ultra tree 85!, on Jan 28 2007, 01:43 AM, said:
I wonder if I'll be able to run it on my 2 GHz machine with a 256mb Geforce 5500 and 512mb of system ram.
I think that is a bit unlikely considering that:
1)The Geforce FX series are really really bad cards.(Yours is not even listed as supported by Prey even though the Geforce 3 and 4 are listed as supported and the FX 5800 and FX 5900 are listed).
2) You processor is a 2 Ghz one and on the last report they where running it on "3-3.4ghz" processors and that was a year ago.
3)The game may very well require SM3.0 support like Rainbow Six Vegas. does(considering it will even likely ship 1-1½ years after that game and they 3DR have been running on mainly 6800's for 1-1½ if not longer already).
4)Even IF the game supports SM2.0 it may support SM2b only at that is the Radeon 9xxx optimized version, I don't
know if that will run at all on a FX series card.
5)You have a very limited amount of ram, 3DR are running with 2 GB's of ram that is 4x what you have.
6)Even if they support regular old SM2 it is simply not that simple in order to run the game your system including your graphics card needs to not only support all the non-option features it needs to be able to handle the texture resolution, polygon counts, etc used in the game. Likely it won't do that.
Edit:
7)There is also the issue of raw shader power, I have read somewhere(Wikipedia I think) that the FX series is a mix of Fixed Function, DX8 shader and DX9 shader hardware. DNF is a shader heavy game and when asked if it made a hardcore or mild use of shaders George's answer was that it was "hardcore".
Edit2:
8)I see you CPU and Ram just EXACTLY match the Prey minimum requirements making it HIGHLY unlikely that you will be able to play DNF with that rig.