Can i run this game?

[Legacy_Flamesz]

               Now, i don't have much info on my PC and i'm quite a noob at PC games since i'm just starting. I can run Warcraft 3 at High on everything and my Graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce 210. Thats all the info i have really, sorry. But do any of you think i could run this or NWN2?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_TMZuk]

               Yes.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Flamesz]

               

TMZuk wrote...

Yes.

How high can i put the graphics? Can i run both NWN's?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_B_Harrison]

               That graphics card is similar in specification to mine, and I can run NWN (including various crazy mods) comfortably with highest settings (though I personally turn shadows down), even with some AF and anti-aliasing enabled in the nVidia control panel. So, assuming your other specs aren't extremely low, the answer is a resounding "yes" for NWN.

NWN2 will probably be all right (again, assuming your processor and memory aren't ancient), but it'll be a lot more demanding on your graphics card and you'll likely be limited to pretty low settings to achieve decent frame rates.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par B_Harrison, 14 août 2010 - 10:46 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Flamesz]

               

B_Harrison wrote...

That graphics card is similar in specification to mine, and I can run NWN (including various crazy mods) comfortably with highest settings (though I personally turn shadows down), even with some AF and anti-aliasing enabled in the nVidia control panel. So, assuming your other specs aren't extremely low, the answer is a resounding "yes" for NWN.

NWN2 will probably be all right (again, assuming your processor and memory aren't ancient), but it'll be a lot more demanding on your graphics card and you'll likely be limited to pretty low settings to achieve decent frame rates.

Ah, sweet. Thanks!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Gorath Alpha]

               

TMZuk wrote...

Yes.

As a "blanket" response, WRONG.

Then, it's TWICE.  (To the OP author, now) Do not Crosspost.  One of the same was enough, either here or the NWN2 forum (OR ELSE SPLIT the question, don't ask about both games in both forums).  And of course you can't run NWN2 properly with that POS of a card. 

Sorry, TM Zuk, I grabbed the wrong comment to quote, after all.

B_Harrison wrote...

NWN2 will probably be all right
(again, assuming your processor and memory aren't ancient), but it'll be
a lot more demanding on your graphics card and you'll likely be limited
to pretty low settings to achieve decent frame rates.

Still partly wrong.  A Geforce 210 is merely warmed over doo-doo, not at all adequate to a game such as NWN2, so that even with the resolution reduced, and the image quality lowered, it is still fairly likely to have jerky animation as the frame rates fluctuate from "fair", down to "bad". 
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                     Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 15 août 2010 - 12:51 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_B_Harrison]

               Ah, I didn't realise it was a duplicate thread, or that my advice was at odds with the NWN2 folks; I ran the game somewhat briefly on my (roughly equivalent, perhaps a little faster) card and experienced no frame rate issues at low settings. But I'm also running a highly optimised XP install (well, as optimised as it gets) with a CPU/memory combination that outclasses my GPU, so I accept that I was wrong there.

NWN will indeed run fine, though, and there are work-arounds for any driver-related issues the OP might have running the game on an nVidia card.

Thanks for the clarification.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par B_Harrison, 15 août 2010 - 01:40 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Gorath Alpha]

               NWN2 is extremely poorly optimized for graphics, and really pushes the low end hardware all out of shape (also, the official video card requirements are at odds with the normal definitions of such things as "Minimum Graphics") so it doesn't compare at all well with other games whose requirements "SEEM" similar, but apply the more usual standard, which is that a Minimum Card should still be able to run steadily at 30 FPS with the screen resolution "medium" and the image quality settings all about as low as they go. 

There's a different side to that one.  By choosing low resolutions with a graphics card such as that, it should be able to handle mostly medium image settings and still run at 25-30 FPS.  The two minimum cards named for the NWN2 game cannot run the game that well.  The usual standard for what is "Recommended" isn't nearly as well agreed upon, but basically it's still Medium Resolutions, but this time it's 60 FPS, and mostly high image quality settings. 
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Eradrain]

               @Gorath Alpha: There's nothing wrong with a double-post on two different forums when you're asking about two different games. Especially since the answers, in this instance, will be so vastly different depending on what game you're talking about.

Now.  Since this is the NWN1 Forum, it isn't especially relevant for you to be waxing poetic about how poorly optimized NWN2 is graphically.  Go ahead and do that on the other thread.

@OP:  NWN1 is almost a decade old.  A toaster oven could run this game on decent settings.  I think that's why it's still so popular, because NWN1 will work on computers people's parents bought them at Target back in 2000 for like, 400 bucks.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Gorath Alpha]

               Just read what he asked, instead of ignoring it.  It's a crosspost, and the ToS Agreement covers those with a negative.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_SuperFly_2000]

               @Eradrain



...and no...NWN is not just popular because it can run on old computers. NWN is popular because it farkin kicks ass!



Actually the contrary is probably more true...that newer computers can't even run NWN. (Numerous problems where reported with running NWN1 on Windows Vista and 7.) So...in fact...if it could work flawlessly on new computers as well it would probably be EVEN more popular.



About mentioning NNW2 here that is not a crime. It is virtually on-topic....