05-17-2004, 09:18 AM
Greets,
Okay, I've been slacking off on this topic lately. Since the second push, I haven't tested it to see if the beta with work on my desktop system, though the first push worked out okay. Here's the specs:
Desktop System:
Pentium III 600MHz
756MB Memory
Diamond Stealth 550 4x AGP (16MB)
Windows XP Retail (Pre SP1)
Laptop System:
Pentium M 1.5GHz
512MB Memory
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 (??MB)
Windows 2000 SP4
My laptop, which is by far better, handles the game much, much better than the desktop. My main focus was seeing how "low" a system that can handle the beta, and as I said before, I slacked off on that. Perhaps I'll ask Bolty if we can test out his old Pentium II and see if that will run the beta.
But as the other posts have said, any new system should handle the game fine, since video cards are a long cry from what I'm running in my desktop system.
However, there are other posts that have dealt with the other "tweaks" for the graphics. Things like "showwater" which turns off the textures for watersurfaces. But those are accessed through the console (reached by hitting the tilda (~) key, found above the TAB key on US keyboards). For more options, you might want to go into the console, and type "HELP GRAPHICS."
Good luck, have fun, and we'll see you out there.
SaxyCorp
Okay, I've been slacking off on this topic lately. Since the second push, I haven't tested it to see if the beta with work on my desktop system, though the first push worked out okay. Here's the specs:
Desktop System:
Pentium III 600MHz
756MB Memory
Diamond Stealth 550 4x AGP (16MB)
Windows XP Retail (Pre SP1)
Laptop System:
Pentium M 1.5GHz
512MB Memory
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 (??MB)
Windows 2000 SP4
My laptop, which is by far better, handles the game much, much better than the desktop. My main focus was seeing how "low" a system that can handle the beta, and as I said before, I slacked off on that. Perhaps I'll ask Bolty if we can test out his old Pentium II and see if that will run the beta.
But as the other posts have said, any new system should handle the game fine, since video cards are a long cry from what I'm running in my desktop system.
However, there are other posts that have dealt with the other "tweaks" for the graphics. Things like "showwater" which turns off the textures for watersurfaces. But those are accessed through the console (reached by hitting the tilda (~) key, found above the TAB key on US keyboards). For more options, you might want to go into the console, and type "HELP GRAPHICS."
Good luck, have fun, and we'll see you out there.
SaxyCorp