We are developing a 3D point and click adventure game called Sealed Lips and we would like to have some feedback from gamers. Our questions concern the PCs you use to play games. You could be of great help if you answered the following questions.
1) What processor do you use?
2) What graphics card do you use?
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?
Thank you in advance
Dimitris Manos
Editor of the PDF magazine for adventures The Inventory
Project Leader of Sealed Lips
1. AMD K6-2 600MHz
2. PCI S3 Savage4 with 32MB DRAM
3. 512MB
4. M$ DOS V6.22
5. Nope
6. My genit.... WAIT! Nothing in the computer I think.
And no, I'm not kidding, I'm serious.
1) What processor do you use?
Intel Xeon 2.66 ghz
2) What graphics card do you use?
ATI Radeon 9500 pro 128mb
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
1.5gb
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
XP
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
Upgrade
6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?
Graphics card
1) What processor do you use?
Pentium 4 / 2.66Ghz
2) What graphics card do you use?
NVIDIA FeGorce TI 4600
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
1Gb
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
Windows 2k
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
Yes
6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?
Storage space (ie: harddisk)
1) What processor do you use?
Athlon 1700
2) What graphics card do you use?
Ati Radeon 9000 pro
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
512 SDRAM
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
Win XP
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
Nope
1) Athlon 1700
2) GeForce 2 MX (bleargh)
3) 256
4) Win XP
5) Upgrade, hopefully
6) Graphics card, harddrive
1) Athlon 1800XP
2) Geforce2 MX400
3) 256Mb
4) Windows XP
5) Upgrade maybe
6) Probably the monitor
1) Athlon 1800+XP Whoop Ass Inside! (actual sticker on my pc!)
2) 128mb GeforceFX 5200
3) 1024Mb DDR Memory (How can you actually have 1gig??? 1024....)
4) Windows XP
5) Oh Yes! Every six months or so!
6) CPU, Memory, & Video
1) What processor do you use?
PIII 450
2) What graphics card do you use?
GeForce2 32/64mb (i forget, i think 32)
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
192mb
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
Win XP
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
Yes... this sunday, as it were.
6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?
Getting a new computer. Celeron 2.6, with all new stuff and taht, so it will be fairly good, except for the celeron part.
Aushor your selling your self short with a celron???? You already have a pentium why cripple your computer???? If your looking for price check Athlon XPs there much more reliable than Pentuims IMO especially in XP..... You can build your own for as little as 500 bucks providing you reuse your old floppy, cdrom, and video......
Dude I hope your not getting a Dell!
1) AMD K6-2 350 MHz
2) oldish 3-d card, I forget the name
3) 256 Mb
4) Win2000 and/or Linux, and sometimes DOS too.
5/6) Possibly. If so I'll buy an entire new machine.
You might want to check out the Valve Steam survey, it will give you a rough idea of the figures
1) What processor do you use?
P4 2.4 512kb 533 bus
2) What graphics card do you use?
GF4 Ti4200 128 DDR
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
512 DDR 333
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
XP
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
hardly,but probably :P
6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?
maybe more RAM, graphics card hmmm, hard disk definetly (MORE! MORE!)
1) What processor do you use?
Celeron 300mHz
2) What graphics card do you use?
Riva tnt 32 PCI vanta something
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
160 mb
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
Windows 98 of course
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
I surely hope so (ahem, I surely hope to upgrade my system soon)
6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?
New harddrives, new prosessor, more ram probably. And that thing of course where you plug all your graphics card etc etc. (mother board?)
1) What processor do you use?
Pentium 4 2.88mHz (w/o HT)
2) What graphics card do you use?
Radeon 9700
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
2gigs PC1066 RDRAM (That's right.)
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
Windows XP Pro
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
Upgrade
6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?
Whatever new toys I can't live w/o
Two PC's;
1) P200 MMX
2) MMX / DirectX 8
3) 64mb
4) Win 98
5) Nope
6) N/A
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1) P4 450mhz
2) Nvidia thingy thing 64mb
3) Loads
4) Win 2k
5) Nope
6) N/A
1) What processor do you use?
P2 350
2) What graphics card do you use?
32mb Riva TNT2
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
128mb SDRam
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
win98se
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
yep
You can't have a P4 450MHz, m0ds. The slowest P4 was something like 1+GHz.
My PC:
1) Pentium 4 3.40GHz Hyperthreaded.
2) GeForce FX 5200 with 128Mb RAM.
3) 1 Gb of 3200 DDR.
4) Windows 2000 with SP4.
5) I upgraded my PC less than 2 weeks ago, but certain parts of it might need upgrading again soon.
6) Graphics card, if anything.
2 PCs for me
1) What processor do you use?
1Ghz Athlon / 600Mhz P3
2) What graphics card do you use?
GeForceMX 32Mb/ Trident CyberBlade e4-128
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
256Mb / 320 Mb
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
Windows ME / Windows 2000 SP4
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
No
6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?[/b]
I listed my main pc, but have 2 more if you want those too :P
1) What processor do you use?
- Athlon XP 2700+
2) What graphics card do you use?
- ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128Mb
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
- 512 Mb
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
- Windows XP home
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
- Within one year? No. Two years? Probably.
6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?
- RAM and graphics card
1) Pentium 4 : 2.8 ghz
2) GeForce4 128mb (I'm not 100% sure of the model)
3) 512 mb
4) Windows XP Professional
5) Upgrade
6) More RAM
1. Intel Centrino 1.3 GHz (Dell Inspiron 8600 Laptop)
2. ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 (32 MB, works with 64MB minimum-required games)
3. 512 MB RAM
4. Windows XP Home
5. Not for awhile, or at least until I get a lot of money somehow.
6. Since I own a laptop, not feasible. :P
1) What processor do you use?
AMD Duron 1.3 Ghz
2) What graphics card do you use?
nVIDIA Riva TNT2 Model 64 pro
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
128 mb
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
Windows 2000
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
Yes
6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?
New system for school.. I'll definitely have more RAM, and probably switch to Windows XP.
Quote from: Ben on Tue 13/04/2004 22:29:14
6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?
New system for school.. I'll definitely have more RAM, and probably switch to Windows XP.
NO! Whatever you do, do not choose Windows XP over Windows 2000. 2K is far superior to XP.
E-Machines etower 500is
1) What processor do you use?
Intel Celeron 500 MHz
2) What graphics card do you use?
I believe an ATI Radion or something like that with only a whopping 4 MB's or memory.
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
Came with 32, upgraded to 96
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
Windows 98. But i don't play alot of games on my computer. I play most games on my consoles.
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
Probably keep upgrading. No plans on buying a new computer any time soon. I just put in a newer hard drive and a CD-RW drive.
6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?
Probably more RAM. My computer can only go up to 256 MB, so i guess i'll bump it up to that.
1) What processor do you use?
Athlon xp 2000 or something
2) What graphics card do you use?
Geforce 2
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
512
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
windows xp
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
maybe buy a notebook, but...
6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?
dunno yet. money is short
1)
dual Athlon MP1800+
2)
Asus V8460 Ultra
3)
1024 mb DDR-ECC
4)
Windows XP, 2000, debian linux and freebsd (debian and freebsd for learning linux/unix)
5)
sure. upgrade.
6)
hdd (8 channel raid system), processors, ram, maybe graphics
is my server and fun pc. my others are a laptop (2.6ghz p4 w/o ht) and a XP1800+.
but the dual above is my main pc.
Of course, the self-selecting nature of replies to this thread might bias the results of the survey in favour of higher-end machines as people with powerful PCs are maybe more liekly to want to brag about them? ;D
In which case, to offset this, I'll add the most rubbsih PC I own:
Pentium 120, No idea, 16Mb RAM, Windows 95, no, no
or if you'd consider other platforms:
Spectrum (4Mhz Z80 processor), Specc GFX, 48K RAM, Spectrum BASIC, no, no
1) What processor do you use?
1.2ghz Athlon
2) What graphics card do you use?
Geforce2 Ti 64mb
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
320mb
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
Windows XP
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
Maybe...
6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?[/b]
Video card (very likely), DVD burner (very likely). New box with motherboard, CPU and ram (less likely, say 50/50 chance)
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And I've got a second computer, used mostly for old games:
1) What processor do you use?
Pentium II 333mhz
2) What graphics card do you use?
Voodoo2 12mb
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
128mb
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
Windows 98SE
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
Nope
Ok heres my older rubbish I still got sitting around!
1) Pentium 1 120Mhz Everex Laptop
2) Cirrus Logic 8mb 16 colors
3) 64Mb Ramm
4) Windows 98 SE
5) No
6) No
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1) Pentium 75Mhz
2) 4Mb Cirrus Logic
3)16Mb Ramm
4) Dual Boot WIn3.11 & WIn95
5) Are You Crazy
6) ITs a classic!
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As much as i love today's high performace computers. There is one computer that will always have a special place in my heart.
The Tandy 1000.
That was an amazing machine for its time, and the first computer i ever used to write my own adventure games in BASIC.
I used to use an old program called Micro-Illustrator to draw my graphics in and then import them to BASIC, so i could use them in my games.
I'm thinking about looking on Ebay to find one of them.
Oh, how i miss it. :(
1) P4 2.6GB
2) GeForce FX 5200 with 128Mb RAM.
3) 512MB
4) Well I only really play AGS games and games From GF backward, GF is about the only one that needs a graphics card. But I use XP (98 on my other one)
5) It is entirely possible but really only if something fucks up
6) Monitor is about the only thing I could get to make things better, Ahhh and a larger HD and maybe some more RAM
1) What processor do you use?
- Athlon XP 1900+ (1.6 Ghz)
2) What graphics card do you use?
- GeForce 4 ti4600
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
- 512 Mb
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
- Windows XP home
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
- Yes.
6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?
- New graphics card + RAM then switch them both over to the new PC if i buy one...
Quote from: Dark-of-Night on Fri 16/04/2004 01:56:35
As much as i love today's high performace computers. There is one computer that will always have a special place in my heart.
The Tandy 1000.
That was an amazing machine for its time, and the first computer i ever used to write my own adventure games in BASIC.
I used to use an old program called Micro-Illustrator to draw my graphics in and then import them to BASIC, so i could use them in my games.
I'm thinking about looking on Ebay to find one of them.
Oh, how i miss it. :(
Dude, I still have one in my basement. My dad brought it home when I was 7, the Tandy 1000 is what I taught myself how to type on, my first computer I used BASIC on...
I feel you. Ours had an "optional upgrade" of a 20 meg HDD for like, a trillion bucks. Fortunately my dad was a previous generation geek.
1) What processor do you use?
x86 family 15 model 1 stepping 3 genuine intel 1794 mhz
2) What graphics card do you use?
intel extreme 3d lol
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
384mb
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
xp home
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
YES
6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?
Graphics and proscesser
oh wait, i think i have a calculator somwhere in the basement. does taht count....
err, well if that not, then surely my "monitor" from my C64 would count as a computer!
well, i guess i should sleep now. Talking too much nonsense...
C'mon Czar, where's your sense of Nostalgia?
Todays computers are great and all, but sometimes they just don't compare to the innocence of the early computer era.
Without the computers of the good 'ol days, where would computer technology be now.
Damn, i still use Radio Shack computers at work.
They may be ancient, but they get the job done.
and as for the C64, didn't that thing hook up to a television set? Because my friend many years ago had one, and i just remember playing with the C64 on the TV.
1) What processor do you use?
1.8GHz Pentium 4
2) What graphics card do you use?
NVidia GeForce4 16MB (this video card could not be more useless)
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
256MB
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
Windows 2000
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
Hope to buy a new one
6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?[/b]
the system
Quote from: Dark-of-Night on Sat 17/04/2004 01:09:17
C'mon Czar, where's your sense of Nostalgia?
Todays computers are great and all, but sometimes they just don't compare to the innocence of the early computer era.
Without the computers of the good 'ol days, where would computer technology be now.
Damn, i still use Radio Shack computers at work.
They may be ancient, but they get the job done.
and as for the C64, didn't that thing hook up to a television set? Because my friend many years ago had one, and i just remember playing with the C64 on the TV.
Yeah...
i know. i remember the times where 7 of us would get infront of the Amiga 500 ( i know its a bit higher compared to teh ZX and C 64..) and we would put Mig 29. Then we would pretend that we are all in that jet, but we could never start that damn thing. Tho once we moved a wing to the left.
That started a massive euphoria amongst us. It could last for hours... Aaahhh.
You're right.
1) What processor do you use?
Apple G4 800mhz
2) What graphics card do you use?
Cant remember, soem sort of ATi card with 32mb
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
512mb
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
(osx10.3) N/A for this question :p
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
Hopefully to a nice G5 Mac
6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?[/b]
see above, bigger LCD monitor too.
1) What processor do you use?
Pentium III 866
2) What graphics card do you use?
GeForce 2 64mb
3) How much RAM does your computer have?
256mb
4) What operating system do you use to play games?
Win ME
5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?
May be
6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?
CPU, RAM & display card