Estimated System Reqs?

Iron Giant · #1 August 29th, 2003, 08:17 PM

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Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
isn't buying like that somewhat chancy?

I've been buying computers and parts almost exclusively from 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 · #2 August 30th, 2003, 07:32 AM

thanks.

Captain Kwok · #3 August 30th, 2003, 08:10 AM

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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 ?

I ran it with less, but it will be slow.

gregebowman · #4 September 8th, 2003, 07:46 PM

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 · #5 September 8th, 2003, 08:47 PM

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 · #6 September 9th, 2003, 01:38 AM

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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.

That's about twice mine, and IIRC, about 6x the slowest machine in the beta test.

Captain Kwok · #7 September 9th, 2003, 03:24 AM

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 ]