor has changed. I can't even get upgrade CPUs for my MOBO. I can get a new GPU, you're right, but won't my CPU bottleneck my system anyway?

Thoughts?

If keeping my Opteron 165 and pairing that with a mightier GPU will really give me a big performance boost, I may do it instead of building a new system. I usually build a new one every 3 years, but my desire to pay off my house keeps interfering with my hardware desires. Dammit.

I think my I7-920, 4 gigs of coursair ram, and 2 ati 5770s in Xfire can't wait to get this puppy on my 23" widescreen at 1920x1080. I love my pc and it didn't cost that much to build it about 5 months ago.

buladelu, I AM running it on a dual core amd at 2.7ghz with a geforce 7600 on clothmap only as the 7600 is not quite good enough for the full 3d game.

harpo

Harpo99999, so you can't get decent FPS rate even on low graphics? What about tactical battles?

I suddenly want to check demo before buying game.

I have an old PC and am wondering how/if the game will run.

CPU: Athlon Barton 2500

RAM: 2 GB

V. Card: GForce 7300 GT

Processor seems to barely beat the minimum specs and I think the 6800 (min. spec from ordering page) is a better card than the 7300.