I am currently trying to run Warhammer online on my Emachines T3302. I have a 2.0 GHZ and 512 mb of RAM with a Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS. Warhammer's minimum spec requirements are 2.5 GHz P4 (single core) processor or equivalent, 1 Gigabyte RAM,and a 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 (which i think my Nvidia card has). My question is if i get 2g's of RAM for my computer (which is the max) do you think i can run it with moderate lag with my processor not being at requirements? Before they changed something i was able to play the game a little bit, i could kill mobs as long as i wasn't in a crowed area but the game crashed a lot due to my RAM shortage. But now they wont even let me play the game until i get my RAM up.
Need alot of help!!
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MMO's have not tended to be very hard on processors, but are rather memory intensive. You should be fine if you upgrade your memory (esp if that 2.0ghz is on one of the slightly older AMD chips, not an Intel chip). You obviously won't be cranking up the graphical settings with that GPU, but the game should be playable.
This situations sounds similar to when I started playing WoW when it first came out.
This situations sounds similar to when I started playing WoW when it first came out.
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That's a laptop, right?
Good luck upgrading your RAM, and forget upgrading your GPU.
Some manufacturers make it easy to upgrade stuff (other than the GPU, that's nearly impossible, never seen it done before) like Dell, then there's others who block it off entirely with a lot of screws, plastic, and solder.
EDIT: Nevermind, I looked it up. I saw the "T3302" and assumed it was a socket P processor (laptop). You shouldn't have a problem upgrading your RAM.
Your motherboard supports AGP, not PCIe, so the best you could buy GPU-wise would be a 3850 from ATI.
The board also only supports DDR, not the mainstream DDR2. Just FYI.
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Good luck upgrading your RAM, and forget upgrading your GPU.
Some manufacturers make it easy to upgrade stuff (other than the GPU, that's nearly impossible, never seen it done before) like Dell, then there's others who block it off entirely with a lot of screws, plastic, and solder.
EDIT: Nevermind, I looked it up. I saw the "T3302" and assumed it was a socket P processor (laptop). You shouldn't have a problem upgrading your RAM.
Your motherboard supports AGP, not PCIe, so the best you could buy GPU-wise would be a 3850 from ATI.
The board also only supports DDR, not the mainstream DDR2. Just FYI.
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Im thinking of buying
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609058
My processor is a AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3300+ if that helps any.
thanks for all help so far!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609058
My processor is a AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3300+ if that helps any.
thanks for all help so far!
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Throw a couple more bucks in for these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231047
Great company, and awesome customer support. If anything happens to a stick, they'll send you a new PAIR and let you keep the good one.
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Great company, and awesome customer support. If anything happens to a stick, they'll send you a new PAIR and let you keep the good one.
~Gooda~
actually gooda, it's not too hard to get to a laptop GPU (on the ones I've seen, correct me if some models bolt theirs in or something weird), and I've actually replaced mine on the Alienware laptop I have (which sucks btw, stay far far away).
And how about overclocking the processor if it limits you too much?
And how about overclocking the processor if it limits you too much?
I have a single core processor (AMD 64bit) overlocked to 3.0ghz with 2gigs of ram. The processor is a big part of RPGs and FPS, but another HUGE part of it comes with vidoe cards. If video card is bottle necking then you need more powerful gpus. I went from two Geforce 6s to two geforce 260s and noticed a HUGE difference in my rpg games and fps. Memory does help a lot so if you have the extra money and extra slots for ram then use it.
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Dual core CPUs don't really do anything for gaming ATM.
Quad cores are laughable.
Till we have threading in the majority gaming engines, it's worthless to have multicore.
I've got 2x Athlon 64 FX55's - and they're killer. Old, single core - but they tear games apart.
Only thing that might benefit - is if you're running a threaded version of Windows ( like XP Pro ) that supports multi CPUs - and offloads a portion of the OS work to the extra core. Still, it's only going to help some, it will be limited.
The real concern should be that GS video card. GS = badly stripped version. Should get a cheap GT/GTS. They're not much more for a decent GT/GTS than getting a new game these days.
Buy it online. Don't bother with a store. You could go SLI and get 2 CARDS from Newegg FOR LESS than it would cost you to buy 1 video card at Best Buy. [ No joke. I was checking prices on Newegg - they had this card at Bestbuy for $179. It was $60 at Newegg. I could get 2 - and run them SLI - and pay *LESS* than Bestbuy. ]
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That's not quite true...there are quite a few games that make use of both cores in a dual-core machine. As for quad cores you're right...at the moment. They GREAT if you like to multi task, or you do ANY video or audio editing at all. Or compress video. But for the moment they don't do much for games. "For the moment" is the key phrase, however. Why build a machine right now that is going to be obsolete in no time at all? You might as well go ahead and build with the quad core. You're definitely not going to hurt yourself by investing in the future...
