so i was planning on buying a rig that would eventually play diablo 3 and starcraft 2, but now im somewhat interested in playing warhammer online

i wanted this specs btw
e7200
4850
4gig

on the side note, do u think that rig would run diablo 3/sc2 on high settings? thanks

I dunno, i wasnt impressed with warhammer in the least, the graphics are lame, I dont like the combat system, and I dont like characters. but I didnt give it much of a chance ones I saw the graphics, it looks like Vanguard on lowest graphics settings.

I saw the graphics and it looked like a very poor WoW wanna be.

Why is it that people are so obsessed with graphics that they don't even bother to notice the gameplay? Truly sad.

I enjoy Warhammer Online quite a bit, but I am by no means a graphics snob so your mileage may vary.

As a note, we have several systems running this game. The weakest being a P4 3Ghz with a 7600GT and 2 gigs of ram. It can handle the game with decent framerate at decent graphical settings, but not really high. My main system is an early Core 2 Duo with an 8800GTS and 2 gigs of ram. It can handle warhammer maxed out easily.

I am a MMO fan and currently upgrading my rig to play WAR, i consider myself a bit of a grinding enthusiast though. Imo you should really want to play a game to justify a whole new setup for it.

Wouldnt bother upgrading for D3 or SC2 till theres some final specs.

If you want to splash some case make sure you can support SLI / Crossfire and Quad Cores, along with a Mobo that can take a lot of RAM 8mb plus perhaps

Warhammer is ace, Questing is easy and PvP / RVR is brilliant. I have been playing for 2 weeks now and love it. Before that I played LOTR which is very very pretty, (blows WOW outta the water). Graphics arent everything and personally with Warhammer running on my 4870 it looks pretty damn good to me. I just blew £1200 on a new rig to allow my to play all the latest titles along with DX10 games (bring on Left4Dead and Battlefield3).
Warhammer can be played on low spec machines as well so if all you are gonna play is this then no need to upgrade. If you are flogging the last out of an old pc (like I was) go for an E8400 (you dont need quad core for gaming really) 4GB ram, a decent mobo (Asus) and anything from a 4850 up. (personally i would say go for the 4870).
Try warhammer its ace!! (and the characters are cool too, Im a bright wizard with lots of kicka$$ firespells)
Enjoy!

"My main system is an early Core 2 Duo with an 8800GTS and 2 gigs of ram. It can handle warhammer maxed out easily "

yo im wondering if this laptop could run warhammer on decent settings with high fps
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspag [...] 1587727985

That laptop would run it perfectly.

really?

To OP, only you can answer if a new rig is worth the cost. Me personally, I really like WAR, way better than WoW and I thought the graphics, while not the main thing for me were not nearly LOTRO but definitely a little better than WoW. To me WoW=saturday morning cartoon with low poly count and WAR=little more realisitc looking environment and higher (although not massively so) poly count.

As for the laptop above, yes that laptop should run the game just fine. I am looking at it myself the last few weeks and seriously considering getting it for gaming when traveling.

Peace.

I too have an 8800 gts and 2gigs of ram and warhammer online does look good.

my only problem is when 100 (might be a little exaggerated) people show up to keep battles i start lagging and frame rate drops significantly, how could i improve this??

@ stickdiggler: lower your graphics settings when entering huge rvr / pvp areas or get a better graphics card.
I had the same issues with LOTRO and 7900GS, everything very pretty until I went to the PVP area (Ettenmoores) where everything would grind to a halt, I had to lower my settings to very low and then would get 20frames per sec with approx 100 chars on screen.
BTW my new card a 4870 handles all that easily with no lag and all shiny effects turned on.

i do have the settings on 'fastest frame rate'

is the GTX 280 better then the 4870?

Do not build a new system for Warhammer Online. The graphics on Warhammer online are so poor no matter what card you have. It was not made for eye candy. My 7800GTX handles this game on my 24" monitor just about as good as my ati 4870. Do not waste your time on a video card that is over $150 for this game, it won't make a difference. My 4780 kicks 80-90 FPS on this game but that doesn't matter with RPG's. The graphics and gameplay are still "mediocre" the detail very poor. The only cool detail i see is on the characters nekkid bodies lol...

Processor: E8400 (4.0Mhz)
Motherboard: GA-P35-DS3L
GPU: Diamond ATI 4870
Ram: 4 gig Crucial Ballistix Tracers (4x1)
Case:Antec 900
PSU: 550watt
Monitor: 24" Samsung LCD 2443BWX (1900x1200 resolution).

OMG! I saw a warhammer demo @ a convention and the first thing I noticed was the absolutely stunning graphics, lol. I don't know what you people are talking about. I was thinking to myself, yes they have the graphics, but does it play good? LOL. Maybe you saw it totally turned down on the lowest settings or something?

I like the game personally. It's very pvp (rvr) centric though so if you don't want to pvp, it's going to be mediocre. The gameplay will be as good as your guild makes it since the end game is focused on fighting vs real people.

Gamespot has a decent equipment guide, but basically I'll sum it up by saying that this game is more CPU dependent than video card dependent. There was huge difference in performance between 1 and 2 gigs or ram, and there doesn't appear to be a huge difference beyond 2 gigs.