Cpu requirements on games.

[dragon]

Personally I think they are badly written

for example world in conflict...

Os Windows XP or vista
Cpu 2ghz or faster (2.2ghz for vista)

Now my Cpu is only 2.1ghz but its a core2duo so It should run it fine (Its installing now ), I suspect they are still using the old P4 ghz ratings.

But that would confuse most people who have say a 1.86ghz core2 processor becuase they'd think its not fast enough when in reality it probably is since the core2duos and althon64 proccessors are far more effecient than their P4 counterparts.

yeah its all a load of bobbins

[dragon]

Framerate drops in heavy artillery bombardment with all that smoke.etc

Will have to get an 8800GT sometime (or the new ATI card)

Then I think my pc should be ok to run pretty much any game

At the moment its

Dell dimension e520
core2duo e6420 2.13ghz @ 1033fsb
4gb ram (4x 1gb ddr2 667mhz)
2x 250gb hdd (150gb NTFS, rest formated as Ext3 but might resize data partition on 2nd drive to give more space for games)
7800GT 256mb
terratec aureon 5.1 + onboard audio (i use the onboard for the mic)

I think the weakest part is the 7800GT :p