Company of Heroes is the type of game hardware manufacturers absolutely adore. The game offers beautiful graphics, smart gameplay, and it attacks system performance from all three major fronts: CPU, video card, and memory. More importantly, the game is a hit with reviewers and offers online multiplayer gameplay, which means (1) a lot of people will buy the game, and (2) they'll be playing it for a very long time. All those hours spent in multiplayer will encourage players to upgrade their systems to get a performance edge.
We used the game's built-in system-performance test as our default benchmark. The level of detail in the game is amazing. You can go from an overhead real-time strategy view all the way to a ground-level, close-up view and have the textures scale accordingly. It's hard to resist taking breaks in the game to zoom in on the action and see how the game renders vehicles, buildings, and troop models up close.
Game Settings
If you don't have the best hardware, you can whip Company of Heroes into a playable state by adjusting a few settings. We tested all the options to find out how much each setting affected frame-rate performance.
Graphics
Bigger, faster, and more expensive. Those are the rules of the game when it comes to feeding Company of Heroes' insatiable need for pixel-pushing power. We tested nearly 20 video cards to help you decide if a video card upgrade is necessary.
CPU
Give this game a better CPU, and it'll reward you with better frame rates. We tested the game up and down the clock-speed ladder on our Intel Core 2 Duo and AMD Athlon 64 CPU-based systems.
Memory
Moving up from 512MB to 1GB of system memory will help improve performance in most PC games, but Company of Heroes is one of the few games we've seen that will also benefit from upgrading to 2GB of memory.
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What kind of setup do you use to play Company of Heroes? Does it run well for you, or do you plan on upgrading? Share your experiences in the comments below!



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core 2 quad 6700 (2,67ghz), 4 gb ocz reaper @ 800 mhz, nvidea 9600 gt xxx runs it at maxed wth 1600x1050 highest fps 55 avg 41 lowest 17 so im pretty happy with my system
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My "rig" has a AMD Sempron Processor 3000+ 1.8 GHz , Asus a9550 and 1,5 GB RAM and goes very good with the game 30 FPS at LOW SETTINGS (P.M. I finished the game 3 times).
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I play this game on a P4 3.0 ghz, 1GB DDR, Geforce 6600 LE system with medium texture, shadows and terrain, post processing off, the rest at max and still feel like seeing real Normandy beach over 60 years ago.
Just concern about the 4 settings above and u'll go through this "hardware panzer" without a problem !
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My Rig is EVGA 8800GT Superclocked, E8400 Wolfdale, 4Gb 800Mhz Ocz's Reaper Edition, Windows Vita SP1 ultimate, and I'm trying COH Oppsing Fronts, and it just can't make it... My average on ultra, it's about 40FPS, I've slown down to High, but it's still slow, How can I get good Frame rates?
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im so devo, my comp would run games at a somewhat of a decent level if my gcard wasnt so awful. got 2 gigs ram, p4 3ghz and then my pride and joy, and X300SE :'(
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i can run the demo (not beta) fast as long as i keep shader quality low and texture not on ultra cuz then it crashes can you guess my system?
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I have a Nvidia 8800GT ("alpha dog") with 512MB, 2GB ram, with only a 1.86GHz dual core and I have yet to get any homogenous errors, or serious drops in frame rate (lowest is 29fps which is impossible to notice) in game play
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i havent played it yet

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i got the cd.....but im doubtful if my system will run it
my system is...
512 mb ram
ati radeon x300 se...128 mb ram i think
3.0 ghz...i think athlon?
i think i could run it with supppper low settings
but i got far cry and hl2 installed, hl2 i run on high (with little lag) and far cry on med and high
my pc sucks
thats why im gettin a xbox
i find upgrading pcs.....money consuming
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The system requirements aren't too much for playing. Thank you GameSpot...
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i can play this with fps 13 (all low or off,800x600) with
geforce 6200 256mb
758mb ram
and amd sempron 3000+
so...dont try it with something worse then that..
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crapfullycrap, i think thats there slogan because its on the boxes of cod 2, bf2, bf2142 but yeah, i see your point. lol
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Ok for anyone wondering about graphics cards there are 3 options nvidia 8800gts (512mb version) more expensive (£200-250 )
nvidia 8800gt (512mb) this is slower than the gts by about 10-20%, but is probably better value for your money (£170-220)
or
Ati 3870 , which is generally cheaper but isnt quite in the same class as the two nvidia cards.
oh, and you could always get the 8800ultra if money is no object.
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murso they released the game at the end of 2006 and they had direct x 10 on it for later graphic cards, we were getting hyped up about the 8800 gts and gtx at that time and thats what it was built for Nvidia.
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the 8800gt GPU gigabyte is the best tested graphics card and in pc magazines it got the best performer in many mags because of its FPS but in some games for better performance you would need to put a second similar graphics card to boost the performance (not an available feature for all mother boards)
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oops my bad, its ATI SAPHIRE RADEON but i cant remember the number....its sad, i should know it
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IM THE KIMCHI MAN
anyway, intel core pentium 4 would be the lowest proccesser for company of heroes and ull need at least 1gig of mem to run it ok. ATI or NVidia GeForce, prob NVidia GeForce 8800 GTX would be the best. the one i have is the ATI 8400 (i think) and it ran slow and there is some problem, like when im playing the game, its like im in those 70 light shows... so i replaced with NVidia GeForce 8800 GTX and it ran good. alienware or xps is the best choice for this game
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Tmarsh, look into the 8800GT if you want to run it flawlessly with all settings high. They run about $260-290 US prices. I went with Asus.
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what kind of video card would be best to get if i want to run this game?? i have been looking all over and dont know what to pick?? any advice?? and prices??
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People that are getting 2 fps with 7950's....re-install windows or something because I needed a serious upgrade after my P4 3.4 EE and 7800GS were not cutting games anymore. Plus....my P4S800-E took a dump.
Replaced with
ePower 520XP PSU
Gigabyte P35-DS3L
E6750 @ 2.66
2 gigs G.Skill DDR2 800
Asus 8800GT 512
throw that in with my old hard drives with a repair of windows and the game runs at frame rates too high for me to even play with for some reason. The games like running on hyper speed. I'm not used to it at all. The game never even hiccups or slows down EVER. I think more of the trouble was with Windows because COH ran better than OF did with the same setup. After my re-install, same programs installed though, everything just runs better anyways. My setup was very old. The only thing that was new was the P4 3.4 EE and 7800 GS. They did not help as much as they should have. I was playing on medium too, no high and some things off.
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Murso24, when they wrote this article I'm pretty sure the 8800GTX and the 8800 Ultra were not available yet.
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everything execpt tree detail maxed.. on Windows XP Pro SP2
i dont get why they didnt test an 8800 GTX on the "ultra" area..its WAY better than the 7900.
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with my setup here i get basicly perfect frame rates..EXTREMELY playable on maxed with this setup Intel Core 2 Quad QX6800 overclocked to 3.2ghz (stock at 2.93 so its safe)
2 gb pc6400 800mhz Corsair Dual channel XMS RAM
NVidia GeForce 8800 GTX
320gb 7200rpm 16mb cache HD
22in Samsung Hi-Res monitor (2ms response)
yeah..im enjoying it
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Intel Q6850 @ 3.00 ghz, 4mb Corsair Dominator 8500 1066Mhz Ram, 2X XFX Nvidia GeForce 8800GTX in SLI, playing on a HPw2207 display (22inch widescreen 2ms refresh), Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit
reported framerates with CoH in-game performance tool
Without SLI enabled - 1600x1050 - rated as "Good"
ave 41.1
max 62.0
lo 9.9
Without SLI enabled - 1280x800 - rated as "Great"
ave 51.1
max 61.8
lo 11.0
With SLI enabled - 1600x1050 - rated as "Good"
ave 41.3
max 61.2
lo 10.8
With SLI enabled - 1280x800 - rated as "Great"
ave 51.0
max 61.8
lo 11.9
All default graphic settings from game
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i run 1.6 sempron 2800+ ,1.5 gigs of ddr ,bfg's 7950gt runs pretty good could use more processor maybe a 2.6 athlon another gig of ddr new motherboard that runs ddr and sli express next year.
runs at high with average of 30 to 50 frames again my processor is a horrible bottleneck.
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@edgewalker16:
That setup will run COH with no problems at all on High settings. Don't worry about that, your laptop is good enough to play it.
As for upgrading a graphics chip in a laptop, that's very tricky and while I'm not an expert in the subject, in most cases it can't be done, at least not by yourself. If you contact your system manufacturer you could get a better answer.
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So I've been really looking into this game and if I can only scrounge up the money then I'd get it with no questions asked. My only hitch is not knowing whether or not my PC is good enough to run it. That said, I need some advice. Can I run the game?
Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz
2GB Dual Channel 667MHz
256GB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS
Also, is it possible to upgrade my graphics card if all of this is in a laptop? A Dell M1710 to be exact? Thanks.
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Quad Core 2.4 ghz
1 gb ddr2 ram at 800 mhz 8800 GTX 768 mb Vista
I can play the game at 1440 res with max settings but the only issue i get is that when there are cut scenes or movie intros it happens to chop down on teh frame rate...Ex: the plane on fire falling down or when the guy starts getting shot by machine gun
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Quad Core - 2.4ghz
4gb RAM
8800gts xxx graphics
Vista Home Premium
no issues; max settings.
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i cant even get the game to run on my sli 7950 setup.... something is wrong because I hear birds chirping 3/4 through loading and then it just runs at 2 fps (yes 2 fps) when its done loading. Any ideas would be helpful....
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I got it runnin on all high, only thing not on max is texture detail (on high instead of ultra) at 1280x1024 with 4AA on this rig:
Core 2 Duo E4400
2GB DDR RAM
X1950Pro :p Silky smooth, no slowdown at all.
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can i play this game on every setting low!
i have..
pentium 4 processer 2.41 ghz
1.00 gb ddr ram
nvidia geforce fx 5200 128 mb agp..128 bit evga
19 inch widescreen acer!
so can i play it?
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how would a dell vostro 1500 get on? with this spec:
T7250 2.0Ghz
2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024
Nvidia 8600M GT
160GB 5400
Vista Business (going to change to home premium or xp)
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audioe said:
"AMD Athlon 64 x2 5600 2.8GHz
Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB
4GB DDR2 800Mhz
Vista Home Premium
With this spec, I can't run the game on Full Quality, which was a bit gutting cos games like Bioshock, CnC3, Supreme Commander all work as Smooth as anything on Full spec.
In Conclusion, you'll need to buy the best of the best in order to get this game running with 60FPS+"
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Well, I'm running an AMD x2 3800+, 2gb 800mz, 8800gts 320mb and I'm running the game at 1680x1050 all on ultra. No slowdown at all for me. The only difference is that I'm using XP (dx9) & youre using Vista & presumably dx10.
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How would this run on a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop with Intel Core 2 Duo 1.5 ghz, 1 GB RAM, and a nvidia 8600M GT 256mb?
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For all those laptop owners. A mobile core 2 duo T7400 with 2GB RAM and a 7950GTX runs the game silky smooth 30+fps 1600x1200 under ultra settings.
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@ Rhipz
I dont think so, unless you're 8600GT is a model with 512Mb's of video ram then you're gonna have to put textures on high instead of ultra. But give it a go anyway...
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k thanks!
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Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz
1 GB of Ram
Ati Radeon HD X2600 XT 512mb
Windows XP sp2
Can I run COH with all maxed out at least at 1024 x 768?
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AMD Athlon 64 x2 5600 2.8GHz
Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB
4GB DDR2 800Mhz
Vista Home Premium
With this spec, I can't run the game on Full Quality, which was a bit gutting cos games like Bioshock, CnC3, Supreme Commander all work as Smooth as anything on Full spec.
In Conclusion, you'll need to buy the best of the best in order to get this game running with 60FPS+
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ongklong Amd-Athlon (tm) 2500+
1.84ghz,512 mb of ram
Nvidia Geforce 5500
Will this specs of my pc work with CoH?
Answer is no because you need at least a gb duo core processor and your video card sucks
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Amd-Athlon (tm) 2500+
1.84ghz,512 mb of ram
Nvidia Geforce 5500
Will this specs of my pc work with CoH?
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im running on a ATI Radeon SAPPHIRE X1550 and i want to buy this game. how good do yu think the graphics should be on this card? (ill soon learn by DLing the demo for the THIRD FRICKING TIME) the damn thing freezes and dosent respond on me its horrible!
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I'm running P4 3.0Ghz
2gig RAM
8800 GTS 640MB
Runs nice and smooth, averaging mid 40s FPS with everything on high or ultra. I've noticed no major slow downs. I get high end frames of mid 60s, and have dipped as low as high 20s. But I'd say its mostly somewhere in the 40s, those dips must be few and far between, I haven't noticed anything, certainly nothing that affects gameplay. And yes, this game is beautiful!
Oh ya, and the resolution I'm running it at is1024x768.
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finallly ....
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My specs:
AMD Athlon64 3500+ (2.2GHz)
1GB Dual Channel DDR (2x512MB-Mushkin/2CAS)
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT 256MB AGP 8x
1440x900 19" Samsung LCD
Runs great on my system, being that it's 2.5 years old, I get 30-80fps with the recommended settings that CoH picks out. The framerate dies on the second mission (the one used for the performance benchmark) with recommended/auto settings but if I set shadows to low, it immediately becomes great again. And it doesn't even look bad on low! Great job, Relic.
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This pc im on now was bought 2 and a half years ago
its great for internet use very sluggish on games. anyway the specs of this is celeron D 2.8 GHZ ,512 RAM, GEFORCE 4 , GA-8s65mrz
probable the worst pc in the world. no way can it handle COH.. but anyway the Rig i use to play COH has CPU-intel core 2 duo @ 1.83GHZ , 2GB RAM 667hmz ( 2GB is very rewarding in this game, i took one out and had some sluggish frame rates) and the 7600 GT. on an ASUS board (cant remember whole name) anyway i play at 1280 x 1024 game is very playable on medium settings average of 49 FPS bit laggy when max out , but playable. with an average of 37 fps
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My Specs are a 7600GT, 1 gig ram, P4 3.01ghz, Asus P5B motherboard and I run virtually everything on high with 1024x768 resolution. It runs pretty well with avrg of 42fps
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My pc is Core2Duo E6600 (OC'ed to 3Ghz), 1GB Kingston HyperX @ 667Mhz, GeForce 7950 GT KO on a MSI 975x v2 mobo. I run it at 1280x1024 with no shadows and medium textures and model details. I get an avg of 45fps. But there are times during the game when there are huge (downward) spikes in the frame rates.
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