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    Anyone running Mass Effect 2 on Min requirements?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by BlackGS01, Jan 26, 2010.

  1. BlackGS01

    BlackGS01 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Definitely want to know how this scales.

    Here are the requirements from the Gamestop website.

    MINIMUM System Requirements
    DirectX : 9.0c
    Hard Drive Space : 15 GB
    Operating System : Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista SP1 / Windows 7
    Processor : 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent AMD CPU
    RAM : 1 GB RAM for Windows XP / 2 GB RAM for Windows Vista and Windows 7
    Video Card : 256 MB (with Pixel Shader 3.0 support). Supported Chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or greater; ATI Radeon X1600 Pro or greater. Please note that NVIDIA GeForce 7300, 8100, 8200, 8300, 8400, and 9300; ATI Radeon HD3200, and HD4350 are below minimum system req

    RECOMMENDED System Requirements
    Operating System : Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista SP1 / Windows 7
    Processor : 2.6+ GHz Core 2 Duo Intel or equivalent AMD CPU
    RAM : 2 GB RAM
    Video Card : ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, or better recommended
     
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    LisuPoland Notebook Deity

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    On my lappy in the sig I run the game at native resolution 1280x800 with ultra textures, 4xAnizotropic filtering, and other stuff turned off, except movie grain. Runs nice, I had to OC the GPU however to get constant +30-40 fps

    Game anyway already looks way better than ME1
     
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  3. Kevin

    Kevin Egregious

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    The min. requirements are the same as ME1, so if you ran that, you'll run this.
     
    Kevin, Jan 26, 2010
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    OGLoc Notebook Consultant

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    I'm running at 1366x768 (native), with Dynamic & Environment Shadows, HQ Bloom, Motion Blur, 2x(I think) AA. No lag till now, it did stutter slightly at one part, because of the CPU I'm sure.
     
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    I'm running it at 1680x1050 at the highest settings I can get (They don't give many options do they?)
     
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    BlackGS01 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Looks like the game scales pretty well. Thanks, fellas. Looks like I'll be picking up ME2 and 2 extra gigs of ram.

    If anyone else is attempting to run this with their laptops, please post specs!
     
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    as I said, my specs in my sig, I run the game flawlessly at max settings at 1680x1050 on my laptop, The reason I think the recommended settings are lower is because this is a port from a 360 game opposed to something like dragon age which I think might have been meant for the pc. I love the game a lot, looks very nice on my g50. I have a male sentinel
     
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