How little power do you need for Dragon Age Origins?

I've read the recommendations on the back on a CD case, but I'd like to know from your experience what sort of requirements you need to play this game smoothly and looking reasonable.

I'll be playing on a su7300/g105m combo (1.3ghz 2d / low-end gpu) and would like to know if it'll be playable on this rig. I'd like to be able to do low details at native 720p resolution or medium details at a lower resolution if that looks better and / or is more smooth, but if my laptop can't handle it the only option (outside of overclocking cpu/gpu) is to go with console version, which I'd rather not.

 

Definitely not, my 8600m gt which is alot stronger than a g105m can just handle it smoothly on med/low settings in native res. You might be able to play it smoothly on the lowest settings and low if not lowest resolution. The requirements for dragon age on the pc are quite high. Your video card has a 3dmark06 score of 2200 while my old 8600m gt scores 3700, so your card won't fare too well with dragon age.

You can try overclocking though, my 8600 goes from 3700 3dmarks to 4700 which is quite good, and your video card being weaker may be able to overclock to 3000+ which might give you smooth frame rates at lowest settings + native res.

 

No way your gonna play the game..the laptop you have isn't for gaming.. its for doing office work at most..

 

I have to agree with the others, that cpu and gpu will not be able to do the job.

 

The minimum requirements for Vista/7 are 1.6ghz C2D and 7600GT so no, you're not at it =/

 

Well, my friend is playing on a low-end gup, and his CPU isn't too strong. Integrated Radeon 3200 or something.

 

I'm playing on my Thinkpad T400 with the resolution set @ 1024*768, Graphics detail set to very high and texture detail set to high, with Anti-Aliasing set to off and it's playing fine.

 

Umm, no. At 1280x720 with a GTX 260M and a P7350, it runs at ~30 fps on Very High on my computer and ~60 fps on Low (the lowest settings).

Assuming performance on NVIDIA cards scales with number of shaders, you can expect 4.29 fps on the lowest settings.
There is an 800x600 option though, which may work. That's about half the number of pixels as 720p, so you may get 10 fps, still unplayable.

 

I have a 2.0 GHz C2D and Geforce 105 256 DDR3 with 4 gigs of ram. What would my chances be?

I get 2500 points in 3Dmark 06, if that helps!

 

Does your T400 have switchable graphics? If it does, would you mind trying it out with your Intel 4500 also? I'd be curious to know if I could play this on my X200... Even if I could run it at 960x600 resolution with low details.

 

If it works its not going to work very well. Im talking lowest settings with maybe playable frame rates.