Radeon 3850 DDR2 1GB - good enough for SWTOR?

[goodl]

My lad has been a dedicated console player but looking over my shoulder while I was playing the SWTOR beta, now he likes DC universe and has shown an interest in this title on PC. I was thinking of knocking him up a system from my famous box'o'bits to get him started and if he gets into it I'll get him something better. I also have a dual core Athlon X2 and 2 gig of ram. I realise this is way lowballing but from what I have seen it doesnt look that demanding a game. Anyone running the game on low end systems?

 

[neo_ad]

My system is not exactly like the one you are suggesting I am currently on a Dual Core, Geforce 8800GTS 640mb OC, 2GB ram.

I can play Skyrim fine on low settings, but the second I played SWTOR in the beta my machine just bombed, it looks like it should run on a low end machine but believe you me it doesn't

That was everything on the lowest setting as well.

It was playable if you could cope with the random spikes and slowdown outside, and the stutter.

I am just about to upgrade this week

 

[goodl]

Minimum specs would indicate otherwise, maybe it was a beta thing. It meets most of em

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4000 or better / Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 2.0 Ghz or better
Memory: At least 1.5 GB RAM for XP / 2 GB or better for Windows Vista/7
Graphics: ATI XT1800 or better / NVIDIA 7800 or better / Intel 4100 or better. 256 MB minimum video RAM, shader 3.0 or better fully compatible graphics card.
OS: Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7
DVD-ROM: 8x or better

 

[neo_ad]

Yeah that's what I thought too, I was able to run it just not very well lol. I was playing in the last two weekends of the beta so one would assume not much would change before launch. Either way I am building a new PC

 

[James J]

The minimum system settings never usually include what resolution you are playing at. With this, that information is key!

 

[arc@css]

I usually take the maximum recommended settings to be a good guide for the minimum.

 

[neo_ad]

The minimum system settings never usually include what resolution you are playing at. With this, that information is key!

That's why I gave the beta a try

 

[goodl]

for those interested this card does run it, all low detail but its playable

 

[BigChief]

I'm playing with the onboard 15-2500k GPU and it handles the game fine circa 30 fps on lowish settings 1680 x 1050. It's meant I haven't had to buy a GC yet given I'm only playing this and TF2. Has kept cost to a minimum.