System requirements

[Valgua]

Hi! I wonder if my laptop HP Pavillon with 512 mb of RAM would handle CoG nicely. What worries me is that, as far as I know, CoG has the same engine as FoF. The latter gives me a few problems with detailed battles activated.

[Harvey Birdman]

[*]Windows 2000, XP, Vista
[*]Pentium or Athlon 1GHz+
[*]512 MB RAM
[*]32Mb DirectX 7+ Video Card
[*]DirectX 7+ Sound Card
[*]DirectX 9.0C
[*]2 GB of Free Hard Drive space
[*]CD-Rom (for Boxed Version installation)
[*]DirectX 7 or later
[*]Windows Media Player (for Video Tutorials)
 
 
I have 2gb ram so I don't have any problems. Perhaps someone running gogee on 512mb would comment.
 
 
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[Valgua]

Thank you. I am going to buy a new computer, but I have decided to wait for Windows 7. In fact I had a much stronger PC Tower a few months ago, but I moved to another country and was forced to sell it.
I will probably buy CoGEE, as I read that it is a great game, but I am concerned about the performance of FoF on my PC. Does anybody know if CoG consumes less resources than FoF?

[PDiFolco]

CoG EE is more recent than FoF but they obviously share much of the same game engine, so FoF doesn't require more resources I think. I have all 3 games and don't have problem to play on my 5 -yr old Athlon 2400 ! Though I have 2MB RAM and XP. Maybe 512M RAM will make all of the games rather slowish.

[06 Maestro]

I don't know if its worth it or not in Europe due to the Vat tax and shipping, but buying new ram may be an option. I sometimes play this game on a 5 year old laptop with a P4 and 2 gigs of ram. It had 512 since buying it, I was surprised to see it could hold 2 gig-thought it would only hold one.

Anyway, the game runs fine with the old CPU and the new ram. I found that online stores have, by far, the better deals.

[PDiFolco]

Sure it is possible in Europe, there are some "online RAM" sellers too, mostly in the UK to keep shipping down. Got my 2nd Gig there, all automated with a site that proposed the exact references I needed [:)] (but it was a desktop, so maybe it's simpler to get that for laps). As for VAT we have to pay it anyway for anything [8|]!

[Gil R.]

I'm not the programmer, and the programmer (EricBabe) is off camping for a week, but here's what I know: the main memory hog in FOF is detailed combat, due to the animation; COG:EE's land detailed battles use simpler animation and thus don't consume as much memory; COG:EE's naval detailed combat is comparable to FOF's land combat, and therefore requires more memory than land battles. So if you play detailed battles, at 500MB you might experience some slowness in naval battles, but if you are mainly into PBEM or play the AI but don't fight detailed battles I doubt this will be an issue. But again, I'm not the programmer, so you might want to post this question a week from now for a more certain answer.

[Anthropoid]

Hey Gil, check out my most recent post in the Tech Support thread. I've got a super strong rig (4MB RAM as I recall and a whoops arse vid card) and I just recently suffered a game slow down at 1801 in a game that started in 1792. It became slow in the City Dev windows of recently captured provinces.