Can you tell us about the rest of your hardware?Basically, the ATI Radeon HD 3850 512 MB is the most powerful video card for the AGP bus available, the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT is cheaper, but still not bad.
Thanks for the reply. As far as the rest of my hardware I'm using an Athlon 53 FX 2400 and 2g RAM. According to YouGamers.com my system will run the game but I'd like to be able to play on better than the lowest settings.
get at least a nVidia 8600GT or an ATI equivalentShockwavePulsar said:
I haven't seen an Nvidia 8600 GT or ATI of simlar quality that can fit in an AGP slot - they all seem to be PCI only.
so it seemsthen you would want a ATI HD3850 AGP: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ati-agp-3850-agp,1939.html ( almost twice as better as a nVidia 8600GT, Wow! )ShockwavePulsar said:
I want to know if I can run this game: AMD Athalon 64 FX-55 / 1Gig Crucial RAM / GeForce SLI total of 265mb GPU. I really want to play this game but I'm not sure I can! I can run Half-Life 2 and WoW at Medium-High settings but not Age of Connan or Team Fortress 2 really well, if at all. Just to give you an idea. Thank for the help! ~ R
try the DEMO: http://www.thewitcher.com/community/en/www/download_the_demo.htmlRoboham said:
for sure u have to upgrade processor and gpu add some more ram memory. but imo u should change platform. i dont have idea what motherboard u got but im sure it's really old one. if u would change platform let's say for intel it would cost u around 300 quids (motherboard/cpu/ram/gpu/psu). also u can think about smth boild on amd x2/phenom but performance is a "little" worse than intel's (on the other hand amd is a little cheaper) .Roboham said:
Hi.I run the witcher on medium/high settings, 1200x1024. I would be quite satisfied with the game speed, if it didn't do this very annoying-kind of lag or whatever it can be called: the game freezes very often for a short period of time, and it often is related to loading a new area or moving fast from area to another(running around). I have encountered the same kind of problem at least with some source-engine based games like half life, and especially with dark messiah of might and magic. In fact, I think that this problem has appeared in almost every game I've run with this comp, even in not-so-heavy games like Red Orchestra (based on unreal2004 engine if I remember right). My pc contains x800pro, p4 2,8 Ghz, 1024 mb of RAM 400Mhz, and always too little free space on the hard drive :-\ (atm about 10/80Gb (IDE) , but I'll get a new drive soon)I think that the 2 most important reasons for this problem are 1. I haven't formatted my hard drive for about 3-4 years :-[ , and 2. I've got too little free RAM for the game to use while loading new areas and such. But what do you think, would it help if I used these RAM-scanning and speeding-up- programs? If it would, does someone happen to know any good ones? Or would it help if I installed Witcher on the new hard drive, even if I dont re-install everything on the new drive (takes a looong time 
... ok maybe I'll do it some day if you think it would help )? I do defrag my drive with jetdrive quite often, but of course it isn't as efficient as formatting the whole thing. While in windows doing almost nothing my pc has about half of all the RAM free (I can give the exact number later if needed, now I'm running a virus scan which of course needs more RAM), so could the problem be more RAM-related?So is there anything to be done with this pc, if I still want to keep my current settings (problem seems to encounter specially on high texture settings, which are on medium in the witcher atm)? I would be very grateful if someone wiser could help Sorry if the text became unreadable, i've got this bad habit of adding more and more things in the already written text
... ok maybe I'll do it some day if you think it would help )? I do defrag my drive with jetdrive quite often, but of course it isn't as efficient as formatting the whole thing. While in windows doing almost nothing my pc has about half of all the RAM free (I can give the exact number later if needed, now I'm running a virus scan which of course needs more RAM), so could the problem be more RAM-related?So is there anything to be done with this pc, if I still want to keep my current settings (problem seems to encounter specially on high texture settings, which are on medium in the witcher atm)? I would be very grateful if someone wiser could help Sorry if the text became unreadable, i've got this bad habit of adding more and more things in the already written text the game uses about 1.5gb on XP and 2gb on Vista, so get at least 1gb of RAMyour CPU is some 3 generations behind, if your motherboard supports one of the newer Core Duo/Core 2 Duo CPUs maybe you can get a faster processoryour video card is about 3 generations behind, get a HD2600Pro/HD3850pro/HD4830/nVidia 8600GT/nVidia 9600GT or somethingalso just upgrading one of the components ( CPU/video ) will help, but newer video cards will need faster CPUs to feed them data
Thanks for helping. However, the main problem with upgrading my hardware is that my MSI 865PE Neo2-PS main board does not support other than 476-based intel pentium 4 or D processors. I should have bought at least a 3,2 Ghz p4 or amd athlon 64 back then, I knowLicaonKter said:
, but I thought that the video card is the most important always when coming to gaming, and thought that it doesn't matter much with CPU:s at least if it is over 2,4 Ghz or something :wall:Also, when coming to RAM, the main board supports only DDR DIMM (could get more of that old RAM, though, haven't thought about that much). And as I said, at least now, the problem occurs also with older games that work fine otherwise (30-60 fps), like Red Orchestra which I mentioned previously. Sorry if I described the problem poorly, I don't mean the basic low fps, but this kind of a freezing that has to be related to loading stuff to cache and out. I just wonder if anything can be done with the current hardware, like free more RAM for the game to use somehow. But thanks anyway!get more RAM atleastwhatever said:Thanks for helping. However, the main problem with upgrading my hardware is that my MSI 865PE Neo2-PS main board does not support other than 476-based intel pentium 4 or D processors. I should have bought at least a 3,2 Ghz p4 or amd athlon 64 back then, I know
Don't think that's RAM related. I used to play on a three year old single-CPU (don't remember speed) but with 3Gb RAM. The game constantly froze when moving for a split second or so, before continuing. To me, it seemed more like poor number-crunching when calculating the view - i.e. CPU problem. At least it's gone on my new 3 CPU machine ;D.
Indirectly it could be. Most operating systems will emulate RAM with free hard disk space. As you can image, if you're already accessing the hard disk for game assets and it's temporarily placing them right back on the hard disk (emulated RAM), speed is going to go down quick.That's just one of several possibilities.Fiskrens said:
I'm wondering how the Witcher EE will run on my PC, any advice on what setting I should use is greatly appreciated.-Pentium D 820 CPU-2GB RAM-X1950 Pro 512MB AGP-19-inch monitor (1280x1024)-Windows XP Sp2