What You'll Need To Play Dragon Age On PC

" @Ulong said:

" My computer is this:    Windows XPPentium 4 cpu, 3,60ghz 1gb ram Radeon X800 XT   I barely meet the minimum system requirements, except my graphics card is a bit too old. (minimum says it wants a X850). I intend to play on the lowest possible graphics settings possible, but, will the fact that my graphics is an x800 instead of an x850 make the game unplayable, or can I squeeze by as is? I really want to play this on the pc and bring back memories of old Bauldur's gate 2 playthroughs. "

You're biggest issue is likely the RAM and not the GPU. "

Glad I just got a terabyte external! That'll free up some space. Also my specs are basically the recommended...so bully for me, I guess. My comp's about a year and a half old.

" @Ulong: Did you try the creator? "

Sweet but 20GB that's going to take aegis to download of steam.

Quad core for recommended? Great, that usually means if you don't have it, there is a chance it might be choppy.

My PC just about meets the specs (I always aim for recommended specs or better).  At least these specs are reasonable compared to RE5 for PC.

My pc would start to burn and then disappear from compression halfway through the installation

Does anyone know the specs of the PC the guys were using in the quickplay of this?

This will work fine in my computer, I just hope it does not scale bad at maximum..
My spec:
 

I'm more than ready for this beast on PC... Bring it on!

In the gamingtrend.com preview they talked about the machines that it was being demo'd by Bioware for that 2-day play.:
   
"  The game was running at 1900x1200 (16:10) with all details maxed out, Anti-Aliasing at 8x, and never dropped a frame.  To accomplish this, we used Intel Quad Core 9300s at 2.5 GHz, 2GB of RAM, and a single nVidia 8800 GT graphics card. "
 
Far from mediocre but not exactly a killer machine 
 
http://www.gamingtrend.com/Articles/articles.php?artID=503

My PC can handle the game (Quad-Core Phenom clocked at 2.8ghz, Nvidia Geforce GTX 260, 8GB RAM.......), but the storage looks like an issue................ I'll have to see about upgrading to a bigger hard drive.
 
Ah well, needed to reformat to install Windows 7 anyway..............

Its not a 20GB download apparently, its comes on a single DVD after all.  Most believe it will be a 9 GB download and then you install the 20 GBs uncompressed.  The game seems to be much more challenging on the PC at the same difficulty level.

" I'm right at the recommended requirements. I guess that means I won't be able to run it. Darn shame....yup. "

My lil' i5 should run this perfectly though my worries lie with the ATI 4800. I'm confused by ATI's numbering cause they went up and then down again and I have had Nvidia cards for ages. Is a 4800 better or worse than the recommended 3850? Perhaps I'll get a second one to put in crossfire just in case.
 
Still by the time I downloaded this off steam windows 9 will be out... Darn steam and their attractive limited edition pre order bonuses.

my PC owns the recommended specs. 
 
:D

" 20GB?  That's just craziness!  My 250GB games partition doesn't even have that much space free, lol.

I guess I should get this on 360, that'll be on one dual-layer DVD, right?

"

Runs perfectly on my 8000gt. If you've got a mid-to-high-end card from the past couple of years, you should be okay. Processor doesn't seem to matter much... I'm using a 3.6ghz Core 2 Duo, if that helps anyone. Plus 4 gigs of ram, but in this day in age, if you want to be gaming on your PC, you may as well have that much, given the dirt cheap price of DDR2, even lower-end DDR3.
 
On that note, seems to scale a lot better than any past Bioware game. I'm even more suprised that, as good as this game looks, it runs like butter, whereas a more graphically underwhelming, older title like Neverwinter Nights 2 still jitters with AA and high resolutions on my machine, when in the thick of larger towns. That's the power of optimization.

does this mean it wont play on my laptop with an integrated ati hd 3200 gpu?  and why 20 gigs of space? that seems kind of extreme.

I hate having to spend hours just to get a game working. Getting the 360 version.

I'm taking a mental screenshot of this so in 15 years I can laugh at me shitting a brick over a game using up 20 gigs, that isn't an MMO. In fact, I'm gonna take a screen shot right now.

Now we just need Dragon Age PC achievements to be linked to GiantBomb.

Veeeeery old thread.
 
It's funny that the requirements are 20 GB of space when the game takes up 15 on my hard drive, including DLC. I guess I should factor in a little more for savegames, though. And game cache. But then, in an age of terabyte drives being on sale every now and then for just over $50 (which really dates this comment), that doesn't seem like much of a problem.

This game is way better on the PC.