Will my PC run it?

Run what? you have posted in the "forum issues" part of the forums

No, it probably won't run on a warez version of XP.

to add to voidcore's comment.

stardock has a funky (read i don't know how it works) forum that get's devided and shared under serverl different URL's.

you post is an example of this. it appears both in the Sins of a Solar Empire and Demigod forums. probably a few other places too.

it'd help if you asked which game you would like to run.

for what it's worth, you will definitely be able to play soase, demigod may be a bit too taxing

MrL

Considering I don't even know what game you're talking about - I can't say much.

It'll run GalCiv 2 and Sins of a Solar Empire fine, if that's what you're talking about.

Sorry , first time using this forum and I meant Demigod.So what about it?

it'll certainly run it, dunno how well.  Repost this in the right forum and you should get some more responses

Well comparing with the specs for Demigod on impulse, It looks like your Graphics card is good for recomended settings, as is your RAM, but your processor is just a little short (2.4 ghz is the minimum). However That wont stop you from playing the game, just dont expect to run it on high settings.

what is Black XP 21 Pro?

A pirate distro with a bunch of preloaded pirated software.

ahhhhhh. pretty brave kid, then

Or dumb.

Or both.

We've largely passed the point where CPU speed means anything, unless you're running a Celeron.

The weakest link is the 8600GT-I'm surprised he didn't get an 8600GTS, at least.  Still, it will run it more than acceptably assuming he doesn't do something stupid like try to turn AA all the way up (we are talking 1920x1200 here, as specified in the OP, and the focus seems to be on larger tasks, as "bigger fights" are mentioned), and even then should meet his minimum requirements.

Wow.  Just wow.

. . . and especially with the Core 2s having 2 or 4 cores, and the i7s having 4 coures with hyperthreading, clock speed is rapidly becoming a useless measure of power.

Maybe he should concentrate on getting a job and buying legal software rather than wasting his time on games.

I disagree the clockspeed is still the thing to look at, how many cores and feats of the CPU's are just more variables to take in before deciding what to get... the clock speed still is a very good indication on how fast a CPU can process information.....

I dunno, the Core 2s seem to have far better performance than the old P4s, even though the P4's clock speeds were pretty high.

It may depend on what applications you use. It's still the case that high end graphics and games are more likely to use the cores to their full potential than other applications.

When you have applications that are designed to use all of the cores, then you'll definitely see the difference.

Even without specially designed applications, though, having 2 or 4 cores makes sense, since the OS can more easily handle applications that hog the CPU.

With my four cores, I'm defintely albe to do more. I'm listening to music while playing a game while running a bunch of other applications with no problems.

I also have more freedom when it comes to CPU intensive apps - If I want to say, do some 3D rendering (I play around with raytracing occasionally), I can easily stick the rendering on one core and not see any slowdowns at all while using other applications. I could never do that and expect reasonable performance on a single core system.

So even without the applications that are designed specifically for it, having at least two or four cores makes an enormous impact on my ability to run whatever applications I want whenever I want, even if they're CPU heavy applications.

. . . and if you have applications designed to take full advantage of the cores - the number of cores essentially becomes a multiplier: Rendering using the raytracer definitely is approximately 4x as fast when I allow it to use all four cores. Minus some overhead, of course, but it's faster than I'd ever be able to accomplish on a single core system.

Clock speed is only comparable under the same architecture.  The AMD chipsets were using an architecture similar to what the new Intels have finally moved to for quite a while now.  The memory controllers are on die, with a direct link to the memory, as opposed to the P4 method of traversing the north bridge to get to them.  They also have dedicated bandwidth, instead of sharing the front side bus with everything else.

His quad core 2.2Ghz processor is well in excess of the requirements for Demigod.