Recommended system requirements?

[zim5354]

I have two PCs the one I use for gaming and an one that we have had for some time and all its really used for is browsing the internet and other basic stuff, anyway my dad wanted to play Medieval Total War 2 so I let him use my PC and I went and got on the older one. The older PC meets Graal's recommended system requirements but when I upgraded to v.4 (I had a old version of the client on it) the menu didnt work correctly (The blue buttons were surrounded with red boxes) but the buttons still worked so I clicked them and logged onto a server. I could berly move because of the lag when more then a few people were on screen. I went to UN's OSL and the thing almost seemed to freeze, hell on Era I couldent even move because of the lag let alone PK. (3D lights and all other eye candy features were off.)

Anyway in short do you think Graals system requirements need to be upped? I do because currently I don't see how its possible to actually play and enjoy the game on a system with those requirements I am no expert but I would say they need to at least be

256 MB Ram, 500 MB hard drive space, Direct X 9 compatible video card, Pentium 4 processor and at least DSL. Nearly every computer made now exceeds those requirements, and if anyone is running a PC below those they arnt/should not be playing games on it anyway so I really don't see how upping the requirements would be a problem.

[cbk1994]

The system requirements show what it takes to run it. You are able to run the game fine, but it is very slow. I have problems with the buttons aswell, and I'm on a MacBook Pro running Windows ... far exceeds requirements.

The recommended system is what you need. Requirements just let you know what you need to play the actual game, and you COULD play the game.

[Rapidwolve]

I have 256 MB, but Graal runs smoothly for me. At times it will slow down, but when that happens I just up the priority on task manager and it runs good again.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Rapidwolve

I have 256 MB, but Graal runs smoothly for me. At times it will slow down, but when that happens I just up the priority on task manager and it runs good again.

Priority always makes me really laggy -- like my whole computer o.O

[Luda]

Whenever someone messages me on AIM, or I try to use windows media player, the little pop up windows in the corners make me lag alot on graal

[Inspiration]

It's all about RAM really. I normally have warcraft 3 open at all times, winamp, AIM, MSN, 1-2 Graal windows depending on what I'm doing, firefox, and sometimes other minor stuff, and I really don't get any slowdown at all.


Graal can run fine on a computer with 128 or less RAM, but obviously not on a system with lets say, Windows XP on it, because XP alone will demand mostly all of that RAM.

[Butz]

Originally Posted by Inspiration

It's all about RAM really. I normally have warcraft 3 open at all times, winamp, AIM, MSN, 1-2 Graal windows depending on what I'm doing, firefox, and sometimes other minor stuff, and I really don't get any slowdown at all.


Graal can run fine on a computer with 128 or less RAM, but obviously not on a system with lets say, Windows XP on it, because XP alone will demand mostly all of that RAM.

You must be doing a great job at leading those armies, what with how focused you are on them...


As for the topic, never go by minimum system requirements for something. According to Microsoft:

Originally Posted by microsoft.com

The minimum hardware requirements for Windows XP Home Edition are:
• Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster
• At least 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM
• At least 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available space on the hard disk
• CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive

I'd like to see you run anything else at those specs though.

[Inspiration]

Originally Posted by Butz

You must be doing a great job at leading those armies, what with how focused you are on them...

More like doing a good job at idling in my clan's channel.

[zim5354]

Originally Posted by Inspiration

It's all about RAM really. I normally have warcraft 3 open at all times, winamp, AIM, MSN, 1-2 Graal windows depending on what I'm doing, firefox, and sometimes other minor stuff, and I really don't get any slowdown at all.


Graal can run fine on a computer with 128 or less RAM, but obviously not on a system with lets say, Windows XP on it, because XP alone will demand mostly all of that RAM.

I was on a 98 and was having problems, on my other computer it runs flawlessly I just think they need to be upgraded because sure it "can" run but not well enough to enjoy it.