Min requirements. What kind of performance and graphics are to be expected?

[Atavax]

http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23921

my vid card (4870) is below recommended i guess it will have to do until next gen is coming out, not wasting money on current gen vid card…

[Slade05]

DarkangelUK
Do I see some actual color bleeding?

[Houd1n1]

Do you guys think this could max it out at 1280x1024:

Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.2 GHz
nVidia GF 460GTX 1GB
4 GB of Ram

?

With decent FPS ofcourse

[Auzner]

Sure, why not. It’s what Atavax said, you can either run the game, or be willing to spend the money to max the graphics. Be glad if you can run the game, then you can only worry about graphics if you really want to. Most people are overwhelmed by computers and want black and white solutions.

[Houd1n1]

Thank you

[xTriXxy]

every thread in SD forum turned into offtopic or spam.

you guys should move to bethesda forum. i realy dont care about your rigs or banners.

[mortis]

LOL @ Darkangel and double LOL at the bitterness over banners!

[Auzner]

We’re all alone, no chaperone
Can get our number
The world’s in slumber–let’s misbehave!

[Nail]

There’s something wild about you child
That’s so contagious
Let’s be outrageous–let’s misbehave!!!

[system]

[QUOTE=Houd1n1;280498]Do you guys think this could max it out at 1280x1024:

Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.2 GHz
nVidia GF 460GTX 1GB
4 GB of Ram

?

With decent FPS ofcourse :)[/QUOTE]

I’m willing to bet you can’t get more than 30 fps even on lowest settings with this one.

[Chris2]

I’m willing to bet you can’t get more than 30 fps even on lowest settings with this one.

Do you ever contribute to discussion or what?

@ Houd1n1, not sure about maxing out but you should be able to run comfortably.

[system]

His CPU is just above the minimum, what more evidence do you need?

[Chris2]

Minimum requirements are just that, minimum requirements, I doubt they would have posted such requirements if you couldn’t run the game with even the lowest settings with such a PC…

[system]

Minimum requirements mean that you can start the game and run it with lowest settings. If you lack in one department (CPU) the GPU will not magically make up for the lack of CPU.

[master_mind]

Minimum requirements mean that you can start the game and run it with lowest settings. If you lack in one department (CPU) the GPU will not magically make up for the lack of CPU.

But I highly doubt the CPU will throttle the GPU that drastically considering the GPU is doing 35X the workload on floating point data. The GPU makes a much larger difference on framerate. I’m pretty sure the min spec CPU covers every inch of in game computing, physics, AI, texture and map management(does idtech4 use BSP?). The more important spec to focus on is the GPU. That’s where the results vary wildly and the processing is more intense.

[system]

;280633’]But I highly doubt the CPU will throttle the GPU that drastically considering the GPU is doing 35X the workload on floating point data. The GPU makes a much larger difference on framerate. I’m pretty sure the min spec CPU covers every inch of in game computing, physics, AI, texture and map management(does idtech4 use BSP?). The more important spec to focus on is the GPU. That’s where the results vary wildly and the processing is more intense.

If the CPU doesn’t update fast enough, where will the GPU get the data to draw from?
Let me put it another way: If the CPU takes about 30 milliseconds to process all the data for one frame, and the GPU takes another 3 to draw that frame, then you will have about 30 fps. A faster GPU will only help lower those 3 milliseconds, but the CPU will still require 30 milliseconds for that frame.

So you need to have a good balance between the two.

A GPU can help processing data that can be processed independently of other data to take advantage of the parallelism it offers, you can’t just make it process all the physics in that frame and expect it to run faster just because the GPU manufacturer advertises so.

[Auzner]

Minimum requirements mean that you can start the game and run it with lowest settings. If you lack in one department (CPU) the GPU will not magically make up for the lack of CPU.

You’re going to be wrong anyways when the game comes out. So you can stop your doomsday speeches in these threads.

If the CPU takes about 30 milliseconds to process all the data for one frame, and the GPU takes another 3 to draw that frame, then you will have about 30 fps. A faster GPU will only help lower those 3 milliseconds, but the CPU will still require 30 milliseconds for that frame.

You’re worse than master[mind].
I’m not going to pretend I know precisely how the black box works, but I know you’re wrong. The graphics API talks to the video card through the device driver. That goes through the mainboard’s bus. It’s not all screened through the CPU. You don’t absolutely need to have a Nehalem/Westmere/Sandy Bridge processor for gaming like you’ve been ranting about in every thread. That’s just what all computer forums are abuzz about right now. They like chanting i5 and i7 at everyone and don’t actually know anything.

[system]

I’m not going to pretend I know precisely how the black box works, but I know you’re wrong. You don’t absolutely need to have a Nehalem/Westmere/Sandy Bridge processor for gaming like you’ve been ranting about in every thread. That’s just what all computer forums are abuzz about right now. They like chanting i5 and i7 at everyone and don’t actually know anything.

Yes, I thought you had absolutely no idea how a game works. And I wasn’t the one who put an i5 on the recommended specifications, nor the one with to say you need a 2.4 GHz dual core on minimum specs.

[QUOTE=Auzner;280726]
The graphics API talks to the video card through the device driver. That goes through the mainboard’s bus. It’s not all screened through the CPU[/QUOTE]

And who talks to the graphics API? Oh, the CPU.

[Auzner]

And who talks to the graphics API? Oh, the CPU.

Yeah, obviously if you don’t have at least a dual socket liquid nitrogen cooled hexcore system, everything will be backlogged for the next century and your video card won’t get a single bit of data. Let’s jump in every thread and tell people they’re ****ed because they don’t have such a system to ultimately surpass the requirement list thanks to the foolish developers.

[system]

What I’m saying is you shouldn’t ignore the cpu requirement. It’s higher than Crysis 2 and Bad company 2. If your Cpu barely exceeds the 2.4 Dual Core, you can have 7 GPUs, you still won’t get high framerates. Better wait until the game is out before buying an expensive Gpu that will fall asleep waiting the Cpu to update one frame.