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Posted September 10, 2018
Exceedingly disappointed to buy the Bard's Tale Trilogy with being an avid fan since about 1986 when I was a teenager and discovered the game only to find it won't run on my i5 430. I didn't even consider that a game(s) that I played on a computer in the 80s with less capability than my calculator would run it before checking min. requirements.

Wicked bummed out.....now I'll have to wait for the console version to play BT4. How is it that this is so? I know the game(s) had to be reprogrammed from scratch but the processing power needed to run these three seem crazy!

Sorry - not a bash by any means....just wicked bummed out right now.
Posted September 10, 2018
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Tansao: Exceedingly disappointed to buy the Bard's Tale Trilogy with being an avid fan since about 1986 when I was a teenager and discovered the game only to find it won't run on my i5 430. I didn't even consider that a game(s) that I played on a computer in the 80s with less capability than my calculator would run it before checking min. requirements.

Wicked bummed out.....now I'll have to wait for the console version to play BT4. How is it that this is so? I know the game(s) had to be reprogrammed from scratch but the processing power needed to run these three seem crazy!

Sorry - not a bash by any means....just wicked bummed out right now.
Because the underpinnings now have much higher overhead. Resolutions are MUCH higher; the graphics really look good. It runs at 1920x1200 (maybe higher, I didn't check), in 32 bit color...so right there we're talking close to 100x the memory.

And I don't mean to bash, but that system's way out of date. I'm not even sure there's drivers for DX 10...or Windows 10. Mind, if it is still running Win 7...that'd be a keeper for that reason alone. Win 10 has a MUCH harder time running older games.

Unfortunately...here, only the data is old. The guts are brand spankin' new.
Posted September 18, 2018
I'm probably in the same view. I'm on my Macbook Pro, and while I can Boot Camp it's the 2010 version so there's no 2 GB VRAM to rely on, so I can run a lot but can't run Witcher 2 or this game.

I'm patient though. I'm curious to see how the console release goes.
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