Will these specs run The Witcher 2?


2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3820 (10M Cache, Overclocked up to 4.1 GHz)

Memory

8GB (4 X 2GB) Quad Channel DDR3 at 1600MHz

Video Card

NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680 2GB GDDR5

Hard Drive

1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3Gb/s

CD ROM/DVD ROM

Single Drive: Dual Layer Blu-ray Reader (BD-ROM, DVD±RW, CD-RW)

Sound Card

Creative Sound Blaster® Recon3D PCIe Audio Sound Card

Belkin 12-Outlet Surge Protector with 10 ft Power Cord with Telephone Protection

Bose Companion 2 Series II Multimedia Speaker System

klingklang

No, your GPU is pretty slow, and has very little memory.
Also, you don't have an SSD, which is going to cause massive slowdows.
The CPU is okay, but the ram should really be 1866mhz, 1600mhz just won't cut it for this game.

Sorry.

I'll have to contradict the last post. My specs are lower than yours and I run The Witcher 2 quite sufficiently with a few tweaks in the graphics settings. You should be just fine.

Of course it will run the game, ignore the first poster, he's probably either a graphic fag (has to run absolutely everything at max) or a pretty bad troll (being stupid and saying dumb shit isn't called trolling you know, at least it didn't use to be like that)

I can run TW2 on my T400/w switchable gpu (only changed ram to 8GB, everything else is stock)

Also, I'm playing it on an HDD instead of SSD, and I notice absolutely no slowdowns.

Lucky you :) See if you start noticing slowdowns or loading delays when you get to Flotsam (the Act I town). Being able to play through Act I without seeing loading delays would be impressive indeed.

I'm about halfway through Flotsam, and it does stop to load every now and again actually, but not enough to be annoying. I thought he was talking about lag.

Thanks for all the responses!
I have ordered the machine -(it's an Alienware Aurora) and it's on it''s way.
I can't wait to play the game!

klingklang

You guys do realize the first reply is probably sarcasm right?

Sarcasm and irony, don't work as well as in real life over the internet, and that needs to be in mind, when you try and play clever

And I need to agree with people, stupid thing to buy an Alienware, could probably make a better computer with better parts for a lot less money by using Newegg or Amazon

I agree, you should have built your own computer :/. It's not as hard as it first appears.

While we're on the subject. I want to improve my computer. It's home build like all the computers I've owned. I just wonder which parts should be considered upgraded. I know my memory is on the low end and it would be the first thing on my improvement list. Anyway it got the following:


Intel Core i3 540 @3.07 Ghz
Main board: Asus P7P55D LE
Memory: DDR 3 Dual. 2x2 gb which makes up for a total of 4.00 GB ram.
Graphics: Radeon HD 5830 - 1024 Mbytes - GDDR5

I've played the Witcher 2 on high settings but in Loc Muinne I noticed at a certain area it would load forever and just freeze. Also clicking on load game or auto loading takes quite a while. Might that be a memory issue? I know when I play the witcher 2 I don't have that much memory left.

Not much of a good upgrade path, I'm afraid. Obsolete CPU and motherboard (there is no socket compatibility between Nehalem and later CPUs), graphics card is OK but many better are available. You can get a lot more RAM very cheaply. If the case, power supply, and disks are worth keeping, you're looking at a total guts transplant.

Problems on loading are sometimes due to accumulating a large number of saves. Clearing out all but a few saves at critical points is helpful.

Yeah, my computer is 4 years old now I think. Didn't know it was a lost case. Oh well, I can still play anything I want so it's good for now. I was just curious. I bought a very good graphic card back then, obviously there are many better nowadays but it get's the job done. Thanks for the reply.