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hi all
Does anyone have an idea of what the PC system requirements/recommendations will be??
Thanx
I'm afraid not. There is no information about PC version what so ever except that there is going to be one and that release date is somewhere between october and december.
Actually there is. You will need approximately the same as oblivion.
RacingRay
04-09-2006, 11:42
Actually there is. You will need approximately the same as oblivion.
All speculated, there is no actual confirmation from official sides.
Sorry, I'm not familiar with this title.... high spec?
the_gaming_guy
04-09-2006, 11:46
Sorry, I'm not familiar with this title.... high spec?
Oblivion is a game....... weirdblue
All speculated, there is no actual confirmation from official sides.
Yes there is. Someone from atari confirmed it on the forum...
edgegamer
04-09-2006, 12:40
Most probabbly, the PC version will have quite a wide range of graphics settings... I forgot where, but they said that they are going to make the game available to as many ppl they can so the minimum requirments shouldn't be that high.
There may also be some more advantages from the 360 version, like able to set larger view distances, beefy PCs will also be able to handle higher amounts of traffic... I'm sure that, texture filtering and anti-aliasing will also be adjustable... meaning that textures can be seen sharper from far away... and if you have a graphics card which is able to support Anti-Aliasing + HDR and turn up Antisotropic Filtering to bout 8x... you can enjoy the beauties of Oahu even more :)
I think the following will be the minimum requirements (nothing official... just a personal Speculation)...
Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows XP 64-bit, Windows Vista
512MB System RAM
2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
128MB Direct3D compatible video card Supporting DirectX 9.0 (I don't think DirectX 8 will be supported)
DirectX 9.0c Driver
DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
Supported Video Card Chipsets:
ATI X1900 series
ATI X1800 series
ATI X1600 series
ATI X1300 series
ATI X850 series
ATI x800 series
ATI x700 series
ATI x600 series
ATI Radeon 9800 series
ATI Radeon 9700 series
ATI Radeon 9600 series
ATI Radeon 9500 series
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 series
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 series
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 series
NVIDIA GeForce FX series
Thats what I think the min specs will be
Sh4dow_racer
04-09-2006, 12:55
All speculated, there is no actual confirmation from official sides.
Actually a guy from atari or eden said it on a official forum, can't remember which one though.
And even if it is speculated, it is logical. In terms of graphics TDU seems to be a very demanding game, just like Oblivion. So I guess you can take Oblivion as a benchmark :wink2:
edgegamer
04-09-2006, 13:05
Actually a guy from atari or eden said it on a official forum, can't remember which one though.
And even if it is speculated, it is logical. In terms of graphics TDU seems to be a very demanding game, just like Oblivion. So I guess you can take Oblivion as a benchmark :wink2:
Shadow... I don't agree... oblivion had a very sucky engine... it ran slow on every pc without having amazingly beautiful graphics... IMO... it wasn't designed well. TDU... from the screenshots I've seen... for example... texture filtering is disasterous... shadows are beautiful though... also, certain models aren't very high poly... If... TDU has a good engine it will run very very well on all PCs... Look at Unreal Engine 3... its has BEAUTIFUL GRAPHICS yet it runs very well on a GeForce 6800 with maxed out settings... now that's an engine... not like Oblivion's engine... Also, oblivion textures suck at long distances... Have you seen Dark Messiah of Might and Magic... graphics quality isn't that far off from Oblivion and yet it RUNS AMAZINGLY WELL on my PC (Athlon X2 3800+ and 7800GT with 1Gb Memory)... not like oblivion... As I said before... it all depends on the engine... Moreover, this is why I keep emphasising how disasterous a port would be :|... I just can't immagine eekblue:
Understudy is correct on that front. As part of the TDU forum week, we were lucky enough to hold a conference conversation with one of the producers on the game. I think this might have been Wednesday or Thursday, so apologies if you missed out.
Amongst a great deal of questions raised, the first was "what kind of pc would you need to run TDU?" And the answer that came back was pretty much: if you can currently run Oblivion at an acceptable level, you can run TDU. The second was "when can we expect the PC version?" To this the guy basically said what Understudy said- not too long after the 360 version.
Similarly, the chap also mentioned that there are only minor graphical differences between the two platforms, but (and this is the important bit), there will be a few differences in the multiplayer.
For my part, i have spent an awful lot of time with both (and we have a dual-core Alienware, HD GFX card and 42in. plasma screen in the office) and can definitely say that you'd be hard pushed to notice a difference. Apart from the kids that smack-talk you over xbox live!!
Finally, it should be pointed out that producing products for multiple platforms is not a simple job. The submission and approval process for companies such as Microsoft and Sony can take weeks, if not months, whereas PC code needs to go through rigorous testing right up to (and often after) launch. As a result of this, console versions need an *awful* lot of due care and attention, because submission and approval can make or break a product.
Put on top of this the fact that, from one console to another, hardware and systems are the same- you make a game for one xbox, it will work on another. You can't guarantee that with pc's, as your AMD 3 Gig processor is different architecturally from my Intell 3Gig processor. Or maybe i have kingston RAM and you have Dell-Approved, unbranded RAM- the only way you'd know is if something goes wrong!
Topic: http://forums.eu.atari.com/showthread.php?p=848475#post848475
Sh4dow_racer
04-09-2006, 14:04
Shadow... I don't agree... oblivion had a very sucky engine... it ran slow on every pc without having amazingly beautiful graphics... IMO... it wasn't designed well. TDU... from the screenshots I've seen... for example... texture filtering is disasterous... shadows are beautiful though... also, certain models aren't very high poly... If... TDU has a good engine it will run very very well on all PCs... Look at Unreal Engine 3... its has BEAUTIFUL GRAPHICS yet it runs very well on a GeForce 6800 with maxed out settings... now that's an engine... not like Oblivion's engine... Also, oblivion textures suck at long distances... Have you seen Dark Messiah of Might and Magic... graphics quality isn't that far off from Oblivion and yet it RUNS AMAZINGLY WELL on my PC (Athlon X2 3800+ and 7800GT with 1Gb Memory)... not like oblivion... As I said before... it all depends on the engine... Moreover, this is why I keep emphasising how disasterous a port would be :|... I just can't immagine eekblue:
Well what made oblivion so slow were also the details I guess. There where so many things to render at the same time (especialy in the forests). I remember spending 10 mins on the mountain (north of the imperial city) looking at the imperial city. It was just amazingly beautiful!
To be honest, I don't know much about what makes an engine great or not. I've been playing videos games for more tant 12 years now, and Oblivion is probably, until now, one of the most beautiful I've seen. Of course, it ain't perfect, and on my comp, it ran ok...sometimes tonguegre
What I meant to say by taking oblivion as a benchmark, was that if you can run oblivion normally, you'll have no problem runing TDU. That's at least what the guy from atari said...
I haven't tried dark messiah...is it any good? Is it the same kind of game as oblivion? (sorry for the off topic ^^!)
edgegamer
04-09-2006, 14:53
Oblivion... when set at highest graphics... and especially when running it with AA + HDR (on an X1900xtx) is utterly BEAUTIFUL... but runs slow (30fps for me is slow)... On the other hand Dark Messiah (it isnt out yet) (Dark Messiah is like Oblivion but with a more linear gameplay) 's... when in doors are as good as Oblivions but it runs at 50-60 fps with AA at 4x instead of 20 - 30 with 0 AA (Anti Aliasing) (it uses a modified version of the Source engine [HL 2 Engine])...Outdoors... to be honest I haven't seen it personally, but it looks very close... and I'm sure it runs smoother :)
Sorry for the Off-Topicism :nuts:
Factor21
08-09-2006, 20:03
Damn im happy now..just ordered a new pc heres the specs:
ASUS P5B motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo processor
Corsair Twin2X 2x1GB DDR2 KIT Ram memory
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB Serial-ATA-II hard disk
Connect3d EAX1900XT/2DHTV/512M 512MB DDR3 graphics card
Antec Sonata II with 450W power cpu case
Samsung SH-S182D/BEBE Super-WriteMaster™ burning device
Samsung SH-D162C DVD-device
And you know what..If someone says that i can't play TDu with good graphics I don't let u know what I will do tonguegre
artushka24
01-10-2006, 05:59
Does anyone know or think that the computer I recently built will run TDU on medium to high settings? The specs are as follows:
Case- Aspire X-Cruiser (Red) ATX MidTower
Power Suppy- Antec TRUEPOWERII TPII-550 ATX12V 550W with dual +12V rails 19A each
Motherboard- Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard - with silent pipe cooling for gpu and cpu, and 25% increased performance for Nvidia chip gpu's
Processor- AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Windsor 2.2GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Dual Core
Video Card- XFX GeForce 7900GS XXX Edition 256MB GDDR3 PCI-E 16X Core clock at: 590MHz Memory clock at: 1600MHz with 20 pixel pipelines
Corsair XMS2 2GB 4-4-4-4-12-T2 PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Dual Channel Memory (2 x 1GB)
Harddrive- Western Digital Caviar SE WD1200JS 120GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
Optical Drive(s)- SONY Black 16X DVD-ROM 52X CD-R 32X CD-RW 52X CD-ROM 2M Cache IDE Combo Drive
Operating system: Windows XP PRO SP2
I'm pretty sure it will be enough, but I have 2 remarks though.
Firstly, I'm AMD person, but the next processor that I'm going to buy in next few months is definately going to be Intel Core Duo, because it has so much better performance than AMD Dual core. AMD FX is in that range, but it's much more expensive, and in my country difficult to find.
Secondly, I think that you can't achive 1,6 GHz with your graphic card. I think that 1,4 GHz is limit for 7900 GT or GS. You should have considered GTX or maybe even GX2 since the GTX prices have been starting to decline couse od the GX2 coming into the stores and it will decline even more in next few months cause of the launch of N80 series of Nvidia.
BTW, good decision of buying 550W power suply. It's always good to have more Watts than you actualy need; makes the whole system more stabile esspecially it you have a brand name power suply.
artushka24
01-10-2006, 17:53
I'm pretty sure it will be enough, but I have 2 remarks though.
Firstly, I'm AMD person, but the next processor that I'm going to buy in next few months is definately going to be Intel Core Duo, because it has so much better performance than AMD Dual core. AMD FX is in that range, but it's much more expensive, and in my country difficult to find.
Secondly, I think that you can't achive 1,6 GHz with your graphic card. I think that 1,4 GHz is limit for 7900 GT or GS. You should have considered GTX or maybe even GX2 since the GTX prices have been starting to decline couse od the GX2 coming into the stores and it will decline even more in next few months cause of the launch of N80 series of Nvidia.
If my computer runs JUST CAUSE on full with 4XAA at 60fps then I'm certain TDU will run well also. My comp runs Oblivion all on high with AA not HDR at 1200*960 outside at 45fps. I don't think the developers will make a game like Oblivion which is almost impossible to play fully with any computer unless it costs $5000! As for my video card, it will be enough for Battlefield 2142, NFS Carbon,.... In time I will get a second one for SLI. In my opinion, the system requirements should already be posted or should be posted in the next few days because the game is scheduled for release in the next 24 days.
If my computer runs JUST CAUSE on full with 4XAA at 60fps then I'm certain TDU will run well also. My comp runs Oblivion all on high with AA not HDR at 1200*960 outside at 45fps. I don't think the developers will make a game like Oblivion which is almost impossible to play fully with any computer unless it costs $5000! As for my video card, it will be enough for Battlefield 2142, NFS Carbon,.... In time I will get a second one for SLI. In my opinion, the system requirements should already be posted or should be posted in the next few days because the game is scheduled for release in the next 24 days.
To be honest, I don't think that game will be released till February.
Maybe you should read my post again. It's not that I think that your comp won't be enoug for TDU on high details, it's just that I'm saying that I would have made some things differenty or better to say that I would have bought some other components. It doesn't have anything with TDU.
artushka24
02-10-2006, 03:05
Yeah, I'm sorry I must have misunderstood your post. But anyway you are right, the Core 2 Duo's are the nicest cpus out there right now. I've been looking at the 6600E myself, it's just all down to the money you can spend lol. I got the X2 4200+ and safely overclocked it to the speed of an FX-62 (2.8Ghz), the only difference is the cache. Hurray for watercooling lol. I got what I could and I think that the system I got should last me a good number of years with minor upgrades like maybe getting a GTX gpu or keep things simple and get another GS for SLI. The 2GB of ram should go a long ways, personally I think that anything above 1.5GB is overkill. Some people put in so much that Windows won't even recognize it, but hey that's just some people lol. I noticed your remark about my vid card's clock and memory speeds. My answer: I've overclocked it lol. It's faster than a GT, but has 4 less pixel shaders. But I don't think 4 will make a monumental difference. As for the game, I preorderd it at ebgames.com and the confirmed ship date is 10/26/2006 so 2 days after the 10/24/2006 release date. All other sites seem to support this date as well. Hope they are right.
why would anyone want to play this game on a PC :mefiant:
surely it wouldnt be as good in anyway as playing it on the 360?
:mefiant:
1. I dont have a console, and never will; I don't like them and that's it.
2. Maybe it's not gona be as good maybe it'll be even better. Why?
- No problems with space... 10Gb, 70 Gb... you name it; I have it (more options that could be includeed).
- Graphics can be much better (7900 GT, GTX, GX2... new N80 chipset that should arrive soon)
- Wide selection of steering wheels
- Possible 3rd party cars like for NFS, Mafia, WR2 etc.
- 3rd party update for different possible bugs
- No problems with the XBox (since I've been reading this forum, I've noticed that lots of people have/had problems with their XBox)
etc.
Damn im happy now..just ordered a new pc heres the specs:
ASUS P5B motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo processor
Corsair Twin2X 2x1GB DDR2 KIT Ram memory
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB Serial-ATA-II hard disk
Connect3d EAX1900XT/2DHTV/512M 512MB DDR3 graphics card
Antec Sonata II with 450W power cpu case
Samsung SH-S182D/BEBE Super-WriteMaster™ burning device
Samsung SH-D162C DVD-device
And you know what..If someone says that i can't play TDu with good graphics I don't let u know what I will do tonguegre
Very nice specs but what are you doing getting an intel they suck. Theyare rip off.
why would anyone want to play this game on a PC :mefiant:
surely it wouldnt be as good in anyway as playing it on the 360?
:mefiant:
The best steering wheel's you can get are all for PC. And unlike consoles, you dont have to pay $700 every 3 years for a new one.
My computer i built myself, can run Oblivion on high with around 50fps, I'll be able to run TDU fine.
Just a lesson to people who buy computers.
Do it yourself, you pay an INCREDIBLE ammount extra.
Very nice specs but what are you doing getting an intel they suck. Theyare rip off.
At this point, it is the best processor (Core duo and Extreme) on the market and for the best price. As I sad, I'm definately AMD person (have AMD 64 3000+ right now), but this time Intel has made a great job. In all tests Core duo is the winner. FX can compete with it, but it's much more expensive.
The best steering wheel's you can get are all for PC. And unlike consoles, you dont have to pay $700 every 3 years for a new one.
My computer i built myself, can run Oblivion on high with around 50fps, I'll be able to run TDU fine.
Just a lesson to people who buy computers.
Do it yourself, you pay an INCREDIBLE ammount extra.
Amen to that. I've been building my own PCs for 8 years so far which means 5 PCs were built and all of them ran perfectly.
artushka24
02-10-2006, 22:26
Amen to that. I've been building my own PCs for 8 years so far which means 5 PCs were built and all of them ran perfectly.
True that! My friend decided not to wait for me to build him a pc and instead bought a prebuilt HP system. It has a Pentium D 3.0Ghz, 1GB ram, 300GB hard drive, and on top of all that no video card or monitor. He spent around $900 with tax and warranty. I told him that building was a better deal and now that he started using it I'm pretty sure he realized that because he said "I should have waited a week and let you built one for me". No surprise there. He tried out some games and the integrated graphics wouldn't even run Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 on low, wow! So I took him to the store where we bought him a decent video card (BFG 7600GT PCI-E). I was worried his power supply would blow up or the video card would since you don't know what kind of no name brand parts they put in there so we wanted to be safe and got a Thermaltake 500Watt psu. In the end the comp ended up costing him $1100 and i'm sure I could have gotten him better parts for that much or less. :mefiant: First off building comps is fun cuz it's hands on and you actully see your work in action after you put in that first game and let her rip. That's what it's all about, not going to walmart and buying a white box (360) and not even knowing how it works or what it took to build it. In the end it all comes down to the satisfaction of a job well done or the frustration of something going bad lol. :bravo: But hey that's life!
True!
Looking forward to built my new PC configuration in next few months:
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 BOX, 2×2.4GHz, 1066MHz, 775-pin, 4MB
- 2x1Gb DDR2 800 MHz Kingmax
- Chieftec 550W PSU (already bougt)
- Segate Barracuda SATA 7200 80 Gb (from my current PC)
- MB Gigabyte 965P-DQ6, s775
- Thermaltake big tower Kandalf
- Nvidia Geforce 7900 GTX or 7950GX2 (I'll decide in few months after the prices stabilize)
artushka24
03-10-2006, 03:02
Nice! The GTX prices are down $20 already. Do you know if we will be able to upgrade to directx 10 without purchasing a dx10 video card? I mean ever since dx8 it has been like a software update kind of deal, but I'm not so sure now. Won't current DX9 cards be able to handle DX10? I'll be lame if they can't!
True that! My friend decided not to wait for me to build him a pc and instead bought a prebuilt HP system. It has a Pentium D 3.0Ghz, 1GB ram, 300GB hard drive, and on top of all that no video card or monitor. He spent around $900 with tax and warranty. I told him that building was a better deal and now that he started using it I'm pretty sure he realized that because he said "I should have waited a week and let you built one for me". No surprise there. He tried out some games and the integrated graphics wouldn't even run Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 on low, wow! So I took him to the store where we bought him a decent video card (BFG 7600GT PCI-E). I was worried his power supply would blow up or the video card would since you don't know what kind of no name brand parts they put in there so we wanted to be safe and got a Thermaltake 500Watt psu. In the end the comp ended up costing him $1100 and i'm sure I could have gotten him better parts for that much or less. :mefiant: First off building comps is fun cuz it's hands on and you actully see your work in action after you put in that first game and let her rip. That's what it's all about, not going to walmart and buying a white box (360) and not even knowing how it works or what it took to build it. In the end it all comes down to the satisfaction of a job well done or the frustration of something going bad lol. :bravo: But hey that's life!
Lol...funny story.
I leave my computer on 24/7 because i got a LFS dedi server and i run lots of downloads and stuff over night.
Woke up one morning and my screen had jammed, turned my comp off and then back on.. no power.
My PSU blew up... 4 months+ without being turned off isn't a good thing :P
Nice! The GTX prices are down $20 already. Do you know if we will be able to upgrade to directx 10 without purchasing a dx10 video card? I mean ever since dx8 it has been like a software update kind of deal, but I'm not so sure now. Won't current DX9 cards be able to handle DX10? I'll be lame if they can't!
I believe it will be possible with new set of drivers. Probably it won't be possible to use all advantages od DX10 without DX10 compatible GPU, but I think tkat new drivers will have DX10 support, at least for newer GPUs such as 7600 and 7900.
As for the GTX/GX2 decision, I've noticed the price fall for GTX, but I'm waiting for GX prices to fall as well. I'll definately have to wait for jannuary to complete the upgrade (have to earn money to spend money), and by then I expect prices of GX and GTX to fall even more cause of the N80 release.
Nice! The GTX prices are down $20 already. Do you know if we will be able to upgrade to directx 10 without purchasing a dx10 video card? I mean ever since dx8 it has been like a software update kind of deal, but I'm not so sure now. Won't current DX9 cards be able to handle DX10? I'll be lame if they can't!
I believe it will be possible with new set of drivers. Probably it won't be possible to use all advantages od DX10 without DX10 compatible GPU, but I think tkat new drivers will have DX10 support, at least for newer GPUs such as 7600 and 7900.
DX10 is a Windows Vista only feature, it can't be downloaded to e.g. Windows 2000/XP, and you have to have a DX10 graphic card to use all the DX10 effects. And apparently what I have heard DX10 games are also Windows Vista exclusive and cant be run on XP/2000, Halo2 as an example, (I suppose we have to wait and see, but I do hope that’s not correct), Crysis (“Far Cry 2”) can apparently run on both DX9 (XP/2000) and DX10 (Vista), the only difference is that you wont get all the "eye-candy" in the DX9 version.
Nvidia is apparently going to release its GF8800 (G80) in the middle of next month (November).
Factor21
03-10-2006, 18:09
Very nice specs but what are you doing getting an intel they suck. Theyare rip off.
Well a core 2 duo smokes amd :)
bau_bau646
03-10-2006, 19:08
but socket F from AMD? :p
Expensive, and in my country not availible.
artushka24
11-10-2006, 16:23
Darn! The release date got pushed back to February 2007. I pretty much know what that means: it will be on DX10 and Vista and by that time my comp will be a piece of **** because the quad core will come out. *crying* :cry:
I don't think so. I believe that it's going to be standard Win XP DX9 game because its developement started 6 months ago or even more. I think that we can expect first full Win Vista games in the september/october 2007. Until then, games will probably be just Vista compatibile.
artushka24
12-10-2006, 05:07
:) I hope you're right. Meanwhile, I put up my Xbox along with two controllers and seven games up for sale for $200 OBO and a classic Sega Genesis system with two controllers and 39 games! for $100. I hope to get an Xbox 360 on Ebay for around $200 and maybe play Test Drive before it gets to PC.
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