RELEASE DATES

USA and Canada - November 7th
Australia and New Zealand - November 7th
UK - December 8th

More will be added when i get the data
Also the UK version is being published by Ubisoft

OFFICIAL SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

# Windows XP (Home, Media Center or Pro Editions)
with Service Pack 2
# DirectX Version 9.0c
# Intel Pentium 4 2.66ghz or higher
or AMD Athlon XP 2800+ or higher
# DX9 compatible AGP 8X or PCI Express video card,
128 MB VRAM, Pixel Shader 1.4
# 16-bit Direct Sound compatible sound card,
speakers or headphones required for audio
# 512 MB RAM
# 5 GB free space
# LAN or Broadband connection (DSL or Cable Modem) for Multiplayer
# Windows compatible Keyboard & Mouse

Hmm...according to GAME it's out on the same day as Zelda: Twilight Princess...my god i'm gonna be happy that day...

My computer meets those specs, but i'm not sure about my graphics card and haven't got a clue how to check. All I know is that i've got two 128mb ATI Radeon 9250's...

Bearing in mind MOE, your pc uses only one for actual graphics afaik, the other's just for extra monitors. Umm, i'm pretty sure the 9250 is DirectX 8.1 only and it wouldn't be powerful enough to play it. Memory isn't everything as i've found out to my cost Hope this helps!

If you're an AGP guy like 95% of the people in the world then your best value/performance bet is the nVIDIA 7600GS/GT

256MB Palit 7600GS
http://scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo. ... tID=479171
£84.30 with delivery

There are 512MB 7600GSs avalible but if you go and spend more then you're better going with the 7600GT, atleast 50% more performance i've found at higher resolutions and settings

256MB Leadtek 7600GT
http://scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo. ... tID=462642
£136.00 with delivery

I'm not sure if my Radeon Mobility 9700 will cut it. It's only 128 mb, but assuming it meets the technical video requirements, my 2gb of system RAM will hand the rest, if not as gracefully.

To boot, it's a laptop. 2.8ghz P4. I might have to uninstall some things. 5gb free space is pretty killer.

On a related note, Tactical Assualt for the PSP got pushed back to November 14th due to two minor bugs. By minor, I mean really minor. If they made production, hardly anyone would have noticed. One of them was causing the system to reboot if you popped the disc and then exited the program. According to one of the devs, that only had a 1/2 second window of opportunity.

The DS version is out today, though. I'm sad about the PSP thing considering that's what I have My girlfriend actually went to gamestop today to pick it up too

tsk tsk tsk...

you guys with your 'out of the box' configuration. lame...

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overclocking is the way to go. Even for video cards. I even built custom heatsinks for my video cards and RAM. They were pretty easy to make too.

My Athalon XP 2700+ with 512 DDR out speeds brand new computers clocking in with dual core at 3.4ghz, and 1gb of RAM.

feel my awesomeness. Oh yes, and I even timed it. I user PI calculation to figure out the speed.

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If anyone had Live, and Legacy, youre going down.

might have to update my pc a little but not end of the world im more interested in if there will be a verson for PSP as im buying one for about £60-£99 and wouldnt mind knowing if it be out on it i know battlefront 2 is and thats nearly good enough lol

ihave no idea but heres my specs.

Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
BIOSTA
AWRDACPI
Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.8GHz
224MB RAM
DirectX 9.0c

AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.0Ghz) Processor -
Overclocked with a 155FSB & stock 15 multiplyer to 2325Mhz
Gigabyte G Power Cooler Pro HSF
2x 512mb 3200 DDR 400 RAM
1x 30gig Hard Drive 1x 40gig Hard Drive (Both Maxtor)
256mb nVIDIA Geforce FX 5500 Graphics Card -
Overclocked Core: 270-300Mhz & Overclocked Memory:400-430
CDRW/DVD Combo Drive
Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2

still using XP alright then.

Windows Vista RC2 - Build 5744
with DX10, .net 3.0

STOP PRESS
Star Trek Legacy has been put back to 15th December for UK release.

Nem you will find it hard to play latest games with just 512mb ddr ram. bf2 for instance needs 2gb to be smooth. Alot of games this past year needs 1gb to be smooth on highest details.

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My specs which considering i dont work is pretty impressive i'd say.

AMD 64 3500+ stock. (Tho have a arctic 64 pro cooler if i need to oc later)
2GB GEIL DDR (2.5,3,3,8 Timings @1T dual channel)
ASUS V9999GE (6800 256MB (equiv to a 6800gt almost)
Audigy 2 zs
19inch Hansol 930D monitor (really screwy with geometry when changing res tho so probably not the best monitor)
Maxtor 30gb
Maxtor DM10 200gb
dvdrw liteon 1783s

No game really runs slow except nwn2 (bad coding) and oblivion (demanding on any system really)

Cheap DDR RAM, I'm assuming your board can take DDR400 PC3200...

512MB Corsair Value Select DDR PC3200 (400) £37.59
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductI ... tID=237277

You could even just add in a 1GB module...

1Gb Corsair Value Select DDR PC3200 (400) £73,23
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductI ... tID=117457

Or flog the old RAM and buy a 2GB module...

2Gb (2X1Gb) Corsair Value Select DDR PC3200 (400) £156.65
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductI ... tID=217959

Just a few suggestions depending on your budget

HTH Chris

lol what are you getting it early Azh? US copy?

So to upgrade my 512DDR should be easy huh? I wonder if I can upgrade what is in the win 98 machine? Then again I'm an out of the box kinda guy so I'm afraid to do that type of stuff! lol

Share that cake Azh.... lol

but if your just going to be playing BOTF2, then 512 is good enough. I used 256 for years, and only 12 months ago did I upgrade to 512.

512 DDR is enough for any normal computer user. If you upgrade, you wont notice much difference other than maybe faster boot up time.

I should be getting Legacy on the 6th, I think. So, no - I didn't get any cake. Yet. I will next week

Nem i'm a bit surprised at that. I'm not a heavy PC user in Windows XP but i noticed as expected lodza lag with 512MB. Anyway any other hardware Qs, recommendations, advice wanted?