I guess my computer is getting on in years... I was wondering if it's not already too old to play the following games on it:

KotOR
UT2K4
City of Heroes

My specs are:
1.33ghz Athlon XP1500
768mb RAM
32mb Geforce2 MX
~50gb hard drive so that's never a problem.

The games all claim that I meet the minimum reqs but sometimes they say that and the game only sort of runs at a pathetically low fps if at all.

Any ideas or first hand experiences with these titles on a similar system?

Chip's ok
RAM's ok.
HD's ok
video card...no

KotOR is quite graphically intensive as is UT2k4.

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UT2K4 demo runs at ~15-20fps at 800x600 settings on normal only checkable options turned off are shadows and trilinear filtering

600MHz Celeron
256MB RAM
64MB GF4 MX440-SE PCI

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*shudder*

Almost makes me miss those days of seeing just how far I can push my PC.

Unfortunately for you, I've only ever played one of those games(KOTOR), and that was on this PC, which isn't really good for comparison to yours.

You could probably get away with that card for UT2k4.

Me:
Xp1700
256 MB RAM
64 MB Geforce4 MX440

I havent checked the fps, but I can play a 32 bot match (all gametypes) at 1280x1024, all options to normal with no lag at all.

I'm too afraid of the bugs in KOTOR to buy it just yet . Maybe when it goes into the bargain bin.

One thing to be mindful of. When you're used to commonly playing games on a low-end system for that particular game, your perception seems to get a bit skewed from my experience. At one time, I got to the point where I had become so tolerant of low framerates that I didn't notice them. I'd play stuff like JA with the graphics pumped up(but cruddy framerate) and not notice it. Then my brother would come over and constantly mention how awful the framerates seemed to him.

Then I finally broke down and spent lots of money. Now my perception of framerates is back to normal, heh.

Hmm then maybe I can squeeze by on UT2K4 using the lowest settings and a lower resolution.

I'll probably wait on KotOR as well if there really are that many bugs.

Funny you should mention that. I got used to playing on horrible framerates for years, and recently I got a new computer an started playing UT2k4, and the framerate was so fast it gave me headaches at first, so I pumped up the graphics to slow it down.


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That video card is too much of a dinosaur to run those games. I HIGHLY recommend that you upgrade your video card to either a GeForce FX 5600 or higher or a Radeon 9600 or higher. If your motherboard does not support AGP 8x, I suggest you get one that does support it. Also, your CPU is slow too. I used to have a CPU that fast but it wasn't fast enough for games that came out post-2003. I suggest upgrading it to a AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (1833 mhz). Believe me - a CPU makes a GREAT deal of difference in performance. Upgrading just the Graphics card does NOTHING if you don't upgrade the CPU along with it. When my computer had a AMD Duron 1.3 ghz and the Geforce FX 5600, the framerate wasn't any faster than my Geforce4 MX. However, upgrading it to the AMD Athlon XP 2500 made a HUGE difference. Just remember that if your shooting for more performance, upgrade the CPU, Video Card, RAM, and Motherboard(if the other parts need it upgraded) all at the same time to get the best performance.

-- SavageX

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First of all, the 2k4 demo is ALOT less intensive on the system than the full version. Id suggest a better card for something like that, your chip isnt bad yet, but its getting there, ram should be fine.

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That's decent compared to what I had a year ago:

533 mhz
96 mb ram
15 gb hard drive
Trident blade 3d (still better than the chipset video I'm stuck with now)

4x cd-rw
16x dvd-rom


(I gave that comp away)



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