It's already been suggested elsewhere, but for those of you experiencing lagg, try setting your graphpic cards Anti Aliasing and Anisotropic filtering settings to "Application Controlled" or whatever your cards software manager calls it. I noticed a significant improvement in fps after doing so. I still suffer some mouse lagg in the 3D-views, but overall it runs much better now.

Agh :cry: , I hadn't realized that, but tks rls669, better to know now. I will look around to see if there's a mid-range card I could switch to.

Guys if you go up about a dozen posts till my last post the specs required of your system is there and thats direct from the UBI web site as of 3 days ago if all else fails use a hamster to power your PC:yep:

Hello guys,

Im really concerned about buying this game, moneys tight at the moment with another baby on the way ( one of my many shore leaves :up: ) so it leaves little in the way for upgrades.
Can anyone give me a heads up on if i will be ok on medium settings with this set-up

P4 2.6Ghz
1Gb Ram
GF6800XT 128MB

Thanks in advance.

Hi ferret this is from the UBI web site this is what you need to run SH4 i hope the info helps you will get by but just and no more you might miss out so i would recomened playign it qwith out the whistles and bells on:up:


OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows® XP/Vista only•
PROCESSOR: Pentium®4 2Ghz or AMD Athlon™ (3Ghz Pentium or Athlon recommended) •
RAM: 1GB (2GB recommended)•
VIDEO CARD:DirectX® 9.0 compliant, 128 Mb Video Card capable of rendering Pixel shader 2.0 (256 Mb recommended)•
DirectX® 9.0 (included on disc) •
DVD-ROM DRIVE: 4X or faster •
SOUND CARD: DirectX 9.0 compatible •
HARD DISK: 6 GB •
PERIPHERALS: Mouse, keyboard •
MULTIPLAY: Broadband connection with 128 kbps upstream or faster (512 Kbps upstream or faster needed to host online games

Thanks for the reply ;) maybe its best to leave this one untill i can upgrade, SH3 is still good.

Cheers.

Going tomorrow to update to my current desktop until I decide on what laptop to go with.

Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.20 GHz (alrady installed)
2.5 GB RAM (DDR) 333 MHZ (adding 1.5 GB)
Nvida G-force 7900 GT (either 256 MB DDR3 or 512MB DDR2) or the GeForce 7950 GT (512 MB DDR3)

Is the older P4 3.20 processor really going to be decent as I have had this thing for almost 2 years so i am amazed it is still viable. Also my RAM is the older 333 mhz speed not the newer stuff so that may be an issue. I am also trying to decide between the 256/DDR3 or 512/DDR2 graphics card as I am unsure which really has the better performance or just go with the G-force 7950 GT with 512 MB DDR3. Any thoughts on the abouve issues I would love to hear as i should have the game in the next day or two.

Want to run this thing maxed!!!

MM

If its a P4 3.2 hyperthreading cpu ur laughing as top teh ram anything above 2 gig will make sh4 run just nioce and your video card seems just ok to be honest:up:

Would this be a good monitor to play SH4 on .

19inch BENQ MODEL FP93GX 2ms Response TFT Silver/Black DVI SXGA 1280x1024 Contrast 700:1

Finally got my copy. Yay! But as feared, the game loads but is almost unplayable. *sigh* I hope getting a new vid card will solve the slowness.

Sober your monitor should just be fine mate:up: Groth you should be able to run SH4 well with your set up that really weird mate do you have any stuff running in the background ???

Leeclose,

Nothing major but I am going to do a defrag and a reboot and see if that helps. My system isnt exactly finely optimized but it's not completly cluttered either. Could turn off Norton as well. The 6150LE is a crap integrated card so I'm thinking that's probably the real reason for SHIV slow performance. It's the first time I bought a system with an integrated card but after getting medically retired from the military my incom dropped way down and I couldnt afford the near top of the line stuff any more.

Most likely.

I've also got an X2 4200, 2GB Ram, but 2 Gforce 6800 (SLI configuration). SH4 works reasonably well (framerate drops during explosions & stuff). I tried an XFX GeForce 8800GTX 768MB DDR3. It made the game really smooth at any resolution. Guess if you'd like to throw 450quid outa window, there's your winner.

I'm looking at getting a GeForce 7600 GS if defrag and a fresh restart dont help (yes I know it's not on the officially supported list but it seems a very popular card so shouldnt be problems). I have a free PCIe x16 slot so should fit. It looks reasonably priced and hopefully wont cause power issues. I've never upgraded video from an integrated card before. Anything special needs to be done or is it still pretty much Plug n Play?

IMHO i think forking out 450 quid for a video card just so you can play sh4 is mad ive seen other semie decent 5121 meg cards for well under 300 quid try ebuyer.com or try buying direct from the manufacturer also look at amazon as ell there inda decent for parts again depends in your location as well.