Mid Range/Entry level
 

Everything depends,,everythings depends, on what "line" of PC usage you're crossing.:hmmm:

If you cross; like I always have been doing, the 'gamers' line, then a Mid range system can kinda look like this; Intel i7-940, 4 GB Corsair DDR-3 1333 memory, 500Gb HD, Geforce GTX 295. (This is by the way a take out from what PC Gamer thinks is a mid range system, but they are pretty "head-on"):up:
Now this is for the gamer, a mid range in that world might not be mid range in the world of let say a musician or photoshop guy, where huge amount of memory is important and other factors are less important to them compared to a gamer.

My experience with computer/PC gaming since 25 years back is just to balance the system to a stable level and you can run pretty kicked up.

....on the other hand a PC can never be too:arrgh!::arrgh!: big,,,

That's not midrange, by any standard. GTX295 was top of the line, effectively "enthousiast", for some time. i7 is high end as well. :-?

Highend
 

This is a highend card.
PNY VCQFX5800-PCIE-PB Quadro FX5800 4GB 512-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI :D

will someone please tell those idiots at nvidia to stop using the same damn numbers all the time?

the last 5800 card i had was a 128mb agp version lol, i dont think they still make it the same way today :har:

LOL
 

Soon there will be so many # that it will take a computer to read them out loud:rotfl2::rotfl2:

if they just stop using hundreds and thousands then start with #10 or even #100then go 1 number or 100 at a time.

they would never run out of new numbers that way but thats too easy to do i guess :O:

LOL!

No way in hell you'll run SH5 with a 9600gt and all graphic options checked! You'll need a 260gts or better, depending on what resolution you want. If you have a 22" LCD monitor, you better buy a 260 or 270gts, 1gb, to run it all maxed out. But if you dont mind running it in 1024x768 all option in "medium", a 9600gt will do the trick.

With 4gb ram you'll play it, and don't worry about CPU... the game will suport multicore CPU, so anything above 2.4ghz Dual Core will do. Any Quad Core or I7 will have power to spare.

And you bet you'll need around 10gb of free disk space.

@Cappy70, QUADRO videocards are for 3D rendering, and not for games. They wont run SH5.

I think you'll find SHV will play very nicely on most mid range rigs. The only people who will have issues will be people currently playing SH4 on a mid range rig with a 256MB video card. SH5 will require a 512MB card.

Hi
 

:arrgh!:Yes,,I know the Quadro's are Cad/Rendering mainly,,but I do have to differ though on one thing; They can run games,with right drivers ( and I think the one guy using the PNY Quadro is gaming on it) just that about $2600 is waaaay up there for a game/s, one doesn't need it .....(yet).:D:D:D

(Hmmmm,,what does the text read below my pic? My japanese is for the moment somewhat "weak"..:)

:rock:

Thanks for posting that.

IMHO...

No way in HELL you'll be able to run the game with 2gb ram, in satisfatory conditions. It's a pain even to run SH3 with 2gb ram, using vista. Actually, to be honest, forget running any 2009/2010 game in vista with 2gb ram, its just a headache.

And the videocard performance matters more than VRAM, speaking in terms of graphical options you'll want to enable ingame. In another words: a 1gb 9600gt will run the game crappier than a 512mb 250gts.

Based on what I've seen from other games, from what SH3 and SH4 uses from computer performance, and from those screens, I would go for 6gb ram if you're using Vista/7. I'm not even sure if SH5 will support XP, probably not. And most likely, SH5 can be purelly DX10.

Of course, ubisoft can choose to make such option ranges enough for you to run SH5 with a 7800gt, 1gb ram and a simple dual core processor, but when it comes to run it all maxed out, in a 1680x1050 (which most people use nowdays), in a very satisfatory framerate, Im sure the nvidia 9 series wont manage to do it, neither 2gb ram.

If you think about the jump on system requirements we had from SH3 to SH4, it was huge. And don't forget, SH3-SH4 interval was shorter then SH4-SH5. Based on today's avaliable hardware and the pictures/videos from SH5, I'd say its much likely they'll push the limits of nowdays hardware, when running the game with all graphical options maxed out.

But, too soon for worring about changing rigs. Let's just wait for the game to be released, and possibly try to run it on what we have right now, so we can have a better idea on what to buy, what not to buy. Plus, by doing that later on, we'll have better hardware for a lower price.

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Not sure where you're getting that from, but it strikes me as wildly inaccurate. :-?

• Not run on XP? I think it's pretty safe to say it will run on XP.
• 6GB RAM is totally unnecessary, it's limited to 2GB max by the OS anyway. 2GB will do fine, but 4 will be better.
• DX10 is not mainstream enough for them to not enable the game to run in DX9.
• I think SH5 will run fine on a 8800/9800GT, medium settings @1280x960 or comparable widescreen resolution.

Thats why I said, at the beginning of the post, "IMHO".

What I've said was based on all 2009 games I've tested. SH5 is going to be released in 2010.

You can be right, tho. They can decide to release a more machine friendly game.

But based on what I've seen in this year so far... 2gb? nope!

Depends
 

If you take 'Crysis' for example that game was made so much ahead ,at that point in time regarding hardware, so it still give some setups trouble running even at a highend level,but at the same time it was still backward friendly enough so you could get a good game experience even on a fairly low-level PC.

Now that said SH5 (of course pure guessing here) will probably be made backwards-compatible friendly, but still with enough horsepower in the graphic-engine-department, that if somebody want to "choke" their PC, "be my guest" so to speak.

No softwarehouse/publisher want to completly cut any part of hardware/software market out of the equation that is still in "mainstream-mode".
So I think that DX9 will be the start level and then the sky is the limit....:D
The Gb? well...I think it will be 1GB minimum and 2GB recommended,,and if you have more,the better of course....:D:D

I agree with you.

But so far all I posted is in reference for a post of someone saying what should you have to play the game with all graphical options maxed out, in a good resolution.

Im sure you`ll be able to run the game in mild conditions and slow framerate in avarage computers, yes. But come on, decent computers are cheap these days.

And what`s the point in saying that you can get 25fps in your computer while in 1x tc? Nobody plays the patrol at 1x tc. If you don`t get a good processor and ram, you wont be able to go into a decent tc, making the patrol REALLY boring.

Unless of course that you're already retired and have all the time in the world.

(tc = time compression)