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The Mac Gamers Age Of Conan System Compatability Guide
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I have the 2007 with ths ATI 2600 in it and if you have the newest Imac with the Nvidia ther is NO reason not to get this game, You will have at least 50-60 FPS in single player games without a hitch and online you might drop to 30 in town... Im doing almost that with a far inferior card...
You probably can play on Medium with Zero problems or slowdown..
I've got a 2.33ghz C2D 2 GB ram, and an x1600 256 MB...Do I have a chance? I want to run it at native resolution and have a decent view distance (even if low quality/no npcs). Everything else I am willing to turn down as low as it goes - no reflections, shadows, low shader version etc etc. Anyone with a similar set up got decent results? Playable I consider ~30fps.
Guys, im running the game on an iMac 20' core 2 duo, 2 g ram and that ATI HD 2600 PRO..
However i get a really bad framerate and its really annoying to play at all..
10- fps all times...and a lot of freezes...
U guys seem to be playing with good framerates...
Any tips how to improve my performance?
All my game settings are the lowest possible!
However i get a really bad framerate and its really annoying to play at all..
10- fps all times...and a lot of freezes...
U guys seem to be playing with good framerates...
Any tips how to improve my performance?
All my game settings are the lowest possible!
I'm playing this on my gaming PC but I found that turning off shadows completely brings my framerate from 20-25 to 55+
My laptop:
2,6 GHz(T9500 Penryn Core 2 Duo)
4 Gigs of Ram
Vista 32 Bit
Geforce 8600m GT 512 DDR2
200 GB Hard drive
I can run it with everything on lowest settings and I get frames between 5-40...
its an amazing game but very inconsistent.
I am considering buying a new computer JUST for this game. its one of the most awesome I have played in like... 10 years. The last MMO which where this revolutionary was UO and that is 11 years now!
Im afraid that C2D wont be enough... Maybe Quadcore is what is needed. So I dont know if an Imac is an option...I might have to go with a pc..
I want to run it at max on everything with high framerate(even when pvping in siege with lots of players)!
After last nights patch I've gotten a bit better FPS and is usually around 30 now, even tho i've bumped gfx a bit.
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Try reading something that isn't from 2006. Vista is on par or exceeds XP in gaming now.
C2D is fine, you're playing on a garbage video card. My main gaming rig is STILL running an Opteron 165 @ 2.7GHZ, 4GB DDR, 2 x 8800GT in SLI on Vista Ultimate 64bit and it maxes out everything I play at 1920x1200 or higher with 50+ FPS, full lighting, shadows, textures, DX10, everything. Bioshock, Call of Duty 4.
actually not true, most of the recent benchmarks still put xp a few fps in front of vista for most games... granted its smaller now than before but some people looooveee their fps
hmmm okay
Still no one with a 3,0 Imac with 8800?
I really wanna know how Conan runs!
I got Conan installed last night (Win XP SP3) on 24" 3.0 iMac with the 8800.
Overall I think it runs very nice, load times are great especially.
On the default Medium video settings at 1920x1200 resolution I'm getting a fairly consistent 30fps in outdoor areas, and in close quarters it'll go to 40 - 60. Changing the settings to high seems to choke it though, the frame rate will barely hold 10 - 15 fps outdoors on high. But visually, all I noticed was improved lighting, so not worth it to play it on high imo.
I'll have to try turning shadows off as someone mentioned to see how much that boosts the frame rate.
Cool. How much Ram do you have? Did you get the latest drivers? You also really need to check the AoC forums for people with performance issues. There are so many insane ideas and theories and stories about people and their performance. Its insane, I tell you!
No, I have almost same speccs and 8600GT, and the 8600 is far faster than the x1600.
With lowest settings (but native res) you´ll get around 30-40 fps I guess.
Anyways I´ve gotten a serious FPS boosts over the last days and I guess AoC has 30-50% better FPS now than it had the release day, it might improve a bit more aswell!
Haha, well after waiting for the very lengthy install and patching process I just wanted to get to it. I'll probably do some settings tweaking this weekend after checking out the forums.
I have 2 gigs of ram in it and the latest boot camp. I tried getting new video drivers, but nvidia driver installation tells me that the card isn't supported. I'm a total boot camp n00b, so I don't know if there is a way to make that work.
**Edit**
Turning off shadows boosted me to 45 fps+ outdoors, definitely the first thing to do if your frame rate is bad.
Okay
It's because I was going to buy a new computer to play this game, and everyone suggested 8800s and good Dual core machines to play it on high!
I just dont know if 8800 GS is a decent card for Conan.
So before I go out to buy a 2000 dollar Imac, I would just need to know how the game runs
but I havent met anyonne besides you who run the game and have the new high end Imac!Has anyone tried it on the 2.5 GHz Macbook Pro? I'm thinking about getting one, but want to be sure it can run AoC decently first.
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Hmmm okay I tried my first bootcamp install lastnight. Blank 250Gb disk, installed Windows Vista via Bootcamp wizard in Leopard. All went smoothly, but AoC runs like poo.
I have a quad 3ghz, with 8Gb RAM, and an ATI x1900XT 512Mb card, and Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 installed. I have to run at 1280 x 800 to get anything over about 15fps (at best) with it dropping to unbearable 5-10fps in busy areas.
Any ideas what's up? I know the video card isn't the latest shiny beast, but surely I can get this game to run with something better than inch-square pixels on my 30" ACD?
I'm using the Bootcamp drivers... I couldn't find any newer Apple certified ones on the ATI/AMD web site (is there a hack to get the newer ATI drivers to work?).
Hmmm okay I tried my first bootcamp install lastnight. Blank 250Gb disk, installed Windows Vista via Bootcamp wizard in Leopard. All went smoothly, but AoC runs like poo.
I have a quad 3ghz, with 8Gb RAM, and an ATI x1900XT 512Mb card, and Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 installed. I have to run at 1280 x 800 to get anything over about 15fps (at best) with it dropping to unbearable 5-10fps in busy areas.
Any ideas what's up? I know the video card isn't the latest shiny beast, but surely I can get this game to run with something better than inch-square pixels on my 30" ACD?
I'm using the Bootcamp drivers... I couldn't find any newer Apple certified ones on the ATI/AMD web site (is there a hack to get the newer ATI drivers to work?).
Man, it's crazy. I heard similiar problems with PCs with similiar specs to yours.
First of all mate.
Use CTRL + ALT + Delete to check how many resources your using when running the game. There should be a performance tab, where you can see the activity of all your Cores. Can you tell me how much the cores are using when running Conan?
You see - Right now there is a big disagreement about Age of Conan being optimized for Quadcore or not. Some people say that the game uses all cores very well, without having either of them going to 100%(or very near at least). But other says that dual core is where it works best.
Though... I think that your problem is with GPU. 512 MB ram is very appreciated! I have 512 MB on my 8600 GT on my laptop, and I tell you mate... it runs like crap.
Is 15 FPS what you get in the main town(Tortage) or is it out in the wild?
Also mate.
The biggest performance killers seems to be Bloom, shadows and shader effect 3,0! Try adjusting these.
Conan also has an insane draw distance limit. the longer it is, the more it has to process.
How much ram do you have?
The biggest performance killers seems to be Bloom, shadows and shader effect 3,0! Try adjusting these.
Conan also has an insane draw distance limit. the longer it is, the more it has to process.
How much ram do you have?
Okay
It's because I was going to buy a new computer to play this game, and everyone suggested 8800s and good Dual core machines to play it on high!
I just dont know if 8800 GS is a decent card for Conan.
So before I go out to buy a 2000 dollar Imac, I would just need to know how the game runs
Well for me this iMac is working great and i'm happy with it. Conan looks good enough and performs great on medium with tweaks. After turning off shadows I put some other settings on high and it still runs good. Having all settings on High is playable most of the time, but i'd prefer it to be smoother. Considering the 8800 card in the iMac seems to be some kind of modded laptop version I think that's pretty freakin awesome performance.
But if you want to play it with everything maxed out and get decent fps at a high resolution I can almost guarantee you can build a better performing PC for the cost of an iMac. I'm thinking you need more than one video card in Crossfire or SLI to get smooth performance at 1920x1200 with maxed out settings.