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The Orange Box asked for a minimal graphics card of Level 8 and recommended card of level 9. I have never heard of graphics cards referred to as such. Does that mean if I have a GeForce 6600, that would be level 6?

[QUOTE="VRN-KingS-"][QUOTE="PooMaster"][QUOTE="PooMaster"]

I was wondering what settings/if i could run it, crysis on.

I have core 2 T5500 @ 1.66ghz, 2gb ram, radeon mobility x1700 graphics.

I can run games like oblivion, fear, cod2, UT3!etc on full and bioshock on very high.

thanks

Kiwi_1

*Cough* *Cough* Sorry but i find that hard to believe. a 1.6gig CPU with a mere Mobility card? Well unless that card is above the standard 128/256mb as most usually are I find it very hard to believe that.

I have a p4 3.06HT CPU, 1.5gig ram, and a 128 PCI-e Geforce 7200 that can only just push Medium on those games....

Personally, I doubt that either one of you is using the same basis for a definition of "High" as I would, but the first of the two of you being a laptop user most especially. That doubt is engendered by each of you failing to name the screen sizes and the resolutions. A 7200 being total crap is of course my reason for saying you would only get good animation speed with 640 by 480 screen resolution. The X1700 is ten times as good of a video card that a lousy 7200 is, even when it's Mobile. A 7200 has to be on Ultra Low for Oblivion with anything better than 1024 by 768, it's so awful.

Now, then, let's see how comparatively poorly a P4 compares to a Core 2 Duo, shall we? Here's a Tom's Hardware chart with the P4 way down in the lousy territory:

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2007.html?modelx=33&model1=890&model2=882&chart=444

Haha. I was gonna say something about the 7200 owner, but your explanation is much more funnier.

Athlon 6000+

GeForce 8800GTX

4GB RAM

How well will this system run the following games:

1) Oblivion;

2) Two Worlds;

3) STALKER;

4) Bioshock?

can my PC run this games:?

1.GEARS OF WAR

2.BIOSHOCK

3.LOST PLANET

4.CRYSIS

5.STRANGLEHOLD

My PC Specs are this.

INTEL QUAD CORE PROCESSOR at 2,4ghz

2GB RAM

ATI RADEON HD2900XT (1GBRAM)(512 bit)(GDRR4)

The Orange Box asked for a minimal graphics card of Level 8 and recommended card of level 9. I have never heard of graphics cards referred to as such. Does that mean if I have a GeForce 6600, that would be level 6?

ufopuller

I really don't know, but if you have a 6600GT you'll run most games on high @ 1024x768 and Medium/High @ 1440x900

The Orange Box asked for a minimal graphics card of Level 8 and recommended card of level 9. I have never heard of graphics cards referred to as such. Does that mean if I have a GeForce 6600, that would be level 6?

ufopuller

I'd bet, without seeking clarification from the publisher, it refers to Pixel Shader capability, hardware that can perform Dx8 is only able to reach SM-1, while Dx9 capable cards (hardware, not software) can all reach SM-2, and those for Dx9c can do SM-3 shaders. The Vanilla 6600 is seriously slow and weak, but handles all of Dx9c.

If not that, it could be "800" and "900" cards from the performance numbers in the names, such as 7800 and X1800 for "8" and 7900 and X1900 for "9", which I really doubt would be the case.

Im a seriouse noob and I have upgraded my pc for gaming FINALLY lol but ive only made minor upgrades for certain games, can my pc run Half Life 2? Halo? Fable?

Pentium(R) 4CPU 3.00GHz

1.5 GB DDR2RAM

GeForce 8400 Gs 256MB

is this pretty good for running these games smooth?

Dudes, I can't believe my PC is actually running BIOSHOCK after all the hype that it is supposed to be resource hungry.

I bought it with the aim to play the game when I upgrade to the recommended spec, but with my current PC:

Intel Pentium D925m 3.0GHz

2GB DDR2667MHz Corsair

XFX 7600GT XXX Edition 256MB

X-Fi Fatal1ty

And it runs smooth. Although I can't make use of the DX10 feature.

Dudes, I can't believe my PC is actually running BIOSHOCK after all the hype that it is supposed to be resource hungry.

I bought it with the aim to play the game when I upgrade to the recommended spec, but with my current PC:

Intel Pentium D925m 3.0GHz

2GB DDR2667MHz Corsair

XFX 7600GT XXX Edition 256MB

X-Fi Fatal1ty

And it runs smooth. Although I can't make use of the DX10 feature.

MayheM83

your PC is fine. I wouldn't upgrade untill Vista has established itself.

Yeah ummmi run oblivion, fear, cod2 and ut3 at 1280x800 on full settings and they run sweet and bioshock is everything on high at 1024x768 cos it crashes whenever i change resolution.....

don't know how i do it either but hey! i'm not complaining:D

[QUOTE="VRN-KingS-"][QUOTE="PooMaster"][QUOTE="PooMaster"]

I was wondering what settings/if i could run it, crysis on.

I have core 2 T5500 @ 1.66ghz, 2gb ram, radeon mobility x1700 graphics.

I can run games like oblivion, fear, cod2, UT3!etc on full and bioshock on very high.

thanks

Kiwi_1

*Cough* *Cough* Sorry but i find that hard to believe. a 1.6gig CPU with a mere Mobility card? Well unless that card is above the standard 128/256mb as most usually are I find it very hard to believe that.

I have a p4 3.06HT CPU, 1.5gig ram, and a 128 PCI-e Geforce 7200 that can only just push Medium on those games....

Personally, I doubt that either one of you is using the same basis for a definition of "High" as I would, but the first of the two of you being a laptop user most especially. That doubt is engendered by each of you failing to name the screen sizes and the resolutions. A 7200 being total crap is of course my reason for saying you would only get good animation speed with 640 by 480 screen resolution. The X1700 is ten times as good of a video card that a lousy 7200 is, even when it's Mobile. A 7200 has to be on Ultra Low for Oblivion with anything better than 1024 by 768, it's so awful.

Now, then, let's see how comparatively poorly a P4 compares to a Core 2 Duo, shall we? Here's a Tom's Hardware chart with the P4 way down in the lousy territory:

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2007.html?modelx=33&model1=890&model2=882&chart=444

Correct I can run Obliv on Medium on Res of 800x600 at a FPS of 10ps in a city.

FEAR is Medium at 640x480

I am going to buy a new computer. Is it possible for me to play newer games ( Gears Of War PC version, Bioshock, Lost Planet, games like those ) with the following specs?

AMD Athlon 64 AM2 X2 5000 2,6 Ghz 1MB

HDD WD 320GB 8MB SATA II 7200Rpm WD3200JS
2048mb 667mhz DDR
Nvidia 7200GS 28M/512Mb ( or XFX 512Mb 8600GT 540Mhz, which is better? I think the 8600 one ).

Thanks in advance!

Processor: Intel(R) CORE (TM)2 CPU 4400 @2.00GHZ 2.00GHZ

MEMORY 1024GB

SYSTEM TYPE 32-BIT OPERATING SYSTEM

gRAPHICS CARD:512 mb with 7100GS, (NVIDIA GeForce)

Can I play shadowrun with the above specification. I have windows vista

Can I run Elder Scrolls IV with the following specs:

AMD Sempron 3000+ ~2.0GHz

BFG GeForce 5500FX OC

448 MB RAM

1. A proper Dx9 video card is required. None of the FXes handle SM2 properly because of a totally nonstandard Pixel Shader.

2. 512 MBs of RAM is the stated minimum, but that little doesn't work well. A full GB is actually needed.

3. A Sempron is relatively weak for gaming compared to an A64 or X2, but yours "might" be OK, after you replace the GPU and add another 576 MBs of RAM.

From a game-playing point of view, a 7200 anything is total crap, and an 8600 GT is a relatively decent Mid-Level card that is in the most popular (for gaming) price range. There has been a major gap in the performance levels of nVidia's 8xxx cards, such that the 8800 GTS is in the lower part of the High Quality range, while the 8600 GT sat more or less in the middle of Medium Quality. The new 8800 GT is supposed to plug that large gap, and potentially replace the 7600 GT as a top performance to price video card (the 7600 GT is/ was faster among 7xxx cards than the 8600 GT is among 8xxx cards). Kiwi_1

Em, Mr Kiwi, a question here.

there will be a new 8800GT?

Also, what category does my card fall into? Is it a mid end, or a weaker high end compared to those godly GTX and Ultra?

I went to systemrequirementslab.com, and it said I can't runUT 2004: because I have Windows Millenium Edition.Yet it says it can run 98/ME/XP/Vista. Can someone tell me if the site's messed up, or something?Harden_hawk

Sites messed up.
My friend plays UT2k4 on ME. If you are unsure dig out a demo of it, theres LOADS floating on the Internet, and most decent PCmags like PCGamer/PCformat have hosted it on their discs.

Any problems run it in compatability mode for 98.

Hi,

My pc specs: E6700 core 2 duo,1GB corsair xms pro(2 x 512mb),XFX geforce 7600 GT,hiper type R 530w PSW,seagate 250gb hdd,asrock dual vista motherboard.

I built this pc from scratch on bit of a tight budget so i spent the majority of my budget on the cpu as at the time i was waiting for newer dx 10 cards to come out.

I plan on upgrading the ram,Motherboard and gfx after christmas, money is tied up in presents.

But i was hoping i could play games like crysis at an ok level of detal, not very high just medium to low.

Thanks for any answers.

Im quite new to pc gaming only been playing for over 1 year now, i know roughly what are the best cards etc and im very handy when building fixing pc's.

I was just hoping on some suggestions for my upgrades, gfx card,mobo and ram, money not a problem really after the new year i plan to go all out and have it top of the range i may even buy a new cpu if the E6700 is not up to the job of running games at max level.

What would you guys reccomend, and can i expect any new hardware on the market after new year.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas

Nvidia GeForce 6600

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_Rainbow_Six:_Vegas

* Windows XP, Windows Vista

• Processor: P4 3GHz or AMD equivalent
• Hard Drive Space: 7 Gigabytes
• RAM: 1024MB
• Video Card: 128MB, Shader Model 3 and DirectX 9.0c compatible
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
• DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c

Hi guys,
looking to get myself an entry level pc forgaming and came across cyberpowersytems, any good?
how do these specs look for playing crysis and the likes?

Case: NZXT Trinity Tower 400W Case w/ Side-panel Window (BLACK Color)

CPU: (Sckt775)Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo E6750 CPU @ 2.66GHz 1333FSB 4MB L2 Cache 64-bit

Motherboard: (Quad-Core Supports) MSI P6N SLI-FV2 nForce 650i SLI Chipset LGA775 FSB1333 DDR2 Mainboard

Memory: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)1GB (2x512MB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory (OCZ Value Select or Major Brand)

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB 16X PCI Express Video Card

Hard Drive: Single Hard Drive (250GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)

Optical Drive: SONY DUAL FORMAT 18X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (BLACK COLOR)

Sound: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO

cheers

barney

Will I be able to run Crysis and Gears of War?

Specifications:

1.2Ghz.

576 RAM

Geforce FX 5700

Windows 2K.

http://www.yougamers.com/

| Will I be able to run Crysis and Gears of War?

| Specifications:

| 1.2Ghz.

| 576 RAM

| Geforce FX 5700

| Windows 2K.

Okay so instead of Oblivion with my 2.0GHz AMD Sempron, 448 MB RAM, and GeForce 5500FX, could I run Morrowind?imafool4u

What are the minimum and recommended system requirements for playing Morrowind?

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

* Windows ME/98 128 MB RAM
* Windows XP/2000 256 MB RAM
* 500 MHz Intel Pentium III, Celeron, or AMD Athlon processor
* 8x CD/DVD-ROM Drive
* 1 GB free hard disk space
* Windows swapfile
* DirectX 8.1 (included)
* 32MB Direct3D compatible video card with 32-bit color support and DirectX 8.1 compatible driver
* DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
* Keyboard, Mouse

RECOMMENDED:

* 800 MHz or faster Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon processor
* 256 MB RAM
* NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS, or ATI Radeon 7500 or faster video card.

SUPPORTED VIDEO CARD CHIPSETS:

* NVIDIA GeForce4
* NVIDIA GeForce3
* NVIDIA GeForce2
* NVIDIA GeForce 256
* NVIDIA TNT2
* ATI Radeon 8500
* ATI Radeon 7500
* ATI Radeon 7200
* ATI Radeon
* ATI Rage 128
* Matrox G550
* Matrox G450
* Matrox G400

Hi guys,
looking to get myself an entry level pc forgaming and came across cyberpowersytems, any good?
how do these specs look for playing crysis and the likes?

Case: NZXT Trinity Tower 400W Case w/ Side-panel Window (BLACK Color)

CPU: (Sckt775)Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo E6750 CPU @ 2.66GHz 1333FSB 4MB L2 Cache 64-bit

Motherboard: (Quad-Core Supports) MSI P6N SLI-FV2 nForce 650i SLI Chipset LGA775 FSB1333 DDR2 Mainboard

Memory: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)1GB (2x512MB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory (OCZ Value Select or Major Brand)

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB 16X PCI Express Video Card

Hard Drive: Single Hard Drive (250GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)

Optical Drive: SONY DUAL FORMAT 18X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (BLACK COLOR)

Sound: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO

cheers

barney

barneyjoe

any ideas??

[QUOTE="barneyjoe"]

Hi guys,
looking to get myself an entry level pc forgaming and came across cyberpowersytems, any good?
how do these specs look for playing crysis and the likes?

Case: NZXT Trinity Tower 400W Case w/ Side-panel Window (BLACK Color)

CPU: (Sckt775)Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo E6750 CPU @ 2.66GHz 1333FSB 4MB L2 Cache 64-bit

Motherboard: (Quad-Core Supports) MSI P6N SLI-FV2 nForce 650i SLI Chipset LGA775 FSB1333 DDR2 Mainboard

Memory: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)1GB (2x512MB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory (OCZ Value Select or Major Brand)

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB 16X PCI Express Video Card

Hard Drive: Single Hard Drive (250GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)

Optical Drive: SONY DUAL FORMAT 18X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (BLACK COLOR)

Sound: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO

cheers

barney

barneyjoe

any ideas??

its fine

Hi all, I was wondering if someone might be able to help me here. I want to play Crysis on high settings but I'm not sure how well my PC would handle it. The specs are 2gb ram, 2x8800GTS 640mb connected in SLI Core 2 duo E6700 2.66ghz all running under Vista 64bit. Im putting another 2gb ram in soon so Im hoping that will help.vincenthighwind

You disgust me. Please tell me you aren't seriously asking if you can run it on high or not. I can w/o a problem.

[QUOTE="vincenthighwind"]Hi all, I was wondering if someone might be able to help me here. I want to play Crysis on high settings but I'm not sure how well my PC would handle it. The specs are 2gb ram, 2x8800GTS 640mb connected in SLI Core 2 duo E6700 2.66ghz all running under Vista 64bit. Im putting another 2gb ram in soon so Im hoping that will help.darkSIDEechoes

You disgust me. Please tell me you aren't seriously asking if you can run it on high or not. I can w/o a problem.

You know it's just someone who is either bragging or fantasizing, and has an ego problem, so wanted to see his electronic name posted in this thread. Don't be disgusted, offer pity to the poor beknighted fellow !

Processor: Intel(R) CORE (TM)2 CPU 4400 @2.00GHZ 2.00GHZ

MEMORY 1024GB

SYSTEM TYPE 32-BIT OPERATING SYSTEM

gRAPHICS CARD:512 mb with 7100GS, (NVIDIA GeForce)

Can I play shadowrun with the above specification. I have windows vista. I know that my grahics card is bit weak. But still can I able to play with ease. Yours support is needed.

Processor: Intel(R) CORE (TM)2 CPU 4400 @2.00GHZ 2.00GHZ

MEMORY 1024GB

SYSTEM TYPE 32-BIT OPERATING SYSTEM

gRAPHICS CARD:512 mb with 7100GS, (NVIDIA GeForce)

Can I play shadowrun with the above specification. I have windows vista. I know that my grahics card is bit weak. But still can I able to play with ease. Yours support is needed.

Anirbanbandyo

Dude, NEVER message me again asking me if you can run a game. Seriously.

ey guyz u didnt answer me XD

my SPECS:

QUAD CORE 2.4ghz

2GB RAM

RADEON HD 2900XT PRO (1GB)(GDRR4)(512bit)

can i play:

crysis¿?

gears of war¿?

bioshock¿?

world in conflicrt¿?

¿all in high quality?

ey guyz u didnt answer me XD

my SPECS:

QUAD CORE 2.4ghz

2GB RAM

RADEON HD 2900XT PRO (1GB)(GDRR4)(512bit)

can i play:

crysis¿?

gears of war¿?

bioshock¿?

world in conflicrt¿?

¿all in high quality?

queonda

No it cant. You need a pentium 2, and 256 of RAM to run crysis. Geforce 4 would run it best.

Hello?

People dont answer your post mainly because it obviously can, and you're just annoying most people out there posting this. Cmon, quad core? OF COURSE.

windows vista

amd +3800 x 2

500gb memory

2gb ram

nvidia 7600 gs 256mb

is the 7600 gs good enough to play games such as crysis and unreal 2007

Hi to all! Pls see my system specs in signature. Now I know that my system can and does run Quake 4 on my Intel 945G onboard graphics, but i somehow can't get ETQW[demo] to even start for the first time. The console shows up saying that Error during initialization and tells me that some OpenGL xtensions are missing. Also, if I scroll up to the begging of the console, I see this:

Detected
2 1.86 GHz CPU
1520 MB of System memory
256 MB of Video memory on an optimal video architecture

This system qualifies for High quality!

Well, my current system without the 6600 should qualify for low quality! Thats it I guess! If I could somehow get ETQW to detect my system as low quality, it would ren, won't it? Pls tell me how to do that! Tahnk you very much for your time!

Nope while the GF 6600 is supported, the Intel GMA950 is not. It doesn't even come close. Hardly any recent game would run on that kind of chip. Even the 6600 is close to the minimal requirements of most games these days.

I wanted to quote from the immediate last message, but the idiot software on GameSpot says I'm cross-quoting !

The 6600 Vanilla card was always weak to be carrying a "600" as a performance number, especially compared to its bigger brother, the 6600 GT (but the same thing applies to ATI's X600, of course). By now, IMO, the 6600 Vanilla is in the low quality group with the Geforce 8500 cards.

but all those games in the highest quality? :S

that was my question

not if i could run the games xD

i dont have the crysis DEMO so i cant see if a could max it out

I want to know if I can run Crysis with Vista. I'm planning to install Vista on my new laptop I got from Alienware but a friend of mine said that it wouldn't run, I just want to know if he's right and I have to stick to XPor if I could still run it with Vista.

My Specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 2.16 Ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHzRAM
120 GB HDD
24x DVD-ROM/CD-RW Burner
512MB NVidia GeForce Go 7950 GTX

I want to know if I can run Crysis with Vista. I'm planning to install Vista on my new laptop I got from Alienware but a friend of mine said that it wouldn't run, I just want to know if he's right and I have to stick to XPor if I could still run it with Vista.

My Specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 2.16 Ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHzRAM
120 GB HDD
24x DVD-ROM/CD-RW Burner
512MB NVidia GeForce Go 7950 GTX

Shadow2k6

You probably can, but you wont be able to utilise Dx10.