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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5163867" data-attributes="member: 7883">I don't think this paradigm is the same as it was before.  PCs, and the games that work on them, don't rely on requirements in the same way that they did back in like....1992.It's definitely possible to play games that a PC might seem unequipped for, as long as you have enough RAM, among other things.  I played DragonAge on a PC that didn't meet the requirements for CPU clock speed, and it worked fine until the very last battle, and then all I had to do was drop the graphics a bit.My new PC definitely is by no means a super machine...taxes in, I spent about $1100, and that's in Canada, where equipment tends to be overpriced.  But it still rates a 7.5 out of 7.9 on the Windows 7 benchmarks, seems to run anything I throw at it, and is not cutting edge at all.  It's got a $150 video card, instead of the top of the line $600 ones they put in gaming rigs.  Really, the only reason I upgraded from my last one is that the heatsink died, and because it was so old, I'd have had to get the replacement used, shipped from a guy in Australia who seemed to be selling it on Ebay.  I figured at that point, it wasn't worth the trouble.I think they calculate minimum and recommended specs very differently than they used to.  Back in the days of Wing Commander etc. if you didn't meet the minimum requirements, you literally couldn't play the game...at all.  I haven't really run into that lately.I think about the only thing I could have done extra to test this thesis would have been to purchase Crysis and try it on my old PC..but with no heat sink, that's not really possible.Banshee</blockquote>

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