Woe is Me! (KotoR Specs for PC)

[JediSoth]

http://swforums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html?topic=272501&forum=27

I have enough memory, sufficient hard drive space, a good enough video card, but my processor is 200 MHz too slow to meet the minimum specs. Blast it! I've been waiting for a Star Wars CRPG since that SSI Buck Rogers game that used the same engine as the Gold Box D&D games. Fiddlesticks!!!

JediSoth

 

[gariig]

Also, I usually take minimum specs to mean MINIMUM. If you actually want the game to look nice and to play at 30 FPS you usually need the recommended or better. Just to be nosey, what video card and processor do you have? Have you thought about just a small upgrade to the CPU to get KotoR working?

Gariig

 

[KenM]

My old system was a .550 mmz CPU, 64 MB gforce 4, 256 RAM, it ran Unreal Tournement 2003 fairly good IMO. They said you need at least a 733 CPU for it to run. I could not turn on most of the "bells and whistles", but it ran at 30-40 FPS. If the rest of your specs is above KOTOR, you should be fine. But if you are worried, make sure you buy a copy at a place that allows you to return it if thats not the case.
BTW, sometimes miniumum specs are wrong. When No One Lives forever came out, it said you needed 64 MB RAM. That what I had in that system before I upgraded the RAM, and it ran like crap until I got more RAM. So you never know.

 

[Haradim]

I hope that 4 GB of memory is spent wisely. I have a lot of space (120ish GB), but I hate seeing that much get wasted. Takes too long to load, sucks up system resources, and takes time to get rid of.

That said, the art looks very impressive. I hope my own machine is up to the task, despite also not being very impressive in the processor department. With luck, my RAM and video card will pick up much of the slack. If only it were cheap to upgrade both motherboard and CPU *sigh*

 

[Viking Bastard]

[ I made a whoopsie ]

 

[Viking Bastard]

Whoah! 4gb? All that is gettin' installed?

On how many discs is this thing?

 

[Olive]

When it says it supports the GEforce 2 chip set, does that mean my crappy Gefroce2MX?

 

[JediSoth]

Also, I usually take minimum specs to mean MINIMUM. If you actually want the game to look nice and to play at 30 FPS you usually need the recommended or better. Just to be nosey, what video card and processor do you have? Have you thought about just a small upgrade to the CPU to get KotoR working?

I'm currently running a PIII/800 with 512MB of RAM and a GeForce2MX/400 (64MB). My current motherboard will only support up to a 1.2 GHz PIII, and those are getting hard to find (not to mention expensive when you do find them). Upgrading isn't really an option with my current budget, particularly, since I can't see spending $200+ for a paltry 400 MHz (at the max) just to run a $50 game. I really need a whole new system. Alas, that's life. I'll make do until I get a nice enough windfall to be able to buy a nice $2,000 Alienware system.

JediSoth

 

[Haradim]

Whoah! 4gb? All that is gettin' installed?

On how many discs is this thing?

Four, it seems (and there won't be a DVD option). I didn't notice anything about a disk swapping option, but that's not exactly the greatest alternative to simply installing the whole thing anyway...

Hefty game either way, though. How much of that is handled by the video card may well be the deciding factor as to how processor-tolerant the game is.

Olive: It should. I would be leery as to how well supported it is, however; said support may simply be a byproduct of support for other nVidia chipsets ('course, I'm no video hardware expert, so...).

I also just noticed that I may need a new audio card just to run the game...*grumble*

 

[trancejeremy]

Generally speaking, processor requirements don't mean much for a 3D game - it's the video card that's the thing.

I'm not sure if the GeForce 2 will be enough - probably enough to run, but at a slow frame rate.

I have the Xbox version of KOTOR, which has a GeForce 3 in it (more or less), and it gets choppy in a lot of places.