Dragon Age - Sys Reqs
 

Chris Priestly has posted the Dragon Age system requirements at the official forums. They're not unreasonable, although you'll need a bit of drive space:
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Very reasonable, actually.

My thoughts exactly.

Now just get the damn thing out to stores. :D

Yep, reasonably reasonable.

My rig is clearly aging, though -- it's now just short of the recommended setup. But only just.

That 20GB means PC is probably going to get MUCH better textures over 7 GB xbox360 disk. This, or they are going to ship console version on several DVDs.

doesnt sound too reasonable, minimal as always means it can barely run on an ultrastable sys (which not all players have or even know what it means), and for hi resolution *plus* cool graphics the reqs will be *way* beyond the above, as with any other game. then in order to sell more they state what they state, but lets try to be realistic.
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On the other hand you can see what the game beholds and then know that the recommended specs will do good. The game just hasn't any cool graphics and from what I've seen in the 'fighting the dragon' video, it looks like it has a terrible gameplay too. Don't get me wrong, I would like to see this game as an epic RPG, but from what I've seen so far it just isn't.

Actually, in my experience that's no longer the case, especially on multiplatform games. Consoles are the baseline these days, and usually the minimum spec corresponds fairly well to a system that can run the game as well as the console. Recommended spec corresponds to something significantly above that level -- you get higher rez, 60+ fps, or better textures.

IOW, I'm not too concerned over how this game will run. I'm more concerned over how it'll play and how it's written and scripted.

20 GB install, that's amazing. I remember when games used to come on 1.4 MB floppy disks, and that wasn't that long ago. At least hard drives are cheap. I'm definitely looking forward to this title, I just hope it's not too 'consolized.'

While better textures on the PC is definitely one (very optimistic ;) ) possibility we should remember that usually whenever they give us the recommended HD space specs it's always the total maximum that is going to be required by the installer of the game during the setup process. That's when the most HD space is being required since the installer needs a lot of space for temporary data when unpacking huge archives. The actual install size of the game folder after the installation might very well end up in the ~7GB (or even less) range.

Otherwise these specs aren't much of a surprise. They are pretty much the average specs for any modern cross platform game.

I'm glad I still stick to XP!

I think they're referring to Vista x64, given that the 32-bit version can handle a maximum of 3GB.

The ability to make use of 4+ GB RAM is, IMO, the best reason to go with Vista. It does make a significant difference to the way your system runs, especially games that load a lot of stuff in memory.

Sure it is good to be *able* to use more memory - but what stroke me here was the fact that you seem to *need* more memory depending on the OS.

I'm going 4+ gigs with WinXp X64 and have no problems. :)

That doesn't fit with the graphics card requirements being so low - this is practically less than NWN2 remember.

What it says to me is that area data, music etc. is not as compressed on the PC version, leading to quicker load times (possibly relates to the fact it can seem to take advantage of large amounts of RAM as well, possible caching). The console versions are going to have to load either more frequently or stream or uncompress on the fly etc.

I meet all the recommended except the quadcore. Hopefully it won't make too much of a difference at 1680 x 1050. I hope my core2duo e8500 @3.5ghz will handle it.

Try 360KB discs :)

That's the downside with 64-bit addressing -- the blocks are bigger, so stuff eats up more memory too. If you have less than 4 GB RAM, a 32-bit system will usually run better. OTOH a 4 GB 64-bit system will run better than a 3 GB 32-bit one.

The recommended GPU spec is 512 MB RAM. That tells me that they *do* have lots of high-rez textures, since that's what eats it up. (They'd be silly not to have low-rez ones as well, to make it run on smaller video memory.)

True, good point, but I think they'd be silly to make you install high res textures if you weren't going to use them :p

I'm now thinking lots of pre-rendered stuff.

Could be. OTOH it's not really BioWare's usual idiom; until now they've mostly animated stuff in-engine.

it's certainly bound to fit into the try before you buy category.

and yes, graphics are far from important in a rpg that's well conceived but look at nwn2 (+ motb +soz), it's sheer awesomness yet the engine is so demanding and has never been polished, and never will, despite the claims and attempts.

we'll see - or look elsewhere if it's bad.
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I roll my eyes at some of these posts…this thread is about the specs but yet the game comes up as looking like crap and totally uninteresting….being controversial for the win.

That's true of recent Bioware games, but earlier ones had a lot of pre-rendering. I think they've got to the point they can use their in game engine for pre-rendering, so it's just turned up to the max and recorded along with some post processing. It costs disk space, but you get a 100% reproducable experience with consitant quality no matter the hardware.

I don't understand what you're saying. I think there's only one post in this thread that mentions anything about gameplay, the rest are completely on topic about the specs - I don't get where you get anything about the game looking crap/uninteresting/controversial for the win in this thread.

But more disruptions to the gameplay -- it takes time to load cutscenes (unless you keep the player in memory all the time, which you probably can't). Another issue is that ingame cutscenes often feature the PC, and with the level of customization you have in RPG's, pre-rendering is right out.

IOW, color me skeptical on this one.