By: Joe Topolnisky Mar 08, 2008

Wondering what kind of PC you'll need to run Funcom's upcoming fantasy-based MMORPG Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures? According to the newly launched Community FAQ, a halfway decent one should get the job done:

The new FAQ also offers details on crafted items vs loot drops, server sizes and a whole lot more. So be sure to check it out! ;)

Thanks for the heads-up Drew.

Note: the requirements have slightly changed since this item was originally posted. Check updated minimum and recommended requirements.

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	Warrior1 2008-03-08 #1 It doesn`t seem so demanding after all...
	Snoop1050 2008-03-08 #2 yea i was expecting it to be sm3.0+ aswell btw the beta install aparently takes up 21gb of space :O
	Neeyik 2008-03-08 #3 Our Game-o-Meter database has now been updated to include the new requirements information for Age of Conan - check your PC here: http://www.yougamers.com/gameometer/10252
	Unregistered 2008-04-20 #4 I think you have to check the Wikipedia site [Recommended] CPU: Core 2 Duo E6600 or equivalent CPU Speed: 2.4 GHz System Ram: 2 GB Operating System: Windows Vista Drive Type: DVD Drive Free Disk Space: 30 GB Video Card: 512 MB DirectX 9.0c Graphics Card with Shader 3.0 support (NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX or equivalent) Video Card Features: -Video Ram: 512 MB -Video Card 3D Acceleration: Required -Video HW Transform & Lighting: Required -Vertex Shader Ver: Required - 3.0 -Pixel Shader Ver: Required - 3.0 [9]
	Unregistered 2008-04-20 #5 I wonder if this will run with everything at minimum for my friend's pc, we would play this toghether: p4 2.8 Ghz 2 gig ram nvidia 5700 128mb Win xp SP2
	IeatNvidiots 2008-04-20 #6 Lol even the fx high end is supported Quote: Enhanced for: DirectX 10, 64-bit processors, multi-core very nice hope to see benchmarks, lets see if its true.
	Unregistered 2008-04-20 #7 Yeah I'd like to have some benchmarks also
	Unregistered 2008-04-21 #8 2.8 single core and 5700 will not run it for ****
	Unregistered 2008-04-21 #9 Well I was hoping for this, because it is pretty close to min requirements
	Unregistered 2008-05-02 #10 Will this game run on a Mac computer?
	DhinShin 2008-05-03 #11 High textures seems to need a shed load of ram, loading times are painful with 32bit OS, I'll try again later after I download Windows server 2008 evaluation from Microsoft tomorrow and see if having access to 4gb makes a big difference on loading times. But I think they'll optimise loading times somewhat.
	Jarnis 2008-05-03 #12 It's fairly hard to measure the "real" performance yet, as devs have repeatedly said that the current builds include debug code, and that the resource caching code is not yet done. However, if it goes live like this... massive pauses and lag, even on very high end systems (even on mine, Q9550, 9800GTX, 4GB, Vista 64-bit). Yet when it doesn't lag and/or cache stuff, it does run quite well - it's just the nagging jerky pauses and the general server-side lag - every response coming "late", making the game feel like you are playing in jell-o or something.
	DhinShin 2008-05-04 #13 Looks like it is a shader cache bug, you can manually flush it which seems to help, but it's very much debug code. Once they go 'gold' they will be a improvement just from removing the debug mode.
	darkblade088 2008-05-04 #14 Quote: Originally Posted by Unregistered Will this game run on a Mac computer? Maybe. but most likely not since mac users are next to zero when i comes to MMORPG games.
	Jarnis 2008-05-04 #15 Quote: Originally Posted by Unregistered Will this game run on a Mac computer? Sure if you install Windows on it, and meet the rest of the hardware requirements... OS X? Nothing has been announced for that...