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Started by Squall Griever Leonhart, October 27, 2003, 11:31:54 AM

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Xanth

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[shadow=gray,right,bottom]A 4MB Video Card? :suffer:

Sorry ;) Why don't you just get a better card? You can upgrade substantially for next to nothing[/shadow]

Jeysie

Unfortunately I can't. My current video card is built into the motherboard, and there's no separate AGP slot available for me to install a different card to override the built-in one. :P

Peace & Luv, Liz

Oldbushie

Dang, that's not good...

*hands Jeysie a $40 motherboard with AGP slots*
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Jeysie

Hee. I appreciate the gesture, Bushie, but pretty much *everything* is built into my motherboard, so the only way for me to upgrade anything besides my RAM, CD drive, Zip drive, or hard drive, is to get a new 'puter. :P (Well, I probably could upgrade my modem or sound card with some headache-worthy tweaking, but there's not much need.)

Actually, what I could use is a new floppy drive... mine seems to have died out. So much for easy access to testing webpages on my roomie's IE6 installation. :P :P

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Storm

I've got 32Mb on my video card. I hope I'm safe  :-\
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Louisiana Night

This is close enough to the topic. Will there be 3Dnow!, MMX, or (that new/old set of instructions that I know nothing about, SSE?) support? Will it take advantage of dual CPUs or 64bit CPUs(I'm guessing no to both)?
Also, will there be Pixel and Vertex Shader support(I think I know the answer, but I wanted to hear it from Phoenix)?

I don't care about the speed too much, I've played games that REQUIRED a 3Dcard without one(I squeezed by with MMX). My computer can play all the games made at the moment(until Doom3 is finished), so I assume I'll be able to play the game at a decent speed.

Oldbushie

Lol, I'm pretty sure it will run faster than that. ;-D I don't even tweak my computer that much and it can run games like Ryzom in Win98SE at 30 fps. It helps to have very few unneccessary programs running at a time. ;)
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Yonkey

Quote from: Louisiana Night on May 31, 2004, 10:07:25 PM
Will it take advantage of dual CPUs or 64bit CPUs(I'm guessing no to both)?
As far as I know, the O/S is what controls dual CPU's and not specific programs.  Since the game will work on Windows XP Pro and higher, I would guess the answer is yes to both questions.  8)
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GunHoMac

I have:
256MB ATI radeon 9800
dual 4.2 GHz P4
180GB Serial HD
1GB DDRAM

is that good enough or do I need a liquid nitrogen cooling system?
It's peanut butter jelly time!

Jeysie

Quote from: grundy on June 03, 2004, 06:22:08 AMYou can disable any 'on-board' devices in your BIOS settings.

As dumb as this sounds... believe it or not there is just no way to get into my computer's BIOS. I own a Compaq. :P

It may not matter... *if* I can stay employed (and actually get some decent hours :P ) I might actually have enough money to buy a new computer by the end of the year anyway. I hope. (I need a new computer for more reasons than just games, anyway.)

Peace & Luv, Liz

Grundy

Quote from: GunHoMac on June 03, 2004, 11:42:41 AM
I have:
256MB ATI radeon 9800
dual 4.2 GHz P4
180GB Serial HD
1GB DDRAM

is that good enough or do I need a liquid nitrogen cooling system?

You know, I've being in the 3D Industry for many years, so believe it or not, my System is still better than yours!  ;P   XB

Oh and Jeysie, you can get around the annoying Compaq boot screen and get into the BIOS, I used to own a Compaq many Years AGO! It was a 200Mhz Pentium, WOO! But yes, there are ways to edit the bios.

Step one. Grab the Compaq

Step two. Open your window

Step three. Take Aim

Step Four. Throw your Compaq over the back fence

Step five. Buy a new System

Step six. Build a system yourself, or get someone who knows how to help, because buying namebrand computers costs you twice as much as they're worth.

Step seven, Like six, never buy a Compaq again!

;B

B'rrr

lol!! you know, that is what I would do too!! ...that is if I had the money to buy parts ; )
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Jeysie

Hee! Grundy, two thoughts:

1. I did own this Compaq YEARS ago, so to speak... I bought it back in 1997. Took me three years to pay off the damn thing because my luck with jobs has been horrible... and I've been dying to get a new one since then, but haven't been able to because, well, my luck with jobs (and thus paychecks) is still horrible. Which brings me to...

2. Wire me ~$2000 USD, and the pleasure of throwing my current computer out the window is all yours. ;)

Actually, I'll probably keep this "old" computer around. I have this idea of using it for learning website stuff by clogging it up with browsers and trying to figure out how to install a web server on it for testing purposes, so I can keep my "real" system clean. ;) (As it is, I'm going to have to re-install IE6 on my current system so I can do some testing... BOO HISS!)

I'm definitely going to build my own computer next time. I have no idea *how* I'm going to do it since my hardware knack/knowledge is virtually nil and I don't personally know any offline hardware gurus, but I'll manage somehow. (For instance, I know precisely jack about motherboards! :P )

Actually, there is a PC boutique nearby that looks interesting and offers to build systems... the main problem is that I want to build a Win98 box because there's no way I'm touching WinXP, so I'd have to wrangle that out with somebody. Grah.

Peace & Luv, Liz

Louisiana Night

If you're trying to find something cheap, and want to limit the amount of flustration(building PC from scratch), I recommend a bare bone system. Tiger Direct wiuld be a good place to look(if you don't mind S&H), they have good sales. Pricewatch has cheaper prices(it's an advertising company), but you'd have to look at the companys(not Pricewatch's) policies.

Pricewatch

Tiger Direct

Storm

Quote from: grundy on June 03, 2004, 06:22:08 AM
Lets GUESS some Recommended system requirements then...

700Mhz CPU, 64MB Video Card, 128MB RAM...

Now lets GUESS some Ideal system requirements then...

1.3Ghz CPU, 128MB Video Card, 512MB RAM...

Now you've just made me hope KQ9 won't be released for another 2 years or so... 'cause there's no way in hell I'll have a computer like this earlier than that :(
"Never argue with idiots. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

Grundy

What are your system specs?

Storm

400Mhz CPU, 32MB Video Card, 192MB RAM :(

I know that's lower than the engine's requirements... don't know excatly what it means for the game, but it can't be good :-\
"Never argue with idiots. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

Jeysie

Storm's computer kicks my computer's butt, unfortunately. :P

Peace & Luv, Liz

B'rrr

my laptop have trouble with running the newer games (ie. i have opengl problems) so if i can't use my laptop i have the same system specs as storm (bit less actually ; \ )
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Louisiana Night

Anyone that is planning on upgrading(and buying parts seperately).

These are my opinions, and I know there are MANY people that disagree.

Buy AMD, not Intel (AMD=cheaper,faster,better)-CPU

Nvidia(Geforce) is better at OpenGL-GPU

ATI(Radion) is better for DirectX-GPU

Buy DDR(fast,cheap), not RD(wont work with AMD, expensive), or SD(old,cheap)

Extras(audio,video,lan,modem,etc) are better off the motherboard

Extras(audio,video,lan,modem,etc) are cheaper on the motherboard

Lite-On and Samsung make good, cheap CD-drives/burners.

LCDs are bad for action games, and expensive

Don't buy IBM hardrives(I think that's the right company)

Refurbished products are far cheaper(but I don't trust them)

There were a few more things, but I forgot what they were. Everyone that cares to, add to/edit the info.