Well yes the game is nice but it sucks very bad that its unplayable with single core CPU -.-V

I have EVERYTHING way better than recommended except CPU which is a single core 2,4GHz like minimum requirements say and the game is close to unplayable at least if you don't wanna wait 10 seconds for 1 ingame second which is what i am doing since yesterday.

skill cool down says 6 seconds and after 1 up to 2 mins later i can use the skill again ... and movement and scrollspeed is like a diashow.

I really hope the developer of Elemental try to make to game playable to as much ppl as possible ! hate it that most of the recent games won't work for me because of the CPU ... when i buy new CPU i need close to everything new which is to expensive for me atm. and i wouldn't want just a pc thats only a little bit stronger when i get a new one.

Yeah, that is a big deal. I have been having troubles w/ Sins and may have troubles with Demigod on my other rigs because the games are just not optimized for lower-end systems using flagship hardware. I have an ATi HD3870 or X1950Pro struggling to play a multiplayer game of Sins even if I really lower the settings down for whatever reason. The fact that my main rig is hosting the game should relieve some stress from the other machines, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I always look up to Ensemble Studios in their method of making a game like Age of Empires III even compatible with pixel shader 1.1 just so everyone could have a wack at the game. I really wish other game devs took that initiative where you could ask a friend, who only has a laptop, to buy the game so you can play online together and not worry about the game not working on their system. Demigod might not even work on my laptop even though it has 128MB of dedicated video memory because the readme file says it might not even start up. Seems like, to play this game, I have to move around some hardware of mine or else it just won't play on some machines. Sad isn't it?

I want DEMIGOD sniff....why is Pay"My A.."Pall so slow to transfer a bloody amount!!!!

GRRRRRRrrrrr....

Soon....patience.........................PLAYYYYYYY

Funny , noticed Demigod release on Torrent trackers first

It's there for 4 days now, and this time no "buy it Stardoc on our side" messages - guess because of GOO.

Also aperently there is a new trand (ok, may be new just for me) - people set up hamanchi servers to play network games as Demigod.

I know but this does not change the fact that StarDoc changed i'ts aproach , I guess so are pirates.

Than it's not my mistake but common mistake, currently that's the publicity StarDock has "acquired" with intoduction of GOO idea.

/Signed. Its just not playable for me because of this! I've a good grafic card but this doesn't matter. I'll keep on playing battleforge which has better grafics and playable smothly!

The catch is if GPG made Demigod for a single processor it would get slammed for not having up to date graphics.

It sucks to upgrade all the time, but it is cheaper now then ever before.   I still remember paying 1200 bucks for my first computer so it could have all four colors!

Yeah I'm an old guy! 

well i am not all to much into programming just made small programms in school an 2d minigames so i have no clue how hard it might be to make options for low end pc's

BUT i really don't think it would be to hard like the one above me sayed to give options to kill the background image and some other effects -.-V

well my problem is not the grafic but but still ...

for me it doesn't make the slightest change to play in lowest possible settings or highest possible (with forced 16x AA)

and i dunno but the grafics do not have all to much to do with the CPU do they ????? cuz some others here are like "get new grafic card" all over again and "they would get bet reviews because of bad grafic if it would been done for single core" while we say its only the need of a dual core cpu that is annoying no problem with the grafic at all ...

I've been trying out see how low I can go w/ my specs. I've got two more rigs to put this game on, a Pentium 4 3.06GHz w/ Hyper Threading + GeForce 7600GT 128MB (below spec on both fronts) or my Core2Duo 2GHz + GeForce M8400GS 128MB laptop which is also below spec because the game calls for 256MB of graphics memory. Both computers have Vista 64 and 4GB of RAM. I wonder how the game will fare even on the lowest settings.

So far, the lowest hardware I've installed Demigod to is an Athlon 64 X2 @ 2.5GHz + Radeon X1950Pro 256MB with 2GB of RAM and Vista 64. On that it works on Medium, but it kinda hangs just a bit when playing a starting match. After a while it smooths out. I seem to be having a lot more luck on Low, but I'm wondering how high I can go while getting a stable framerate even when the action is packed on the screen and trying that with LAN gaming as well.

What I want to know is why the game is requiring a dual-core CPU. Maybe it's because it was programmed to parallel process, maybe it is because the netcode puts the affinity for the network card on one of the cores so the other can utilize all the crazy artificial intelligence going on in the game. I have no clue but I'd really like some answers at least on why there's no "turn off all backgrounds, needless special effects, stage details" like I said above.

i use a dual core 3ghz cpu setup and an single 8800 graphics card. Demigod runs fine and usually its well over 30fps on max settings. I hope GPG/stardock continues to update and starts to add new content soon. Its an addicting game, course my online time is terrible. Few times ive tried i get owned..but at least there isnt teabagging

The average on metacritic is 77 right now.