What are system requirements like now?
peentank
Join Date: 2010-09-01 Member: 73857Members
Join Date: 2010-09-01 Member: 73857Members
hey been following the progress of the game for a while now and just waiting for the performance to get better before I hop on beta.
It says at the pre-order page, some ridiculously low requirements, but i was wondering if u still need a 9800GT+ gfx card and a dual core processor still? or is more like Valve HALF-LIFE 2 engine games. I know this is what unknown world intends to do. However, I have heard that the requirements are quite heavy and even with top end rigs, people still weren't getting the performance they should be expecting.
It says at the pre-order page, some ridiculously low requirements, but i was wondering if u still need a 9800GT+ gfx card and a dual core processor still? or is more like Valve HALF-LIFE 2 engine games. I know this is what unknown world intends to do. However, I have heard that the requirements are quite heavy and even with top end rigs, people still weren't getting the performance they should be expecting.
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Right now the game is heavily CPU bound, and actually quite gentle on the GPU. For example, I almost no difference in FPS rendering at 1920x1080 on a GTS 450 or a 5870. A 9800GT will be well up to the task at 1920x1080.
As for the CPU, right now you need a little bit of beef. If I had to take an educated guess, I'd say that two Phenom II or Core 2 cores will be more than enough to run NS2 when it is finished. For now, three or four of either, or even an i5/7 or highly clocked PII, is needed to get good frame rates.
Ultimately, NS2 will never be as gentle on systems as Source games, because Spark (the engine) is doing some clever things that Source simply cannot do. There's a price to be paid for progress, and that price is a small bump in system requirements.
I hope this ramble helps answer your question.
i bet you that i get more fps with an overclocked pentium M system than any lowend many core system!
because spark dosent support multithreading yet :P!!!
CPU wise, I have a Phenom II X4 and it doesn't really work it all that hard, it uses less power than Source and Unreal Engine 3 games right now.
EDIT: I'd like someone to find out an old single core and see how the engine runs, as it only uses one core on a CPU, I'd have thought it'd still be okay on something like a P4 2GHZ.
it runs on a single core since alpha
Intel Core 2 Dou E4300 1.8 Ghz
GeForce 8800 GT
5 GB RAM
Windows 7 64Bit
But I'm going to buy a better CPU next month anyway, hopefully NS2 will run better then.
EDIT:
Also any new CPU you put with your system of todays standards will probably be bottlenecked by the rest of your hardware. Particularly that GPU. I'd look at investing further for gaming ;)
The problem is, my current mainboard/motherboard is an ASUS P5B SE (yea, old piece). Sadly this mobo-cpu combination is not working THAT well, that I can overclock my CPU. I could re-try it, because I flashed the BIOS some time ago with an update (okay, pretty old update, but was newer than the BIOS it had before).
On the other hand:
Any Source game runs flawlessly with 60+ FPS on highest settings, even the mod called "FakeFactory", which only runs on a x64 OS with 4 GB RAM runs fine on my setup (30+ FPS). I'm rather experienced in game development, hardware etc. Sure, you can compare any game, but the matter, if it makes sense, is not always...logical.
It was not comparion, only an example.
I will try to overclock my CPU at some time, because right now Socket 775 CPUs are rather expensive. Any Socket 775 Intel Quad Core CPU, which is better than my current Core 2 Dou, costs at least 90 Euro right now. That's not really cheap for such "old" CPUs :/
EDIT:
Meh, I doubt, that I can overclock my CPU, because it seems, that the Mainboard is not made for that. I tried to overclock it by 20%, so that it runs on 2.4 Ghz, but then the PC was no longer starting up (not getting past the USB Device Recognition while booting up) and I'm not sure, if I only missed out setting the FSB to 667, so that it works. Tried to lower the Overclocking value to 226 (recommended for overclocking this CPU is 266, default is 200), the PC was booting up, but Windows 7 was longer able to boot up. I will ask a few of my mates, who are into overclocking, if there's a possibility. If not, then I'm just goin to buy a Socket 775 Quad Core and hope, that everything works out and that NS2 will run better :P
I'm planing an entire system upgrade right now, which would result in buying the following:
ASUS P8H61-M LE Rev.3.0 (Might change)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3,2 Ghz Sandy-Bridge CPU
GeForce GTX460 (Might change)
I'm thinking about upgrading my RAM as well, since I currently have 2 x 2 GB RAM + 1 GB RAM sticks (all 3 are from Corsair) and those are rather old. They are 667 RAMs.
Might have to upgrade my PSU as well...I'm not sure, if it is a 400W or 450W right now. My current PC is a few years old, never had any problems and ran most games totally fine, even with such hardware, but an upgrade is required to play games like Crysis 2 etc. It is still outstanding tho, that the GeForce 8800 GT I'm using is running fine since it has been released the first day and got bought the same day from my brother (he gave it to me, after he upgraded to his current gpu years later). Problem with this GeForce 8800 GT Release is, that the Pure Video Chip is damaged by default, it was a production failure from nVidia. Therefor HD vids and movies are not playing fine for me....yea...an upgrade is required in a month or 2, when I have the money.
If anyone maybe has advices on what Mainboard, CPU, GPU, RAM etc is currently the best to buy without spending to much...I would appreciate any information and help.
Greetings,
Maxunit
PS: @ Everyone: It was not my intention to "de-rail" this topic to a general hardware talk, but I want better Hardware to be able to play NS2, no matter if now or when it goes gold/final.
MEM 2Gx2|GSKILL F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL $49.99
HD 500G|WD SATA2 WD5000AVDS % - OEM $54.99
CPU AMD|PH II X4 820 2.8G AM3 % - OEM $99.99
CPU COOLER XIGMATEK|GAIA SD1283 R $32.99
MB ASUS|M4N75TD AM3 RT $70.99
VGA EVGA|01G-P3-1366-TR GTX460 SE R $169.99
-GIFT COUPON NVDIA JC2 + MAFIA II
PSU CM|RS500-PCARA3-US 500W RT $39.99
Subtotal: $518.93
(I got back $30 in rebates)
This computer runs the Crysis 2 demo on default settings (didn't try changing them) and I figure if I add RAM and do SLI this computer should last awhile.
I recently upgraded from a Q6600 and a 9800GTX and the difference is night and day.