Computer Specs Required?

[KiwiVenge]

Hello everyone
Was wondering what sort of PC specs will be needed to run SH4. I remember a fair few stability problems SH3 had with certain video cards and such.
I have a P4 3000, gig of ram and a AGP 6600GT Nvidia vid card. Ya, it is a machine well past it's prime for sure, but do not want to upgrade just yet.
Think SH4 will run on this or not?
Thanks a head of time for any responses.

[bookworm_020]

From the sound of your specs it should (my computer is around the same specs), but the game may have be played at a lower (simple graphics) setting to make it run at it's best.

[TDK1044]

SH 4 will run on your rig. A P4 3.0 is fine and your Graphics card is just capable of running it, and although the British Ubisoft website has minimum RAM at 512MB, I think that's nonsense. I think 1 GIG will be the minimum RAM requirement. You'll be able to run SH4 at lower graphical settings.

[Schultzy]

A question re the specs from a complete techno-idea. Is this Pixel 2.0 shader thing an absolute must have? As in, no shader, no run?

And if I may be so bold, does my card: Geforce 6600 have one? (As i have no clue.)

Thanks guys.

[CCIP]

1) Yes, and I believe SHIII required the pixelshader as well.
2) Yes, the 6600/6800 series have it.

[THE_MASK]

Originally Posted by KiwiVenge

Hello everyone
Was wondering what sort of PC specs will be needed to run SH4.

How do you want it to run .
Just barely with all the graphics options on low .
Adequately with no stuttering and graphics options on medium.
High end with all the bells and whistles with fantastic graphics on high.

[KiwiVenge]

Originally Posted by sober

How do you want it to run .
Just barely with all the graphics options on low .
Adequately with no stuttering and graphics options on medium.
High end with all the bells and whistles with fantastic graphics on high.

I want it to run adequately with no stuttering. As far as detail settings, low - medium would be fine as I could trade quality for screen rate how I see fit.
If my PC specs would be barely enough to run it at low and get a decent frame rate I wouldn't buy it.
SH3 had a friggin ton of problems depending on what vid cards etc people had. At the time my machine and vid card was fine for horse power, and still there was the odd problem I had to work around. Now coming into SH4 with the same machine I am a bit leary. If my specs are barely enough to run it all, I won't bother buying it because of the track record SH3 had.
Thanks for the replies so far guys!

[Sockeye]

Ya mean I'll have to update from my FX5200? Nooooooo!!!!

Actually, my 5200 has served me well over the passed few (five?) years, and I wanna see just how bad SH4 kicks my computer's ass before shelling out any money. Also, hopefully the bigger and better cards will be out, and anything less will be easier on the wallet. But of course, its time to update.

So what would you guys suggest for a new card? I've been looking at the GeForce 7900, but wouldn't mind getting some opinions.

As far as my rig goes, all's I know is:
Pentium 4 CPU 2.66GHz
2.67 GHz, 1.50 GB of RAM

Beyond that I can't say without having a tip on how to get the information. I understand that AGP and PCI motherboards and GPUs aren't compatible, and obviously I wouldn't want to buy something I can't use. If you could tell me how to pull this information about my machine up, that would be great.


Cheers, mates

[KiwiVenge]

I think the GT6600 is the highest specced Nvidia that can come AGP.
Not sure about what the other manufacturers have to offer in AGP.

[THE_MASK]

I know how you feel . My card is AGP and this is a major pain . Get another 1 gig of ram maybe and see how that goes .

[AG124]

My P4 3.0 Ghz processor and 1.5 GB (400 Mhz) RAM should be sufficient for this game. However, I have been told that my ATI 9600 TV Capture Card will not likely provide me with a very good SHIV experience. I might have to transfer it to one of my older systems, and buy another one. It has no real trouble with SHIII though.

[flintlock]

Originally Posted by KiwiVenge

I think the GT6600 is the highest specced Nvidia that can come AGP.
Not sure about what the other manufacturers have to offer in AGP.

The fastest AGP card available today is an ATI XT1950 Pro (available in 256 and 512MB versions). A couple of nice NVIDIA AGP solutions are the 7600 GT and the 7800 GS. So you can see that you have a few options available to you. The XT1950 is a great card that really makes an AGP system a viable gaming platform for another year or so. Much depends on other system components too, however.

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by Sockeye

Ya mean I'll have to update from my FX5200? Nooooooo!!!!

Yes, yes you are. You'll be glad when you're rid of it for something better, too (as I did) :p

Actually, the 5200 was not even compatible with SHIII

[CptGrayWolf]

Originally Posted by TDK1044

SH 4 will run on your rig. A P4 3.0 is fine and your Graphics card is just capable of running it, and although the British Ubisoft website has minimum RAM at 512MB, I think that's nonsense. I think 1 GIG will be the minimum RAM requirement. You'll be able to run SH4 at lower graphical settings.

Minimum 512MB might be more accurate then we think, I say this because I only have 768MB RAM and I'm running SHIII at 1600x1200 AAx2, quality driver settings and she runs perfect! My vid card is a 6600GT.
Maybe SHIII and IV are coded in a way not to demand much RAM.

[bechmads]

Hey guys what about my laptop then 2gHz Pentium2gb Ram ATI Radeon X600 PCIx16 (256 mb)Can this take it?