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Title: system specs
Post by: starbug on January 03, 2005, 01:47:47 pm

dunno if this has bn covered but what are the system spec fors this gonna be, will it run ok on my rig which is

Win Xp home
athlon 2600
512DDR Ram
128mb 9700 Radeon with 4.11 drivers(so no shinemaps)
7.1 soundcard
directX 9c

Am asking cos i seem to be getting really low framerates of 20 on the likes of Inferno, was gonna upgrade my graphics card but not sure to wot.

Title: system specs
Post by: Fury on January 03, 2005, 01:56:30 pm

R3 should run fine.

Title: Re: system specs
Post by: Taristin on January 03, 2005, 02:03:38 pm

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Originally posted by starbug


Am asking cos i seem to be getting really low framerates of 20 on the likes of Inferno, was gonna upgrade my graphics card but not sure to wot.

There's your problem... you're running Inferno.

Actually, since most of the R1 ships in Inferno are huge monstrosities with tens of textures, you rproblem is the lack of optimization.

R2 will more than likely run smoothly on your system. Since you hae a decent rig.

Title: Re: system specs
Post by: Col. Fishguts on January 03, 2005, 02:10:23 pm

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Originally posted by starbug
Win Xp home
athlon 2600
512DDR Ram
128mb 9700 Radeon with 4.11 drivers(so no shinemaps)
7.1 soundcard
directX 9c
 

R3 will run more than fine on your machine, you can even enable all eyecandy I guess.
I'm running on a GF Ti4200 with "inly" 64 MB, and it runs perfect almost al of the time, only if there are too many different ships in the mission I run out of video memory and have to enable the "compress pcx" flag or disable the jpg/tga flag, on the cost of prettyness.

So...don't you worry 'bout a thing.

Title: Re: system specs
Post by: mitac on January 03, 2005, 02:18:37 pm

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Originally posted by starbug
Am asking cos i seem to be getting really low framerates of 20 on the likes of Inferno, was gonna upgrade my graphics card but not sure to wot.

:wtf: My system is far inferior to yours, and Inferno runs as smooth as silk. Try OpenGL with the latest 3.6.5 build, it'll give back the shinemaps plus it's actually faster than D3D, at least for me.

Title: system specs
Post by: starbug on January 03, 2005, 02:51:50 pm

cheers very muchly :D

Title: system specs
Post by: Fury on January 04, 2005, 07:12:40 am

At least I can confirm that Intel Extreme Graphics won't do...

The game crashes after the first few frames in-mission and fred2_open refuses to load since it can't find OpenGL support.

Title: system specs
Post by: Kosh on January 05, 2005, 01:54:45 am

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At least I can confirm that Intel Extreme Graphics won't do...

It's a general "rule" in the gaming world never to use integrated graphics cards in 3D games.

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was gonna upgrade my graphics card but not sure to wot.

If you don't want that video card I'll take it. :)