Well my wife bought me new computer, it isn't a high dollar rig she spent 700 ish on it. While my current PC runs the game adequately even if it is below minimum requirements I did fall in love with what the game would look like at max settings even if it was for a screenshot I took. here are the specs I can find on the new computer and please let me know if you think it will have any issues running at max settings
AMD Phenom II X4 955(3.2GHz)
4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 1GB PCI Express Video Card
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
AMD 770 Chipset
Since it's a laptop, it'll most likely be under 1680, if it is I wouldn't think there'd be too much problems running at max given that you don't run into driver issues nor expect your antialiasing to be very high. If the laptop has a bigger screen however, you might run into some framerate drops.
edit: I'm drunk, ignore my post. Keep it at 1680 and you'll be fine, anything above you might want to tweak some settings.
From what I have been reading there is no setup that runs STO properly with all the settings maxed out.
I know some fan boy will probably chime up and say they do... just read though the graphics issues and you will see what I'm talking about. Some cards don't do AA so well with STO, none do the dynamic lighting well, some don't do the shadows that great.
Your system is fine. The 9800GT is a little old but it's a good card just a hair under performance of a GTS 250 and in some games it actually performs better. It's the low cost workhorse of the Nvidia line. Id stay with that card for now until nvidia releases its new line of cards. Either pick one of the new cards up if they turn out to be great or go with an ATI 5000 series card that will drop in price when the new Nvidia cards come out. Its a win win for consumers.
With what you have assuming you have an LCD monitor start by running the came in a maximized window, turn monitor vertical sync ON. (important). use the slider and set the game to max quality, check show advanced settings then go in and turn dynamic lighting and shadows off. turn wold detail down to about 150%. This is just a starting point. From there go in and play. Adjust up or down until you get it where you like the look and it plays smooth.
Vertical sync ON will keep your card from getting to hot. In the launcher you can also add /perFrameSleep 10 in the advanced options box.
You have what looks like a good base system. If the motherboard, power supply and memory are all good quality your golden. Be extra nice to the wife for getting it for you.
22" at 1680x1050 on a 9800GT should be able to get close to max; you may have to fine tune some of the more intensive settings down to get a better FPS though.
Don't expect both AA and AF to be on high settings though. And Ambient Occlusion is probably not needed.
I got the Computer on tuesday after she ordered it sunday. I was stoked when it arrived but then cringed when I saw it was a cyber power PC from newegg. I checked it over made sure everything wasseated tightly before firing it up. Fired it up and immediately fell in love with windows 7 even though it was tough getting a lot of my old hardware working right. I redownloaded STO and started playing, tweaked all the graphics settings to high or just off high and pretty much turned everything on and man does this thing scream. Using the performance meter on my G15, this thing peaks out at 45% on CPU with itunes running and 50% on ram where as my old computer would peak out at 100% on the cpu with about 40-50 on the ram. I do have 2 slots open for memory which I plan on adding plus eventually switching to a NVidia GTX 2xx graphics card down the road but this little 9800 graphics card surprised me and so did the processor. Though is it normal for one core to peak out more than the others?
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edit: I'm drunk, ignore my post. Keep it at 1680 and you'll be fine, anything above you might want to tweak some settings.
I know some fan boy will probably chime up and say they do... just read though the graphics issues and you will see what I'm talking about. Some cards don't do AA so well with STO, none do the dynamic lighting well, some don't do the shadows that great.
Your system is fine. The 9800GT is a little old but it's a good card just a hair under performance of a GTS 250 and in some games it actually performs better. It's the low cost workhorse of the Nvidia line. Id stay with that card for now until nvidia releases its new line of cards. Either pick one of the new cards up if they turn out to be great or go with an ATI 5000 series card that will drop in price when the new Nvidia cards come out. Its a win win for consumers.
With what you have assuming you have an LCD monitor start by running the came in a maximized window, turn monitor vertical sync ON. (important). use the slider and set the game to max quality, check show advanced settings then go in and turn dynamic lighting and shadows off. turn wold detail down to about 150%. This is just a starting point. From there go in and play. Adjust up or down until you get it where you like the look and it plays smooth.
Vertical sync ON will keep your card from getting to hot. In the launcher you can also add /perFrameSleep 10 in the advanced options box.
You have what looks like a good base system. If the motherboard, power supply and memory are all good quality your golden. Be extra nice to the wife for getting it for you.
22" Acer X223.
This is not a laptop.
Right now I am running this game on a AMD 64 3500+ single Core CPU
With 4 gigs of PC2 6400 Ram
Nvidia 8600 GTS OC
I have to lower my res settings going into Sol and DS9 but usually have no problems running game at recommended settings for video.
Don't expect both AA and AF to be on high settings though. And Ambient Occlusion is probably not needed.