What's up with the extreme system requirements?

[krunsh]

In your case the site got it right, kinda. Your core 2 duo doesn't meet the recommended requirments, that your showing. It does meet the minimum.

Turning on eye candy is more to do with your graphics card, so if you have nice card you'll be able to most likely. But remeber your CPU sends the info to the graphics card, as well as computing the AI. That's probably why they are recommending a quad core, even though it's at a lower ghz than your duo it will be able to handle more threads, and the game is optimized for multiple threads.

yeah well I'm not worried at all, I can play pretty much all game on high setting (such as crysis, settler 7, empire total war, mafia 2, etc).

Still, the CPU is the next thing to upgrade on my computer. It's also the part I know the less about in technologie... Any suggestion?

I'm really happy with my new geforce 460 gtx and the 4G ram have served me well so far.

 

[civ_king]

About the 4GB...It's recommended. Not required...Most games will say 4GB is recommended these days.

Though I had an odd thing where it didnt recognize my video card's type, but could find the specs for it. Also, its a 5850 with 1GB, not clear on where the other 1.7GB came from.

[/IMG]

Think Civ5 is scary, look at Final Fantasy XIV, its practically the new Crysis, given that it actually says it needs an i7 or equivalent grade CPU for Recommended.

no, that's Metro 2033 a game where a GTX 480 only gets 19 FPS at max settings, with the best 5970 getting 22 FPS

 

[Rebel44]

as has been said, these "can i run it"-sites are usually not worth the mouseclick. They work on very general assumptions based on the specs published and general (non-game specific) benchmark tests of hardware testers. They have no idea why a certain piece of hardware is recommended for a given game since they don't know the specific tasks that the game is running and where's the bottleneck. Basically they provide info that you can just as well collect elsewhere, without letting a dubious site gain control of your pc while hoping that they just collect the data for selling it to some odd marketing department instead of trying really devious things.

qft!!

dont you such stupid websites - they are useless

 

[Me,myself,and,I]

That extra 1.7 GB is the power it's ACTUALLY running at. The companies that make the hardware say what they can guarantee you.

 

[Tylerryan79]

yeah well I'm not worried at all, I can play pretty much all game on high setting (such as crysis, settler 7, empire total war, mafia 2, etc).

Still, the CPU is the next thing to upgrade on my computer. It's also the part I know the less about in technologie... Any suggestion?

I'm really happy with my new geforce 460 gtx and the 4G ram have served me well so far.

Well if you upgrade you cpu to a new i7(thats what I'd do) you'll need a new mobo and ram, but if you save it wont cost too much or take too long! I didnt see you had the gtx 460, lucky guy you! You'll be all set Id think with CiV, but doesnt hurt if you play other games too... plus new toys are fun huh?

So I checked out the new FF specs, gtx 460 is recommended!! and and i7 @ 2.66?! Must be intense! I have an i7 @ 3.80ghz oc, but my graphics is a gtx 275, so I guess I wont meet recommended for that game.... geez!

 

[Tylerryan79]

That extra 1.7 GB is the power it's ACTUALLY running at. The companies that make the hardware say what they can guarantee you.

Your saying his card has an extra 1.7gb of ram? But the company cant gaurantee it works, so only advertises the lower amount? So than my old gt120 really has 4 gb of ram, and they only advertise the 1? No I dont believe that, sorry. That extra ram is system ram, saved for the cards use, if it ever needs it. I dont know if its really saved, but the card can call on it for use I believe.

 

[silentknight111]

i needed a new notebook anyway, so i bought one that i was sure would meet minimum specs. Core i3 mobile, integrated graphics, 6GB system RAM. i'm still working on configuring it tho. still using my POS Civ IV laptop for cruising the interwebz.

Sorry to break this to you, but an integrated graphics card is not "sure to be good enough"? Generally, integrated graphics chips are the worst out there. They are created for office users.

Think Civ5 is scary, look at Final Fantasy XIV, its practically the new Crysis, given that it actually says it needs an i7 or equivalent grade CPU for Recommended.

Yeah, I have a PC with two Geforce 9800s in SLI, a quad core running a 2.8 Ghz in each core, and 4 gigs of ram... I have to run the FFXIV open beta in low settings and my mouse cursor still lags and my framerate chugs...... that game REALLY needs some optimization.

 

[Willowmound]

Lol. My spanking new, heavily upgraded Alienware mx17 did not meet recommended specs according to systemrequirementslab.com. Which is utter nonsense. I can run everythhing. On highest. Always. So "pft" to that and I now know not to use that site again.

 

[Tylerryan79]

Lol. My spanking new, heavily upgraded Alienware mx17 did not meet recommended specs according to systemrequirementslab.com. Which is utter nonsense. I can run everythhing. On highest. Always. So "pft" to that and I now know not to use that site again.

Whats the specs? These sites never stop amazimg me! They are probably some marketing tool to trick people into upgrading their pc's!

 

[silentknight111]

Lol. My spanking new, heavily upgraded Alienware mx17 did not meet recommended specs according to systemrequirementslab.com. Which is utter nonsense. I can run everythhing. On highest. Always. So "pft" to that and I now know not to use that site again.

Sometimes it just doesn't understand newer hardware.

 

[Tylerryan79]

Well googling the mx17 shows nothing is really new about it, but then again his is heavily upgraded.

2.0GHz Intel Core2 Quad Q9000 Processor
* 4GB System Memory
* 320GB Hard Drive; Dual Layer DVD Burner
* 17.0" Display; Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M - SLI Enabled
* Windows 7 Home Premium Operating System (64-bit)

However I found different specs for the same thing, so I dont know if thats reliable, or even what he has.

 

[Trackman20]

Just purchased a new laptop yesterday.......and I'm ready for the release.

Tested it out with Civ IV..........18 Civ (Earth-Huge) Scenario. It runs as fast in 1800 so far as it did on the first turn. I'm ready to go!

 

[silentknight111]

When you buy an alienware(or a dell, seeing as alienware is now jsut the "gaming" part fo dell) you can customize the internals, so the actual specs can vary greatly.

 

[Tylerryan79]

When you buy an alienware(or a dell, seeing as alienware is now jsut the "gaming" part fo dell) you can customize the internals, so the actual specs can vary greatly.

I see, makes sense with all the different combos I was seeing through google. Id still rather build my own, than pay a premium for the dell and alienware name. It is still nice that you can customize it, for those who want what they want, but dont have the time or little knowledge to build it themselves.

 

[Willowmound]

It is still nice that you can customize it, for those who want what they want, but dont have the time or little knowledge to build it themselves.

That would be me, who, while able to put together much of my own desktop PC, would struggle to physically put together a laptop.

As I now live part time on a boat, I needed something smaller to play my games on.

 

[Tylerryan79]

That would be me, who, while able to put together much of my own desktop PC, would struggle to physically put together a laptop.

As I now live part time on a boat, I needed something smaller to play my games on.

Duh, I completely overlooked that its a laptop! That would make things a little harder huh!

 

[Willowmound]

Duh, I completely overlooked that its a laptop! That would make things a little harder huh!

Yeah

 

[Tarkhan]

Again referring to Final Fantasy 14 (sorry) they have a benchmarking app that tests systems for the game.

It isn't Civ5 of course, but I think if you score well enough that you can run this game, Civ5 will run fine.

http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/media/benchmark/na/

 

[TrailblazingScot]

So I was on systemrequirementslab.com and saw that Civ 5 had been added. "Sweet!" I thought to myself and decided to see how my PC would handle the game expecting good results.

But then to my shock this is what I saw:



What the heck?

4 GB OF RAM RECOMMENDED?!?!

I mean, I actually have a fairly strong PC with over 5 GB of RAM so I do meet all of the minimum requirements as well as most of the recommended ones but I am still a little shocked by how demanding the game appears to be in spite of the fact that it is a turn based strategy game.

Also, how does it come that my video card meets all of the recommended features but still isn't considered good enough to meet the recommended requirements? And a 1.8 GHz Quad Core CPU recommended WTH I am not trying to run Crysis!

Why is the game so demanding?

It's All About The Pentiums

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-98377375624850470#

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What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?
You're usin' a 286? Don't make me laugh
Your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half?
You could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette
You're the biggest joke on the Internet

Sorry, but with a name like Hardcore Gamer it is deserved

 

[Horizons]

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