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Ginkasa · 09-06-2010, 04:23 PM

Now that its getting into replacing the power supply in addition to the video card I'm starting to think its probably not worth it just for one game. Even if its not really expensive, I'm not sure its worth the effort.

However, I think that maybe I'll be able to play The Old Republic when it comes out... maybe, which is the whole point of these shenanigans. I went to the Intel website and looked up my card. According to them, I should supposedly be able to run Modern Warfare (the first one) on my computer. I know its a few years old, but its pretty graphically intense, yeah? Of course, I don't have this game on the PC to test so I don't know. Maybe Intel lies. I did, however, download a demo of Mass Effect 2 to see how it went. I didn't imagine it would run at all, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to try. To my surprise, however, I could totally play it. It was ugly. Everyone looked kind of like a zombie, but I was totally able to play through it with only the slightest bit of slowdown.

So, I imagine TOR, an MMO that is theoretically being designed to run on mid range systems, should be less intense than ME2. So, I might possibly be able to run it, yeah? Maybe not at the highest settings, but still play it?

Feel free to dash my hopes if I'm completely deluding myself here.

09-06-2010, 04:23 PM	#8
Ginkasa Link1130 Ginkasa is offline Location: Location Now Playing: Posts: 3,943	Re: PC Gaming Now that its getting into replacing the power supply in addition to the video card I'm starting to think its probably not worth it just for one game. Even if its not really expensive, I'm not sure its worth the effort. However, I think that maybe I'll be able to play The Old Republic when it comes out... maybe, which is the whole point of these shenanigans. I went to the Intel website and looked up my card. According to them, I should supposedly be able to run Modern Warfare (the first one) on my computer. I know its a few years old, but its pretty graphically intense, yeah? Of course, I don't have this game on the PC to test so I don't know. Maybe Intel lies. I did, however, download a demo of Mass Effect 2 to see how it went. I didn't imagine it would run at all, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to try. To my surprise, however, I could totally play it. It was ugly. Everyone looked kind of like a zombie, but I was totally able to play through it with only the slightest bit of slowdown. So, I imagine TOR, an MMO that is theoretically being designed to run on mid range systems, should be less intense than ME2. So, I might possibly be able to run it, yeah? Maybe not at the highest settings, but still play it? Feel free to dash my hopes if I'm completely deluding myself here.