DE2 for P4s!

[Lord Poe]

AWWWWWWWW!!!!!

All this time waiting for Deus Ex 2, and you need a Pentium 4 to play it. Damn!

Well, I just bought Splinter Cell, so I'll have to live with this for now!

[Uraniun235]

What?!? That has to be wrong somehow.

That just seems so fucking wrong. I mean, they'd be cutting so much potential revenue... almost nobody would buy a whole new motherboard and CPU just for one fucking game.

Nothing against you, Poe, but are you sure you haven't read something wrong or put your trust in a less-than-trustworthy site?

EDIT: Ohhh, I thought you meant to say that AMD users couldn't play DE2. My apologies.

[Datana]

A Pentium III is all that's needed, but a minimum core speed of 1.3 GHz is required. In addition, a Pixel Shader 1.1 compatible card is required. This means Radeon 8500 and 9xxx, or GeForce 4Ti4xxx and FX5xxx. This does NOT include The GeForce4 MX series. Of course, even with the 1.1 patch, it's still hopelessly laggy on my system (Athlon 2100+, GeForce4 Ti4600, 1 GB RAM) unless shadows are completely disabled. I think Lord Poe might have the graphics card and CPU requirements mixed up.

[Macross]

Its not that great...

Ok, the story is good and keeps you interested, differant factions give you differant mission objectives that sometimes conflict with each other, so you get to choose who you want to work for and this affects the outcome of the game. Also many side quests.

But when it comes to actual gameplay, it just doesnt hold up too well when compared to the original. The Characther Improvment/Skill Point system is gone. Levels are incredibly small and claustrophobic, and dont offer as many differant approaches and options to resolve a task as the original. Also level load times are too long. Weapons are kind of weak and you run out of ammo to quickly.

The game is also short. Very short. Not even half the length of the original. Your probably better of replaying the original.

[Lord Poe]

No gents, I read it on the box in Best Buy under minimum system requirements. Pentium 4.

[Datana]

Have you tried to run the demo? It and the game are identical in terms of requirements. It's a pretty hefty download, but you can be pretty sure the full game works for you if the demo runs. I've heard people have been successful with P3-1GHz systems on the Ion Storm forums (though those needed really fast graphics cards to make up for it).

I agree with Macross' analysis of the game. It's a disappointment when compared with the original, feeling like a rushed console port in terms of gameplay. Seemingly everything has been adjusted with the X-Box in mind -- simplified controls, simplified graphics (especially when compared with early screenshots), EXTRA LARGE FONT for easy viewing on television screens, tiny levels to accomodate the X-Box's 64 MB of main memory, and so forth. The only saving grace it has is a semi-interesting plot (which again pales before the original).

Edit: Though in partial defense, some of the graphics problems, the mouse lag problems, parts of the interface, and the font can be fixed with INI tweaks. They shouldn't have to make the user tweak the INIs in order to make the game run decently, though.

[Crazy_Vasey]

A Pentium III is all that's needed, but a minimum core speed of 1.3 GHz is required. In addition, a Pixel Shader 1.1 compatible card is required. This means Radeon 8500 and 9xxx, or GeForce 4Ti4xxx and FX5xxx. This does NOT include The GeForce4 MX series. Of course, even with the 1.1 patch, it's still hopelessly laggy on my system (Athlon 2100+, GeForce4 Ti4600, 1 GB RAM) unless shadows are completely disabled. I think Lord Poe might have the graphics card and CPU requirements mixed up.

The game ie heavily reliant on the graphics card. The performance is acceptable on my Radeon 9500 equipped PC despite only having a Duron 1200.

And if this game needs a P4, I have to wonder how I've been playing it

[weemadando]

AWWWWWWWW!!!!!

All this time waiting for Deus Ex 2, and you need a Pentium 4 to play it. Damn!

Well, I just bought Splinter Cell, so I'll have to live with this for now!

Errr... I have DX2 running on my current sys which is a P3-866, 512mb RAM and a GeForce 4...

And pretty much everything in that lineup is below min-spec. And it runs in 800x600 with most things turned on at about 12-20 fps.

[Oberleutnant]

Sad news to hear.

Well, at least we have Knights of the Old Republic.

[Shinova]

No gents, I read it on the box in Best Buy under minimum system requirements. Pentium 4.

Nah. Since games and hardware are moving forward so quickly, they're likely to start moving the minimum requirements bar up just to match that development pace.

The others are saying they're playing it on sub-p4s.

[SPOOFE]

almost nobody would buy a whole new motherboard and CPU just for one fucking game.

Would they buy a whole new motherboard and CPU for, oh, just about every game that's going to come out henceforth?

"Dammit! My Pentium 90 won't run Quake 2? Nobody's gonna upgrade their motherboard and CPU for one fucking game!"

"Dammit! My Pentium 90 won't run Half-Life? Nobody's gonna upgrade their motherboard and CPU for one fucking game!"

"Dammit! My Pentium 90 won't run Quake 3? Nobody's gonna upgrade their motherboard and CPU for one fucking game!"

"Dammit! My Pentium 90 won't run Morrowind? Nobody's gonna upgrade their motherboard and CPU for one fucking game!"

Eventually, you get so many fucking games that it becomes worth it. After all, games are available long after the first week of their release...

[Uraniun235]

*sigh* That was there before the edit... when I first read that, I thought he meant that it would run only on Intel boxes.