Which System requirements do you think GW2 will need?!

[zetsuei]

To run like a smooth pimp daddy?!

I'll buy a Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4 Ghz Asus P5N32-E SLI
VGA: XFX Geforce 8800 GT Will it run at "top notch" (or full) graphics?! When it comes to GW2?! D:

[Pocho]

Hi, I have that pc, but my vga is MSI, but its about the same, and I'm pretty sure you wont have any problem running GW2. I don't think it will be more resource demanding than unreal engine games like AION, and I can run them at max(like any other game in the market).

If you want advice, buy a gygabyte P35C-DS3R motherboard, so you can upgrade your ram to ddr3 in the future if needed.

And no offense, but I don't know if the people who asks "I'm buying a super-pc, will it run game X?" really don't know or just want to show us how good their pcs will be, because is like saying I'm buying a porche, will I be able to visit my mother with it? :)

Excuse my english!!

[Aiiane]

Honestly, until ArenaNet releases their projected requirements, it's not even possible to give a ballpark guess as to what the recommended system specs will be.

If ArenaNet follows the same practices they did in the current Guild Wars, the engine will scale well on lower-end machines, but still have the capacity to look good on higher end machines.

I'd worry less about "will my machine be able to run GW2" and more about "what kind of machine can I afford to buy", because if it's anything like GW, GW2 won't be the next Crysis that runs horrible on anything except a top-notch system - even modest sub-$1000 computers can still run Guild Wars just fine now.

[Gorani]

Jeff Strain said in an interview last summer (I think it was on the GC in Leipzig), that they aim to make GW2 run on computers that are 3 years old the day GW2 hits the shelves.
If they can keep that prediction and GW2 gets out in 2009, it should still run on PCs from 2006.
And IIRC, GW2 will not require you to run a DX10 graphics card. It will work with DX9.

[NeHoMaR]

GW2 will have the same GW1 game engine. Just with better textures (you need more RAM for this), more detailed 3D bodies, environment and animations (you need better CPU and better GPU for this), open and bigger areas (more RAM, faster hard disk).

I think any medium computer this days will be able to play GW2.

[Ace Bear]

Unless my memory is failing me right now they said that the recommended would be the min for GW. Which the recommend is not that extreme to hit right now.

Back of EOTN box recommended:
Pent 4 2.0ghz
1GB ram
4 gb hard drive
Radeon 9600 or equivalent
16 bit Sound card

All of which aren't hard to get off the shelf at best buy for not that much money.