lani
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As there's some folks playing either of those two older MMOG's and are considering stepping over into the future of gaming *sic* but are a bit worried about their hardware let's do some comparisons:
| WOW's Minimum Requirements | VG SOH Minimum Requirements | Guild Wars Minimum Requirements | Windows® System 2000/XP OS:
* Intel Pentium® III 800 MHz or AMD Athlon 800 MHz
* 512 MB or more of RAM
* 32 MB 3D graphics card with Hardware Transform and Lighting, such as NVIDIA® GeForce™ 2 class card or above
* DirectX® 9.0c (included) and latest video drivers
* 6.0 GB available HD space
* 4x CD-ROM drive
* A 56k or better Internet connection | • Windows® 2000/XP/Vista
• 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible computer
• 100% DirectX compatible keyboard or input device
• Processor 2.4 GHz Intel processor or 2400+ or higher model AMD processor
• 512 MB RAM
• Vertex and Pixel shader 2.0 compatible hardware with 128MB of texture memory
• 100%DirectX compatible sound card
• 56K + Internet Connection
• 16X Speed DVD-ROM
• 20 Gigabytes Hard Drive Space | * Operating system: Windows® XP/2000/ME/98
* Processor: Intel® Pentium® III 800 MHz or equivalent
* Memory: 256 MB RAM
* Video card: ATI™ Radeon® 8500, NVIDIA® GeForce 3 or 4 MX Series, or Intel 82915G Video Card with 32 MB of VRAM
* 2 GB Available HDD Space
* 16-bit Sound Card | | WOW Recommended Specifications | VG SOH Recommended Specifications | Guild WarsRecommended Specifications | Windows® System 2000/XP OS:
* Intel Pentium® IV 1.5 GHz or AMD XP 1500+ MHz
* 1024 MB RAM
* 64 MB 3D graphics card with Hardware Transform and Lighting, such as NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX 5700 class card or above
* Broadband Internet connection
* Two-button scroll-wheel mouse | • Windows® 2000/XP/Vista
• 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible computer
• 100% DirectX compatible keyboard or input device
• Processor 3.0 GHz Intel or 3500+ AMD processor
• 2 GB RAM
• Vertex and Pixel shader 2.0 compatible hardware with 256MB of texture memory
• DirectSound compatible audio hardware
• Broadband Internet Connection
• 16X Speed DVD-ROM
• 20 Gigabytes Hard Drive Space | * Operating system: Windows XP/2000
* Processor: Intel Pentium III 1 GHz or equivalent
* Memory: 512 MB RAM
* Video card: ATI Radeon 9000 or NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti Series Video Card with 64 MB of VRAM
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Roughly put:
If your system doesn't meet the recommended specifications (which aren't optimal specifications btw) of WOW and or GW, don't even bother with Vanguard unless you're planning on upgrading your rig. Do that first then :-)
*note: I red-lighted Vertex shader information. This is important as it's an important issue for Graphics cards. Many older cards will support 1.3 or 1.4. only. If your card doesn't support vertex 2.0 you're likely to be in a world of hurt as backwards compatibility to 1.4 especially, is a pipe dream. In other words. Not having compatibility here, will hurt your experience of the game way more than not enough CPU cycles would.
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| 03/13/07 11:55 |
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Phedre_D
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| RE: WOW specs --|-- VG SoH specs --|-- GW Specs |
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Brilliant info, lani! You are going to make a lot of people happy with this info. Or unhappy. But at least they know. And I am glad my vertex and pixel shader is good enough. I was a bit worried there for a moment.
***FEELS KINDA NAKED WITHOUT A SIGGIE***
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| 03/13/07 12:07 |
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