PC Specs - Should I be concerned?

[BeardedGent]

I, in a total lapse of thoughtfulness, didn't even think to check the system requirements of Defiance prior to pre-order. I've played WoW for years and even Guild Wars 2 quite well so I never thought anything of it. My PC's certainly not the newest. It's running hardware that's about 5 years old now. Anyway, looking at System Requirements Lab, I can see that my PC is about half-way to recommended but over minimum. What's odd about this is that if I go to the recommended tab, I can see that it recommends a CPU speed of 2.4Ghz (i5 or equivalent) while my system is running a Q6600 2.4Ghz. So my CPU speed is actually the recommended speed, it's just a slightly older CPU. Same thing with my video card. It's wanting a pixel shader and vertex shader of 4.0, which I have, and a dedicated video ram of 1024MB. I have that as well. Again, it's just an older card than what it recommends. I had to throw in a cheap replacement card recently after my old card burnt out so I'm running a 9800GT.

So, TL;DR? What sort of performance can I expect? I'm betting on fairly lowish settings. I'll probably end up turning the shadows down quite a bit, and perhaps grass effects as well. I do like to turn my draw distance all the way up though. I'm a fan of seeing as far ahead of me as I can. Anyone with similar hardware who played beta and can give me some idea?

[Nelson2011]

Well your above the minimum specs and the q6600 is still great cpu and that 9800gt should give you enough gpu power...

[Prophet of Entropy]

short answer, no. remember PCs use pretty much the same client as consoles, just different servers.

[GT3000]

You should run Defiance with flying colors. After looking over your specs I expect you to run high at native with no issues.

[Exes]

I was playing on fairly moderate/high settings in the beta with a 2.2 ghz quadcore and a gtx 260 with 896 mb and had zero issues. You should be perfectly fine (and only 4gb ram).

[BeardedGent]

Good to know. Thanks guys (and gals, if any of you are of the lady gender).

[Maishogg]

I was able to play defiance on my Surface pro with a little choppiness now and then. Think you'll be fine.

[Avenger]

The Q6600 was a good CPU, and I only replaced mine last year because a good offer came up. Plenty of guides available for overclocking it if you want a bit more power out of it but don't want to replace it just yet.

[GT3000]

I was able to play defiance on my Surface pro with a little choppiness now and then. Think you'll be fine.

Seriously? What settings?

[Xithryl]

I was able to play defiance on my Surface pro with a little choppiness now and then. Think you'll be fine.

haha thats freaking BA man, kudos