How well would I run this game?

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I've been following this game for a couple weeks and needless to say I am super stoked, this looks like it is going to ruin my social life for a couple months and a I can't wait to get it.  I'm supposed to be getting a laptop soon and I need to know how well I will run this, the main thing I'm worried about is the processor speed.

2.13 GhZ Intel® Core™2 Duo Mobile

4 GB DDR2 SDRAM

320 GB HD

512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

 

I know I'm over the minum requirments, but my processor isn't up to the reccomended, how much is this going to matter?

I'm hoping to utilize my graphics card and hopefully play the game on high.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

It should be fine.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I'd say you'll be fine. I run Sins mainly on my laptop which is a 1.66 Duel Core with Intel graphics and only 2 GB memory. The game runs much better than other games when comparing the recommended minimum requirements. I'd say memory is one of the bigger performance enhancers for Sins and 4 GB should run nicely.

But if you really want to make sure a demo of sins is available. I always try before I buy.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

If you try the demo, also be aware that it's a very, very old build and Ironclad has done some quite noticeable lower-end performance optimizations since then, so if you're content with how the demo runs the full version has quite a good chance of running a bit better as well.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Should do fine by that spec... I'd avoid anti-aliasing.

 

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Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Well that's good news.

What I'm wondering is my graphics card going to make a difference in that graphics?

I've played this game at my friends house and he has a... GeForce 7800 or something maybe 8000 something, but he has a faster processor.

Will my game run better with the better graphics card, or is that more dependant on overall processor or performance?

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Your specs are better than mine, and I am running Sins at max.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Sins cares more about memory and processing power than your graphics card. Obviously if you crank up AA and bloom and try to zoom in on several hundred ships you'd need a decent card, but it's still heavier on AI and calculations - every ship you build has its own AI, in addition to the overall player AIs you may be playing with, so on the bigger maps with lots of planets and all 10 players your memory and CPU are going to get butchered first ;)