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system up to the task

January 16, 2009 11:17:17 PM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums

I just wanted to know if people with similar computer specs as mine can play the game without problem.

My Specs:

AMD Athlon Dual-Core QL-60 1.90GHz

2GB Ram

NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G

and its a laptop.

Any Feedback would be greatly appreciated, because I would like to preorder and participate in the beta.

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Reply #1 January 17, 2009 12:32:44 AM
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technically it can, but seriously; it won't play well at all. 

 

$500, all it takes for a desktop (without monitor and stuff) that will happily play DG at (near) max settings.

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Reply #2 January 17, 2009 6:43:42 AM
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yea, you can play it but the game will be very very slow.  8200m is a very crappy video card.  You need atleast 8600m or higher.

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Reply #3 January 17, 2009 10:15:35 AM
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Any suggestions on what kind and where to get a desktop that is up to the task.

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Reply #4 January 17, 2009 11:00:44 AM
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I would suggest a laptop with graphics card geforce 8600m or ati radeon 2600 or above.

 

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Reply #5 January 17, 2009 11:05:48 AM
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Yes, a 8600 is the minimum for a "gamer"'s laptop. As you said, the 8200 is a crappy card.

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Reply #6 January 17, 2009 11:19:05 AM
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Can I upgrade the graphics card in my laptop?  I'm looking at best buy and I can't find any for laptops.  With the laptop I have and an upgrade graphics card I would be able to play this game no problem?

Thx again for all your help.

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Reply #7 January 17, 2009 11:23:29 AM
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I would suspect that your 8200M would be an integrated chip on the motherboard rather than a separate card, which may make upgrading difficult.

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Reply #8 January 17, 2009 11:28:33 AM
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No you can't upgrade, in a laptop the graphic card is a chipset on the motherboard.

 

edit : didn't saw nights' post.

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Reply #9 January 17, 2009 3:00:20 PM
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I have a p4 3.2ghz desktop that runs xp.  If I upgrade the ram to 2g and get a new graphics card then would it run smooth.

Also what graphics card could I get that is a reasonable price?

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Reply #10 January 17, 2009 4:18:15 PM
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how much money do you have currently? $600 will net you a nice desktop that will run rings around all games bar Crysis.

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Reply #11 January 18, 2009 11:19:47 AM
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its kinda tight right now.  Just got married.  Probably can't spend much more than $200.  You think i can upgrade my old desktop?

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Reply #12 January 18, 2009 12:23:42 PM
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The specs look fine to me. It's far better than some of the test machines we have and it plays fine there.

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Reply #13 January 18, 2009 12:36:24 PM
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are you talking about my laptop or desktop?

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Reply #14 January 19, 2009 9:38:28 PM
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well I guess I should have listened to you guys.  I just preordered the game and played a few skirmishes against the AI.  I had it on high settings and it was pretty choppy.  I put it down to low and it still just seemed a bit slow.  Is that partially because its a beta and its a bit slow?  Or is it just my system?  Frogboy gave me the confidence to buy it and now I'm scared I made a mistake.

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Reply #15 January 19, 2009 10:05:26 PM
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  It's your system.  According to this website,  your card is rank #116.

The card I recommend 8600m is rank #65.  The recommended system requirements GeForce 7600 by stardock is rank #73.

 

notebook graphics ranking:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

 

Demigod system requirements:

https://store.stardock.com/product.aspx?productid=ESD-TGN-W293

 

Don't bother wasting money upgrading your desktop intel P4.  It'll be the bottlenect and the game will just be as slow.  Time to get a new laptop.

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Reply #16 January 24, 2009 5:02:16 PM
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Is there a desktop that you could recommend that is around $500 that would play everything well?

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Reply #17 January 25, 2009 7:51:05 PM
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Is there a desktop that you could recommend that is around $500 that would play everything well?

 

If you can build your own, then he's a link to tom's hardware $625 machine.  You can get it down to $500 if you get a cheaper cpu (e5200) and cheaper motherboard.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-2-overclock,2113.html

 

Component Model Price (USD)
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 2.66 GHz
 120
CPU Cooler  Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro 27
Motherboard  Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L
 105
RAM  Patriot Viper 4 GB (2 x 2 GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
 53
Graphics Sapphire 100245L Radeon HD 4850 512 MB
 150
Hard Drives  Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500 GB 7200 RPM 32 MB
 65
Sound Integrated HD Audio
 0
Network  Integrated Gigabit Networking
 0
Case Antec Three Hundred
 50
Power  Antec NeoPower 430 430 W ATX12V
 40
Optical  LITE-ON 20X DVD±R SATA Model iHAS120-04
 22

Total Price: $632
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