GRAW PC demo

By Tom Bramwell Published 27 April, 2006

Gpolished!

With Xbox 360 owners now thoroughly clued in to what Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter's like thanks to single and multiplayer demos, Ubisoft's decided to give PC gamers a crack at it with a 509MB showcase.

Available from Eurofiles, the demo features the game's second mission, allowing you to play it alone or with three other people over a LAN if you fancy some co-op. Recommended specs for the demo are a P4 2GHz, GeForce 6/7 or Radeon 9600-9800, 1GB RAM and 5GB hard disk space - although we fancy the latter's for the full game rather than the demo.

Anyway, the full version of the PC game's due out on May 5th, which is good news for my Mum's whose birthday it is then. Should I get her GRAW? Or some flowers and some lefty pinko literature about the government's radically anti-owl agenda?

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Comments (17) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Talha #1 6 years ago

    Currently downloading the demo. A little worried - I've only got Athlon 2.0 GHz and 768 MB of RAM. Still, with a 7900GT, I think it should run fine. Here's hoping.

  • Subquest #2 6 years ago

    You should get away with that amount of RAM, but your CPU will cause a severe bottleneck and limit the performance of the 7900GT - which for such an expensive card is really lame.

    My guess is you have a socket A CPU, which comes in two forms - 333 or 400MHz. If your motherboard only supports 333Mhz, then the Athlon XP range goes up to around 2400+ whilst I think the Sempron range goes upto 3000+. If you can fit a 400Mhz CPU then the Athlon XP range goes up to 3200+.

    Socket A is being phased out, so check ebay.

  • Darren #3 6 years ago

    God, what a huge disappointment the PC game is... poor Cross-Com graphics, feeble A.I., slow movement and no support for anti-aliasing. I'm glad I decided against pre-ordering it... the 360 version, although far from perfect, is ten times more enjoyable to play, moves faster and looks better graphically.

  • Darren #4 6 years ago

    A 256MB GeForce 6800 GT and I'm using the ForceWare 84.43 beta drivers.

  • Talha #5 6 years ago

    @Subquest : thanks for making my day (grrrr...). My version of Athlon is 3000+. a 754-pin setup. Does that help?
    Edited by Talha at 27/04/06 @ 10:39

  • alithebull #6 6 years ago

    'anti-owl agenda'

    - very topical tom, well done....
    nice to know you all keep up with the news! (although its actually chickens they're culling...)

    ........

  • Moonprince #7 6 years ago

    6800 and you are saying it looks bad...

  • NoQuarter #8 6 years ago

    Talha, an Athlon64 3000 is fine for this. An Athlon XP at that speed wouldn't have though.

  • Darren #9 6 years ago

    Quote: "800 and you are saying it looks bad..."

    I didn't say it looked bad, just that the game, or rather the demo itself is disappointing. The 360 version looks better than the game does on my PC at max. settings 1280x1024... textures are better (even though they're not all that great on the 360) and, of course, the 360 can do HDR lighting and anti-aliasing so it doesn't look quite the jag-fest that the PC version does.

    Playing the game, made me think I was playing a higher-resolution version of the Xbox version, which also shares the same first person weapon viewpoint...

  • coojam #10 6 years ago

    Please don't tell me you can play the NORMAL missions on Co-Op...thats the only thing that would make the PC version better, but boy would it make it better!

  • smoison #11 6 years ago

    Co-op is an awesome feature to put in a 3D shooter!

    I have to test this, playing this on a consol would be like playing tennis with a ping pong racket for me. I need my sexy blue mouse!

  • coojam #12 6 years ago

    Oh yeh I love co-op, but have the 360 version lol...the co-op in that is brilliant, but doing the actual single player missions woulda been so much better!

  • kangarootoo #13 6 years ago

    Different teams, different engines, it would have been nice if they could have shared maps but they seem to have been built pretty much in isolation from each other.

  • coojam #14 6 years ago

    Oh yeh I was aware of that, just the way the news sounded about the PC version suggested differently

  • Talha #15 6 years ago

    I rather think this whole thing is clever. The same game is generating buzz twice, for different platforms.

  • smoison #16 6 years ago

    Just played this demo, DAMN its BUGGY!

    Had several crashes to desktop, and even found an invisible "whole" in the ground in the level.

    This is a shame, I was expecting a finished product, this is far from that.

  • GitSomE_UK #17 6 years ago

    Downloaded and had no problems with it, quality game IMO great graphics.

    I've got a P4 3.06. 1GB RAM. X800 XT playing @ 1280 x 1024, 4x Antialiasing and everything switched to max. No jags, jerks or anything.

    Think it's one to purchase now I've seen the demo, good to see the visual effects used on the 360 are in use here (Shockwaves from explosions etc although saying that the heat shimmer isn't here :( )
    Edited by GitSomE_UK at 30/04/06 @ 20:23