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[Drakale]

Someone played around with the fleet caps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doOVzC2jB1g

[Oliolli]

That is just awesome.

[umiman]

See, now that's all kinds of fun.

[Aklyon]

Yes it is. Though I highly doubt I'd be able to run it as well as that, even on Fast.

[forsaken1111]

That is excellent. Wonder if I can figure it out.

[Frumple]

So... question. Is there any way to system test this thing before purchase right now? Between this thread and scoping a few videos I'm pretty tempted, especially with the sale going on, but it'd be fairly meaningless to do that and then be completely unable to run it now and in perpetuity.

So... demo? Something equivalent so I'd know if the thing would at least run? System specs looks like I could probably manage things on whatever equates to low (CPU's a little weak, but I've ran worse), but I've had a number of things that looked like that and just didn't function

[Aklyon]

I haven't tried moving past the 'Fast' setting (second lowest), but its working perfectly fine on my i3, 4gb ram, intel hd graphics laptop. Sometimes lagspike in the battle scenery if I have too many ships in one place (like 22 1 CP ships)

Hows that?

[Orb]

Its pretty well optimized, except on when computing AI turns.

My computer can't run SOTS2 well at all, if you want that as a benchmark. Endless Space runs perfectly fine.

[Aklyon]

SOTS2 uses DX10, though, and that causes problems by itself if your graphics doesn't exactly support it.

[Frumple]

Right now I'm able to run Star Ruler with most things cranked down (at least so far), which is about the only equivalent piece of software I have -- but checking the system reqs, SR's are considerably lower. SOTSII's reqs are completely beyond this rig, and Ak's is noticeably stronger . It's one of these: Two gigs ram, 2.2 ghz dual core, 286 () video mem according to Dxdiag. Heaviest thing I can notice in the steam library this thing can run is either HoMMV (barely) or Heroes of Annihilated Empires, which, again, are listed lower.

M'gonna' tentatively predict "No" and sigh, I guess. New computer in future, maybe. Thanks for the replies!

Still. Game looks nice. Will keep eye on, maybe be stronger sale in future can whittle away little money for likely non-working game (Investment!).

[Jay]

It's one of these

Intel integrated video

Yeah, no.

If you own a tower, you owe it to yourself to have a discrete graphics card in there.

[Sirus]

It's one of these

Intel integrated video

Yeah, no.

If you own a tower, you owe it to yourself to have a discrete graphics card in there.

My Intel integrated can run it, albeit on low settings...and it's still pretty slow...point is, I can run it.

[Aklyon]

I have a laptop thats better than someone's tower? Nifty.

[Jay]

My Intel integrated can run it, albeit on low settings...and it's still pretty slow...point is, I can run it.

Buy a discrete GPU at around $100-$150.
See 1000% performance increase.
It's largely that simple.

[Orb]

Doing a Diaxdiag myself, my processor is slightly lower than yours (2.1ghz), 3 gigs of ram, and I assume video memory is just memory, in which case I have 3 gigs.

So you're just fine in processor, just lacking in memory (easily fixable), and a little low on ram (which, if memory serves me right, you can buy ram sticks).

But meh. I'd suggest grabbing it because its on a discount for the early Alpha Release, and will probably work on the lowest settings (I'm on the highest).