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Zamox · 07-03-2009, 12:13 AM

A lot of you people will have no problem running Aion, but you're probably going to be in the 30 fps range.

It's kind of tragic how many people I see with totally fine CPUs, but these weak-*** video cards from 2-3 years ago. Do yourself a favor and save up about $180 - $200 bucks this summer for a video card upgrade.
CryEngine goes nuts on a recent card, something from the Dx10 generation of cards - like ANY card in the GeForce GTX xxx series. You'll weep at the smoothness.

And seriously forget about 1 GB. Try hard to forget about 2 GB as well (depending on if you're 32 or 64-bit).
Aion is absolutely in love with 4 GB. It's less system intensive than games like Vanguard and Age of Conan, but like them, Aion adores 4 GB of RAM. Goes from smooth to butter. C'mon people, most MMO devs will tell you themselves that the 'true' min spec for recent MMOs is 2 GB and up. These games eat RAM for lunch, with so much swapping of assets.

A video card with 896mb of RAM or better is also highly recommended. So many things you take for granted are being processed as shader functions in the video card, and that extra memory gives you a huge frame buffer to work with.

Play Aion at 60 fps or better! It's stunning. Don't just shrug and settle for 30 fps on your old WoW-playing, circa 2004 computer. Upgrade or fade.

07-03-2009, 12:13 AM	#216 (permalink)
Zamox Officer Join Date: Jun 2009 Thanks: 0 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts Race: Elyos	A lot of you people will have no problem running Aion, but you're probably going to be in the 30 fps range. It's kind of tragic how many people I see with totally fine CPUs, but these weak-*** video cards from 2-3 years ago. Do yourself a favor and save up about $180 - $200 bucks this summer for a video card upgrade. CryEngine goes nuts on a recent card, something from the Dx10 generation of cards - like ANY card in the GeForce GTX xxx series. You'll weep at the smoothness. And seriously forget about 1 GB. Try hard to forget about 2 GB as well (depending on if you're 32 or 64-bit). Aion is absolutely in love with 4 GB. It's less system intensive than games like Vanguard and Age of Conan, but like them, Aion adores 4 GB of RAM. Goes from smooth to butter. C'mon people, most MMO devs will tell you themselves that the 'true' min spec for recent MMOs is 2 GB and up. These games eat RAM for lunch, with so much swapping of assets. A video card with 896mb of RAM or better is also highly recommended. So many things you take for granted are being processed as shader functions in the video card, and that extra memory gives you a huge frame buffer to work with. Play Aion at 60 fps or better! It's stunning. Don't just shrug and settle for 30 fps on your old WoW-playing, circa 2004 computer. Upgrade or fade.