[Roanoke]

Deus Ex is surprisingly hardware intensive considering how old it is, making even newer systems struggle a little in some places. SS2 should work much better though and is available on HOTU. You actually have a better chance of getting that game to work properly on an older system. I can get it to run on my main machine but only in 640x480, in which it looks like crap, but it runs fine on my older computer.

System Shock isn't abandonware and the franchise is in a similar limbo to Freespace. Haven't looked on HOTU but I don't suppose it'll be around for too long if EA become inclined to show any interest.

[Cobra]

Meh. mine kinda sucks right now...

Intel Celeron 2.7 GHz
RAM: 256 MB
1 40 GB HD
1 80 GB HD
42x CD-ROM/CD-RW Drive (can burn AND play)
3 1/2 Floppy Disk Drive
1 free CD-ROM drive slot
6 USB Slots, 2 on front, 4 on back, 2 taken by joystick and printer in the back
ATI Radeon 9250 128mb
3 PCI slots, all taken
2 memory card slots, one taken by a stock card

Basically, I have an office computer with upgraded video capabilities.

So, you all now know how ****ty my comp is.

[Descenterace]

Another system spec thread. These happen... what? Every week?

In terms of crappy systems, even my Duron 1200 webserver outdoes some of the machines here and it gets approximately zero traffic. Maybe I should build that pair of Pentium 3s for playing retro games?

Yes, for some reason I have a P3 450 and a 550 lying around, with sufficient supporting hardware to actually make two PCs out of them.

[Kosh]

Deus Ex is surprisingly hardware intensive considering how old it is, making even newer systems struggle a little in some places.

Because it uses the Unreal engine. Hence, anything without Glide has problems.

Asian car companies

You know in Asia, many people think american cars suck.


My mother used a Pentium Pro 200 MHz machine for a few years. Then I gave her my old 1.7 GHz Celeron machine before I left the country.

[castor]

GeCube Radeon 9200 128MB (Thats IS better than a Geforce Ti4200 64MB yeah? I just swapped em without really checking)

R9200 is about the crappiest vid card you can find.. you'd be better off with the 4200.

[CP5670]

AMD 1400
256Mb Ram
Onboard Graphics
80Gig Drive

Admittedly, all that one does these days is sit there and be the Network server, but it IS actually possible to play EvE online with it

I have that same processor in my retro game system. It runs very hot but works well enough. I need to stick with the motherboard it uses for its ISA emulation functionality, so I'm not going to be upgrading that computer much.

System Shock isn't abandonware and the franchise is in a similar limbo to Freespace. Haven't looked on HOTU but I don't suppose it'll be around for too long if EA become inclined to show any interest.

It was on there two years ago, anyway. I originally played that version and it has everything except the movies, although my parents got me a cheap copy of it when they went to India recently. (appears to be a genuine one; it was retail boxed at any rate)

Because it uses the Unreal engine. Hence, anything without Glide has problems.

Unreal and UT work well though. It's only this game. In a large fight the framerates just tank on most hardware for some reason. I think this is actually the only game (aside from those running through emulators) that I got a very noticeable improvement in from overclocking my processor (by 45%) and it also gets a solid 75% boost with SLI.

[Polpolion]

Is the first UT abandonware yet?

[wolfdog]

Well, my dad still uses an ol P166 (not even mmx) with 64 megs of EDO RAM, a 1MB cirrus logic onboard graphics chip and a 1GB SCSI hard disk...
oldest working system I have here is a 486dx2 @60mhz. (you can overclock the thing without cooling it  )

[CP5670]

My oldest operational system is my 1990 Mac:

Motorola 68030 33mhz processor
4MB 16mhz RAM
160MB hard drive (SCSI )
2X CD drive
no FPU ()
230W power supply ()
14.4k internal modem

It still has all my awesome games on it. I grew up with things like Lemmings, Infotron, Crystal Quest, Prince of Persia, Spectre VR, Monkey Island and Fate of Atlantis. And I have one of those old game collection CDs with around 500 more games on it, some of which are excellent.

[ZmaN]

Yea my familys computers are like icefire's setup......

I have the top PC, (see specs in my sig).. 
My sister has my old pentium 4 1.7 Ghz with 512 MB SDRAM and Onboard video AND sound,
My smaller sister who has an Athlon 1200mhz and a Geforce 2 MX 400 64 MB,
then my Moms, the Athlon XP 1700+, the crappiest computer of all (suprisingly, even though its the 4th best...) 
Then my little sister and little brother have a computer I made for them for christmas, using an Athlon 850mhz, 256 MB SDRAM, and Onboard video and sound... (they're gettin my old sound blaster live installed shortly...)
My dad has a Dell Inspiron Notebook with a Pentium M 1.6 Ghz with 512 MB of RAM, and Intel 915 video, and its pretty quick...


my mom has windows 2000, the rest of the PC's have XP Home or Pro on them....  They're all networked together on Cable internet using a netgear router, and the they are ALL IN ONE ROOM!!!!  its always hot where i am...

[Ghost]

Ok, so the 1990 Mac guy is really really bad, but OP, you're far better off than I am. Here's my specs(my room computer, not my dad's computer which I play games on):

OS: Win 98
Processor: Hell, I don't know. The computer was bought in '98.
254 meg of RAM
Video Card: Nvida RIVA TNT2
8x cd drive
Floppy drive
Aaaaand the only really A1 Supar good part about all this is the fact that I'm hooked up to cable internet.

[JoeLo]

I was in the integrated graphics boat until recently, then having no AGP or PCI-E ports, I installed a Radeon 9250, they really not that bad plays Half-life 2 on medium 2xAA and 2xAF. Quake IIII plays fine medium 1204x768 everything turned off. Halo lags like crap based on crappy engine design. This is my main computer.

An old SoundCard pulled from a Pentium III, not concerned about quality just wanted to take the strain off my CPU integrated sound
Radeon 9250 PCI bus edition
Pentium 4 2.53 GHZ no HT
Dell Dimension 2400 Mobo
80 GB Dell HD
256mb of Dell Value ram
512mb of Patriot Value ram

I am at the end of the line here, and am upgrading to, once I get the cash a new AMD64 939, 7800GT based computer.

[JoeLo]

I was in the integrated graphics boat until recently, then having no AGP or PCI-E ports, I installed a Radeon 9250, they really not that bad plays Half-life 2 on medium 2xAA and 2xAF. Quake IIII plays fine medium 1204x768 everything turned off. Halo lags like crap based on crappy engine design. This is my main computer.

An old SoundCard pulled from a Pentium III, not concerned about quality just wanted to take the strain off my CPU integrated sound
Radeon 9250 PCI bus edition
Pentium 4 2.53 GHZ no HT
Dell Dimension 2400 Mobo
80 GB Dell HD
256mb of Dell Value ram
512mb of Patriot Value ram

I am at the end of the line here, and am upgrading to, once I get the cash a new AMD64 939, 7800GT based computer.

[Nuclear1]

Celeron 2.3 Ghz
XP Home
Nvidia GeForce 5700LE DDR
40 GB HD
256mb RAM

Yes, I know it looks like crap at first glance, but it runs anything as recent as Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault flawlessly and FSO without the adv_effects even better.

[BlackDove]

Why is this +1 month thread here?

[Cyker]

Bah! Nothing wrong with having an old comp, as long as it does what you need

It always pisses me off when someone buys a 3000MHz 2GB machine AND JUST USES IT TO DO WORD-PROCESSING AND E-MAIL!!!

IF IT WASN'T AGAINST THE LAW I WOULD BEAT SUCH PEOPLE TO DEATH WITH THEIR 1200DPI LASER MOUSE!!!!


The sad and ironic thing is, with modern Windows OS, you can almost justify needing such a system to do Word Processing (Office 2003 on Windows XPSP2 is such a shocking resource hog... I dread Office 2010 and Vista SP2....)

[DeepSpace9er]

Still have a Pentium 2 being used for business.

P2 400mhz
384mb RAM
12Gb HD
11mb ATI Rage
CD, Floppy, and internal ZIP
WinXP Pro (It amazingly runs on this)


My main machine is

P4 2.8Ghz HT
120GB HD
1.5GB RAM
Audigy 2
GeForce 6600GT OC
XP Pro

Kinda lacking slighty in the gfx department but other than that runs great.

[KappaWing]

2.5 Ghz pentium 4 processor
GeForce 4, 512 megs
512 megs of ram
80 gig internal HD
80 gig external HD

As soon as i get the cash I'm gonna get a new AGP compatible mainboard and dual-link two Geforce 7800's and maybe get an extra gig of ram.

[Taristin]

You mean a PCI-E SLI board so you can dual link. Cause you ain't doing it with AGP.

[JoeLo]

 My not main computer is amazingly old.

Aptiva Procceser
64mb of Rambus ram
9GB HD
Windows ME
ATI Rage 128

What I'm trying to say is this computer is really old and bad.