1. #21
    Yeah it will probably be able to move the game However, do not expect good graphics or good fps rate, your card is a low-end one so you will be probably forced to play the game under low graphic settings :P
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  2. #22
    That's what I figured looking at it, thanks for the input.
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  3. #23
    Though it looks like I may just make the spec to run it, this does come at a bit of a surprise. I know people say you should get recent desktops to run today's games, but never for minimum detail on a strategy game. Sure, if it is the next Crysis action game, I could expect it. Still a little surprising for a turn-based strategy game to require a spec that even Crysis or Civ doesn't. It's not like someone is expecting full-screen PhysX plus tons of DX11 shavers and stuff for a turn-based strategy RPG. The real gameplay, in these games, are usually all the stuff under the hood. The math calculations to process outcomes. Stuff just about any machine can do these days, the rest is just eye-candy that has nothing to do with gameplay or the full immersion of it given these are top-down views. Still, high end graphics look pretty; just as long as they do provide the options for the large audience that generally only play strategies on PCs. And those folks aren't used to being quite on top of the *gaming spec* machine purchases.
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  4. #24
    will be run on a HD3000 intel?
    i hope..
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  5. #25
    Intel Graphic Cards aren't aimed to be used to play video games, and even less a 3xxx one xD I wouldn't expect to be able to run it with that card xD
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  6. #26
    Originally posted by foiden:
    Though it looks like I may just make the spec to run it, this does come at a bit of a surprise. I know people say you should get recent desktops to run today's games, but never for minimum detail on a strategy game. Sure, if it is the next Crysis action game, I could expect it. Still a little surprising for a turn-based strategy game to require a spec that even Crysis or Civ doesn't. It's not like someone is expecting full-screen PhysX plus tons of DX11 shavers and stuff for a turn-based strategy RPG. The real gameplay, in these games, are usually all the stuff under the hood. The math calculations to process outcomes. Stuff just about any machine can do these days, the rest is just eye-candy that has nothing to do with gameplay or the full immersion of it given these are top-down views. Still, high end graphics look pretty; just as long as they do provide the options for the large audience that generally only play strategies on PCs. And those folks aren't used to being quite on top of the *gaming spec* machine purchases.
    As someone that almost exclusively plays strategy games, I absolutely disagree with us being on the low end when it comes to staying up to date with hardware.

    Also a 8600GTS is hardly DX11 with physx. Heck it's a bloody mid range card from 5 years ago, surely any gamer should expect to have at least 5 year old mid range hardware to play the latest games... You can get graphics cards (especially used) that far outperform the requirement to play Heroes VI for under the price of the game.
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  7. #27
    I never meant all strategy gamers. You may be one of the more exceptions. But considering strategy games usually barely have me upgrade much for them, like other genres, one can usually be a bit behind. Then again, you can't assume most of them would be using desktops or towers either.

    Laptops have really taken a major share because you can take it with you. And in general a lot of them don't wont meet the requirements if and only if 256MB is left out of the minimum. It's just rare that a strategy game would take something above a more rather current major graphic-eye-candy game like Crysis 2 or something, that's all. To desktops, 512MB is common. To laptops, none but the special gaming laptops have it.

    On the other hand, The Witcher 2 claims similar GPU memory requirements, and it seems to actually still run decently on some of these machines.
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  8. #28
    i think the game would be playable on i5 (2nd gen) with intel HD 3000, Starcraft 2 is playable at good quality.
    Maybe a forum administrator could answer the interrogant
    Tanks
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  9. #29
    An i5 processor is a nice processor, but I can't assure you that an intel graphics card will make it... However, if you can play SC2 at a good quality level, it's 90% possible you will be able to run this game without many problems.
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  10. #30
    Sounds good. If there is one thing my current setup can run quite well is Starcraft 2.
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