Dragon Age System Requirements

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A little update about the requirements: some minor "mistakes" have been made. A slip of the keyboard.

After debate on the Bioware boards a few wrong things came to mind. The tech persons here already now if they look at it, but a few minor mistakes were made with the Graphics cards. The named Nvidia and Ati cards were not on par.

More important is the processor: Some single core P4's work! The stronger ones that is. It still is a guess since they do not know it for sure but estimate is around clockspeed 3.0 ghz. They told us not to worry much if your processor is in the bottom section.

They did told us that the Graphics card is very important to playing the game. From this we deduced that a P4 with a good Graphics Processor Unit aka the videocard might run it fairly.

So people with older pc's just on the edge need NOT to run to the stores just yet. Besides Window 7 will be released in the same timeframe so a lot hardware will be on sale then. Ask your question on our techno magic forum.

 

hello there

i got a AMD athlon monocore at 2.71 Ghz with 2 Gb ram and an ATI radeon 4830 (512 mb), runing under win xp SP1

do you think it'll run alright ?

 

i'm not so sure the update to SP3 is compulsory, i recall having played certain games requiring SP2 which nevertheless worked fine on SP1, like The Sims 3 for example

 

requirements

Dunno if I trust Bioware's requirements after NWN2. I have a feeling I would need a truly beastly machine to run it with decent visuals regardless of what their requirements state. My plan is to wait until the game is released then check out their tech support forms to see how many people are whining.

 

NWN2? That was Obsidian, not BioWare, so there's no connection.

Ok, not being that much of a computer guru, let me ask you all this. My laptop has:
Vista Home Premium
AMD Turion 64X2 ~1.6GHz
958Mb Ram
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150

Seeing how old it is, I'm assuming that's really not enough, not even to play on minimum (although I can run the character creator which technically has the same reqs, it's slow), but hearing some of the tech debates (hearing and not really understanding), I thought it wisest to ask. Could I run DA:O? Would it run, but just barely? I like my games to run smoothly, especially the real-time ones.

 

I doubt it. It might run, but very slowly.

 

Both NWN and NWN2 were notoriously unoptimised. Even with my system that by FAR exceeds the requirements they still run pretty slowly (the 1st is even worse, funnily enough). If your system had trouble with NWN2 that doesn't mean it won't run DA well. Still, waiting for the initial response from people who got it straight away, both here and on the official boards, is always a good idea

 

Your Processor will have a hard time dealing with it, it'll probably run, but definitely not smoothly and definitely not during any 'intensive' moments in the game. Not to mention the RAM you have is only good for Vista itself (memory hog!), and the GFX card is the biggest issue since it's quite below the minimum req. (if I'm not mistaken). I would strongly recommend not wasting your money on the game unless if you plan to use it for another comp or something else.

Hope to have helped.

 

Yeah, I guessed as much. Guess it's back to the job hunt for me.

 

I disagree that they are proposing overall "hefty" requirements, given the lowball suggested video minimums that make no logical sense at all. For Vista, the Geforce 7600 GT is the minimum from nVIDIA, while for ATI they named the X1550! That piece of junk is slower than the Radeon X1300 Pro, but Bioware doesn't know that, it seems.

ATI's X1650 Pro, or perhaps the XT, would be the natural equivalent to a 7600 GT.

For XP, they claim that an X850 is the minimum Radeon (which makes the cards they named for Vista really look like turtles), and yet supposedly, a Geforce 6600 GT can do minimum while none of the X800s can? Plain dumb!

An X700 Pro offers better performance than a 6600 GT.

The CPUs that they have named are almost all dual-core for both minimums and recommended, so that part is higher than is named by much of anything else that is recent, I go along there . .

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Don't forget that NWN2 was not Bioware's, but Obsidian's, and the official requirements were what EA wanted published, not what Obsidian knew would work. EA is a headache in every area when they are involved on any game.

 

Wow Kiwi, that first post of mine is almost a year old! I thought the recommended specs were too high based on my assumptions of what "recommended" meant in terms of frame rate and detail settings. I have to admit that I hadn't compared with the minimum specs - now that I see them it seems that the recommended would allow high settings and frame rates than what I thought. The recommendation for a quad-core Intel CPU is still bizarre though.

I'm sure EA had nothing to do with NWN2 (or the 1st one). Weren't they both published by Atari? Not that they're any better than EA when it comes to making some questionable decisions (sitting on Mysteries of Westgate for almost 2 years was an odd thing to do)

 

Mea Culpa

EA screwed up the port from Mass Effect on console to PC, and for all I know, will make a bigger mess out of the already screwy DA:O requirements, so it was Atari with the errors on NWN2 (or Obsidian).

 

How would my system peform with DA:O on the PC?

I have an AMD 8450 2.1 CPU, 4GB of 800 speed DDR2 RAM, and a 384MB 8800 GS GPU. I heard horror stories with the AMD CPUs and good things with the Nvidia GPUs. So, what bells and whitles could I use and what may slow down the game besides the CPU.

Thinking about upgrading the CPU to a AMD Athlon II X4 2.6 or 2.8 CPU for about $100.