Reasonably powerful PC?

vollkorn

Hey everyone,

i would like to purchase the beta of NS2. I'm just a bit confused about the sentence below the order form. What does "Reasonably powerful PC" mean? Will I be able to play at least a bit with low resolution?

My system:

Macbook Pro early 2008
2,4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256 MB

Come on...its not that bad, or is it?

TrC

Sorry, you wont to able yield decent fps

30-35 non combat

below 20 any combat

rough estimate, could be worse or better.

Kouji_San

What TRC said, also that 256Mb video card might cause problems even on the lowest graphics settings due to materials loading dynamical as far as I can tell (stuttering while loading materials/models the whole time). I have 512Mb Vram and 2Gb DDR2. So I can't be entirely sure if this is caused for me on medium or higher by the Vram or the system memory...


I might even go as far as saying you'd get lower FPS as TRC said in some cases due to the 2.4Ghz CPU. I've got a C2D E6420 running at 3.2Ghz. My guess what you've got is the C2D E6600 judging from the clock speed. when I run it on 2.1 or even 2.4Ghz I get around 15FPS in combat and less then 25 in normal circumstances... copypasting my patented notepad file with FPS related to my system and you system seems quite similar :)

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->------- Frame rates in NS2
E6420@ 2.13/2.14Ghz, HD4850 512Mb, 2Gb OCZ PC2-6400: (12) 15 - 25 (33)

Overclocked speeds for my CPU
3.2Ghz: (18) 25 - 30 (60)
3.3Ghz: (22) 29 - 36 (68) <- FSB/memory bandwidth gain @ 410Mhz
3.4Ghz: (21) 28 - 34 (65) <- FSB/memory gap @ 425Mhz (from 411 all the way up to 467Mhz)

FPS ranging from (very heavy combat) Normal Combat - Low Combat (no Combat)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Champlo0

Refrain from larger servers if you do end up playing without an upgrade. Your computer isn't going to be able to handle NS2 very well.