System Requirments of Age Of Empiers 3
Cards you can expect to run the game, but only at low settings and resolutions:
Geforce 3 Ti
Geforce 4 Ti
Geforce FX5200/5500/5600XT/5700LE
Geforce 6200A/6200 "Turbocache"
Radeon 8500
Radeon 9200SE/9200/9250/9600SE/9550
Radeon X300SE/X300 "Hypermemory"
Radeon Xpress200
Intel 915G/GMA900
Intel 945G/GMA950
Cards that might be able to run the game at decent settings and resolutions:
Geforce FX5600/5700/5600 Ultra/5700 Ultra
Geforce 6200/6600LE
Radeon 9550/9600/9600 Pro/9600XT/9800SE
Radeon X300/X300PE/X550/X600 Pro/X600XT/X700SE
Cards that should be able to run the game at pretty high settings:
Geforce 5900ZT/5900XT/5900/5900 Ultra/5950 Ultra
Geforce 6600/6600PE/6600GT/6800LE
Radeon 9800/9800 Pro/9800XT
Radeon X700/X700 Pro/X700XT/X800
Cards that should be able to run the game with most settings on high
Geforce 6800/6800GT/6800 Ultra/7800GTX
All SLI systems
Radeon X800 Pro/X800XL/X800XT/X850XT
All CrossFire systems
Here is my estimations of the computers that might be able to run the games at [insertsettingshere] settings. I've attempted to balance the memory, graphics card, and CPU.
Look at the graphics card first. You can have a 2GHz CPU and still turn the graphics very high if you have a very good video card. If you are running a 3.6GHz CPU but have only a Geforce 2 MX, you still won't run, or will lag like hell.
The estimated minimum-specs computer
Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz/Celeron 2GHz/AMD Athlon 1600
256-512MB DDR/Rambus memory
Geforce 3 Ti200/FX5200 or equivalent (MX don't count)
2GB Hard disk space?
56kb internet connection?
The estimated "recommended" specs computer (i.e. guaranteed lag free on 800x600 with low settings
Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz/AMD Sempron/Athlon 2200+ or equivalent CPU
512MB DDR memory
Geforce 4 Ti 4200/FX5700LE/ATI Radeon 9550/9600SE or equivalent video card
1mbps or better internet connection?
Medium settings
Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz/Celeron 2.8GHz/AMD Athlon XP 2500+/AMD Semrpon 2600+ or equivalent processor
512MB-1GB DDR memory
Geforce 5700Ultra/6200/Radeon 9600XT/X600 Pro/X600XT or equivalent
High settings
Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz/AMD Athlon XP 3200+/Sempron 3100+/Athlon 64 2800+
1GB DDR memory
Geforce 5950 Ultra/6600 GT/Radeon 9800 Pro(XT)/X700 Pro(XT/X800
Max or nearly there
Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz or above/AMD Athlon 64 3200+ or above
1GB DDR memory
Geforce 6800GT or above/Radeon X800XL or above/All SLI systems