Ability to play Sins of a Solar Empire?with a pos computer

bump I have a similar setup, I am also curious about this

I currently have a 2.4GHz processor with 1 GB of ram and 512mg AGP NVIDIA GeForce 7600GGS and have no issues playing the game.

If you're running Windows XP, it should work, but you'll probably need to turn down the graphics settings.

Overall you'd be fine except that video card. It's very old.

I have a 2.8 ghz P4 and 2 gigs of RAM (4 yr old PC) and I run at all high or highest effects at 1440x900.

BUT I have more modern ATI x800. It is still 2 years old but can handle this game quite nicely and is fully DX9.

I play on a 1.6 Ghz Pentium-M with 1 GB of RAM and a 256 MB GeForce Go 6800. Works great except it takes a while to load all the textures and so it stutters for about a minute after I've started a game or loaded a level. Other than that, I'm quite happy. Playing at 1650x1050 @ 2x AA and very good frame rate.

I think your main concern would be the GeForce FX. Dude, you really need to upgrade that.

Yea man, the devs were very conciencious of the fact that not everyone can run a behemoth super computer. I played the game on lowest grahics just to see how it would look and it still looks great. But it wouldn't hurt to get a new video card. I got a radeon x1650 512MB ($50) with a 2.2ghz and I max out all my settings while playing.

You guys can run battles of 100+ ships per side without stutter? Or 4-6 player games with fleet caps nearly maxed out? Coz I sure can't at similar specs without severe slowdowns.

Yeah, I get stutter but by the time it gets down to those massive fights I've completly lost intrest in the graphics and just dorp em down to low and wage war. I mean honestly, when your fleets that big how many of you are managing the fight at close zoom? I jsut manage it from the point I can see the icons of my ships and let the shit hit the fan. Occasionaly though you got to zoom in for the quality screenshots of pwnage.

Only time I've had any stutter so far was a massive fleet vs. fleet battle with about 150 ships a side. Frames dropped to around 20 when zoomed in on that one. Otherwise my frames stay about 30 or so and don't stutter.

Huh. I have a similarly specced system (though Athlon / Nvidia), and I'm pretty sure framerates get far below 20 in big battles and large games. Maybe it's a processor issue then. Does anyone know if the game is optimised for SSE2?

i only have a AGP 4X slot so i can't really upgrade it much

Id say the worst part about that setup from the OP is the gfx card. The FX5200 series is ..really really (did i mention really) bottom of the line. I had one trying to play games and the thing just killed me.

my setup is a 1.8 gig Athlon, standard EIDE 7800 rpm drive (yes yes no sata), 2 gigs of ram (DDR400 i think) and a Nvidia 7800 OC from Bfg tech. Id say my video card is doing most of the work heh. I do have framerate issues in big battles, and when the effects get flying everywhere i slow down a bit as well.

I realize im behind the times but i think its doing well for a system nearly 5 years old.

My ATI x800 is only an AGP. Both ATI and Nvidia did make AGP versions of a few of their cards just 1-2 years ago. Check out NewEgg and you can pick one up new for under $50-75 easy. It would be a great improvement over the FX card.

Tonight I played the first time as the Advent and noticed a bit more slow down, probably due to the beam weapons. Still stayed above 20 and wasn't annoying to me. As I grow in the game and go to larger maps I may need to turn the graphics down some. I know my vid card will limit me on having things on highest with large maps. But that's no big deal because honestly I don't zoom in all that close in most battles cause there is so much else going on. But once in a while I'll zoom in and go to cinematic mode and just sit back and watch.

Heh... I think I can top most of these specs. I'm running it on a 1.4GHZ laptop with an ATI Radeon Mobile 9200 32MB card. Sure, all the video options are set to "lowest", but it runs fine most of the time

I'm testing SINS out on my test box.

AMD Sempron 3200+ (1.81Ghz)
2gig (with selected 256MB for Video)
Nvidia Geforce 6150SE (Onboard video) / nForce 430
Windows Vista

I haven't played alot on it, but so far It's played pretty smoothly.

With my 4x AGP slot what video cards could i buy? DO 8x cards work or does it have to be just 4x compatible- thanks for the help

Are you serious? Do you think it would run on my 1.4 GHz Pentium M with 512 MB RAM and a GeForce FX Go 5200? I don't care about quality of graphics at all, I just want to play the game. I will be getting a new computer sooner or later...

It has to be 4x I believe. (Hard to remember that far back )

i run it on the most crappiest pc in this thread with most settings on high at 1024x768 with aa and v-sync off. specs are amd 3200, 1 gig ddr ram, x300 se. now thats a pos computer. i wont be upgrading anytime soon since im not a hardcore pc gamer.

technically we do not run pos computers, rather the grandparents of the beasts of today. and 1024x768 isnt bad..course, im runing my pc off a HD tv (must play sins on 32" widescreen.)

its too bad we simply cant hook a bunch of these pc's up and have the operating system span 3 or 4 of em and make our poor man's quad core hah! Imagine the fun we would have with vista drivers and xp's bsod's. Yay..i er *(slaps self for near derailment of thread)* ...sorry.

An 8x card will work fine, they are backward compatible with 4x slots.

will they go slower when they are in 4X slots? How expensive of a card do i have to buy?

i have an 8x agp nvidia e-geforce 7600gt that i bought specificly for sins, only cost about $130 on walmart's web site, delivered a few days later

before that i had a 6200 and it ran decently on that for small and medium maps

the 7600 will run any other games you have fairly well, i can play company of heroes with full graphics now and get 25 fps avg, with 6200 i got an avg of 1-2 fps on max graphics, if that tells you how much better it is

you should probably also pick up some extra ram, 1gb is enough for sins, but alot of other modern games arent so hardware friendly
2gb is enough for pretty much everything except crysis

alway u got ripped there. a 7900 gs which is considerably way better than the 7600 costs about 140 dollars here in australia. in the us the prices for cards are way less so it would be like 120 or less. newegg.com is the best site to check for card prices if u r living in the us/canada.