Exar Kun II Posted October 4, 2002 Posted October 4, 2002 Just wondering who has taken the steps to upgrade their system, or build a new one? I know there are quite a few who were worried about system requirements.
Ewok Hunter Posted October 4, 2002 Posted October 4, 2002 if i had the money to upgrade i'd have done it by now
Thew Rydur Posted October 4, 2002 Posted October 4, 2002 I'm trying to get my parents to give me some money for a new computer (I don't have a job), but if that doesn't work I'll probably get a new graphics card and some more ram.
"thA dekMan" Posted October 5, 2002 Posted October 5, 2002 all i really want is a new video card, and mebe uping to 256 DD ram (or wait? SD? RD? fahhhh) i'm hoping once nvidia releases the NV50 then georce 4 ti's price will go down....
Kiyamon Posted October 6, 2002 Posted October 6, 2002 I bought a 512 stick of ram installed it and now I bought a Ti4600 card on ebay. I plan to buy two other sticks of ram, its only Sdram so it's pretty cheap. For the Ti4600 card I got lucky and got one on ebay for $185 shipped.
Longjocks Posted October 6, 2002 Posted October 6, 2002 I can't do much about my Net connection (yeah... I know, 28.8 - blah, blah, blah) but I did upgrade my system (although not necessarily for Galaxies. I got a new MoBo supporting the KT333 chipset (I had the i815 before). I went from a PIII 800 to a Athlon XP 2000+ CPU and 256Mb PC133 SDRAM to 512Mb PC2700 DDR. In another two weeks I'll be getting a GF4 Ti4600 (or 4400 depending on the costs) or maybe a Radeon 9700 to replace my GF2 GTS Pro.
Jan Gaarni Posted October 6, 2002 Posted October 6, 2002 Wow, LJ, 28.8 is still around out there?!? OT: No, I haven't upgraded my system yet, but i'm gonna before the game comes out.
Wraith 8 Posted October 7, 2002 Posted October 7, 2002 Yep... my system is ready for Star Wars Galaxies..... i have: Pentium IV 2.0 Ghz 512 MB ram 73 GB Harddisk Geforce 4 64 mb DVD player CD burner Subwoofer Lexmark printer (prints, scans, fax and coppier in one) Webcam 17" screen I think im pretty ready for it :D the only thing now is a monthly amount of money to pay for theplaying time
Surfnshannon Posted October 14, 2002 Posted October 14, 2002 maybe this is a tired out question...and I can't seem to find a site that lists the requirements right now (game sites are blocked at work) What are the requirements for SWG?
"thA dekMan" Posted October 14, 2002 Posted October 14, 2002 yo longjocks why not go pick up a 56k modem card? I mean u could prolly get one for 5 bucks?
Dengar Posted October 15, 2002 Posted October 15, 2002 Problem may arise when the relaese date is announced, hardware goes out of date so rapidly that if the game is held back till Feb or even March, my Kyro II may be too low spec. I doubt that the min requirements will be that staggering tho, and lower res settings should hopefully be available......sure you may not get the full effect of the game on a lower res, but it'll do until you are able to upgrade imho.
"thA dekMan" Posted October 15, 2002 Posted October 15, 2002 i don't know about that dengar... just because a game is delayed another few months doesn't mean any technology in the game has changed and made it more demanding.
Duvan Posted October 17, 2002 Posted October 17, 2002 I picked up a new geforce 4 ti 4400 a couple months ago, can't say i had SWG in mind when i did, but i did have gaming in mind when i did it, why else would i?
Bluezman Posted October 21, 2002 Posted October 21, 2002 OK, my question is: how much of a hassle will it be to start out on my old system (PIII 800, 256 MB RAM, GeForce2 GTS) with SWG and then after some time when I buy a new PC (Athlon 2200+, 512 MB DDR-RAM, GeForce4 Ti4600 128 MB RAM) transfer the whole installation to that new PC? I take it that SWG is being shipped on like 4 CDs or something so it probably is a massive installation. What about the character profile and stuff? Will it be easy to continue playing with an existing profile on a new installation? Any answers appreciated...
Thew Rydur Posted October 21, 2002 Posted October 21, 2002 Well, I'd guess that your account with alll of your characters could be accessed from anywhere with the game loaded, provided you have the password of course. It's like that in alot of games (I don't know about MMORPG's though). If not however the only real problem you'd face would be loading the game again.
"thA dekMan" Posted October 21, 2002 Posted October 21, 2002 yea think of it as an account like on battle.net in diablo ii or something... its on the station right so you should be able to log into your profile from any computer with the game installed.
Gonkish Posted October 23, 2002 Posted October 23, 2002 AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.66GHz) 512 MB DDR SDRAM GeForce 3 (64mb) SB Live! 5.1 Sound Card Cable modem Yeah I think I'm good, though I AM looking at the new NV30s (Nvidia's next cards) once they come out, I would love to see how they handle next to a Radeon 9700 (might just have to get myself a new motherboard to take advantage of AGP 8x)..
Wraith 8 Posted October 24, 2002 Posted October 24, 2002 Originally posted by Bluezman OK, my question is: how much of a hassle will it be to start out on my old system (PIII 800, 256 MB RAM, GeForce2 GTS) with SWG and then after some time when I buy a new PC (Athlon 2200+, 512 MB DDR-RAM, GeForce4 Ti4600 128 MB RAM) transfer the whole installation to that new PC? I take it that SWG is being shipped on like 4 CDs or something so it probably is a massive installation. What about the character profile and stuff? Will it be easy to continue playing with an existing profile on a new installation? Any answers appreciated... well first of all.. your comp is good enough to play the game. second... you will most likely have a log in name and a password.... so.. you can play it what computer you have,,,, if a freind has SWG.. you could log in as yourself and play on... so..
Kiedo Posted October 24, 2002 Posted October 24, 2002 ther's no way my comp is fast enough, it's an 800mhz Pentium 3 and my graphics card is really crap, and i haven't been able to note the name, but it can just run jedi knight 2
Dengar Posted October 25, 2002 Posted October 25, 2002 As Wraith points out, many mmorpgs have the same set-up allowing you to log on to your account from any machine with the software installed........im guessing swg will be no different (hope not anyway, coz i wanna play at work )
Kururin Posted October 27, 2002 Posted October 27, 2002 :DCant wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :DCant wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :DCant wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Zed_Katarn Posted November 17, 2002 Posted November 17, 2002 1.5gHz AMD Athlon XP 256mb DDR RAM Geforce 4 DVD ROM 102Gb Hard Drive Oh, and broadband, all for the game. Its gonna be excellent when it comes out, i doubt any of us are gonna do anything but play on it for a month solid though.
Jared Sinn Posted November 17, 2002 Posted November 17, 2002 Well after careful consideration, I've decided and ordered my new system for playing SWG (I needed a new one anyway...eheh) The friendly folks at Dell will be shipping me a: P4, 2.4G 512k L2, 533mhz bus 512MB pc 800 Radeon 9700 Pro 48x cd + 40x/10x/40x cdrw and a few other unimportant specs... Cable modem is averaging 1.2 mega bits per, so I should be all set. *sits back in chair and realizes that it will still be at least a couple of months until release, and sighs deeply*
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