What's the lowest spec PC you've.....
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| ....tested your game on, and what was the conclusion? |
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| My little "Armand and the Foppish Hat" and "Senet" games both run fine on my wife's old AMD Duron 1000 with a cheap Geforce4 MX card in it, or on a G4 Mac Mini. I haven't tested below those levels, though. |
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| ....tested your game on, and what was the conclusion? Last time I tested a game-in-progress I'm working on on two low-end computers, the results were significantly different: - On a whitebox desktop with 128MB RAM and AMD K6 400MHz with a Voodoo3 card (16Mb Video memory), it ran at full speed. (60 fps) - On a Compaq Armada E500 laptop (600MHz, with Rage Mobility video) the same game got between 0.5 FPS and 0.2FPS. (Yes, that's 2 to 5 seconds between frames. Old BlitzBasic ran fine, but suffice it to say that it doesn't do any hardware 3D acceleration) |
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| I have 2 PC's with intel gfx cards. Intel chipsets are in almost half of PC's according to the Unity poll. They create a huge bottleneck with their bad fillrate. The language runs fine but if you draw lots of big images you are going to see FPS drop from 120FPS to 30-40. |
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| "Geforce4 MX" is no slouch when it comes to "2d via 3d" rendering. I develop on: Intel Celeron: 2.93ghz 512mb Intel 82845G Integrated Series If my game runs at 30fps or greater, I'm satisfied. |
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| Yeah, it does fine, especially for a 6 year old card that was like $40 new. I develop on a MacBook (not MacBook Pro). I figure if it runs on that (which has integrated graphics), and runs on the G4 Mac Mini, I've got my Mac users pretty well covered. Since I target the Mac, that's where my testing takes place. If it runs at all on a Windows machine, that's just a bonus. |
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| I usually develop stuff on my faithful P2-400, 256mb RAM and a geforce 4MX. Runs a lot of stuff from B3D pretty well. But on my latest game (still developing it) itīs struggling... Of course, I also test my games on newer/better machines :) |
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| Reason I asked is that I've just cobbled together a test system: PIII 733MHz 256Mb RAM 8MB shared graphics (see below) Windows XP Home As you can see I want to invest as little as possible in this thing. The motherboard does not have an AGP slot - I had an ATI Rage Pro in my junk cupboard that I was going to use but now I can't as I didn't realise I was limited to PCI (not PCI-E). Is there anywhere that I might be able to get an old-ish PCI graphics card? I'm thinking along the lines of a 32MB GeForce 2 MX or something like that. The only ones I can find on eBay are either not what I'm looking for, or are in Japan/China/Germany/Somewhere else. |
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| If you can't get a Geforce on ebay then get an old ATI, like this one: "ATI Radeon 7000 64Mb DDR V/D/VO PCI Graphics Card" |
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| Pretty sure I have a PCI Voodoo 4 knocking around in a cupboard -- you're welcome to it if I can dig it out. |
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| I have a 500mhz p3 with voodoo 16mb card. I have xubuntu on it and it runs my particle engine OK (well like 500 particles) |
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| Is there anywhere that I might be able to get an old-ish PCI graphics card? I'm thinking along the lines of a 32MB GeForce 2 MX or something like that. Froogle is your friend: http://www.google.com/products?q=GeForce+2+MX+ (used ones Starting at $14.99, it seems) |
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| Thanks for the offer, Sledge; I completely forgot about this thread. I just picked up a PCI 64MB GeForce 4 from eBay for Ģ6! |
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| PII 400Mhz 192KB Ram - G400MAX 32MB GPU with XP - I also have a non-3d card in the unit to test software renders. Still goes like the clappers as long as it's not loaded with Win32 Bloatware. |
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| PII 400Mhz 192KB Ram - G400MAX 32MB GPU with XP ...and Blitzmax games actually work on that? o.O |
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| I use a 1.5Ghz Via laptop with Via Unichrome graphics (shared) if it works on that it will work on anything :) Although nothing works on me speccy 48k :( |
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| > I just picked up a PCI 64MB GeForce 4 from eBay for Ģ6! Nice, I didn't know Geforce 4 was still using PCI. |
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| My work machine is a 500MHz/ 128MB RAM/ Nvidia 8MB AGP running XP Home. It runs the BMax apps I write just fine and I use the OpenGL drivers. |
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| Tim tested my first two games on that PC, but they were BPlus. Can't remember if he tested any of my BMax ones... |
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| Nice, I didn't know Geforce 4 was still using PCI. My bad. What I bought was actually a 128MB Radeon 9250.Got a bit confused as I was watching about half a dozen different ones. :) |
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