Updated minimum/recommended specs?


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Okay, when looking at the Going Rogue pre-purchase page, I saw this:

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Minimum PC Requirements
  • Windows® 2000/XP
  • Intel® Pentium® III 800 MHz or AMD Athlon 800 MHz
  • 256 MB RAM
  • CD-ROM Drive (DVD-ROM Drive if Collector's DVD Edition)
  • 4 GB available hard disk space
  • NVIDIA® GeForce™ 2 Series, ATI® Radeon® 8500 Series or Intel i865G and above Video Card
  • Directx 9.0c
  • 16-bit sound card
  • 56k Internet connection
  • Keyboard and mouse
Uhm... are we sure about this? Seriously? I've bought games recently where the minimum specs provided a wonderful gameplay experience (I find GFW to be quite good about this), but I'm pretty certain that these minimum specs would not do so with COH in this day and age. Heck, I'm not sure if it would even run Windows XP in a satisfactory manner! Is there any chance of these minimums getting updated anytime soon? Because, and I could well be wrong on this, aren't these the same minimum specs as COH had when it launched?


 

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these are prolly the absolute minimum components to be able to start up the game and run it with constant lag

the specs to run it comfortably are probably a bit higher than that

and as stated in other threads about ultra mode the specs to run that are quite a bit higher than that


 

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This is what happens when they copy it from the previous box (which was copied from the box before that, etc) as opposing to what's on the support site.

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Originally Posted by Psyte View Post
Okay, when looking at the Going Rogue pre-purchase page, I saw this:


Uhm... are we sure about this? Seriously? I've bought games recently where the minimum specs provided a wonderful gameplay experience (I find GFW to be quite good about this), but I'm pretty certain that these minimum specs would not do so with COH in this day and age. Heck, I'm not sure if it would even run Windows XP in a satisfactory manner! Is there any chance of these minimums getting updated anytime soon? Because, and I could well be wrong on this, aren't these the same minimum specs as COH had when it launched?
It was much lower on launch - may be close to the CoV minimum though.
Ive had both CoH and CoV running on a Celeron at 400Mhz running Win 98 and even a P90 under Win 95 (barely) for CoH in the past.
Upping the memory makes a huge difference though.

Oh and the CD/DVD Rom drive won't be necessary if its a digital download.


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Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master View Post
these are prolly the absolute minimum components to be able to start up the game and run it with constant lag

the specs to run it comfortably are probably a bit higher than that

and as stated in other threads about ultra mode the specs to run that are quite a bit higher than that
I don't much care about the Ultra mode specs at the moment - its more the "Hey, look, my computer can handle this!" moment someone may have when going to the store. The friends of mine who used to play with 512megs of RAM crashed a lot, especially when changing zones, along with a host of other problems. I can't imagine trying to play on 256megs of RAM.