Ok.....most people have covered almost everything.

Keep in mind that the TYPICAL bottlenecks for any game are:

CPU (not as much s other components, but since DFO takes advantage of multiple cores and Core 2 Duo or higher CPU is advisable)

Video Card - This is a gimme...get the best you can, always. More RAM the better.

RAM - get 3 gigs if you can. If you have a 64 bit system..get more.....more more more

Hard Drives - Hard drives are mechanical and as such are ALWAYS a bottleneck. Setting up a stripe array is a relatively cheap way to get a massive performance boost.

Page file - if you have multiple hard drivers, set you page file to a different HD than you operating system is running on. This will give you a decent performance boost as well.

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