I do wonder about culling though......If every class can Spec into stealth if he/she chooses.(if specced into it). If 30-40 player's are popping in and out of stealth, I find it hard to believe your computer will be able to render those character models fast enough. Just look at gw2 ATM, there is hardly any stealth in that game and the culling is horrible.

I might just be using my 60" HDTV as my monitor for this game. Been avoiding doing that so far as I'm worried about a static UI burning an image in over long use, but with there being no/minimal static UI for ESO.... might need to use the epic TV for it

I just purchased a PC for $480 US with an AMD A8 processor 3.2ghz Quad Core and 6gb DDR3 RAM. I also purchased a GTX 550 Ti for $100 which makes it so I can run Skyrim at max settings, but I was actually able to run Skyrim well enough with the onboard graphics to my great surprise.

I have no doubts that'll be able to run this game.

Nooo wait a minute they are using the Hero Engine ? You have to be kidding me this is a realy bad engine from past experience in mmo's.

No, they're not using it.

no they used the hero engine first up till the point they have coded their own engine

why wait for the engine if simple things can be started with a different engine?

do u know how much time/work it takes to create an engine? plus the tools the game creators are using to put everythign together?

edit: i think i have even heard they used the hero engine, to look at a mmo engine befor building their own? could be wrong tho

My pc gamer friend helped me put together a rig this passed summer. This is what he put together for me:

processor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16819115072

CD drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16827135204

hard drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16822136697

mother board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16813131834

RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820231277

graphics card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16814130604

power supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16817152028

All these compenents cost me almost 770 USD, but this doesn't include the 125-dollar case another friend of mine gave me for free, nor the other peripherals like a monitor, speakers, mouse and keyboard. The only game I've played on it that I haven't been able to run max settings on is PlanetSide 2, but you need a really good pc to run that cranked all the way up.

NEVER go for a no-name brand Power Supply. And I mean, NEVER. ALWAYS purchase from a reputable manufacture like Corsair or OCZ

just as a side note, windows 8 is just fine the only thing about a new OS like that is that drivers need to catch up with it...Personally if I was buying a system right now, though I don't need one cause the one I have is fine, I would get windows 7 because its been out longer then windows 8 so it will work better with most games.

Anyway my brother has his own computer consulting and repair business and if I ever need a new PC I just get him to build it for me..http://www.kdbsystems.com/

Hey guys I am strictly ps3 so I know nothing about gaming pc's so I need a little help. Ever since I've heard about this game I've been wanting a gaming pc. Not desktop though. How much would I be spending to get one, a decent one. I really want to be sitting on the couch or in bed playing this game. Will this game even work good a laptop. Should I look at a Mac? What's a good company to start looking at. Also should I wait until release to buy it or if I but it soon will it still be able to run this game. Thanks for any help.

Who's gonna be playing this on a laptop.

I just bought a desktop.

For a laptop there should be a pretty big variety you can buy.

Check Tiger Direct.

Without System Requirements no one can really say what Will be able to play it. They've said they're going to make it so that a large variety of laptops can run it. Thus any quasi-new laptop has a good chance of running it.

I just bought a Intel i5...so something with an i3 could probably run it. If you've got money to spend you can go for an i7, but that'll be more than a thousand

You would spend nearly double on a laptop that has the same specs as a desktop that would play ESO at med - high. Go for a desktop.

Unless you've got money to burn, I agree.

If you do have money to burn...

Look at Tiger Direct - Laptops and Desktops - Gaming Desktops

New Egg - Same thing

and perhaps even Alienware. I'm not really sure if they're particularly good or not, but they're certainly expensive.

I feel kind of bad about this, but I have both a laptop (for school) and a desktop, both almost exactly the same price, and the Desktop is phenomenally better gaming wise. You're going to spend a pretty hefty price if you're expecting to play on mid/high level graphics on a laptop. My 600ish$ one probably could run it on low, whilst my 500$ desktop could, depending on how great the graphics are in TESO, would more than likely be able to run it on highest. If you are only purchasing a computer for gaming, there's no reason to not get a desktop. No matter how much you put into a laptop, a desktop will always be better because of screen size and resolution.

I was looking at the razor for 2500

Oh.. if you have that kind of money to spend, then yeah your could easily get away with running TESO, but I don't know anything about the razor so I can't give advice based on that.

Just look up whatever laptop you're interested in on youtube.

Try Razor (put in all the specifics, like Alienware Razor 3 500gigawattz or whatever) Crysis 2

If your laptop can run Crysis 2 or GTAIV with ENB and whatnot...you're probably golden for ESO. Super golden.

Yeah a good gaming laptop will cost you a looooot more than a desktop. But if you got the dough check out places like Tiger Direct or the more renown (and expensive) Alienware. Dell makes gaming laptops as well but I have no experience with those.

Thanks. I didn't realize gaming pc's could be so cheap that's why I said 2500. How little can I actually spend if I got a desktop. Running ESO

Hard to say. Partly because I've no experience in regard to gaming laptops, and partly because there aren't any System Requirements out.

I'd recommend going to a site like Tiger Direct, New Egg, or Alienware and picking out a few models at a few different price points.

Then just search around the Internet or even just Youtube for Reviews and people playing different games with those laptops.

Let me just add...

I just bought (last week) a Desktop that should be able to max out any game out right now. It cost me just under $800 counting shipping from across the country. I could have gone cheaper too if I didn't mind not maxing stuff. To me I figured if I'm spending $500 to play it on Medium let me just spend another $300 to max it out and have some future proofing.

I just recently made a gaming desktop with a six core 3.8 Ghz CPU, 16gb's of Ram, 1TB HDD, a Gigabyte 990UDA motherboard, a 760w PSU, a CM Storm Enforcer Mid-Tower Case, and a Gigabyte 7970 GPU for about $1,400.00 This computer will run Crysis 3 without any hickups and will more then out perform ESO.

I can run three SWTOR clients on the highest settings no problem what so ever.

Hope this helps

Good lord.

Dell bought Alienware a decade ago They're just two product lines of the same company now.

Last year, I bought a (then) all-but-top-tier desktop gaming PC from iBuyPower... which is a good option for anybody who wants to be able to specify every detail of every component but doesn't want to build it themselves, and who wants a warranty on the whole system. Since companies like that order lots of parts, it can even be cheaper to buy from them than to put it together yourself. Was about $1000 and I had a great experience with them. (Hint: if you choose one step down from the top of the line, you get a much better price for almost as much capability. And the only bits you really need to spend on are CPU, graphics card and memory; for everything else, average or below is fine.) I think they have laptops too, can't speak to those though.

Having said that, ESO is an MMO... any modern single-player game is going to require a lot more performance than it will. So you don't need top specs for it. A top of the line machine is only worth it if you play other games.

And forget Mac Many games come out much later for it than for PC, and some never do.

Its pretty awesome haha.

I started using my laptop instead of my desktop and though its not quite as powerful its nice to kick back in a comfortable chair with the monitor right up close. This one is about 3 years old so Im thinking about getting a new one. So far Im looking at the

dell inspiron 17R special for $1099
Intel? Core? i7-3630QM (6MB cache, up to 3.4Ghz)
17.3" Full High Definition (1080p) LED Display with Anti-Glare
8GB1 Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz
1TB 5400RPM SATA HDD + 32GB mSATA SSD w/ Intel Smart Response
8X Tray Load CD/DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M GDDR5 2GB