[I am the 0mega]

Originally posted by Jaeden
I'm a regular poster on the Official World of Warcraft Forums. For upcoming MMORPGs, there is absolutely no way he will be able to play any of them, and World of Warcraft will be on the least requirement MMORPGs that will come out, and it's guessed that the requirement for WoW will be 32 MB.

In order to put all details on "High" and Resolution over 1600 x 1200 with abosulutely no lag on EverQuest 2 is a 3GHz processor and 256 MB Ram Video Card. I can find an article about it.

That sounds like a serious load of bull. Even at 1600x1200. Although obviously CPU speed is unnaffected by resolution, video cards are.

As of right now, in anything you can play, even UT2K3@1600x1200x32 with everything cranked, and 16x Aniso and 8x FSAA, a 256MB frame buffer has at most a 2-3% performance increase over a 128MB DDR version of the same card.

Oh. And another thing. There are plenty of cards- such as the GeForceFX 5200 Ultra 256MB DDR- which would choke to death on a game like EQ2, the 256MB frame buffer helping not at all to sustain the card being throttled due to a weak architecture, low clock, and 4 pipes. And weak shading performance. And limited memory bandwidth. And belonging to a family which has too few registers to play DX9 games acceptably.

3GHz? I'll believe it when i see it. (Not when i see the official specs, when i see the game- any moron can require that speed for acceptable gameplay; it takes a minute or two of optimization to drop the requirement back down to 2/3 that...