Got a new comp will it run?

ok i finally got a new comp, confused how to use the search settings on it, but im confident i will figure it out ;p, well anyways its a Windows Vista with Intel Pentium in it, im not sure what sort of video card it has in it, but it does have on HP (C 426 GB free of 453 GB, and the FACTORY_IMAGE (D has 1.76 GB free of 12.5, now im not sure if that means it'll run fast or not, im actually trying to see if you guys know ;p? now i had a 2005 Window Media Edition that sucked like crazy, it was old virus worn out and with a ATI Radeon 200 series, now i know thats kinda crappy, but does anyone know how to check video cards on Windows Vista, cause honestly i have no idea ;p. well i hope it runs good, it will be the first comp that can actually hold CoX properly for the first time, i might even be able to put my graphics seeting past minimum ;p

oh just figured out it has a Pentium(R) Dual-Core Proccessor, not sure if thats good but eh and it has 3.00 GB RAM

bump, i would like some sort of comment, i dont know much bout computers, besides what i hear, anyone have anything?

The processor, hard drive space and RAM are fine. The only thing that looks iffy about your setup is the graphics card, which is integrated. Integrated graphics chips are built into the motherboard and won't provide performance as well as dedicated graphics cards can. Your computer will run the game, but the lack of a dedicated graphics card is a big hindrance.

Was this really off the front page in eight minutes? You could always post this in the Tech forum, in the first place.

better ghope nothing goes wrong with that comp. if it does, expect for some pricey fixes. i have an hp and had to replace the motherboard. only after tryin it did i find out that HP brands both the motherboard and operating system so what could have been a $100 fix turned into a $250 fix. had to get both motherboard and operating system.

To use a current political metaphor, the power of a *gaming* PC rests on a three legged stool: CPU, GPU, and RAM.


GPU


Graphic Processor Unit manufacturers (nVidia and ATI) create a range of GPU chips that range from simply showing pictures and basic video, to rendering the high-end 3D graphics polygons, textures, and special Graphical FX.

For nVidia, the second number of the series number will tell you how powerful the GPU is in rendering high-end graphics from 0 to 9. So, you may have numbers like: 5000, 7200, 6500, 8800, 290. The graphical savvy of those GPUs are, respectively: 0, 2, 5, 8, 9. To do 3D gaming right, it should be 6 or higher. The first number indicates the generation. The current nVidia generation is 9000 or 200. Last year it was 8000, and before that 7000 and so on. For CoH, you shouldn't go back past 6000.

Lastly, the suffixes go (roughly) GTX > GTS> Ultra > GT >GS > (nothing) > LE

Before you get a graphics card, you'll need to make sure your power supply has enough juice to power it.

An integrated graphics chip is well below such standards. While some have been able to get the game to run set on the most minimum of graphics settings, others can't run the game at all.



RAM

If you turn up all the graphical bells and whistles, CoH/V can use up to 1.3 GB of RAM. At the low graphical end, it certainly goes over .5 GB. Thus, the usual recommendation is 2 GB of RAM. Since many claim Vista itself needs 2 GB to run anything well, you'll often here people say 3 GB is needed for Vista, though, on my Vista computer, I've never seen memory usage go over 2 GB.

It's important to have more RAM that the game + operating system use, otherwise, you'll start to swap memory to the hard drive ('page filing'), which is excruciatingly slow compared to RAM.




CPU

For CoH/V if the first two legs above are sturdy, then a previous generation of CPU is OK. Any old Pentium 4 would work or an Athlon 2000+ and up. But, more power is better. *Any* dual core is more than sufficient. The game isn't written to take advantage of quad cores, so there's no advantage there unless you want to run background programs, which usually isn't recommended for intensive programs like a 3D MMORPG, which is what CoH/V is.