rumours are rumours as nothing has been released as to what the system specs will be, but here is a recent interview that gives us a glimpse as to what Zenimax is shooting for. Article found at tamriel foundry
TF:We have heard from several developers that ESO is designed to run smoothly on most PCs and Macs purchased within the last 4-5 years. That’s a pretty broad range of specifications to hit. Can you give any details about how the engine scales to compensate for lower (or higher) performance settings?
DD:It was important to us from the beginning that it played on almost all reasonable machines. As expected, it doesn’t look exactly the same as it does on higher-end machines, but you can play it smoothly and have fun. We want everyone to be able to experience the game, even if you are on your laptop. On older systems, we still support DX9 for Windows XP.
TF:For gaming enthusiasts who own cutting edge hardware, can you talk about what the ESO engine does to take advantage of multiple-core CPUs or linked graphics cards on Crossfire or SLI? Is it correct that ESO has full DirectX 11 support?
DD:On Windows Vista, 7, and 8, we have a full Direct X 11 renderer. It was critical for us to have an engine that could grow and support the latest features, and that anyone with modern machines would get the best possible performance even on launch day.
Massive alliance war battles get a big boost from multiple cores – there is a ton of CPU work to deal with that much action. On the graphics hardware front, we work very closely with both nVidia and ATI on supporting their high-end parts.
My rig will handle recommended specs. It can't be more demanding then Crysis 3 and I can dial up some pretty good visual effects since I mainly play at 720p anyway. Though this sounds more cpu intensive then gpu. Crossing my fingers for beta invite.
I swear I am growing sychotic from how slow they are releasing information on this game! Gimmie gimmie gimmie! They had a news article on their website today captioned 'Witness a siege on Cyrodil..."! I was like "NO WAY!" so i clicked on it and it was just some lame artist portrait turned into a wallpaper. I wondered if they wanted to give me a purple nurple too?
rumours are rumours as nothing has been released as to what the system specs will be, but here is a recent interview that gives us a glimpse as to what Zenimax is shooting for. Article found at tamriel foundry
http://tamrielfoundry.com/2013/03/interview-dan-dunham/
Also first round of beta invites go out near the end of March. Ya, thats this month.
Fingers crossed!
My rig will handle recommended specs. It can't be more demanding then Crysis 3 and I can dial up some pretty good visual effects since I mainly play at 720p anyway. Though this sounds more cpu intensive then gpu. Crossing my fingers for beta invite.
That guy is saying that they think this should run smoothly on most computers sold in the last 4-5 years.
I am fairly certian that nothing is more demanding than Crysis 3. Maybe Metro but that is about it.
I swear I am growing sychotic from how slow they are releasing information on this game! Gimmie gimmie gimmie! They had a news article on their website today captioned 'Witness a siege on Cyrodil..."! I was like "NO WAY!" so i clicked on it and it was just some lame artist portrait turned into a wallpaper. I wondered if they wanted to give me a purple nurple too?
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/19/the-elder-scrolls-online-just-might-be-awesome
in game footage!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hD-t_GvYBv4
holy crap a load of great info to be found here. Watch the video on crafting!
http://tamrielfoundry.com/2013/03/press-coverage-roundup/