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Originally Posted by windirect
What a laugh!
My system meets all the specs, (some of it double the spec) but it runs like a snail even on the lowest framerate settings!
3.4 x2 proc
2 Gig memory
256 meg Nvidia 8200
ect.
If it runs this badly on a system that runs AoC reasonably, what chance does the average pc user have?
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Unless I am remembering incorrectly the Nvidia 8200 is their onboard GPU released earlier this year which is designed for media playback and not for gaming that much. While it is "technically" an 8k series Nvidia with DX10 support you won't get anywhere near the performance of an actual 8K series card. This is a video chipset that barely gets 30fps on Unreal Tournament 2K4 on 1024x768. To expect it to do better in Warhammer Online is simply uninformed nonsense. If you ran low resolution, no shadows, and all settings on low in AoC then I suspect you could have made it playable, but that would not have been in my opinion "reasonably" playable. Especially not, if you're running that system on Windows Vista as I suspect. You *might* can make WAR playable in a limited sense if you turn everything on low and disable spell effects.
The only way you're gonna make that chipset play well with newer games is buy an Nvidia 8400GS (512mb - $30) and run it in Hybrid-SLI Mode on Vista and add 2gb more of RAM ($40). That will make it run close to an 8500/8600 GT Series card if you get it working right. An easier and cheaper thing if you are using Windows XP is to just get an 8500GT (512mb) for like $50 and disable the onboard crap. Either option will boost your gaming abilities by 150%-200% I'd wager.
It's not really an intelligent action to attack a game about it's performance when you don't even know the capabilities of your own hardware.