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To the limits, and beyond of your PC

Discussion in 'Playground' started by Enthasius, Oct 7, 2002.

  1. Enthasius Gems: 8/31
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    [​IMG] Ive recently got a new PC. Its easily twice the power of my old one, and at long last, I can play Baldur's Gate II at full whack.

    I was wondering if their are any other RPG's (good one's, obviously) that are capable of being played comfortably on these rough specs

    1700HZ processer
    32MB graphics
    60GHZ memory
    and some really stupid amount of RAM

    Im into most RPG's, preferably any other BGII nuts enjoyed.

    I already have Dungeon Siege, All BG games, and IWD.

    Any suggestions?
    Cheers.

    [ October 08, 2002, 14:13: Message edited by: Taluntain ]
     
  2. idoru Gems: 11/31
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    I have no idea what 60 ghz memory would mean, but it does sound awfully fast.. :D

    Anyway, as long as you have 256 megs of ram or more, Morrowind seems like a great idea. It should run really nice on your computer, and the graphics are incredibly pretty, so you really get to test the limits of your new machine.
     
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    Try The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind, Neverwinter Nights, Planescape: Torment, Fallout 1 & 2, or Divine Divinity. With that monster of a PC you could play just about anything. I also liked Evil Islands (although I didn't get very far into it yet, it's on the back burner for now).
     
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    On a little aside here, there's a fair difference between a TNT2-32meg card, and a Geforce2 Pro-32meg card.

    And yeah, I'm clueless on the 60ghz ram too.

    Anyways, you can probably play IwD2, Arcanum, Morrowind. NwN will probably play, but you'll have to turn down some stuff.
     
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    [​IMG] I think he/she meant 60GB HDD.

    Anyway, try DS, NWN, and Morrowind. Probably the three best new RPGs out now.
     
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    That spec will play any current PC game as far as I know.

    Nothing I've seen yet has had higher requirements than NWN, and you're way beyond that.

    You'll probably get 2 years before you're starting to find you're lagging behind on that score, although you might need to upgrade the graphics card before then.

    Morrowind is not a bad call if you haven't got it, just be prepared to spend a LONG time getting used to it, and longer understanding what to do.
     
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    Heh, thats good to know. Ive got NWN's, but I wasn't too impressed with it (I prefer having a party of people for one thing.) So what is morrowind about, generally, and is it more action over RPG?
     
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    [​IMG] Well, with the specs you listed you'd be lucky to run MSDOS 5.

    You did say 1700 HZ, as in 1.7 KHz (.0017MHz or .0000017GHz)

    ;)
     
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    [​IMG] Now here's a guy who doesn't read what his mind tells him he should read.

    I bet the rest of us all saw 1700MHz.
     
  10. Fallen Paladin

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    I saw 1700HZ... :shake:
     
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    I saw
    1700HZ and
    60GHZ memory

    and assumed he meant
    1.7ghz and
    60GB hard drive

    However I, unlike some others, was too tactful to comment on the error :D , just replied as though he had not mispelled. :cool:

    [ October 09, 2002, 20:20: Message edited by: Nutrimat ]
     
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    BTA did a little rant about Morrowind in another thread.

    I guess it's very pretty, mostly 1st person, and "God-where-am-I?" open play. That is, you can get totally lost and sidetracked away from any of the plot-driving-elements. It's not that it's "non-linear", it's just that you have so many other things to do. It's like a MRPG (Massive Role Playing Game). :)

    I hear it's highly cpu intensive, which means that 1.37ghz processor will do you ok.
     
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    [​IMG] I got morrowind the other day. Installed it, whacked all graphics and sound up to higest quality.

    The graphics were slightly jumpy (only just visible but still present) when you turn around quickly even with my AMD XP2000, 512mb ddr ram and geforce3 64mb.

    Obviously you can turn the resolution down a notch (which isnt a bad idea coz the text on highest res is pretty small) but i didnt just break the bank on a new pc to be unable to play a new game at highest quality.
     
  14. Enthasius Gems: 8/31
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    [​IMG] Yeah, alright, I'm not that great with computer terms and whatever, stop moaning for jebus' sake.
     
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    I say just play Morrowind on the X-BOX. Its a better match. Plus you can lay down, pull out some cold ones and order a pizza while you walk around! A little off topic. Sorry.
     
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    Grandia II. It is an awesome RPG.
     
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