I haven't been pc gaming for a looooooooooooooong time, but for The Witcher 2 i might make an exception cause i love the way it looks, BUT.....one simple question: Will this run decently on my Laptop and also look decently?
Specs
CPU : Intel Core I3 , M 330 @ 2.13GHz
CPU Clock Frequency : 2.13 Ghz
System memory : 4GB
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 , 512MB
Windows 7 , 64 bit.
And if not, and i might have to buy a PC for it...how much would it cost me?
Thanks :)
Barely get maybe 20fps out of it at most on low settings.
It seems the recommended requirements are not known yet?
question: Will this run decently on my Laptop and also look decently?
NO.
Also, it's not the only game you can check out on PC. there are tons of them + Witcher 1.
Correct. But considering Witcher 1 when it released what i required for its time and the looks of Witcher 2, its going to be a hungry game.
Especially when you run W7 64b it takes a good amount of ram and graphics card horse power to run the newer titles.
See if you can upgrade to 8gb ram, that would take you to probably 30fps low-mid settings im sure.
You could likely run it, but don't expect exceptional performance results.
Your CPU is more than the highest minimum requirements that I've ever seen in any game, needing more than 4GB ram is a little absurd, it helps having more, but you shouldn't need it, but the GPU is now on the low end of the scale, but you should be able to run it on low settings fine.
Still been meaning to upgrade my desktop's old Radeon 2600 XT (my CPU is a Quad 6600 but that doesn't need to be upgraded for a while still), but I'm not a huge pc gamer myself, Dawn of War (Soulstorm) is normally the only game that I play on it lately & that will run on my El'Cheapo laptop, the original Witcher is $20 in store so I'm considering picking that up.
If you decide to buy a new computer mainly for gaming, don't waste your time on a laptop, desktop all the way baby! But as I said, your current comp SHOULD be able to run just about any game (at least on low).
Thanks people. I will just wait for the game to come out first and then i'll see how it runs. I can always buy a PC later on, no need to rush anything. Erthazus...i know PC has lots of games, lots of them being RTS and i hate that genre. Most RPGs i play on my Xbox 360 or PS3, shooters , Third person and son on as well.
I'm a big console gamer, but when a brilliant games comes out for PC like The Witcher 2, and it sure seems to be brilliant , i'm thinking of making an exception. However...buying a complete new pc for just one game...i probably won't do that at the end of the day.
I can't run Witcher one on my desktop despite having enough power to be able to blow it out of the water acording to steams specs.
I would very careful if I was looking at Witcher 2.
Now that the requirements are known...
It's pretty sure my laptop won't run it that nicely.Hell...even Witcher I doesn't run that good. Anyway...i am strongly considering buying a desktop. I'm trying to find one that meets the requirements for The Witcher II or better. Trying to keep it as low priced as possible too.
Here we can see the requirements..
http://www.destructoid.com/the-witcher-2-s-system-requirements-are-reasonable-197264.phtml
I wonder, what's the AMD equivalent to the Intel Quad core?
And...would this one be good enough?
http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/274600/acer-aspire-x3400-%28pt-punt-se2e2183%29.html#tab:info
I dunno about the cpu without looking into it, but the gpu on that thing is very poor. You might think that because you need minimum of an 8800 that a 9200 would be better, but it's not. a 9200 would struggle to play older games on medium settings. It's not a gaming card.
And yeah, nvidias chip naming system is fail.
That's weird as hell. Very confusing too...a friend of mine told me i would probably have to pay around 1000 euros if i want to run TWII smoothly...if that's true...that ain't gonna happen.
The way the cards are named atm an 8800 and 9800 are of similar power, a 9200 will have 9000 series architecture and features, but is still only roughly equivalent to an 8200 or 8300.
I would suggest that with nvidia you should be looking more at a 460 or 470 (yes, they've changed the notation again) for any sort of longevity.
As for the price, I honestly have no idea how much pre-built machines cost these days, but 1000 Euro would build you a pretty capable machine (i5, 470 gpu, 6 or 8 gb or RAM). You could definitely build or buy a budget rig that would meet Witcher 2 min specs for way less than that, but it'd be a bit of a poor investment in the long run as the machine would be out of date within a year.
One thing you could do is buy a nice motherboard and outfit it with more budget parts, then upgrade once it becomes necessary.
If you're insistent on buying pre-built then you're probably going to get shafted.
Yeah you are right. It's probably better to build one of my own. Like i used to when i was still 100% pc gamer. I just need to do some good research on what kind of motherboard i would need and all the other parts.
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