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[Lengo]

I see nothing on the official page at ubisoft about system requirements. What are they? Also, s the game multi-threaded?

Also, what is this about the DRM? Can you play offline when the server is down?

[City Builder]

As far as the DRM goes, and as far as I recall, No, you can't play Settlers 7 when their servers are down, which means ultimately that your computer that you're playing it on must be connected to the Internet to be able to play.

When you say multi-threaded, do you mean 'does the game use multi cpu cores?  If so, then I think it's like the other 95% of games in that it doesn't.  It seems to me that many if not most developers have never fully adopted taking advantage of muti core cpu's for some reason.

Requirements:
OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
Processor: 2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 / AMD XP 2600+ or better (Intel Core 2 Duo / AMD Athlon 64 X2 recommended)
Memory: 2 GB (4 GB recommended)
Graphics: 256 MB DirectX 9.0c-compliant, Shader 3.0-enabled video card (512 MB recommended)(*see supported list)
DirectX®:
Hard Drive: 8 GB
Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compliant sound card
Peripherals Supported: Windows-compliant keyboard and mouse
Internet Connection: Broadband Internet connection with 128 kbps upstream or faster
Supported Video Cards at Time of Release:
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 / 8 / 9 / GT / GTS / GTX series
ATI Radeon X1900 / HD 2000 / HD 3000 / HD 4000 / HD 5000 series

[Lengo]

Well, since it says Core 2 Duo or Athlon X2, I assume that there is at least some multi-threading going on. And though it says in supported video cards Geforce 7800, I have a 7600 and it should run without the fancy high settings (moderate settings would suit me). But I'm very concerned about downtime due to their server crashes or server load.

How much downtime have you people experienced? I don't want to buy this to have it continually fail on me.

Also, is this better than Settlers 6 Gold: RoE + Eastern Empires? How do they differ?

One thing is for sure: I'll buy a boxed version. I'm not gonna buy a download and risk not getting manuals. And for either game, it sure looks like making a map is WORK, not play.

p.s. Soon, very soon (probably next month), I'm buying an AMD Propus 635 (X4 @ 2.9 Ghz) and a no-frills mainboard (MSI 770T-C45) for Photoshop CS3 and video making. This *should* rock some games too, so I want games that will.

[City Builder]

That's just what they say in requirements to guage the CPU, if the game wasn't as intense it would simply say something like Pentium 4, the Core 2 duo and Athalon X2 are going to be more powerful than the single core Pentium and Athalon.  If I'm wrong, somebody please state so, but I'm pretty positive that the game doesn't take advantage of more than one core.

I experienced only a small amount of downtime when the game was first released, but I haven't played it now since about 30 days after it was released so I don't know if it's gotten better or worse, somebody else please chime in that is still playing it.

As far as S6 or The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom, different games really, but my preference was S6 as it allowed the users to create their own scenarios/maps although the GUI in The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom is far superior to S6 in my opinion.  We can't make maps in The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom unfrotunately, in S6 it really wasn't much trouble at all and we could make some beautiful looking maps.

Someone else please chime in on your experience.

[Lengo]

Thanks, CB. I wait for more responses. But since they recommend a two core processor, I'll go with the recommendation. It gives me more excuse to buy the X4. 

Bruce Shelly (Age of Empires fame) came on board for Settlers 7. I assume that the user interface will be very good on this 'cause its' so good on the Age series.

Which one I decide on, I'll let you know. Thanks for your input.