Will this hardware meet the requirments for this game?

Hi Guys,

I'm just wondering if this hardware will be capable of running this game without significant problems.

The game is a 3d RTS 'Company of Heroes'...
http://pc.gamezone.com/gamesell/p26651.htm

Its listed minimum requirements are:

1.5GHz CPU (I assume that means P4) 512MB RAM GF3 or Radeon 8500 64MB

The hardware specs are:

1.4 Celeron-M, 768 RAM, Radeon 200m 128meg shared ram.


Also, is there anything I can do, paricualrly in regard to tweaking the CPU or the graphics card that will improve performance? Forcing the shared memory to stay at 128? Perhaps disabling vsync? Anything else?


Thanks in advance

There's no reason to think it would fail miserably. The minimum requirements are pretty much borderline with the specs for the hardware. CPU should be fine, I just need to know about the graphics card really. The graphics are demanding, but there are many options to turn off shadows and various effects, without harming gameplay. The minimum requirements are actually no where near as demanding as other games out now, or even many out over the last year or so.

If possible, could someone give me an informed opinion?

I think it's quite clear from our comments that we're aware of that. People can still enjoy games without having the graphics set on max. Hell I played loads of fun games on the Amiga 500 and the graphics compared to today were attrocious Frankly, it's opinion whether the game's selling point is its graphics - I don't think so at all. I play Dawn of War with graphics set on minimum (to reduce ocassionaly lag) and I barely notice the difference at all. If however, there's likely to be a lot of stutter that actually effects gameplay/causes major lag when playing agsint other people that's not so cool. But anyway - I don't want to get off topic re: whether graphics quality is that important, because really it's just opinion. I'm sure even on low setting the graphics will still look decent and TBH I don't care as long as the game itself is playable. Thanks Adinu, BTW. Any more opinions much appreciated.

Are you sure that is the case or are you just assuming, 'cause it's not really that helpful otherwise. Yeah, they are the minimum specs, but it's safe to assume they are the minimum specs for the game to be 'playable' - i.e. not major performance problems/lags etc... I have played games before on comupter with lower than the minimum specs in some areas - i.e. CPU and often they work fine. Like I said, I don't really care about the graphics; the computer in question is a budget buy, by someone that doesn't have alot of cash to throw about... if anyone want to be snobby about it then that's cool... w/e... But anyway, graphics no big deal... I do care about the performance/issues with lag, though. But anyway: if someone who is familiar with the situation or a similar one (i.e. have used the 200m on similar games with similar sorts of requirements) could help me out that would be great. *** EDIT: after a bit of research I have found that Battle for Middle Earth 2 has about the same requirements. Has anyone out there used BFME2 with a 200m card? *** EDIT 2: afte some more research I found this: http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread....=55029&start=0 (see last couple of posts) which seems to say that the 200m works quite well with BFME2 so things are looking up!

Hey awesome, thanks znk0r. Can't download the demo unfortunately... the computer is being purchased by a friend of mine (second hand). Couple of questions though: the x300, I take it was the desktop x300 not the mobility x300?? I hear the desktop x300 is comparable to the 200m, so it's very interesting results. How much RAM were you using? And with your P4, what type was it (if you know) i.e. how big was the L2 cache? Was that on lowest possible settings/resolution?

Thanks heaps for your help man, appreciate it.