Demo vs Actual game

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#1 cchukan
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Hey whatsup!

So i don't really know much about computers sooo heres the question.

If the demo ran totally fine, does that mean it'll run ok if i bought the actually game?

So i downloaded the Winning 11 latest demo version. and it ran fine. so i wanted to go out tomorrow and purchase the actually game.

The requirements are:
Windows 2000/XP Intel Pentium III 800GHz (Pentium 4 1.4GHz recommended) 256MB RAM (512MB RAM recommended) 4X DVD-ROM drive NVIDIA GeForce 3 or ATI Radeon 8500 video card (NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti, ATI Radeon 9600 or higher recommended) DirectX 8.1-compatible sound card Direct X 9.0c or higher (included) Broadband connection for Network Mode, TCP/1P 128 kbps or higher (1.5Mbps or higher recommended) 1.5GB free hard disk space (4.7GB free hard disk space recommended)

I meet and exceed everything but the video card. i purchased my laptop in 2004

I have a NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 32M/64M.

Do you guys think it'll be okay? any help will be appreciated. thx

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#2 Kelllvin
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THe full game would be highly likely be more optimised than the demo therefore if you can play the demo at a good settings with a good framerate then the full game would probably have better framerates.

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#3 transCendenZ
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Yeah demos are usually a work in progress. It's just there to allow you to get an idea of what the game is like. On the other hand a demo can make or break a game.
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#4 Gog
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Usually the full game runs the same as the demo. A demo is usually just a part of the actual game.
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#5 naval
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Well most of the time if game ran nicely in the demo, full game will run nicely. just don't trust the demo, if you barely able to run the game.

also, i heard midway manipulated stranglehold demo to run smoothly, so there are few cases like that also

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#6 BNB2000
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99% of the times a demo is what the final product is going to be like. Some poor publishers release 80% demos to boost sales.
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#7 mfsa
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yeah, the demo running is the closest you can get to confirmation that the full game will run on your pc, short of actually trying the full game out

if the demo runs okay, it's a fair assumption that the full game will run as well or better.... but remember we are talking computers here, so nothing's set in stone

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#8 airborne_101-82
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wellthere's always that slight chance the full game will runas good as the full game, but to stick on te safe side, check out the system requirments before you buy the full game
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#9 Premak
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I agree that demo's often have the same requirements as the finale one. But then again some demo's use lower texture quality then the full version. Saves demo size, and works as a candy to get the better quality in the full version, but also lower the requirements for the demo VSfull. Some demos are also locked at lower resolution for thereasons above.