While we're on the subject of graphics, the Options in the beta really need drop-down menus. Having to keep pressing those arrow-buttons is *such* a chore.

Just sayin'.

Quoting Tyjenks,

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Just hope my rotten, ATI 9800 128MB card will make the cut.  If not, I will know soon enough and do a stealth card purchase and install before the wife catches wind of it.

That screen is good enough for me though.

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Is elemental still using shader model 2? Or have you moved on to using 3 (the 9.0c stuff?)

Sweet! My laptop has a low end ati mobile card! (Though i have to say, that screeny looks a bit sparse, a little variation between the textures of the empty tiles would be nice. Or less squaredness, i know it's a tile based game, but completely square forest are just silly.)

Well I was thinking  the same at first, but if you look at the other objects, the do overlap squares, so it is not that bad .

Anyway, I like art direction and colorful presentation, but obviously, that screenshot look a little bit rough, textures are not very detailed and AA would help alot. For  such an old PC it is really very nice, my hope is, that engine will scale up well for those who has latest hardware.

Still, where is some grass swaying in the wind, shadows from the clouds and smoke from the houses . I also hope, things are not static, like trees etc, hard to say from screenshot

Some birds and neutral (non attackable) animals would make world come alive.

Look good, but what about netbooks ? 

1024 horizontal resolution minimum has been confirmed.

Yea, the sample pic looks amazing compared to what I thought might be the case.