Estimated System Reqs?

[PegasusJF]

Having seen the StarFury website my first impressions are quite favorable. But my concern is what will the system reqs be like. The game doesn't look too demanding on a PC (I have a P3450 with TNT2). But I hope that Malfador will follow their precedent and make this game a widely usable as possible...

I guess I should get to my question, what are the likely system requirements?

Thanks
PegasusJF

[Tim Brooks]

From our product page:

500 MHz Pentium Processor, 3D Accelerated Video Card, 200MB Hard Drive Space, A.5 Graphics: 1024x768 resolution, 16bit color

Stop by sometime:
Starfury Product Page (http://www.shrapnelgames.com/malfador/Starfury/)

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by Tim Brooks:
From our product page:

3D Accelerated Video Card, A.5 Graphics:
[/URL]<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">What is A.5 graphics? Never heard of that. I know my video card can handle OpenGL and DirectDraw, but I've never heard of A.5. Can someone clarify what that is? Thanks

[Mephisto]

I don't know what A.5 stands for but it is using Direct X. It will run on any conventional PC.

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by Mephisto:
I don't know what A.5 stands for but it is using Direct X. It will run on any conventional PC.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks for the info. I feel much better about buying this game when it comes out.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Mephisto:
It is using Direct X. It will run on any conventional PC.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Just to expand a bit: It will run on any conventional computer as long as the user has DirectX installed on it. But most if not all computers now a days have this feature pre-installed. And if they don't then everygame that needs it that I've found comes with DirectX on the CD for you to install from. So it's no big deal no matter what. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[gregebowman]

Just make sure to get the most current Version of DirectX you can find. Sometimes you can find it on one of those computer games magazines disc, like what PC Gamer puts out. Or you download it from the Windows website.

[Tim Brooks]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en

You can download DirectX free of charge from Microsoft - use the link above.

[dbt1949]

I've got an 850mhz Celeron laptop with some wierd Gateway video card that uses the systems ram(either8,16,0r 32 meg). Will that wierd video card handle the game?
Actually it doesn't matter too much as my desktop will handle it fine and as I just preordered I'll find out for myself soon anyways. http://www.hallospass.de/smilies/smilie_help.gif

[Erax]

There should be a Starfury demo out sometime soon. Download the demo and see how it runs on your system (I don't know if my new computer has any 3D capability, that's how I will test it).

[General Woundwort]

BTW, this thing doesn't require a joystick, does it?

[Mephisto]

It doesn't require a joystick.

[Akachaki]

I have a 466 celeron with a plenty of RAM and a voodoo 3 16mb, does anyone know if the game will run on my system ?

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Akachaki:
I have a 466 celeron with a plenty of RAM and a voodoo 3 16mb, does anyone know if the game will run on my system ?<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">We have a beta tester running it on a 333 Mhz PII with 128 MB if I recall correctly. It's been a while since we discussed our system specs. He was only getting 10 fps as I recall. If you call that playable I guess it's ok. I'm getting 20-24 fps on an 800 Mhz Duron with 512 MB. I think it's preferable to have at least a 1 Ghz CPU myself. Not very expensive these days. (In fact, I just purchased a 1.33 Ghz Athlon XP to upgrade my current system... $43!)

[ August 28, 2003, 18:54: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

where'd you find it for 43$?

[Baron Munchausen]

www.pricewatch.com (http://www.pricewatch.com)

Edit: Heh! So now I go look again and you can get one for $2 less! Ah well, you have to buy some time or other.

[ August 29, 2003, 03:16: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

isn't buying like that somewhat chancy?

[Baron Munchausen]

How is it any more chancy than any other form of 'distance' buying, like mail order?

[Iron Giant]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
isn't buying like that somewhat chancy?<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I've been buying computers and parts almost exclusively from www.pricewatch.com (http://www.pricewatch.com) for about 5 years. I only had one problem with a vendor, and it was kind of my own fault. I bought a processor which only had a 30 day warranty, waited 2 months to put the thing in the M/B and it didn't work. I have had to return parts (that were IN warranty) and never had a problem.

If your not a "computer person" you might have better success with a local computer company, but if you know what you want, pricewatch is the way to go, imho.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

thanks.

[Captain Kwok]

Originally posted by Akachaki:
I have a 466 celeron with a plenty of RAM and a voodoo 3 16mb, does anyone know if the game will run on my system ?<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I ran it with less, but it will be slow.

[gregebowman]

I'm not exactly sure what I have, as my computer was custom built for me. I know it has the latest ADK (I know that's close, but I can't remember the exact letters right now), which runs about 1.8 gb, a 32 mb Savage V4 video chip and 256 megs of ram. I hope that's good enough.

[Instar]

The settings are ajustable in the game or out of it. I'm running XP Pro on a custom built P4 1.8 ghz with 512K Cache, 512 MB DDR RAM, and GF4 Ti 4400. I run it with every setting maxed out and I never experience a drop in performance (unless some background task starts up).
A couple of lessons though:
Make sure your video card drivers are up to date (we had issues with this at first). Sound card drivers too are good to have updated, but I don't think anyone in the beta had trouble with it, but you might as well do it. There might be specific mobo/chipset related issues, which might require a BIOS update (only if you know how to do it).
Some of you will get much greater performance if you get newer video cards. You don't have to get anything past a GF2 I'll bet. 16MB video cards are sooooo 90s.
DX 9b should be distributed with the SESF disk (its free to MM to do so) so if you have a slow download speed, don't worry too much.

As for computer parts, I shop Newegg.com exclusively. They have great selection and good prices.
Pricewatch is good, but shipping can add up if you buy parts from more than 2 vendors.

[Suicide Junkie]

Originally posted by gregebowman:
I'm not exactly sure what I have, as my computer was custom built for me. I know it has the latest ADK (I know that's close, but I can't remember the exact letters right now), which runs about 1.8 gb, a 32 mb Savage V4 video chip and 256 megs of ram. I hope that's good enough.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's about twice mine, and IIRC, about 6x the slowest machine in the beta test.

[Captain Kwok]

To be more specific, when I started the beta test I had a PII-300A Celeron with 320Mb RAM and 16MB TNT videocard. It ran playable ok under Win98, but when I switched to XP, it was super slow.

I'd recommend at least a PIII with a decent videocard at the least.

Edit:
SJ - I had the slowest machine!

[ September 09, 2003, 02:25: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]

[Phoenix-D]

I'm not even going to ask why you had more RAM than CPU speed. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

And with that system, switching to XP slowed everything down, I assume.

[Fyron]

It is always good to have as much ram as you can get. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Captain Kwok]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
I'm not even going to ask why you had more RAM than CPU speed. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

And with that system, switching to XP slowed everything down, I assume.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I actually had two computers that had more RAM than processor speed (laptop also had 320Mb vs 300Mhz). With XP the system performed about the same for most normal tasks, but more importantly was much more stable! Unfortunately not for Star Fury though. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[deccan]

What DirectX Version does the game use?

[Captain Kwok]

Originally posted by deccan:
What DirectX Version does the game use?<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think 8 and above is recommended, but I'd just downloaded the latest one (9.0b?) for the best results.

[Captain Kwok]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;"> System Requirements:
Pentium 500 MHz class machine
Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT
32 megabytes RAM
1024x768 resolution
16 bit color display (24 bit color is optimal)
DirectX 7.0 or better
A video card with 3D acceleration.
150 megabytes free hard drive space </pre><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">These are the system requirements as listed in the readme file.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

will it work with ME?

[Fyron]

I don't see why not...

Also, make sure to update your video card drivers to the latest Version.

[ September 09, 2003, 21:27: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Suicide Junkie]

I'm using ME.
So far my system crashes only when I'm notplaying Starfury http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I'm hoping to upgrade to Win98 when my replacement harddrive comes back from Maxtor.

[Ed Kolis]

hehe... upgrade to win98... wasn't ME supposed to be 98's replacement? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Suicide Junkie]

ME came out after 98, if that's what you mean.
Came with my PC, which, along with procrastination, is why I'm using it now.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

do you think it's why my internet tends to glitch on me?

[Instar]

WinME you mean? Its not a good OS. Either go back to Win98SE or upgrade to XP.
Anyways, DX Version support really depends. If MM wanted to, he could make it DX6 compatible or whatever (the interface for it is super modular, garunteed backwards compatibility). I'd bet DX8 will run it, but like I said, DX9b will probably be distrubed on the disk.

[gregebowman]

Well, I also have ME, and I'm not paying $100 for the XP (at least right now). But I've had no problem running software so far, so hopefully this won't be a problem.

[Instar]

You should be good to go with WinME, I just have a very negative opinion overall about it. I have gotten spoiled by XP pro's awesomeness.
I just had a random thought. People tried using SEIV in Linux using Wine. IIRC, it did not work 100% correctly. SESF probably will not work at all in a WINE environment, as Linux cannot run DX without a serious (and probably illegal) porting of DX, COM, etc..

[ September 10, 2003, 21:34: Message edited by: Instar ]