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what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:19 am
by long1
I have a pretty much old computer with DSL internet. I've alway play silkroad with medium graphic setting yet it's alway laggggg. I plan to buy a new computer next week, so i need to know what it take to play silkroad at max graphic w/o lag. Does silkroad requires a very high end graphic card or a decent one is ok? Please help..ty in advance..
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:33 pm
by SunDark
i was like u but i updates my PC, now i have a 1GB Graphic card and its very funny palying sro i high qualitiy graphic without lagg
i still lagging sometimes but that's due to Bad DSL
SRo need at less a 512MB Graphic card
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:42 pm
by XMoshe
SunDark wrote:i was like u but i updates my PC, now i have a 1GB Graphic card and its very funny palying sro i high qualitiy graphic without lagg
i still lagging sometimes but that's due to Bad DSL
SRo need at less a 512MB Graphic card
You mean ram right...AFAIK there arent even 1 gig graphic cards rofl..
To play it on high..like a 3 gigahertz processor (dual core would be even better), 1-2 gig of ram and a nice videocard..
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:46 pm
by phulshof
2 GB of RAM is needed; I notice the swap delay from time to time on my 1 GB system.
Even my 8800 GTX is not capable of running shadows at 1600x1200 without significant frame rate drop, so if you insist on running those you may need a SLI solution. Perhaps Windows Vista with directx 10 solves these problems, but I am not able to check that.
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:44 pm
by long1
ok, thank for all the reply guys!!
btw is this good enough??
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... 8800050004
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:48 pm
by phulshof
2.2 GHz CPU, on-board video, and a monitor that runs 1400x900? No that doesn't even come close to what you're looking for.
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:11 pm
by long1
phulshof wrote:2.2 GHz CPU, on-board video, and a monitor that runs 1400x900? No that doesn't even come close to what you're looking for.
what do u mean that's not what i'm looking for? You mean the link above is not good enough????
btw how about this one....
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6883229029
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:12 pm
by phulshof
I mean the link above shows a system that isn't even near to being good enough. The other link shows a slightly better system, 2.3 GHz, but an 8400 GS is still not a very fast graphics card. It depends on what you want. I'm sure it will be a big improvement over your current system, but if you want to run silkroad at high graphics (perhaps without shadows, but still), then you need to consider a graphics card that's at least in the 200-300 Euro range. As a comparison: my system was about 1700 Euro, though that was just over a year ago. I figure for a good system capable of running SRO in high graphics (1600x1200 with almost all options at full) you're looking at a pricetag of 900-1100 Euro for your system, and that's without a monitor.
I suggest you have a good look at
http://www.tomshardware.com, and read up on the speed of the different components, like CPU, but mostly the graphics card.
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:04 pm
by XMoshe
phulshof wrote:I mean the link above shows a system that isn't even near to being good enough. The other link shows a slightly better system, 2.3 GHz, but an 8400 GS is still not a very fast graphics card. It depends on what you want. I'm sure it will be a big improvement over your current system, but if you want to run silkroad at high graphics (perhaps without shadows, but still), then you need to consider a graphics card that's at least in the 200-300 Euro range. As a comparison: my system was about 1700 Euro, though that was just over a year ago. I figure for a good system capable of running SRO in high graphics (1600x1200 with almost all options at full) you're looking at a pricetag of 900-1100 Euro for your system, and that's without a monitor.
I suggest you have a good look at
http://www.tomshardware.com, and read up on the speed of the different components, like CPU, but mostly the graphics card.
Friend got a pc for uhm..close to 600 euro and he can run his client on high, its the ram needed, not so much the videocard. (I dont know if he has detailed shadow's, but who cares actually about it when grinding? =/ )
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:29 pm
by phulshof
[SW]XMoshe wrote:Friend got a pc for uhm..close to 600 euro and he can run his client on high, its the ram needed, not so much the videocard. (I dont know if he has detailed shadow's, but who cares actually about it when grinding? =/ )
At what resolution and framerate?
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:25 pm
by Lorenzo
Same problem with the shadows, they are totally messed up i think...
( dual core 2.4 , 2 gb ram , 8800 GTX )
and it s slow like hell .
I play without shadow and everything else at max level.
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:09 am
by Arinaki
whats the effect of shadow? Is it like peoples shadow?ahaah
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:28 am
by cin
i used to play sro on almost highest settings on this laptop, tho i
had to always turn of either bloom or shadow. if i play with either
one of those turned on, i can play the rest on highest settings.
my laptop has a dual core amd turion processor. like, one of the first
they built into laptops, but it's powerful enough. i think it's the
turion x2 tl-52 model. i have 2gb of ram. had 1gb in it when i bought
it, but ddr2 ram doesnt cost shit nowadays, so i'll probably put in
some more soon. anywho, 2gb of ram is enough for a game like silkroad.
my current laptop has the nvidia geforce go 7600 gfx card. it's got
256mb memory, dedicated, and it can handle sro. better would be if you
have a card from the geforce 8 series imo.
about the 1gb videocards, well it means they have 1gb shared memory.
so for example, you buy a videocard which says "up to 1gb memory", then
that probably means the videocard itself has 512mb memory, and will take
512mb out of your ram to use it as videocard memory.
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:51 am
by phulshof
It would be nice if people listed the resolution with their settings as well. 1600x1200 has over 40% more pixels to render than 1280x1024, so this has a large impact on graphical performance.
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:29 am
by Airdack
My laptop can run the game on 1440*900 everything on high and its no problemo
Laptop has a core duo, 2 GB RAM and an ATI HD2400XT video card with 256 VRAM
I guess RAM is the main thing, when i upped my RAM on my older PC from 512 to 1024 it was a WORLD of difference
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:21 am
by Lorenzo
To Arikana : Yes it s the peaople, monsters , and animals shadows.
To phulshof : i can't tell you the resolution i use from here. i think it s 1280*1024.
To cin : The bloom effect is nice to use in the cave , but i don't use it in the cave otherwise it goes too dark :p ( and setting it brighter kills the way it looks )
also i think that the shared memory for graphic card is a setting in the bios named AGP-aperture and only working with "old" AGP cards.
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:17 am
by XMoshe
phulshof wrote:[SW]XMoshe wrote:Friend got a pc for uhm..close to 600 euro and he can run his client on high, its the ram needed, not so much the videocard. (I dont know if he has detailed shadow's, but who cares actually about it when grinding? =/ )
At what resolution and framerate?
11xx by 8xx (He needs a new monitor) and while grinding like 100-150 fps if I remember it correctly. In hotan down too dunno..30-50 or something.
It sucks more now because he can only play with one core, he dc's when he has both enabled (stupid bug >.<)
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:36 am
by DA_CAT
i have a dell inspiron 1520 with Nvidia 8600M GT...
"Total available graphics memory: 1023MB"
"Dedicated video memory: 256MB"
i play sro with full graphics without da "bloom effect"...wen i turn on bloom effect everythin just smudges...><...
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:53 am
by Cheeze
long1 wrote:phulshof wrote:2.2 GHz CPU, on-board video, and a monitor that runs 1400x900? No that doesn't even come close to what you're looking for.
what do u mean that's not what i'm looking for? You mean the link above is not good enough????
btw how about this one....
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6883229029
That has Windows Vista Home, which lacks everything. Be prepared to upgrade vista or install xp. If you getting a new computer search slickdeals or fatwallet for dell deals you will get a good deal.
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:00 am
by long1
ok, what's the Difference between 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 and 3/4GB DDR2??? ty..
btw..this is what i'm getting.
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E8200 (6MB L2 Cache,2.66GHz,1333FSB)
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
20 inch E207WFP Widescreen Digital Flat Panel
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs
500GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
16X DVD+/-RW Drive
ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO 256MB
Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
Dell USB Keyboard and Dell Optical USB Mouse
No Floppy Drive Included
No Modem Option
My Software & Accessories
No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system)
No Subscription (only 30-day protection)
Microsoft Works 9.0
My Service
1Yr In-Home Service, Parts + Labor, 24x7 Phone Support
Included 3 GB DataSafe Online Backup for 1Yr
Also Includes
Mouse included with Keyboard purchase
Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 8.1
Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
Windows Vista™ Premium
No Entertainment software pre-installed
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:42 pm
by Cheeze
I believe this is what you were asking about
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/133/4When I got my monitor I paid the extra $100 for the E2007WFP, I love it cant go wrong with Dell
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:49 pm
by Magnum357x
[SW]XMoshe wrote:SunDark wrote:i was like u but i updates my PC, now i have a 1GB Graphic card and its very funny palying sro i high qualitiy graphic without lagg
i still lagging sometimes but that's due to Bad DSL
SRo need at less a 512MB Graphic card
You mean ram right...AFAIK there arent even 1 gig graphic cards rofl..
To play it on high..like a 3 gigahertz processor (dual core would be even better), 1-2 gig of ram and a nice videocard..
ROFL! There are 1gig graphic cards, and I think there are higher too...
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:01 pm
by XMoshe
Magnum357x wrote:[SW]XMoshe wrote:SunDark wrote:i was like u but i updates my PC, now i have a 1GB Graphic card and its very funny palying sro i high qualitiy graphic without lagg
i still lagging sometimes but that's due to Bad DSL
SRo need at less a 512MB Graphic card
You mean ram right...AFAIK there arent even 1 gig graphic cards rofl..
To play it on high..like a 3 gigahertz processor (dual core would be even better), 1-2 gig of ram and a nice videocard..
ROFL! There are 1gig graphic cards, and I think there are higher too...
Never seen one at the inet stores... ^_^ I can be wrong ofc
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:11 pm
by boast
MMOs are CPU intensive
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:09 am
by cin
[SW]XMoshe wrote:Magnum357x wrote:ROFL! There are 1gig graphic cards, and I think there are higher too...
Never seen one at the inet stores... ^_^ I can be wrong ofc
cin wrote:about the 1gb videocards, well it means they have 1gb shared memory.
so for example, you buy a videocard which says "up to 1gb memory", then
that probably means the videocard itself has 512mb memory, and will take
512mb out of your ram to use it as videocard memory.
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:20 pm
by Deth_Warden
[SW]XMoshe wrote:SunDark wrote:i was like u but i updates my PC, now i have a 1GB Graphic card and its very funny palying sro i high qualitiy graphic without lagg
i still lagging sometimes but that's due to Bad DSL
SRo need at less a 512MB Graphic card
You mean ram right...AFAIK there arent even 1 gig graphic cards rofl..
To play it on high..like a 3 gigahertz processor (dual core would be even better), 1-2 gig of ram and a nice videocard..
UR NOOB! there are 1GB cards. Dont speak if you dont know ur tech.
Here about 9 1GB cards on the market
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/ ... GB-or-more
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:09 am
by long1
well, i have already made an order from dell.com and here's what's i'll get. i sure hope the nVidia GeForce 8600GT-DDR3 256MB will be enough for max grapic but we'll see. Please give me some feedback. ty
1 Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E8200 (6MB L2 Cache,2.66GHz,1333FSB)
1 3GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 4 DIMMs
1 Dell USB Multimedia Keyboard and Dell Optical USB Mouse
1 19 inch S199WFP Widescreen Digital Flat Panel Monitor with TrueLife*
1 nVidia GeForce 8600GT-DDR3 256MB
1 320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
1 Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
1 Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
1 16X DVD+/-RW Drive
1 Integrated Sound Blaster®Audigy™ HD Software Edition
1 Windows Vista™ Premium
Re: what it take to play silkroad at max graphic?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:46 pm
by BloodyBlade
128MB graphics card is enough to run silkroad smoothly on high.