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System Requirement tool

trekie564trekie564 Member Posts: 345 Arc User
edited July 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Cryptic, could you please make a tool that says in any capasity if you can play STO on your system or not? Thanks.
STO community: please rate or comment on this idea.
this is not a flame, if you consider it a flame, i apologize. it is not meant as such.
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  • trekie564trekie564 Member Posts: 345 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    In continuation, a list is nice, but it can be confusing if you have a different piece of hardware than the list, is it good enough?
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  • crypticarmsmancrypticarmsman Member Posts: 4,115 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    They post the system requirements in the FAQ. Check the reqs and compare with your hardware (you should know what your system has - and if it's a stock store bought system that info should be available from your manufacturer's website.

    Secondly, the game is now F2P - and the actual client itself costs nothing but download time/ a few GBs (if you're on a metered connection.)

    Thus, the easiest way to test if your system can run it is to download and install it; start it up; and see what happens.
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  • trekie564trekie564 Member Posts: 345 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    crypticarmsman wrote: »
    They post the system requirements in the FAQ. Check the reqs and compare with your hardware (you should know what your system has - and if it's a stock store bought system that info should be available from your manufacturer's website.

    Secondly, the game is now F2P - and the actual client itself costs nothing but download time/ a few GBs (if you're on a metered connection.)

    Thus, the easiest way to test if your system can run it is to download and install it; start it up; and see what happens.

    i hear ya, but non- factory stsndard parts cause probs. also, what if you don't know a part and don't know how to find it?
    BTW i actually do know how to do this.
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  • alarikunalarikun Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Here you go, a solution to your problem. Just type "Star Trek Online" in, and it will detect your computer's specs, and compare it to the game requirements.

    http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/CYRI/Requirements/star-trek-online/10928?p=a
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  • amahoodamahood Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    trekie564 wrote: »
    Cryptic, could you please make a tool that says in any capasity if you can play STO on your system or not? Thanks.
    STO community: please rate or comment on this idea.

    Just go to http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri and type in the game there, and it will tell you whether your computer will be able to run the game or not.

    Either that or google "can you run it".

    I use that website all the time. Trust me, it's perfect.

    Just as the post above me says.
  • trekie564trekie564 Member Posts: 345 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Thanks everyone! that site is really good. Cryptic, could on the FAQ/Download page of the site, post the link in the posts above me and describe how the tool works?
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  • trekie564trekie564 Member Posts: 345 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Does anyone else have an opinion or site to share?
    this is not a flame, if you consider it a flame, i apologize. it is not meant as such.
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  • insanesenatorinsanesenator Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    trekie564 wrote: »
    Thanks everyone! that site is really good. Cryptic, could on the FAQ/Download page of the site, post the link in the posts above me and describe how the tool works?

    That would require Cryptic is support another company's product. Never going to happen. They don't have a FAQ for installing Adobe PDF either.

    I'm confused, you said you knew how to check these things, but you still seem confused.

    Here's an easy test- Is your computer less than 3 years old? Then it can run STO.


    protip - generally, if a question can be asked in a sentence form, Google will have the answers. Literally the first hit from the search "can I run STO on my computer" links to the site referenced above.
  • trekie564trekie564 Member Posts: 345 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    insanesenator wrote: »
    ...I'm confused, you said you knew how to check these things, but you still seem confused...

    I do know how. i just want to make this easier for people who aren't as computer literate as some others. i just seemed like a good idea.
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  • carasucia83carasucia83 Member Posts: 568 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    or since the game is, you know, free to play and all....

    you could just try and run the game? If it loads up and you can play it, then guess what?
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  • trekie564trekie564 Member Posts: 345 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    carasucia83 wrote: »
    or since the game is, you know, free to play and all....

    you could just try and run the game? If it loads up and you can play it, then guess what?

    ok, but downloading the launcher and patching to update takes a lot of time.
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  • tc10btc10b Member Posts: 1,549 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    trekie564 wrote: »
    I do know how. i just want to make this easier for people who aren't as computer literate as some others. i just seemed like a good idea.

    If you're not really computer literate enough to understand the minimum requirements for a computer game. Should you really be playing one?
  • tacofangstacofangs Member Posts: 2,951 Cryptic Developer
    edited July 2013
    I can't imagine we would make a tool to determine if you're capable of playing the game or not.

    The game already kind of serves that purpose.

    I will say that we go out of our way to make sure the game will run on older, less powerful systems (even laptops with integrated graphics cards), so whatever your system is, it's likely STO will run on it. Now, it may not be the prettiest game ever, but start at the lowest graphics settings, and up them step by step to see what works for you.
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  • hatepwehatepwe Member Posts: 252 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    tacofangs wrote: »
    I can't imagine we would make a tool to determine if you're capable of playing the game or not.

    The game already kind of serves that purpose.

    I will say that we go out of our way to make sure the game will run on older, less powerful systems (even laptops with integrated graphics cards), so whatever your system is, it's likely STO will run on it. Now, it may not be the prettiest game ever, but start at the lowest graphics settings, and up them step by step to see what works for you.

    Are the graphical engines set differently on NvW and STO? I ask because it seems to work in the reverse for NvW. Many people I know had better luck with NVW running smoother at HIGHER settings whereas those same people they play STO say it runs better at recommended or lower settings.
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  • decker73adecker73a Member Posts: 96 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    One thing about STO is that it seems to be fairly forgiving about system requirements. I have run the game on several computers that are below the minimum system requirements. Two of them ran the game just fine, and the game was quite smooth when I used the "Half Resolution" option.

    Another computer was much farther below the minimum specifications (being a single Core processor) and I was surprised to find that the ships and effects ran fine, but the User Interface was sluggish.

    Out of curiosity I used one of those sites that scans your computer to see if it meets the system requirements and it reported that my Laptop that I had been running the game on for years wasn't actually supposed to be able to run it.
  • trekie564trekie564 Member Posts: 345 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    decker73a wrote: »
    One thing about STO is that it seems to be fairly forgiving about system requirements. I have run the game on several computers that are below the minimum system requirements. Two of them ran the game just fine, and the game was quite smooth when I used the "Half Resolution" option.

    Another computer was much farther below the minimum specifications (being a single Core processor) and I was surprised to find that the ships and effects ran fine, but the User Interface was sluggish.

    Out of curiosity I used one of those sites that scans your computer to see if it meets the system requirements and it reported that my Laptop that I had been running the game on for years wasn't actually supposed to be able to run it.

    you're right there. it has VERY forgiving Requirements.
    this is not a flame, if you consider it a flame, i apologize. it is not meant as such.
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