My hardware decent enough to run LotRO?

Hey, I was wondering whether or not my hardware could run Lord of the Rings Online on atleast Medium (or medium-high?)

I would look at the system requirements myself, but it doesn't make too much sense as my graphics card doesn't fit into the 2 mentioned (it probably does, but im skeptical about mine)

AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50 1.6GHz
1GB RAM (DDR2)
Dual Layer DVD Burner
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600
256MB

What do you think? Should I have to overclock to get medium graphics, or even to run it?

 

I dont think you have to worry. I dont think LOTR is that demanding for the GPU. I think the 7600 should easily be able to do med-high but you might need more memory(ram). And if your using a wireless connection you might have problems connecting/staying connected to a server.

 

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Processor: Intel Pentium® 4 1.8 GHz or equivalent
Video: 64 MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 3 or ATI® Radeon® 8500
DirectX: DirectX® 9.0c
OS: Windows® XP
RAM: 512 MB
Disk Space: 7 GB available
Internet: 56kbps Modem
Optical Drive: 2x DVD-ROM

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OS: Windows® XP / Vista
RAM: 1 GB
Disk Space: 10 GB available
Internet: Broadband DSL/Cable
Optical Drive: 2x DVD-ROM


Seems like you will be fine to play it.

I would take a guess and say that you could play it at Medium settings and maybe med-high. Hard to tell really.

 

Great thanks. And yeah, i'm thinking of getting another gig of ram to get the dual channel as well. I am wireless, but I'll be 100% all the time, soi should be fine?

 

yeah, pretty much all mmorpgs are really basic.

 

I play LOTRO on WinXP

Systems specs in my signature. My system with it's slighly faster cpu and a little faster go7700 gets 1680x1050 med-high no AA is mostly smooth and quite playable. In towns like Bree it does drop to a slight stutter but I think that is something yet to be fixed in either tweaking on their end or ours not sure yet.

So if you are running a lower rez screen than mine you may be able to pull off higher quality at a lower native resolution.

Make sure and get the 2gig of ram, it will add quite a bit of performance to XP and even more of a difference I imagine in Vista

 

Wow, you guys really have helped

Now, I have one last question. I'm building both a notebook and desktop computer for myself and am wondering whether my desktop could play it as well (note, I can spend more money towards my desktop then notebook, so more RAM, upgrade gfx card, etc. is very possible)

Intel Pentium D 805 Smithfield 2.66GHz
GeForce 7600GT 256MB
2 GB Dual Channel RAM

You can see the GFX card similarities, but I'm not sure whether the notebook version was upgraded some way or w/e making the desktop equivalent worse...

Anyways, thanks and I hope for a quick reply if thats ok

P.S. if you recommend a better graphics card for the same or relatively close price, please do!

Im getting mine:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814130062

$94.99 (mail in rebate for $15 )

 

Hmm can't be as helpful with the desktop area. But the system specs look just fine. Enough ram, video should be ok. CPU seems a little weak but with overclock or upgrade might help.

I will leave this to the more experienced desktop experts.

Good luck and good gaming!

 

Notebook gpus are scaled down for power and heat issues, so you're 7600 desktop is actually much better than your GO version. So if your laptop can run it, so can your desktop. Processor should be fine for LotRO and ram seems adequate.

EDIT: I am not a desktop expert in any sense, I just kinda know it's minmum reqs.

And yeah the proccesor is kinda on the lowend of things, I'd upgrade that just because in the future you're not as likly to upgrade it. I find that when most people want to upgrade the core they upgrade the mobo too.

 

Ah, ok. All this time I was killing myself over an insufficient graphics card when the processor was the true deal. I can spend somewhat alot upgrading that. Do you have any recommendations?

EDIT

Here are my choices:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116037

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116252

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116036

I'm leaning towards the 3rd choice there as the reviews say they can overclock it to 3 ghz with the stock cooling, plus its 200 mhz better then the 1st choice there for $10 more...i think its worth it? Or should i go with the 2nd choice there and have 3 ghz stock, overclockable to 3.4 ghz being $5 less then the 3rd choice...

 

Hey
I have a question i am trying to play on a inspiron 9300 thats 4 years old or so and when i try and play lotr it says my resolution is too low and the game then minimizes itself. is there somthing i can do to fix this or is my laptop to sucky to play it. i have an idea on what it might be my processor is a intel pentium M 1.60 ghz and you need 1.8 right? thanks