Aion System Requirements

[Killer]

As a lot of you know there are a few threads with Aions system requirements on the forums. A lot of people still don't know, if they are the real ones or not. So with that I'm making this thread to help people figure out what they are.

Has of right now I know there are two different system requirements post around the web. One is by K-NCSoft and one is posted by gamestop/NCSoft West. Now if it were me I would go with the K-NCSoft requirements because they made the game. But hey that's just me. All the requirements are right off the sites. So here they are.

South Korea Aion requirements:

Minimum:

Connectivity: Broadband Internet connection
DirectX: 9.0c(2008,6)
Hard Drive space: 30GB
Operating System: Windows XP SP2/Windows Vista
Processor: Pentium 4 2.8GHz/AMD Athlon 2800
RAM: 1 GB RAM
Video Card: GeForce 6600/Radeon X1550


Recommended:

Connectivity: Broadband Internet connection
DirectX: 9.0c(2008,6)
Hard Drive space: 30GB
Operating System: Windows XP SP2/Windows Vista
Processor: Pentium Dual Core/AMD Athlon 64 X2
RAM: 2 GB RAM
Video Card: GeForce 7600/Radeon X2600

Gamestops/NCSoft West requirements:

Minimum System Requirements

Connectivity: Broadband Internet connection
DirectX: DirectX? 9.0c
Hard Drive Space : 15GB hard disk space
Operating System : Windows XP SP2/ Vista
Processor : 2.8GHz CPU or equivalent
RAM : 1GB RAM
Video Card : NVIDIA 5900 Ultra with 128MB RAM / ATI Radeon x700 with 128MB RAM or higher

Recommended System Requirements

Connectivity : Broadband Internet connection
DirectX : DirectX? 9.0c
Hard Drive Space : 15GB hard disk space
Operating System : Windows XP SP2/ Vista
Processor : Dual Core CPU 2.0GHz or equivalent
RAM : 2GB RAM
Video Card : NVIDIA 6800 with 256MB RAM / ATI Radeon x800 with 256MB or higher

If you are not sure if your computer can run the game hop over to one of the two list I'm going to list. They will test your computer to see if you can run Aion or not.

The first one is going to be Game-O-Meter. Game-O-Meter is a Produced By FutureMark Corporation. FutureMark are the ones who made 3DMark.

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Hare are the steps:

1. Go to this link: YouGamers - Games - Aion: The Tower of Eternity
2. Click on 'System Requirements'. It is right next to 'Game index'.
3. There is going to be a big blue button that says 'Can you play it? Compare your system to the requirements. Click here!' Click it.
4. It's going to ask if you want to 'Start the Game-O-Meter' Scroll down a little and click 'Start'. Don't click 'Skip analysis'
5. A little box is going to pop up and ask if you want to run this program. Click on 'RUN'
6. Give it a few minutes. It's not going to take longer then five.
7. After its done it will tell you if your computer passed or not.

If you have question about what Aion looks like on High or Low setting I posted some pics here:

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HIGH:




Low and/or OFF:

Links to the sites used.
K-Aion: plaync ??? :: ????
GameStop: http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/Prod...oduct_ID=74885
NCSoft West: Aion: PowerWiki

I will update this thread when it needs to be updated.

[Cynic]

That's better

[Tuanie]

LOl i'm running a 1ram xp sp2. works fine for my other games. hope it will run smooth for aion x]

[Tureil]

All right, well my apologies for earlier. I did some of my own research and discovered there's enough core evidence that 30 GB is the minimum space required.

I find that extremely un-reliable. North American NC Soft themselves said that 15 GB would be the requirements. That's really not a good sign to me of their reliability.

Anyways, thanks for this post. I'm sure it'll help a lot of people

Cheers~

P.S. Main reason why I'm upset is because I'm running a mac, and now I have to completely re-install Windows XP on my computer because NA-NC Soft wasn't reliable enough to give accurate information to make enough space on my Windows Partition to run Aion. I don't even know if I can run this game at all on my current computer now that I find out it's double of what was the original "requirements". >_>

[Hezekiah]

If i meet or exceed the recommended requirements except in the Ghz area will i still be able to run the game with fairly minimal log, or will there be too many latency and lagging issues. if so what will i need to do to increase the Ghz in my computer? plz reply thanks!!

[Nights_Blaze]

Once I upgrade my GPU i'll be able to run this game on Max Settings.

[Lunazure]

During the beta I was running max settings with an Athlon 64 X2 5600+, 4GB of DDR2 RAM, and a GeForce 8800GTS 768MB. I got an average of 40 fps, with the occasional dip here and there (which is to be expected from a beta build). Looking great so far! The cool thing is, it will probably improve throughout the course of the beta as the game is optimized for retail. I can't wait! <3

[Draconais]

Oh, awesome. I first saw the requirments last year and it said something like 3gb min and 3GHz cpu and stuff like that. But this is much better. Thanks alot. Just got a new comp and it surpases everything on that list. Thanks again.

[CyclopsSlayer]

With a e8400 and a nV gtx260 is was regularly getting 100+ fps with all sliders maxxed.

As to HD space. The install from the NA beta was 7.82 GB. I expect that to grow some with later updated versions, but no where close to 30GB.

[Masher]

Why does the game use sooo much disk space?

I am using a 2.2 Ghz Quad core Phenom..... and the game works fine

[Tureil]

Originally Posted by G.H.C.U.

From Support | NCsoft

Minimum System Specifications:

Microsoft Windows XP SP2
*2.8GHz CPU or equivalent
1GB RAM
NVIDIA 5900 Ultra with 128MB RAM / ATI x700 with 128MB RAM or higher
**15GB Hard Disk space
DVD-ROM drive
Direct X 9.0c (6/2008 update)
Sound Device
Broadband Internet Connection

Recommended System Specifications:

Microsoft Windows XP SP2 / Vista
*Dual Core CPU 2.0GHz or equivalent
2GB RAM
NVIDIA 6800 with 256MB RAM / ATI x800 with 256MB or higher
**15GB Hard Disk space
DVD-ROM drive
Direct X 9.0c (6/2008 update)
Sound Device
Broadband Internet Connection

*Please be aware that on AMD processors the model number does not represent the actual CPU speed. A good list of AMD processor speeds can be found here. For example the Athlon XP 3200+ runs at 2.2GHz - which is below the minimum requirements.

**NTFS file system is required for the digital download.

I'm confused how this works though. I understand American NC Soft says the game is 15 GB but the Korean one says it's 30 GB. How can it be smaller if we're starting pretty close to them in patches? =/

[Mok]

Originally Posted by Hezekiah

If i meet or exceed the recommended requirements except in the Ghz area will i still be able to run the game with fairly minimal log, or will there be too many latency and lagging issues. if so what will i need to do to increase the Ghz in my computer? plz reply thanks!!

If you can't meet the CPU requirement, it is time to upgrade your 5 year old computer.

[4evil]

good enough?

GPU: ati 4350
says 3gb ram because im running 32-bit windows xp but i actually got 4gb installed

Originally Posted by Hezekiah

If i meet or exceed the recommended requirements except in the Ghz area will i still be able to run the game with fairly minimal log, or will there be too many latency and lagging issues. if so what will i need to do to increase the Ghz in my computer? plz reply thanks!!

that sir is what we call overclocking your cpu

[lyankyj]

Originally Posted by Tureil

I'm confused how this works though. I understand American NC Soft says the game is 15 GB but the Korean one says it's 30 GB. How can it be smaller if we're starting pretty close to them in patches? =/

Korea also considered temporary files during install and unpacking.

[Ku Ku]

I tried it out on both my pc and laptop.

While it is possible to play on laptop (2g ram, vista 32, 1.8 dual core, on board graphics) it is jerky, and the breath-taking graphics are totally lost. I also only had 15g of HDD free and didn't appear to have trouble with it, although it was only beta version!

I think, though, i'm just spoiled by my PC (quad core, 4g ram, nvida 9600gt, vista 64, 300gig free) as i started playing on that so poking around on my laptop wasn't nearly as fun!