System reqs for guild wars?

[Marty4]

I have a friend who introduced me to Guild Wars, and I'm probably going to buy it. However, he installed it on my computer to show me, it is very jittery, even with the graphics and such all turned to the lowest setting. I think the problem lies with the video card. Can someone tell me a video card that would work well for GW, but is relatively inexpensive? Also, how much RAM do you think is necessary for smooth gameplay?

Thanks!

[T-D-C]

Well I am running it on a 128mb Geforce 5200 that I picked up for $60AUD.

I am also running it on 384MB RAM on a 1.8Ghz processor. It runs ok for me. Just a little bit laggy on at the start but other than that its fine.

Here are the minimum and recommended Specs.

Minimum System Specs:
Windows® XP/2000/ME/98
Intel Pentium® III 800 Mhz or equivalent
256 MB RAM
CD-ROM Drive
2 GB Available HDD Space
ATI Radeon 8500 or GeForce 3 or 4 MX Series Video Card with 32MB of VRAM
16-bit Sound Card
Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse
Recommended System Specs:
Windows® XP/2000/ME/98
Intel Pentium® III 1GHz or equivalent
512 MB RAM
CD-ROM Drive
2 GB Available HDD Space
ATI Radeon 9000 or GeForce 4 Ti Series Video Card with 64MB of VRAM
16-bit Sound Card
Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse

[ 10-03-2005, 12:07 AM: Message edited by: T-D-C ]

[SpiritWarrior]

Get a 4600 ti. Cheap as dirt and a good gaming card if you are on budget.

[Marty4]

Ok, thanks!

[SpiritWarrior]

Yeah, try www.Newegg.com for refurbished ones even cheaper (they are reliable).

For anything MMO I'd go with 500mb ram at the least, personally. I got a gig of ram myself and will never go back - ever. I'd recommend it to all particluarly if you are operating on anything around 250mb and/or if you're running XP which hogs at least half of it. I had a friend who had 128mb of ram and was running winXP...it wasn't pretty.

[Hivetyrant]

Originally posted by SpiritWarrior: Yeah, try www.Newegg.com for refurbished ones even cheaper (they are reliable). For anything MMO I'd go with 500mb ram at the least, personally. I got a gig of ram myself and will never go back - ever. I'd recommend it to all particluarly if you are operating on anything around 250mb and/or if you're running XP which hogs at least half of it. I had a friend who had 128mb of ram and was running winXP...it wasn't pretty.

I have succesfully run XP on 92MB of RAM, it even boots with 64, just doesnt go too well....

[T-D-C]

LOL when I was playing around with those RAM Chips you sent me Hive I accidently booted up with only 32MB of RAM. Good GOD that took forever heheheh

[SpiritWarrior]

Yes. It will work but oh so horribly.

[Davros]

I have a question - is it playable at all on dial-up?

Now my broadband is coming at long last (connected in the exchange now but the ISP is still in the process of mailing me the router - they ran out of the you beaut model I selected). I tried twice to play on dial-up but boot-up took about 10 mins and then taking about 3 or 4 steps took about 2 mins each. Would this be only a function of the dial-up, cos my system specs would be well in advance of minimum (512 MB Ram and 128 MB GE T1 4200)? Is there something else I should check for?

[Hivetyrant]

Originally posted by Davros: I have a question - is it playable at all on dial-up? Now my broadband is coming at long last (connected in the exchange now but the ISP is still in the process of mailing me the router - they ran out of the you beaut model I selected). I tried twice to play on dial-up but boot-up took about 10 mins and then taking about 3 or 4 steps took about 2 mins each. Would this be only a function of the dial-up, cos my system specs would be well in advance of minimum (512 MB Ram and 128 MB GE T1 4200)? Is there something else I should check for?

Definantly, the game runs perfectly on Dial-up, but games like this are always slow the first time around as they need to update, especially GW's as it uses a different way of updating to most MMOG's and will often download small/large files before entering an area.

If possible, play the game on a high speed connection for the first time to make sure you are all updated, but after that Dial-up should chug along fine