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[Captain1nsaneo]

I've always thought of my rig as either mid range or slightly below... but I'm not the best with hardware.

Q8200
8GB Ram
GTX 570 and 9800 GT

I've got friends with crazy SLI rigs that make me feel emasculated but then again most of them only have 1 or 2 screens.

[Vancha]

Originally Posted by Captain1nsaneo

I've always thought of my rig as either mid range or slightly below... but I'm not the best with hardware.

Q8200
8GB Ram
GTX 570 and 9800 GT

I've got friends with crazy SLI rigs that make me feel emasculated but then again most of them only have 1 or 2 screens.

Your CPU's slightly dated, but the vast majority of people aren't going to have anything better than 8GB RAM and a 570.

[headcrab13]

As others have mentioned, a mid-range machine isn't easy to define, but I generally consider mid-range as something that was state of the art two years ago.

Of course an excellent tool is Valve's hardware survey:
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

I don't have time to calculate it exactly, but it looks like the average gamer's hardware is between 2-3 years old. If we can run PS2 on "average" machines, I think it will be an incredible success.

[Goku]

@CyclesMcHurtz

Has SOE ever collected hardware data from the Station Launcher/Game launchers to determine what their current playerbase has for PC configurations? Something similar to the Steam survey.

[CTheRain]

CPU: Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.38GHz
RAM: DDR2 8GB 800MHz
Video Card: GTX 570

Will I be able to run it?

[CyclesMcHurtz]

Originally Posted by Goku

Has SOE ever collected hardware data from the Station Launcher/Game launchers to determine what their current playerbase has for PC configurations? Something similar to the Steam survey.

I'm not in a related department, so I don't know about any survey anything. I (and most gamers probably) have looked at several sources with info about what people have.

My question was different.

I've seen many people talk about different machines on these forums, and any survey will tell you what people HAVE, but these surveys never say how people FEEL about them. I was genuinely curious (on a personal note) what people consider a mid-level machine. At home, I have quite the spread from a somewhat old 1.8GHz single-core 64 bit machine with a 8600GT (it's a linux box for fun - Oolite!) through several machines up to my laptop (the best machine at home right now) with an i7/560M and a 1080p screen.

I know what these machines are capable of, and I know the performance from a serious coder/electronics geek level. I see my family discuss how their machines work, and then there's the developers - who often have phenomenal hardware for developing because compiling takes serious Storage and CPU power these days.

My laptop can handle some modern games pretty well at 720p resolutions and medium settings (which I personally am fine with) - and I play a few at full 1920x1080 at a moderate frame rate (~30fps). I'm fine with that at home right now.

I think the results so far point to a small variation on what people consider a "mid-level" machine. I know my view is fairly skewed based on the awesome hardware we have access to, but we also have many other machines to test with and I'd like to make sure my second machine here is a mid-level. I don't consider it fair to truly test performance in general on my dev box.

[Bags]

I feel mid ranged with a

460 GTX 1gb OC'd @ 850/4000
8gb ddr 3 @ 1600 11-11-11-24
2500k @ default clocks for now

Ws planning on SLIing 460 for PS2, but they are going out of stock, will ugprade to something in the $250 - 300 range if needed.

[Shogun]

i consider my system midrange.

it was a lower highclass gamer laptop when i bought it.

it´s a msi gt627
core 2 duo 2.53 ghz
4gb ram
nvidia gf 9800m gs

i hope i will get decent framerates on low settings for ps2.

[FIREk]

Even for low end 2GB just means the owner is a cheap shit. :P

[Shogun]

not all low end boards support more than 2gig.

my laptop is maxed out with 4 gig. would install more, but i can´t.
and my last laptop before this one (wasn´t very old as well. it´s about 4 years old now) wouldn´t let me install more than 2 gigs of ram.

[NivexQ]

Except for my gpu bottleneck (i'll be upgrading before ps2 comes out) I consider myself on the low High end

radeon hd 5770 (i'll be getting a 7870)
amd fx-8120 3.1 oc'd to 4.2
16gb ddr3 1600 9-9-9-24

[SniperSteve]

yeah, you can expect that we will max out a server, do a cease fire, all gather in one place, and then kill eachother. That HAS to happen. And if your servers don't break, then we did our job well and you did your job well

[Fenrys]

The quantity of VRAM does not matter until you start using more than 1 GPU.

All graphics cards come with enough VRAM to max out the graphics processor. Adding more won't make it any faster.

If a card normally comes with 1GB, and you want to use 2 cards in SLI//X-fire, then you will want both of them to be the 2GB model. If you want to use 3 GPU's that normally come with 1GB VRAM, then you should get all 3 of them as the 3GB model (for a total of 9GB VRAM, but the same data will be copied 3 times, with the same 3GB of data present within each of your 3 graphics cards).

[Vancha]

Originally Posted by Fenrys

The quantity of VRAM does not matter until you start using more than 1 GPU.

I know what you meant, but taken literally, that's so not right.

Edit: Though come to think of it, I'm pretty sure I remember reading people were maxing out the VRAM for BF3 and a couple of other games on the last generation's cards. People with 6950s/6970s reporting they had smoother experiences than with their 570s.

[Toppopia]

My brother is defiantly prepared to play this on highest settings, since he custom built his roughly 4 months ago getting the best stuff he could (only the useful stuff) so he can play Crysis on highest settings with a consistent 60 frames i think. I wish i had that computer instead of this laptop But it cost him $3000 New Zealand dollars, so like $2500 US roughly??