power to run rebirth

black1954 · Post by **black1954** » Tue, 11. Oct 11, 23:43

Is there any information regarding the pc spec required for rebirth.I run xtc and all its bonus pack without any problems, Ihpoe I have enough power to run reberth

A5PECT · Post by **A5PECT** » Tue, 11. Oct 11, 23:46

No. The required/minimum specifications will be announced closer to the game's release.

Rebirth is still in development. It's difficult to tell exactly how a finished product will run when all you have is the unfinished product.

Mr. Reeves · Post by **Mr. Reeves** » Tue, 11. Oct 11, 23:49

I hope it causes me problembs. I really hope it brings my computer to it's knees.

black1954 · Post by **black1954** » Tue, 11. Oct 11, 23:50

I hope I dont have to upgrade my pc again

Mr. Reeves · Post by **Mr. Reeves** » Wed, 12. Oct 11, 00:09

I don't mind so much. I get to sell my old stuff and get new stuff. And with hardware selling on Amazon.com for such an amazing deal everyday is a good day to upgrade. Even if your like me and make $8 an hour and have a son. I still have a nice computer.

I'm waiting on Direct X 12 cards to come out before I upgrade my graphics card. I really don't have a need though. My SlI configuration does well to play all my games maxed out.

T.S.Zatoichi · Post by **T.S.Zatoichi** » Wed, 12. Oct 11, 00:09

Sorry Mr.Reeves, I doubt X:R puts a dent in that beast your running.

If I had to take a guess, as long as your not running on a single core rig, I'd say the specks would be comparable to TC.

Texhnolyzed · Post by **Texhnolyzed** » Wed, 12. Oct 11, 00:18

I'm actually not all too sure if my PC will be able to play it at highest settings, well... I doubt it. Though you never know how optimized the engine might be... and if it supports Quad Core CPUs and 4GB Ram, I can see myself getting some decent visuals and most importantly, framerates.

fairywhipper · Post by **fairywhipper** » Wed, 12. Oct 11, 00:41

no wonder Mr Reeves wanted to remove the entire Boron race, he just wanted to see if his system could handle it.

Spec rise, im waiting to upgrade, but getting it on laptop, so i can bring it to work with me.... so waiting for spec release before buying laptop to play rebirth...

Xeroeth · Post by **Xeroeth** » Wed, 12. Oct 11, 00:45

Texhnolyzed wrote:I'm actually not all too sure if my PC will be able to play it at highest settings, well... I doubt it. Though you never know how optimized the engine might be... and if it supports Quad Core CPUs and 4GB Ram, I can see myself getting some decent visuals and most importantly, framerates.

Well, they said about the support of multithreading. So basically, XR should support as many cores as you throw at it without restrictions. That's the way it works, another thing that comes to my mind is a proper support of SLI/CrossFire, I really hope that this new engine will use all of that available power.
Other than that we all have high expectations. Of course just after creation of this new engine, ES will not use all of the options that engine have to offer. I'm sure we will see nice improvements in performance over time. Remember, this is completely new engine and even after release SE will still work to make the most of it, like with every new game released in the last few years, XR is bound to have many problems at start. Unfortunately that's the reality and the way that developers nowadays choose ...

Falcrack · Post by **Falcrack** » Wed, 12. Oct 11, 01:02

Mr. Reeves wrote:I hope it causes me problembs. I really hope it brings my computer to it's knees.

I really hope you don't get your way. I like good games, but if it requires a super expensive upgrade I will skip a good game for financial considerations. Graphics never were super important to me anyways. If the graphics were on par with X3:TC and the gameplay was greatly improved, I would be happy.

Virtualaughing · Post by **Virtualaughing** » Wed, 12. Oct 11, 04:34

Requirements of a game does not telling us much about details.

3ghz CPU, 4gb Ram .... tells us nothing. All we need is specific details about CPU VGA RAM bus speeds n so on.

_LoneWolf_ · Post by **_LoneWolf_** » Wed, 12. Oct 11, 05:35

I'm sorry to say, but I think that Mr. Reeves will be stuck with his "old" puter for a while longer

On the other hand I do hope Rebirth will support running on 12 threads or more and 64bit.

Mr. Reeves · Post by **Mr. Reeves** » Wed, 12. Oct 11, 05:53

I like how crysis 2 comes in two versions... toaster mode and Crysis mode! You can download the advanced texture pack for free. And yes a good game should run on everything from a slightly modified toaster to a modern P67 chipset.

And don't worry so much because a 2600K ($300), Asus Sabertooth MOBO ($250) and 8 gigs of G Skill ($100) is not very much. You can get the parts from amazon.com or newegg. The 2600K runs a bit hot with the stock heatsink so get a aftermarket cooler. Before you upgrade your rig try upgradeing your graphics card with an EVGA GTX590 Hydro Copper or air cooled EVGA GTX 580 and getting Faster and More RAM. I like evga because if I accidently blow their shit up they will send me a new one and fix the old one. Just make sure you register within 30 days of buying your product.

Hearing water running through my machine makes me a might bit nervous so if you can't handle the stress of

And the only thing my machine suffers from is that graphics cards today do not have enough memory on them. So I can't turn the draw distance all the way up on GTA 4 without running my video cards out of memory.

Also Desktops are easy to build. You just plug the connectors in and turn it on. Then you put in a fresh copy of Win 64 ultimate upgrade kit and install it twice. This will save you $200. Not officially supported but it works.

If you have any trouble putting a computer together I will help you for free via the new chat feature. Just don't ask me about Laptops because I dunno how to build a laptop. But I'm really good at building and fixing desktops.

The 2600 K runs 8 threads on 4 cores. But It's only twice as fast as my old duo core rig Autopilok.

Img of my older slower rig Autopilok...

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So in conclusion your average guy with common sence can figure out how to put a computer together with just a little help from youtube or by talking to someone who has built a machine before.

X rebirth should be a breeze. ... but I hope I can crank it up to see if I can bring my machine to it's knees.

Destroying the boron involved lots of missles. Missles make things go boom. Explosions are pretty In 1900 by 1200 at 64 FPS

I am very excited Rebirth will support Multie core processors. I hope they dedicate one entire core just to the AI so that it is a challenge. I hope the AI kicks my bashes my pirate teeth in with boarding marines and drills voltswagon sized holes in my hull.

I just got an idea... we are confined to one ship so why not let us be boarded by the AI and have to defend our ship from marines. That would be cool. We could outfit our Avatar with weopons and armor and buy our officers and crew armor and such. It would add an entire new fun elemnt to the game. Like putting a little FPS action into the middle of having a giant fight in space. Being boarded while still having to fly and fire blaster shots over your shoulder at the same time. And you thought the game was hard enough when you jumped out of a gate and there is an Xenon Q stareing you in the face. Lovely!

Mr. Reeves · Post by **Mr. Reeves** » Wed, 12. Oct 11, 06:03

My brother has an I 90 X $1000 processor. It's just a hair faster, faster than the 2600K at 4.4 ghz, just fast enought to piss me off. I was going to get it but waited for Sandy Bridge because I wanted the new Sabertooth MOBO.

I'm upgradeing my graphics when DX 12 comes out. Whenever that is. It will be an EVGA Hydro copper card so I can plug it into my water loop which right now is making disturbing water sounds that remind me I'm running water over $1000 worth of gear I can't replace right now. Hope it doesn't leak.

_LoneWolf_ · Post by **_LoneWolf_** » Wed, 12. Oct 11, 08:55

I wouldn't lose any sleep over not having an 980/990 instead of 2600K.
Games don't take advantage of 6 cores and even less 12 threads and it cost way more, so Sandy Bridge is the way to go for gaming. Don't forget to give your OS a treat, install it on SSD.
My view on RAM, have always been that it's better to have more than you need then using the slow pagefile and since memory is so cheap now, 8GB should be minimum.

To Reeves: a voice in my head keeps telling me that water and electricity don't mix and so far that evil voice have won over me. But yes I do want to water cool my baby.

Wolfy

Xeroeth · Post by **Xeroeth** » Wed, 12. Oct 11, 19:17

WC is the way to go if you want performance, nice temps & for me the most important thing ... SILENCE. Yeah, this has some cons becose wc is not so cheap but its way worth it, especially if you oc'ed anything. I use water cooled systems from 7 years now and I will not go back to air cooling anytime soon

Sorry for the OT .... now to the main topic.

We don't know excactly what will be the min/rec requirements, but as long as you have quad core and 4 or more GB of RAM with gpu not older that 2 years, your safe. That's what I think, the fact that they will optimize engine for mutlithreading will greatly improve fps in tight situations with large fleets.

This game will run from the start on DX9, that's the most important thing for users with some older rigs. I'm sure ES will add support for DX10/11 in the future patches, but it will take some time till then and every one can assess their situations .. what they will need to change to run this on nice details.

No hurry here, remember .. in the near future we will see new Buldozer CPU's from AMD and Sandy Bridge-E from Intel, little later (and thats what I'm waiting for) somewhere in april/may we should get Ivy Bridge with 22nm process. As for GPU's, this year we will see new ATI 7xxx series and later in 2012 (from nowadays speculations) somewhere in 3Q we will see new green team gpu's series 6xx. I will wait till those are out and than upgrade

kewlsnake · Post by **kewlsnake** » Wed, 12. Oct 11, 19:25

Would it be preferred to choose an i7 over an i5 for this game?

From what I recall the main difference between i7 and i5 is that i7 has hyperthreading enabled. And from what I heard about it is that hyperthreading doesn't really matter for most applications.
I'm wondering if it will help for this game? For all its multithreaded goodness and stuff or am I wrong?

rrfarmer · Post by **rrfarmer** » Wed, 12. Oct 11, 19:30

you can have the best everything in the world but if you have Mr Reeves' graphics card i'm sure you wouldn't be able to play any modern games.

if his cards can play BF3 on ultimate then i'm wrong. otherwise his system is crap when it comes to new games.

it's all about the graphics card....

Xeroeth · Post by **Xeroeth** » Wed, 12. Oct 11, 19:33

Well as many ppl befor me said we don't know how well XR will support multithreading, I would wait with the upgrade if I were you. If you are in a hurry than I7 is a better future proof buy. But nevertheless, prices for all current CPU's will go down with the new SB-E/Buld arrival so the best choice would be to wait till than, only 1 month or so

you can have the best everything in the world but if you have Mr Reeves' graphics card i'm sure you wouldn't be able to play any modern games.

if his cards can play BF3 on ultimate then i'm wrong. otherwise his system is crap when it comes to new games.

it's all about the graphics card....

X series games were always cpu dependant, in those games cpu is as important as gpu so I will not agree with you there.
And about Mr. Reeves GPU's ... yeah it's a rather bad combination since 275 and 265 work in SLI and in this situation 275 is downscaled to 265 becose of the way that SLI works. Other than that, those cards are not bad, but the rest of his system is overkill for those two. It's his money (or his parents ? ), he can do with them whatever he wants ...

heratik · Post by **heratik** » Wed, 12. Oct 11, 20:05

rrfarmer wrote:
it's all about the graphics card....

Well mine is the bog standard Radeon HD 4670 256Mb card that comes as standard in a 2010 iMac, so assuming they actually release it on the Mac at some point, I doubt I will be playing on anything more than a screen about 6 inches high on the lowest resolution

Also I wonder if my i3 dual core 3.06 will be able to run it?

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