Should I get SH4?

[Howard313]

Yeah guys, it's gonna be one of "Those" threads, just bare with me here, I'll go through this as fast as possible.

So, I've owned Silent Hunter 3 for a long time now, and while the experience has been golden so far, I'm starting to wonder what else this series has to offer. Plus I've noticed that despite now having played three WWII subsims, none of them let me play as the allies thus far (Something SH4 would easily remedy.)

My main concern is if it will run good on my PC, now I did a check on the canyourunit website and it said I passed the recommended requirements for it but here's the thing.....I experience some slowdown on Silent Hunter 3. Now for the most part the game runs smooth and fine on it's highest setting, but when I'm at port I notice that the framerate drops in the 20's and sometimes when i sink a ship in a large convoy I notice a drop as well. Advice?

Christmas is right around the corner, so now is the perfect time for me to consider expanding my subsim collection. My eyes are set on SH4, but I'd prefer to know for sure the thing will run before I get it, too many a-time i've purchased something thinking it would be fine only to find out that I don't have enough PC Power Juice to run it.

My Specs:

Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2220 @ 2.40GHz
Video Card - NVIDIA GeForce 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 610i
RAM Memory - 4.00GB
Operating System - Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 2
64-bit Operating System
Memory: 45.5GB free out of 298GB Total

Final Note: I would be purchasing the Steam version if that means anything to you guys.

I thank you for your help in advance.