Dude that game itself is such a piece of sh**. I tried to play it with a brand new laptop I had purchased and had everything it needed and I could only play it on low settings, barely. I just spent WELL OVER a grand on building a new desktop and it NOW it will play on all high settings. Just ignore the "recommended" settings they give you because you really NEED at least a gig of ram, amd athlon 3200+, a video card that has at least 12 or 16 pipelines, and good cooling. If you don't have all that, forget about playing that piece of crap.