Do i have to play Fyros??

[3lement]

Well, personally, I've played alot of mmo's on a bunch of comps (some really crapy ones too), the terrain detail doesnt really effect me alot. But for you it may be different, but you should be fine.

[lundfoci]

Ok, my PC is Pentium 4 with 2.8 GHz, 512 DDR RAM,Windows XP and ATI Radeon 9600 with 256MB.

My own specs are close to yours and I played without lag. (Imagine I have to establish connection from Singapore to NA servers across the globe). Your machine definitely matched up the speed/requirements if not better. 512 RAM is fine. Just remember that if you faced unstability with graphics, remember to configure them into DirectX instead of OpenGL.

Unless you're using a 56k dial up connection, you'll be in for a solid MMO gaming experience.

[tayster]

I have pretty much the same system specs as you, and I've tried out each race so far, haven't noticed a difference in lag at all. I am on a T-1 line though, so that might make a difference

[miths999]

I was actually surprised when I decided to use Fraps to test my fps the other night. While Fairhaven (Tryker capital) as expected was hovering in the 10-15 range, out in the terrain I was often not much over 20, but somehow the game managed to feel a lot smoother without suffering noticably from choppy movement and animations (unlike a certain other game I gave up betatesting after a few days - even when I did reach 20 fps, at very low settings, smooth was not the word that sprung to mind ).

I run the game on a P4 2.6 with 1 Gb RAM (looks like this is almost a must in mmorpgs these days if you don't want to torture your harddrive and suffer from "stalls" when entering crowded areas) and a Geforce FX5900 XT.

Besides of course using high textures (128 Mb) I have most of the settings a bit above the middle. I could set them higher and do fine away from cities, but I do not want to bother lowering them every time I visit Fairhaven.
The degrade in quality with medium settings in this game is not harsh at all though, but has a great impact on performance.

I am a bit surprised by the couple of posts I have seen around with people on <2 GHz systems and Geforce 4s or similar finding the game to run smooth at highest settings (some of them apparantly even with AA and AF turned on). I am guessing they are still on the newbie island . Performance will most likely drop somewhat once you hit the mainland, but in general the game runs great.
And it is incredibly beautiful.

Oh, and regarding "lag". I think we are talking low or stuttering framerate (graphics "lag") and not actual net latency here. I think even a modem should do fine here - personally I use a 256 Kb line and I get no network related problems. What I do see is my graphics card struggling a bit now and then.