Warhammer shiii

Well, Warhammer finally came out and I picked it up. So far my first impressions are mixed, which unfortunately is not an encouraging sign for me. It's a decently well-made game with some neat concepts and the execution is, for the most part, pretty solid. I like that you can level up through PvP. I like the real feel of "war" that lives throughout the game.

However, the game barely fucking runs on my PC*. OK, I know, I have a shitty computer, but after playing WoW for so long with pretty good performance, I at least expected to be able to run WAR. Well, I can, barely. On all LOW settings, I still lag and hang around 20 FPS. The game often freezes when new enemies appear on screen, and it almost always freezes when something attacks me.

It's very frustrating and has made me not want to log in the last few days, but I did just order some new Memory so I'm hoping that helps with the problem.

If that doesn't work? Unfortunately, I can't upgrade my PC any further than that, and I'm not sure if the game has hooked me in enough to want to put up with bad performance/crashes. I feel bad because I know some people playing it, and I don't want to quit so soon, like I did with Age of Conan. In my defense, AoC was even worse in performance and ran at 10 FPS...

So at this point, I'm not sure. I had some higher expectations for the game's overall fun-factor, I was hoping it would really suck me in and hook me. I haven't been excited over a game's release since Phantasy Star Universe's release was such a big fucking piece of shit.




* = Processor:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory:
1024MB RAM
Hard Drive:
500 GB
Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
Sound Card:
SB X-Fi Audio [CF00]
Speakers/Headphones:
Sony USB Media Headset
Keyboard:
Razer Tarantula
Mouse:
Logitech G7
Operating System:
Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)