I had been playing on my old machine (pentium D, nvidia 8500gt.
It would run in the 25-40 fps rate but I had to dial it down quite a bit.
Well, I got my gaming PC back yesterday, downloaded the new version and it ran full blast even with smooth shadowing on, never dropping below 50fps. It looked great!!
Haven't even tinkered with the settings yet.
I haven't been in the arenas with it yet but I'm guessing it will be fine.
I built it last year. Same components are probably cheaper now.
XP home 32
Rosewill R5605-BK Dual 120mm Fans SECC Cold Rolled Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
E8400 cpu
PC Power & Cooling S75QB 750W ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply
EVGA 512-P3-N802-AR GeForce 8800GT Superclocked 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail
Pioneer 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE Model DVR-115DBK - OEM
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 675 (PC2 5400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X2048-5400c4.
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer 7.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Card
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST3250310NS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM