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Faer · Dec 16, 2006, 02:45 AM // 02:45

After noticing a fairly alarming amount of "Can I play GW on my PC?" threads over the months, I have come up with a simple solution to not only help all of you curious players (or would-be players), but also to help the mods by cutting down (hopefully) on the clutter related to such threads. Here, in this very thread, you will find the minimum and recommended system specifications to run each and every Guild Wars chapter. You'll never have to ask around about your new computer's compatibility with Guild Wars ever again!

(That is, unless you have a technical problem, in which case, feel free to ask away.

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Originally Posted by Guild Wars: Prophecies System Requirements

Minimum System Specs:

Windows XP/2000/ME/98
Intel Pentium III 800 MHz or equivalent
256 MB RAM
CD-ROM Drive
2 GB Available HDD Space
ATI Radeon 8500 or GeForce 3 or 4 MX Series Video Card with 32MB of VRAM
16-bit Sound Card
Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse

Recommended System Specs:

Windows XP/2000
Intel Pentium III 1GHz or equivalent
512 MB RAM
CD-ROM Drive
2 GB Available HDD Space
ATI Radeon 9000 or GeForce 4 Ti Series Video Card with 64MB of VRAM
16-bit Sound Card
Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guild Wars: Factions System Requirements

Minimum System Specs:

Windows XP/2000/ME/98
Intel Pentium III 800 MHz or equivalent
256 MB RAM
CD-ROM Drive
2 GB Available HDD Space
ATI Radeon 8500 or GeForce 3 or 4 MX Series Video Card with 32MB of VRAM
16-bit Sound Card
Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse

Recommended System Specs:

Windows XP/2000
Intel Pentium III 1GHz or equivalent
512 MB RAM
CD-ROM Drive
2 GB Available HDD Space
ATI Radeon 9000 or GeForce 4 Ti Series Video Card with 64MB of VRAM
16-bit Sound Card
Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse

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Originally Posted by Guild Wars: Nightfall System Requirements

Minimum System Specs:

Windows XP/2000/ME/98
Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz or equivalent
512 MB RAM
CD-ROM Drive
3 GB Available HDD Space
ATI Radeon 8500 or GeForce 3 Series Video Card with 64MB of VRAM
16-bit Sound Card
Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse
DirectX 8

Recommended System Specs:

Windows XP/2000
Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or equivalent
1 GB RAM
CD-ROM Drive
4 GB Available HDD Space
ATI Radeon 9600 or GeForce FX 5700 Series Video Card or above
Sound Blaster® X-FiTM series Sound Card
Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse
DirectX 9

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Originally Posted by Guild Wars: Eye of the North System Requirements

Minimum System Specs:

Windows XP/2000/ME/98/Vista
Intel Pentium III 1 GHz or equivalent
512 MB RAM
DVD-ROM Drive
3 GB Available HDD Space
ATI Radeon 8500 or NVIDIA GeForce 3 Series Video Card with 64 MB of VRAM
16-bit Sound Card
Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse
DirectX 8

Recommended System Specs:

Windows XP/2000/Vista
Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or equivalent
1 GB RAM
DVD-ROM Drive
4 GB Available HDD Space
ATI Radeon 9600 or NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 series video card or above
16-bit Sound Card
Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse
DirectX 9

Confirmation of these requirements can be found on the wiki and by browsing through the products in the official store.

It would be wise of all users to take note of the fact that each chapter requires more "oomph" to run at maximum settings than previous Chapters. Be sure to keep your systems up to date, not only for Guild Wars, but for all things computer related. If you slip too far behind the times, there isn't much anyone here will be able to do for you (sadly)!

Notice: This thread is not meant to help you tweak your system, or find special shortcut line commands to increase your performance in-game. We have plenty of other threads on those subjects, and hundreds of members who would be more than willing (or at least, one could hope) to assist you in such matters. This thread is simply to give users an easily accessible list of system requirements for Guild Wars games, so that there will be fewer posts on if such-and-such PC can run Guild Wars: <Chapter Name Here>.