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Here's some additional information on this matter:

- The build I have of Arcania Gothic 4 was sent to me review. It is not final code - the PC version is being finalized now, but the publisher was willing to have it judged and reviewed because it was considered sufficiently close by the Publisher to submit for review.

- The game was unplayable on my system — a core 2 duo 6700, 267 ghz; 4 GB RAM (but effectively less, since running Win XP SP3); Geforce GTX 285 — all drivers up to date, I was getting under 10 fps.

- Sent a dxdiag.txt to the Publisher — Publisher sent 3 individuals to personally check out my system and found nothing wrong.

- After further compatibility testing at their own shop, the publisher reps confirmed that the problem was the system requirements floating around the internet are outdated. The new ones provide that the Core 2 Duo is capable of running the game, but is not recommended.

I asked: so you guys are convinced that the problem is the CPU - I do not want to review this game based upon a premature build - are you sure there isn't an optimization issue here that a later build of the wouldn't help?

And was told they could send a newer version when it went gold, but they were not convinced that it would help. It was compatibility testing reports (about 150 configurations that led us to the conclusion that the core 2 duo was the problem.

I then asked for the publisher to send along official required specs so we can make sure let our readers know.

And was told:

To comfortable play the game, readers should acquire at least the following:

Processor Min: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz, AMD Phenom X4 2.2Ghz (or Tri-core like AMD Phenom X3)
Ram Min: 3GB
Video Card for minimum playability: Geforce 8800 GTX / ATI HD 2600 Pro
Video Card for best results: Geforce 280 GTX / ATI HD 4800 or higher
HDD: 10GB
OS: XP SP2+ / Vista / 7

I posted that information to inform fellow RPG fans of my experience and the revised system requirements provided by the publisher so that RPG fans wouldn't get burned buying a game they couldn't run on their current system.

Hopefully the publisher representatives were wrong, and that the game will be further optimized prior to release, and/or there was another problem/incompatability with the build or my set up that neither I, nor the 3 publisher representatives and their QA/compatibiility tests/team could diagnose.

But I didn't want anyone to get burned so I posted what information I had to help you to make more informed decisions — good luck, and happy gaming.

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Надо еще кого-нить с рожей Шварцнеггера, и назвать его "Генерал Ли". Для полного счастья

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У меня не связка видеокарт в SLI, а одна. Вторая только обрабатывает Физику, и если Physx не использовать, то карта просто бездействует. А нормально, работают - это значит, что нижний порог ФПС не опускается ниже играбельных 25 в высоком разрешении.

Пусть так - но основная карта довольно сильная.

Это не заблуждение, многочисленные тесты говорят сами за себя

Тут надо зерна от плевел отделять. Видел я тесты, где автор делал выводы типа "Процессор с частотой меньше 4 ГГц не может загрузить даже видеокарту 8600GT". Из тестов надо исключать, во-первых, синтетику типа 3Д Марков, во-вторых - отдельно рассматривать сильно процессорозависимые игры, ведь там проц нагружается за счет специфики приложения, а не "чтобы нагрузить видеокарту". Реально же те тесты, которые видел я, давали четко понять, на разрешении 1920x1200 все упирается в производительность видеокарты. А на 1280x1024 конечно проц будет тоже важен. Процессорозависимость безусловно есть - но не такая сильная, как некоторые это преподносят.