Official system requirements

[Novotny]

Well, that's hardly surprising since you limited the ram to 3gig. I notice upon visiting my parents that their i5 with 3gigs cranks the hdd whilst my 8400(@3.8ghz) with 4gigs just opens things quite quickly in comparison (both win7 64bit).

I had the same attitude to XP when it came out. It took a complete OS failure at a LAN event to make me install XP, and I was very unhappy about it, whilst the friendly chaps helping me politely waited for me to stop being a dick.

Once I had mouse accel sorted, I thought XP was actually very good.

I shifted to Win 7 quite early on and completely refused to boot to XP ever again.

And in the spirit of completeness: Vista was xxxx .

Edit:: Blackdog, just curious: why do you always make such bloody long posts? Not in any way complaining, just asking

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Novotny

Edit:: Blackdog, just curious: why do you always make such bloody long posts? Not in any way complaining, just asking

He found the speech recognition feature of Windows7, lol.

[Blackdog_kt]

I just type fast enough to be able to put thoughts to "virtual paper" in a "thinking out loud/talking over a beer in the bar" kind of fashion, it's not really planned

In the more heated debates it's a byproduct of including as many details as possible so that i can make a clear point and avoid being misunderstood or having an exchange of one-liners with other posters. You could say i just like to preempt and cover as many angles as possible, instead of having to wait for someone to post a single sentence and reply to them in a similar manner. It's a longer posts/more info per post for a smaller post count type of thing

Back on the topic of RAM, that will probably be the one mini-upgrade i'm going to go for after i've done some test flights with CoD. I have three sticks of 1GB each in triple channel (i don't remember timings and clock speeds so i'll have to look it up, but i'm probably going to opt for mid-range settings).

I'm thinking of pushing the total up to 6GB by getting an extra 3x1GB in triple channel, as the motherboard has 3 more slots available in a separate "bank".
My question is, do the new sticks have to share clock speeds and timings with my existing ones, can i "underclock" the faster set to match the slower one if they need to match, or do i just plug them in as long as they are in separate banks?

Edit: Looking at the local e-shop retailers there's DDR3 kits from as low as 35 all the way to 78 Euros, a middle of the road 1333Mhz Corsair kit is at 52 and has a lifetime warranty! I head RAM was getting cheap but i didn't know it was that cheap, i may jump the gun and get it earlier

[drillerman45]

Good morning everyone,
I would like to pre-order IL2-CoD but before doing so would ask for some clarification on graphics cards. I have the above card in my ACER notebook and was wondering if it would be ok to run IL2-CoD. I don't have any problems running IL2-BOP. While I realise it is not in the "Supported" list, I assume it doesn't mean it won't necessarily be ok.
Thank you in advance of some clarification.

[Kikuchiyo]

Originally Posted by drillerman45

Good morning everyone,
I would like to pre-order IL2-CoD but before doing so would ask for some clarification on graphics cards. I have the above card in my ACER notebook and was wondering if it would be ok to run IL2-CoD. I don't have any problems running IL2-BOP. While I realise it is not in the "Supported" list, I assume it doesn't mean it won't necessarily be ok.
Thank you in advance of some clarification.

What you should be most concerned with is your CPU and Memory. The game involves a lot of heavy number crunching, and like many others would say the video card is tertiary to the calculating power of your processor.

[drillerman45]

Thanks for the reply, My CPU is a dual core 2.0ghz and I have 4 gig of memory. These both meet requirements but I was just concerned that my video card doesn't.

[nearmiss]

Originally Posted by drillerman45

Good morning everyone,
I would like to pre-order IL2-CoD but before doing so would ask for some clarification on graphics cards. I have the above card in my ACER notebook and was wondering if it would be ok to run IL2-CoD. I don't have any problems running IL2-BOP. While I realise it is not in the "Supported" list, I assume it doesn't mean it won't necessarily be ok.
Thank you in advance of some clarification.

There is NO WAY I would buy any hardware at this time. Wait until release is out, and watch the boards for a couple weeks information will flow like a river and you'll make better hardware choices.

[klem]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

There is NO WAY I would buy any hardware at this time. Wait until release is out, and watch the boards for a couple weeks information will flow like a river and you'll make better hardware choices.

Absolutely. It's so close to release now.

FYI I would guess your card sits around 17th on the list at this link. The list may help you make sense of the card types people report back on.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...50,2782-7.html

[SEE]

I came across a review for CoD and along side the system specs was neat little box in which you typed in your current PC specs and it gave a rating out of 10 for performance......mine came out at 4...........

So I priced up an expensive but decent spec upgrade, typed it in and it came out at 7----hell! Think I will wait untill prices have fallen and stick with 4.101 as I am not sure I could cope with an underperforming rig - it would drive me nuts!

[nearmiss]

Originally Posted by klem

Absolutely. It's so close to release now.

FYI I would guess your card sits around 17th on the list at this link. The list may help you make sense of the card types people report back on.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...50,2782-7.html

My video card is an 8800 gts 512MB, which doesn't look to bad on the chart.

Still, I'm not about to buy anything until the forums have been screaming from users getting there systems upgraded and sharing with everyone.

An amazing amount of information will flow when the COD is released.

Just be patient!