Minimum RequirementsPentium-III 800MHz
128 MB 3D accelerator VGA card
512 MB
9.0c
Pentium-IV 1.5GHz
GeForce2 MX / Radeon 7000
512 MB
9.0cRecommended RequirementsPentium-IV 2.0GHz
128 MB 3D accelerator
1024 MB
9.0cAs is officially... As you can see, the primary concerns would be CPU and RAM requirements. Even so, I've seen people with FAR FAR lower specced rigs who'd reported NO issues in play.
The best habit is TURN OFF EVERY BG apps and run .bat files to TURN OFF those unnecessary Windows services BEFORE game play. And 'eye candy' is USELESS if you can't enjoy a title properly, remember that. In my case, I'm only annoyed when going in and out of towns, my rig can't take took much of those AFK players but I'll note that it was FAR lighter back in iSRO days. *shrugs*
I highly doubt if the rest with leeter rigs even set anything at the highest settings anyway, because they won't wanna gamble on the client-side when it's erratic enough on the network side. Especially for us TMNut Screamyx people. On the other hand, search for previous posts by sniperwolf and look at his sig and you'll notice that his rig can more than take on 90% of ANY p2p or f2p titles out there but the current 'curse' is the bandwidth problem.
It's more on the time zone basis and it's not really that bad, depending on when you want to fit it in your schedules.
I'm having fun 'rerolling' (LOL.. might seem weird to you guys/gals but hey?) because I'm more inclined to start over after Epic III. So I'll be changing from my primary IGN and I'll be shouting "Any LYN lowbies wanna party?" or sanything with 'lyn' in it, look out for that from time to time.
GG and HF.