I play on an Athlon XP 1.7Ghz, 768 RAM, gForce 6600. Game runs, pretty acceptable le too unless I want TOO much eye candy (actually I keep FSAA on 4x just to use that GPU for something - it's the CPU tyhat's keeping me down).

You basically need more RAM and CPU and video to get the most out of SH4. AKA new computer. Sorry but that's how things are.

But between you and me: it's playabe on your system! Enjoy it like that and install it first thing when you get a new pc!

The great thing is that this game will play beautifully on a mid range system. My rig has a P4 3.0 processor, 2 GIGS of RAM, and a GeForce 7600GT video card. By disabling the event camera and the volumetric fog, I run with all graphics maxed out and with AA set at 8X and AF set at 4X.

The end result is a very smooth running game with good fps. I get 21fps exterior within Pearl harbor, and between 27 and 40 fps on exterior shots at sea.

I have much the same as TDK and the game looks great, with that said, if you go above and beyond the hardware we have, you will be in the bonus:up:

PC800?, I think you have RDRAM, if your running single channel with a terminator thats about 2.5 - 3 gbits of memory bandwidth. Most modern machines push about twice as much memory, some even push more. Was great RAM back in the day, just never took off in a big way, because it was too expensive for people in the mainstream market, those boards are also one of the few true dual channel boards.

In my opinion this game is more RAM hungry than anything else. But I would seriously start looking at a whole new machine Barney.