I love these games, have done since I totally fell in love with Dungeon Master on the Amiga, closely followed by Eye of the Beholder.

I've been putting off buying this as I heard its coming out for the ipad but I saw the sale today and thought I simply cannot pass on that.

Sadly looking at the minimum specs it seems I cannot play it. awwwwww :(

GoG list 2.8ghz as min cpu but mine is 2.6 soooo close to so far dammit :(

I finished it just fine on a 2.66ghz core 2 duo notebook from 2009. With a nvidia 9600 M (mobile) GPU, sporting a mere 256 meg of vram.

I ran it on medium settings generally, at 1280x720 resolution with high textures.

If you wait for an ipad release it could be a year or more off. Which is strange because I feel they'd make more money from it than from PC sales if they priced it right. Its just not their focus right now. They're very much focused on the editor, and a couple of new tile sets.

Thanks for the post but your on intel 2.6ghz, the min specs say intel 2ghz or amd 2.8ghz.

I'm on amd 2.6. actually its quite astounding that amd cpu's are so so poor that they need 40% more speed to do the same job! wow.. :(

I am running on 2.5 and a really old card. Works slow but still works. Lowered everything to medium, might try on low.

But it's slower than the attack snails!

Don't know if this helps, but I am running it on an XP desktop that I built several years ago, that has an Athlon dual core 2.6ghz, and an NVidia GeForce 7600 (256mb). Have 2GB ram, and I am running the game @ max with no problems at all. One thing I did do quite some time ago, was increase the page file (virtual memory) a lot...think I have it around 8000mb or so, and have pretty much been able to run just about any game I want near max settings :)

Thanks for all the help

Sadly I bought it but its a slideshow even on all low settings, borderline unplayable but totally unplayable when theres an enemy or two around.

I've had to uninstall it. Pity GoG don't do refunds otherwise I'd be asking for one..

real shame, I've loved these games since The Bards Tale and Dungeon Master.

Bummer...sorry to hear that buddy :-(. Perhaps it'll still be on your "shelf" for some point in the future, when you are able to do a computer upgrade....

I remember buying Stalker and a few other titles in Steam's first big winter sale a few years ago...on a terrible laptop that had no hope of ever running anything beyond Alpha Centauri. So I feel your pain, but it was worth the eventual upgrade -- and so is Grimrock.

That's what I hope to do in the fairly near future. I am eying a gaming computer on New-egg.

LoG is only GPU bound, your CPU speed is fine. ATI/AMD cards which are 4-5 years old might have some problems (e.g. HD2xxx & HD3xxx series) because of their internal architecture which is not well fitting to the LoG usage. LoG is running in general better with Nvidia cards. So everyone with performance problems should consider a cheap upgrade of just the GPU (used cards on ebay around 50 $). A 4-5 years value nvida card or a 3 years old (or newer) value ATI card should do fine. The hard requirement on the GPU is the shader 3.0 support.

Here is a grimrock forum thread about below spec setups and their LoG performance: http://www.grimrock.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2358, here is a report of a P4 setup with a archaic (5 years old) geforce-8 series card whcih runs LoG with 120fps (http://www.grimrock.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2738&p=28235&hilit=nvidia#p28235). Zoltan999 some posts up reported (http://www.gog.com/en/forum/legend_of_grimrock/wish_i_could_play/post7) even a NVidia GeForce 7600 (256mb) running fine ;). There are reports (Porkdish, LoG forum) that LoG worked well with a Nvidia ION integrated chipset GPU (called also 9600 M like in Porkdishs notebook).

Also, you can try to play LoG below the minimum official resolution, which offers a significant FPS gain. You have to set in the My Documents\Almost Human\Legend of Grimrock\grimrock.cfg manually the windowed mode (displayMode =2) and the resolution you like e.g. 800x600 (resolution ="800 x 600"). Restart the game, the game should work fine, but some menu are glitches are possible.

good luck!