PSO2 Alpha System Requirements

[landman]

Sonic Team is just a brand, it hasn't really existed since 2005 or so, I don't think we are wrong if we think that today Sakai has one "team" of his own. If Sonic Team hasn't appeared as a brand in the past titles it is because they didn't want.

[Ezodagrom]

Sonic Team is just a brand, it hasn't really existed since 2005 or so, I don't think we are wrong if we think that today Sakai has one "team" of his own. If Sonic Team hasn't appeared as a brand in the past titles it is because they didn't want.

[Checkmate]

Can't believe there is so much gripe and complaints and such about the earliest of the early stages of a game that has yet to even produce a single solitary screenshot. People should be jumping thru the roofs at the "MINIMUM" requirements to run around, swing a sword and blast a foe.

If you have a really old laptop, you may not be able to deal with heavy/crowded lobbies or areas. If you have a really old desktop, no worries. Get some new, compatible RAM and a graphics card. Boom. Done.

Anyone can play a game slightly below these requirements however your performance will be lackluster, naturally. No need to have some techophobia. You're not gonna break the bank to do a little PC upgrading unless you're a pot head living in some family member's house and haven't worked in years. If you can afford to smoke a bowl every so often, you can afford to upgrade. If you can afford to buy a box of cigarettes once a week, you can afford to upgrade. Hell, if you can afford a monthly fee for another MMO you've been playing for 3+ years, you can afford an upgrade.

Gee Gee!

Too long to read??
Ex.: You ain't gettin the full immersion effect of your Inception BluRay disc with that 26" CRT TV and 2.1 Panasonic speakers in your dining room that has the window glare in the back. Yes, people still eat at the table and watch TV at the same time. Best of both worlds!!

[Ezodagrom]

If you have a really old desktop, no worries. Get some new, compatible RAM and a graphics card. Boom. Done.

Depends on how old. If someone is still using one of the older Pentium 4s, those that still used DDR1 RAM and AGP graphics, that person pretty much needs to fully upgrade.
Otherwise, you're right for people that have up to 5 years old (or so) desktops. Get more RAM and a new graphics card and it shoud be good to go.

Might as well leave here some examples of good cards below $100:
$65 - $75:
Radeon HD4670, Radeon HD5570, Geforce GT430 (the one with the best performance is the 4670, with the 5570 really close, and the GT430 behind both).

$80 - $90:
Radeon HD5670, Geforce GT240, Geforce GT440 (Both GT240 and GT440 should have similar performance, but the HD5670 is better than both).

[Kaziel]

I'm starting to think these are Minimum Requirements.

The graphics card they listed is far from high-performance. You could probably easily find it for $60ish. When you start paying $150+ is when you should start considering your Video Card a high end card.

As long as your computer's motherboard supports "PCI express"(Video Card), at least "DDR2"(RAM), and some form of multi-core(Processor) settings; you should be fine. Upgrading these 3 core components to the requirements listed here would be easily under $200.

[unicorn]

So why do the requirements state a Japanese OS?

[Kaziel]

So why do the requirements state a Japanese OS?

It's for the Japanese Alpha test. US releases will use an English-based OS(specifically XP and 7).

[Zyrusticae]

You guys are silly. You can't figure out the height of a game's graphical fidelity by its minimum or even its recommended requirements.

EXAMPLE:
The Crysis requirements are listed as such:
OS - Windows XP or Windows Vista
Processor - 2.8 GHz or faster (XP) or 3.2 GHz or faster* (Vista)
Memory - 1.0 GB RAM (XP) or 1.5 GB RAM (Vista)
Video Card -256 MB**
Hard Drive - 12GB
Sound Card - DirectX 9.0c compatible

You COULD run the game with a system like this. But only on the very lowest settings with a barely playable framerate. Even the recommended requirements, like so:

OS - Windows XP / Vista
Processor - Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.2GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
Memory - 2.0 GB RAM
GPU - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS/640 or similar

Can BARELY play the game on high. To play the game on very high with a high resolution and anti-aliasing you basically needed a machine from the future to run it all at a smooth clip (I'm only just now able to run it with such settings with a frame rate close to 30 with two GTX 260s in SLI and a quad core processor).

So, basically, these requirements are indicative of nothing other than the bare minimum to run the game. The faster your computer, the better, without question. There's no telling just how high the game will actually scale.

[landman]

YouTube - Sonic Colors Wii [Part 18 - Credits]

Sonic 4 also has the Sonic Team logo, and it was developed by Dimps. As I said, the Sonic Team logo is used as a brand today.

[Nitro Vordex]

Crysis

Totally not valid, as this game is a benchmark for how badly can we fuck up your computer.

Seriously, Crysis doesn't even sound like a game anymore. It's more of a 60 dollar stress test.