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Bgnome · Apr 25, 2005, 02:17 PM // 14:17

Guild Wars Support: What are the system requirements for Guild Wars?

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Minimum System Specs:

Windows XP/2000/ME/98
800 MHz Pentium III or equivalent
256 MB RAM
ATI Radeon 8500 or GeForce 3 or 4 MX with 32MB of video memory
2 GB available hard drive space
Internet connection
DirectX 8.0

Recommended System Specs:

Windows XP/2000/ME/98
Pentium III 1GHz or equivalent
512 MB RAM
ATI Radeon 9000 or GeForce 4 Ti Series with 64MB of video memory
2 GB available hard drive space
Internet connection

if you are having firewall issues, open port 6112.

Xtrusionical · Apr 27, 2005, 12:24 PM // 12:24

I have 1,3 GHz Duron (Yeah it sucks), 512 MB DDR, but I have Radeon 9200, 64 mb, so I'm not absolutely sure will it work, but I still hope it does.

Does anyone already have experience with the Radeon 9200 card when playing Guild Wars?

confessor24 · Apr 28, 2005, 01:51 PM // 13:51

I just want to know from you folks who have Beta tested the game if 512mb of RAM (the recommeded amount) is sufficient to run the game without lag. Right now I have 512mb and WoW lags for me substantially when I'm in high populated areas...in noticing that the technical requirements for this game are lower, I'm just curious if I'll be okay or will experience lag until I can afford to upgrade my RAM. Here are my current specs, any comments would be appreciated:

Pentium 4 2.8 GHz w/ HT Technology
120GB hard drive
NVidia FX 5200 256mb video card
512mb RAM
cable internet service

Thanks in advance!

junes123 · Apr 28, 2005, 10:15 PM // 22:15

i have a crappy comp.

AMD athlon processor 1.15 GHz
256mb RAM
A GeForce2 MX/MX 400 64mb
DSL conncection

Will it run the game?

Grim_Grom · Apr 28, 2005, 10:17 PM // 22:17

What speeds your CPU, probably at a push, I run everything max with this;

3.4ghz P4 EE
1024MB DDR RAM
X600 Pro 256MB

junes123 · Apr 28, 2005, 10:18 PM // 22:18

Im mostly concerned for my video card...

Bgnome · Apr 28, 2005, 10:58 PM // 22:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by junes123

i have a crappy comp.

AMD athlon processor 1.15 GHz
256mb RAM
A GeForce2 MX/MX 400 64mb
DSL conncection

Will it run the game?

it will run. playability is another issue altogether.

jwaite80 · Apr 30, 2005, 01:39 AM // 01:39

I have the following, any thoughts on how it will run:

1.2 ghz AMD
512 ram
Radeon 9000 pro 128 megs of ram

BrucetheSmiter · Apr 30, 2005, 07:54 PM // 19:54

How can I tell what kind of video card I have?

junes123 · May 01, 2005, 07:05 PM // 19:05

What really makes this game lag? (video card, ram, ghz,ect...?)

Foxx · May 01, 2005, 09:47 PM // 21:47

AHHHH!!!! I HAVE A MAC!!!
i guess i cant play *sniffle* *runs off like a school girl and trips on a rock*

Jadolerr · May 02, 2005, 10:47 AM // 10:47

My system meets the recommender requirements, so will I be able to play at a level of detail shown in the trailers?

Exadon · May 02, 2005, 06:21 PM // 18:21

That depends.

Even though you meet the recommended specs your card still need to support shader 2.0 fully and also support special lightning techniques used in the game.
If it wont support it you need to tone some settings down to medium or low since it'll lag if you don't.

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It makes me wonder how the devs can put the recommended specs so low with such nice graphics. By the looks at the screenies you wonder if you can run it in it's full glory with just a mediocre system..

Bruenor · May 02, 2005, 06:55 PM // 18:55

I was a bit worried about my gfx card but it plays fine at about half on the detail slider at 1024x768 and some details set high.

AMD XP 2800 @ 3200
512MB DDR RAM
Geforce 4 MX 440 SDR
100GB Maxtor ATA IDE 133
Verizon DSL

I'm thinking of upgrading my video, but I'm torn if I should go with a 128MB GeForce TI 4200 or a lower end FX/ATI (prolly a 5200 Geforce, or a 9600 ATI) GW is the only newer game I play on the PC so it's the only game I care about playing at 100% graphics. (no WoW, Doom/HL or FPS's at all).

Jadolerr · May 02, 2005, 08:09 PM // 20:09

What is shader 2.0? my Geforcemx 440 only supports Vertex shaders but not the newer pixel shaders.

Exadon · May 03, 2005, 09:10 AM // 09:10

Shaders make the game look allot more realistic like:

- Reflective water
- Realistic shadow & lightning
- Bumpmapping on characters

The Geforce 2 MX and the Geforce 4 MX cards dont have any kind of pixel and vertex shaders since they are mostly for business use.

Geforce 3 supports 1.1 shaders.
Geforce 4 Ti cards also support 1.1 shaders if i'm correct
Geforce 5 (FX) cards supports shader 2.0 but In a very bad way.
Geforce 6 cards support the shader model 3.0 which is now the highest in shader ranking.

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Originally Posted by Bruenor

I'm thinking of upgrading my video, but I'm torn if I should go with a 128MB GeForce TI 4200 or a lower end FX/ATI (prolly a 5200 Geforce, or a 9600 ATI) GW is the only newer game I play on the PC so it's the only game I care about playing at 100% graphics. (no WoW, Doom/HL or FPS's at all).

The GeForce TI 4200 is lower then the 9600 ATi, lol.
If you are willing to pay around $120 you should buy the Radeon 9800 Pro since it's still a high end card compared to all the other crappy FX 5200 and ATi 9500 series.

Bruenor · May 03, 2005, 12:48 PM // 12:48

No I think I just worded it poorly, I know that a Ti is lower than an FX. I meant should I get a TI *OR* a lower end FX like a 5200. I do not need or care about a 9800, all I need is a card that will allow me to play this one game at full detail. Not any other game, not a game 2 months from now... just GW and in 100% detail. I have been building computers for over 12 years and am well aware of what is out there in graphics cards, I just wanted to know if someone had a similar PC as mine spec wise and a better graphics card that was playing at full graphics. I was hoping to hear from someone with a TI or low end FX or ATI card.

maxpower · May 03, 2005, 02:59 PM // 14:59

they should have added that it's impossible to play this game with a monitor that doesn't support higher resolutions thatn 800x600.

i could have saved some money with that

Argent · May 03, 2005, 03:37 PM // 15:37

i use radeon 9200 and only get lag when the server decides to spaz and load something, and i know thts not me, cuz everyone im playing w/ gets the lag too.

9200 is fine.

EnDinG · May 03, 2005, 03:42 PM // 15:42

maxpower - You can buy a better monitor for about $60 - $150 CRT from a lot of places since the LCD's are really taking over the market right now.

Argent - Just to let you know the 9200 is a very old card so by rights, there will be issues with it. Remember, those are the minimum requirements, meaning everything needs to be as low as possible to run the game. If the problem keeps up, just change areas that your in (if its in a town your having problems) and it should help the load time / lag your getting.