I preffer buy the game and see how run in my computer than upgrade the pc before game release . :hmm:

Respect eye candy features , Far cry for example runs very well in a lower computer specs and the water and graphics are very nice, yes, i know that is not the same game and is not possible a fair comparation , but sometimes some game engines are better optimized than others for the same results.

Agree, Far Cry was a beautiful game when you had an awesome rig. I can't wait to see what Crysis is going to be like but I don't plan on upgrading my current system for another year since I have had it for one year now......I usually swap out motherboard, processor, video card, power supply, and RAM every 2 years but I keep the case, soundcard, and harddrives. I am running a AMD Athlon 64 3500+ on my current rig and I am not worried about Silent Hunter 4.....it should run fine.

Look man Space your words out...http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...gdane/1244.gif

:yep::yep::yep:

You Know SETH.. He is right..:hmm:

;).....

Well he IS right, yes.. but the game will be.. smoother..

There is no reason why the load times should be what they are with SH3, I think load times in SH4 will be shorter.

But, we shall see.

Same here, why spend the dough first. I'll wait as well and see how it runs on my current system.

Hello,I'm running SHIII on a laptop with GWX and everything MAXed out,I thought I read in one of the forums that if you can run SHIII O.K. you can expect to run SHIV without to much trouble.....any truth to this?:)

I'd say it's a fairly safe bet, yes.

It's possible you may need to run SH4 with some seetings at less than max, though again you may not. Difficult to be certain without seeing the laptop specs. Though I know there are some mighty powerful gaming laptops available: Alienware Area-51 m5790, Dell XPS M1710 and Rock's Xtreme CTX Pro to name but a few.

:up: Thank You Sir!:up: I have a HP with a 1.58 ghz proccessor,1.5 gig of RAM and aATI RAD XPRESS graphics card,I bought it about 6months ago and I'm very happy with it's performance running SHIII,
I was looking at the the new trailer at gamespot and was ....WOWED .....by some of the graphics in it!!!!One shot in perticular of a look through the periscope just at the water line.....the water looks so real I thought it would spill out my screen:lol: LOL!!!!!!anyway that gave me some pause as now I'm wondering how well I'll do with SHIV.......Iguess I'll find out soon enough,thanks for the reply!!

Upgrading for SH4
 

When you strip away all the rhetoric and speculation regarding SH4, I think several things are now obvious.

First, in order to play the game with the look and feel of the movies that were made in the 50s about the war in the Pacific, which is what is being suggested as an option in this game, you’re going to need to play the game at the highest graphical settings. The kind of filtering needed in creating that effect would necessitate that.

Secondly, in SH3 it was simply a case of our sub versus a single ship, a couple of ships, a convoy or a task force. But in SH4, if the Devs adhere to historical reality....and I’m sure they will, then you will sometimes find yourself in the middle of a situation where an American Battle Group is engaging a Japanese Battle Group, and you are in the middle of it with your sub attacking the Japs. Imagine the external view of that scenario.

In my opinion therefore, SH4 will be the most visually impressive and also the most system resource hungry sub simulator ever made. Sure, the Devs will have made coding changes to help things as much as possible, but I think there is sometimes going to be more than twice the level of action going on in SH4 relative to what we saw in SH3.

If you were debating about upgrading your RAM and or video card, I’d do it. If you’re debating spending the extra $50 on the video card you really want, I’d go for it. I just did both of those things and I don’t think I’ll be sorry.

Come on March 13!!!!

I will upgrade but I guess I'll have to spend more than 50 bucks:cry: I'll buy a nice 512 mb video card and 1GB extra RAM. Does anybody know a good card which does not cost more than 200€?

Gizzmoe is excellent with video cards. PM him. He's always been very helpful to me.

The best card for around 200€ is the ATI X1950XT or the slightly cheaper X1950 Pro. I have the XT and I´m very happy with it.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/02/...for_the_money/

That should help you, and everybody else to choose a good card.

Thank you, I'll take that card into consideration.:up:

The 7900GS is a very good card for low bucks. I canged it with a 7950GT and didnt feel that much of a boost.

ATI radeon x 1600 pro
 

hi i have the Ati radeon x 1600 pro and it works fine with silent hunter 3 and it surpassed the ram requirement in neal's review it says the graphic card requirement is the same and since my card works great with silent hunter 3 then silent hunter 4 wont be any problem right ?

lt commander lare

The 1600 pro will run the game...how well also depends on RAM and processor speed.