Will *your* PC run Guild Wars?

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After noticing a fairly alarming amount of "Can I play GW on my PC?" threads over the months, I have come up with a simple solution to not only help all of you curious players (or would-be players), but also to help the mods by cutting down (hopefully) on the clutter related to such threads. Here, in this very thread, you will find the minimum and recommended system specifications to run each and every Guild Wars chapter. You'll never have to ask around about your new computer's compatibility with Guild Wars ever again!

(That is, unless you have a technical problem, in which case, feel free to ask away. )

Originally Posted by Guild Wars: Prophecies System Requirements

Minimum System Specs:

• Windows XP/2000/ME/98
• Intel Pentium III 800 MHz or equivalent
• 256 MB RAM
• CD-ROM Drive
• 2 GB Available HDD Space
• ATI Radeon 8500 or GeForce 3 or 4 MX Series Video Card with 32MB of VRAM
• 16-bit Sound Card
• Internet connection
• Keyboard and mouse

Recommended System Specs:

• Windows XP/2000
• Intel Pentium III 1GHz or equivalent
• 512 MB RAM
• CD-ROM Drive
• 2 GB Available HDD Space
• ATI Radeon 9000 or GeForce 4 Ti Series Video Card with 64MB of VRAM
• 16-bit Sound Card
• Internet connection
• Keyboard and mouse

Source - Official Guild Wars: Prophecies FAQ Page

Originally Posted by Guild Wars: Factions System Requirements

Minimum System Specs:

• Windows XP/2000/ME/98
• Intel Pentium III 800 MHz or equivalent
• 256 MB RAM
• CD-ROM Drive
• 2 GB Available HDD Space
• ATI Radeon 8500 or GeForce 3 or 4 MX Series Video Card with 32MB of VRAM
• 16-bit Sound Card
• Internet connection
• Keyboard and mouse

Recommended System Specs:

• Windows XP/2000
• Intel Pentium III 1GHz or equivalent
• 512 MB RAM
• CD-ROM Drive
• 2 GB Available HDD Space
• ATI Radeon 9000 or GeForce 4 Ti Series Video Card with 64MB of VRAM
• 16-bit Sound Card
• Internet connection
• Keyboard and mouse

Source - Official Guild Wars: Factions FAQ Page

Originally Posted by Guild Wars: Nightfall System Requirements

Minimum System Specs:

• Windows XP/2000/ME/98
• Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz or equivalent
• 512 MB RAM
• CD-ROM Drive
• 3 GB Available HDD Space
• ATI Radeon 8500 or GeForce 3 Series Video Card with 64MB of VRAM
• 16-bit Sound Card
• Internet connection
• Keyboard and mouse
• DirectX 8

Recommended System Specs:

• Windows XP/2000
• Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or equivalent
• 1 GB RAM
• CD-ROM Drive
• 4 GB Available HDD Space
• ATI Radeon 9600 or GeForce FX 5700 Series Video Card or above
• Sound Blaster® X-FiTM series Sound Card
• Internet connection
• Keyboard and mouse
• DirectX 9

Source - Official Guild Wars: Nightfall FAQ Page

Originally Posted by Guild Wars: Eye of the North System Requirements

Minimum System Specs:

* Windows XP/2000/ME/98/Vista
* Intel Pentium III 1 GHz or equivalent
* 512 MB RAM
* DVD-ROM Drive
* 3 GB Available HDD Space
* ATI Radeon 8500 or NVIDIA GeForce 3 Series Video Card with 64 MB of VRAM
* 16-bit Sound Card
* Internet connection
* Keyboard and mouse
* DirectX 8

Recommended System Specs:

* Windows XP/2000/Vista
* Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or equivalent
* 1 GB RAM
* DVD-ROM Drive
* 4 GB Available HDD Space
* ATI Radeon 9600 or NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 series video card or above
* 16-bit Sound Card
* Internet connection
* Keyboard and mouse
* DirectX 9

Source - Official Guild Wars: Eye of the North FAQ Page



It would be wise of all users to take note of the fact that each chapter requires more "oomph" to run at maximum settings than previous Chapters. Be sure to keep your systems up to date, not only for Guild Wars, but for all things computer related. If you slip too far behind the times, there isn't much anyone here will be able to do for you (sadly)!

I will be keeping this post as up-to-date as possible, but if I start slacking, feel free to send me a note to let me know that something has changed and that I need to stop sleeping on the job.

Notice: This thread is not meant to help you tweak your system, or find special shortcut line commands to increase your performance in-game. We have plenty of other threads on those subjects, and hundreds of members who would be more than willing (or at least, one could hope) to assist you in such matters. This thread is simply to give users an easily accessible list of system requirements for Guild Wars games, so that there will be fewer posts on if such-and-such PC can run Guild Wars: <Chapter Name Here>.