is this game any good? was very close to buying it £15 for it + expantion pack would it run on my 6800GT with 1gig ram and 3500AMD cpu?

Yes i think it MAY run, not brilliantly though. huge robots fighting over KM Squared maps. I never fully got it but i appreciated it could be fairly decent if you understood various deeper controls.

It runs on our X850XT card, which I believe is worse than yours.

You've got the same amount of ram and a better cpu, so I say it should run ok on your PC.

Having seen my bro play it (and having played a little myself) I can tell you it is friggin' awesome. Hundreds of stompy laser death machines marching on each other across quite frankly INSANE map sizes.

It's good.

X850XT has more raw pwerformance POWAH, but no SM3.

Yea, I know.

Shader 2.5b or something ridiculous like that.

I've got SupCom. It r4an alright on myy AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ and 8800GTS (might have actually had my 6800GT, but I don't think so). It starts to stutter when you move lots of units, it's very CPU intensive.

I would say it will work, though it may struggle in the larger fights. It's an excellent game and I would like to play it with people at some point.

Must install it before I go to uni, it's oone of those games that doesn't need disks

It's the ai that drains the cpu. It's really processor hungry.

AI, physics and pathfinding. That many units with every projectile being an actual projectile cause a massive CPU drain. Will try it on my quad core (it's multithreaded) and see what it's like.

Bear in mind that we run it on a single core and the performance is reasonable (by my low standards).

On my dual core I found it to be perfectly fine unless oyu had lots of units, at which point it started having problems. The pathfinding for so many units is quite insane, though (thankfully) SC landscapes are pretty featureless, so they din't struggle too much. When the fights start, though, all those physically rendered projectiles cause problems. Overall, CPU is much more important for SC than GPU, you spend half your time in the symbol map, anyway.

its an awesome game. but online matches tend to last over 2 hours
my old P4 could play it quite smoothly with a 6800GT
2v2 with full unit cap was playable. anything more was ridiculous.