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Minimum Graphiscs Card

Cade Lawson

By Cade Lawson,
Posted on: 2010-03-01 13:57 in Player Questions

 

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First, how much you looking to spend?

Second, did you smack your brother? It would be ok if you did.

 

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Originally Posted by Sukothai View Post
My brother sold my computer after I told him not too, and I was wondering what would be the minimum graphics card/chipset for CoX?
Pretty much anything you pull off the shelf these days will RUN CoH - its an aging game.

Run it -well-? That's a different question entirely. I played two solid years on an intel "integrated graphics solution" (which is code for: lolurpoor). Run it in the highly-anticipated Ultra Mode? Much more specific.

Tell us what you want to do, how much you want to spend, and what else you have to work with. That's the best place to start. If you just want the bare-minimum system requirements, look them up...anywhere...on the internet.

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Originally Posted by Sukothai View Post
My brother sold my computer after I told him not too, and I was wondering what would be the minimum graphics card/chipset for CoX?
If you check the Developer's Digest (under English->Development subforum) for Positron's posts, there is one about the Graphics cards that will support Ultra Mode among a few different levels.

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First, I strongly suggest to check this out. It's updated every month and pretty much shows ATI kicking nVidia's butt at every price point.

Second, here's what Posi wrote; note that he mentions not having tested the ATI 58xx series cards, but they provide better performance for the $$:

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After demoing the Ultra-mode at HeroCon, one of the most frequently asked questions we have been receiving is “what are the video cards you recommend to get the most out of Ultra-mode?” With the holiday season coming up, we asked the programmers in charge of implementing the features of Ultra-mode what they would recommend. We would like to forward this information on to you so you can better work on your holiday shopping lists.

If you are looking to spend under US$100, then an NVidia 9800 GT is your best bet. For AMD (ATI/Radeon), we don’t have enough of these cards at this price point to get you good data. This would be the minimum card for enabling all the features, only at reduced quality settings.

If you are looking to spend between $100 and $200, the Radeon HD 4890 and GeForce GTX 260 will do you well. We don’t have numbers from the Radeon 57xx series yet to verify if that is better or worse though. This would end up somewhere in the middle of Ultra-mode quality.

Finally if you are going to spend over $200, the GeForce GTX 285 is an excellent choice. We don’t have numbers from the Radeon 58xx series yet. This would be able to run Ultra-mode with the quality maxed out (except we have no data on Anti-aliasing, so caveat emptor when it comes to that specific feature).

Note: This is based on our current internal testing and might change by the time Going Rogue is released. Also, a video card is not the ONLY thing you should take into consideration. Your PC having a decent processor and memory will also enhance your performance. As we continue to test and get more information available we will update you. I hope this helps, and happy holidays!

UPDATE 2-10-2010: Spoke with our engineer today, and he said we were seeing excellent performance from the Radeon 5770 card, which is a mid-range card. We have not tested the 5870, but expect the performance on that card to be one of the fastest for Ultra mode. Also noteworthy is that Ultra Mode does not currently support SLI configured cards. We’re working with NVidia and ATI about this, but you all can speed up the process by contacting NVidia and ATI about updating things on their end to get it to work.

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Note: The OP didn't make any reference to Ultra Mode.

 

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Originally Posted by Sukothai View Post
My brother sold my computer after I told him not too, and I was wondering what would be the minimum graphics card/chipset for CoX?
Minimum? I wouldn't want to play on an integrated chipset any more (I did when I first started playing). I know people still using 7600 cards who play just fine with the graphics turned down a bit. I have a 7950 with everything turned up a decent amount past the default settings and it runs fine on a 1920x1080 widescreen monitor.

I don't personally know anyone playing on less than a 7600 (that I know of). You should be able to find a good one for $70-80 or a cheaper (less powerful) one for under $50.

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Originally Posted by Cade Lawson View Post
Note: The OP didn't make any reference to Ultra Mode.
No, but with what's out there today, pretty much anything new will run CoX as it is now just fine.

I mentioned Ultra Mode in case the OP was interested in that.

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I'm playing on a GeForce 7300LE (512 MB; TurboCached, so only 256MB onboard) and it runs fine, unless I'm on a team with more than 2-3 other people (then I have to turn off particle physics and such to get vaguely acceptable performance in the middle of fights - quite likely the card's decent enough, but that my Sempron 2800+ @ 1.6GHz is also bringing things down)

 

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The HD 3200 isn't a graphics card but an integrated graphics part of the motherboard chipset. It'll work but don't expect OK performance at anything but minimum graphic settings. Well I guess that all depends on what you think OK is.

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Would ATI Radeon™ HD 3200 Graphics card work on CoX?
Will it work? Yes. Will it work well? Maybe. Will it run Ultra Mode? No.