I'm not sure, really. I know that I met the requirements and that it worked (in my limited experience) very early in EA. I'm unsure when exactly all of the changes were made. Then, too, they've made some performance improvements in more recent patches. At one point, when I first noticed that they had changed the requirements, it was really unplayable. I don't meet the current requirements, but, outside of the looting issue, it seems to play reasonably well now. I've been afraid to go very far in, as I expect that I'd encounter more problems. I was rather hoping that older patch versions might be available here, so that I could test a few of them.