Ya, this game seems like the "Crysis" of MMORPG games when it comes to graphics. I guess that is to be expected since it uses the CryEngine though... I did notice that a lot of the world textures are kinda low res, whil;e the character and monster textures seem ot be much higher res. They probably did that to make it playable with such a large world and so many people in it. But the good news is that I can play this game fine on 1600x1200 witha single 4890, so people with lower end computers should be able to play no problem on 1280x1024 or 1280x768. But you will definitely need a graphics card from sometime in the past couple years to play this, any older and you will have to turn the settings way down.

Has anyone tried turning the graphics down all the way yet? I wonder how bad it would look all the way down, probably pretty close to WoW. The minimum specs are pretty down low...

Aion Minimum Requirements:
CPU : Pentium 4 2.0GHz
RAM :1GB
VGA :GeForec FX 5600(128MB), DirectX 9 or higher
OS :Windows XP

Ill have to see how it looks during beta event 5 at the end of this month.