Rough idea on specs?

[Ctrl E]

has anyone given an idea of what specs will be needed to run SOW yet?

am hoping to get a mate to build me a new machine.

[AndyJWest]

Originally Posted by Ctrl E

has anyone given an idea of what specs will be needed to run SOW yet?

am hoping to get a mate to build me a new machine.

Some people have, Not based on anything definitive that 1C:Maddox has said though. If you want the official specs you will have to wait. Basically, you have two choices: (a) Build a top-spec machine now, in the expectation that it will run SoW (they'd be daft to release it if nobody has a machine that can run it), or (b) wait for the spec, then decide what you need. (b) makes more sense unless you need the PC for other things in the meantime, but it's up to you...

Oleg once said we will get system specs in May 2009, so anytime soon i guess.

[ECV56_Lancelot]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Oleg once said we will get system specs in May 2009, so anytime soon i guess.

LOL! You don´t let one pass through Tree!

Ctrl-E, the true its we can´t tell yet, and unless that something extraordinary happen we will not get the specs this month, or the next.
In some moment Oleg said that most likely a minimum of 3 gigas of RAM would be recommended, so my advice that you start to think on acquiring a 64bits OS and 4 gigas or more of RAM.

That is as far as i can tell you, for the very little i know.

[Ctrl E]

bummer

[rollnloop]

Here's my idea of these, should be reasonable for about every hardware intensive sim, BoB included:

Buy the highest CPU you can afford, preferably with high freq and/or good overclock possibility, and minimum 3 cores (i'd go for 4, RoF and ArmaII use these, no reason BoB would not). Sims are always CPU limited. I wouldn't go for hexa yet, BoB won't probably at release use all those cores, or at least not efficiently since it's difficult to program for hardware that doesn't exist.

Buy a reasonable GPU for the res you play, for a 22 to 24 inches monitor the "next to best" or at least "best in previous generation" GPU should fit perfectly, maybe even one more down the list should still fit well.

Buy as more RAM as you can afford too, with the OS to use it (64bits), RAM allows to play on big maps, with many different objects (planes, tanks).

Buy a SSD or a 10000RPM HDD if you can afford it, Sims tend to use quite some space, and to load much of it at each play.

All of this is speculation, of course, but 22 years experience with simulators says it should prove quite accurate in the end.

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by Ctrl E

has anyone given an idea of what specs will be needed to run SOW yet?

am hoping to get a mate to build me a new machine.

Bifocals. At least!!