video card requirement

[Savant]

I think the 800 MB harddrive may be a problem DarkKnight. The game needs 150 mb for the swap file and another 320 MB for the game files. That means you need to have about 500 MB of free resources to play. You can install a barebones windows and the game, but not a lot more on that 800 MB.



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'Blood will run'

[Mike the Nuke]

quote: Originally posted by VetteroX on 11-30-2000 01:28 AM Wow.... who are you people with these 2 meg video cards and 200 mhz etc? I have a p3 750 and 256 megs of ram with a Geforce 2 64 meg and I already wanna upgrade. If you like computers at all theres no reason to have such a slow computer ( less then p2 300) .....you can get a better one for like $500 or $600.... get with the times.

Must be nice to have $500-600 to blow off to play games. We have what we have. Who are these people? What..your some kind of genius and we're stupid?

[Carrion]

Wowzers! I did not realize there were still so many older configurations out there. I have 2 computers one PII350 and the other PIII600. But then again computers are my life. It is my job ya know so I always try to stay on top of the hardware race. But I haven't been able to do that lately heh.

[meriadoc]

There is nothing wrong with older computers. I still use my old Pentium233 w/ 64MB RAM. Sometimes I even dig out my old 486 laptop. I'll admit, though, that CTP2 runs much better on my PIII 500 w/ 192MB RAM and Matrox G400 video card.

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The Electronic Hobbit

[Darkknight]

Savant 800 meg free 4 gig harddrive.
I also have a laptop:
pIII600
256meg RAM
7gig FREE
32meg Video card.

I just installed Simcity3000 on it and Simcity can load in under five minutes.It was like click on .exe 2 seconds SIMCITY 3000 screen comes up, 2 seconds main menu 4 seconds to load up new game.1 second to go from underground to overground(that really bugged me waiting around 5 - 10 seconds on the PC.) and 2 seconds to save
and instant exit.Oh Bliss.

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" mind over body "

[BBC 357]

quote: Originally posted by VetteroX on 11-30-2000 01:28 AM Wow.... who are you people with these 2 meg video cards and 200 mhz etc? I have a p3 750 and 256 megs of ram with a Geforce 2 64 meg and I already wanna upgrade. If you like computers at all theres no reason to have such a slow computer ( less then p2 300) .....you can get a better one for like $500 or $600.... get with the times.

Ya should leave people alone about their systems man...ever so much more because you don't got the best gear out there. Do you have any idea how much good computers outside America cost?

[Bluevoss]

Hey, I might be the smallest here. 233Mhz with 48RAM. Im figuring that the latter is the reason I don't get video effects. Can anyone confirm this before I buy.

BTW, there is nothing wrong with owning an older machine. Sometimes you speed demons run out and buy before you have a need - sounds rather market driven to me. Me, my machine runs Red Baron 2, CTP2, Civ2, and Word. What does burning a grand do to improve this?



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Bluevoss-

[Dale]

There's definitely nothing wrong with older machines. My main PC is a PIII 666 with 128MG ram, 40GB hard drive and the works. Being a programmer working with visual studio ya need it! Cost me a packet though.

My server is a 486 dx2-66 with 32mg ram and 2 gb drive running NT4 server. No problems. Oh, and CTP2 runs on this PC, though it takes about 10 minutes for the Artificial Stupids to have their turns.

And lo and behold, I still play some REALLY old games on my fully functioning commodore 64!


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Rommell to a sub-commander outside Tobruk: "Those Australians are in there somewhere. But where? Let's advance and wait till they shoot, then shoot back."
[This message has been edited by Dale (edited January 02, 2001).]

[rwz]

I don't want to sound like $600 isn't a lot cause at my rate its a lot of hours at the button factory. But I go the upgrade route in increments, I took my P200mx system, bought a new mother board, PIII 667, 128mgs 133 ram, case, and used everything else from the old system. Its easy and everything works. Total cost $600 + shipping. When I get some more scratch I'll upgrade the monitor, the Video card to a AGP and the CD drive. Hey my floppy is from my original 486. I did this about 3 years ago with the 486 to the P200. If you buy your proccesor at about 1/2 the speed of the most current, up to date model, you can get one fairly cheap and still have a machine that will run most games super! At least for this old TBS player.