PC Specs?

evilDMT · Tue 12/02/2008 05:00:21

I am just wanting an idea on what people computer specs are in the AGS community. I want to develop a game, but dont want to develop something that has system requirements that are too high for people. Only reason being is that my PC specs are fairly high spec. And also I am using Wintermute as well, not AGS (dont flame me!). So some research would be great on what people are using.

Oliwerko · Tue 12/02/2008 10:07:33

I think that almost any computer nowadays can handle an AGS game.
I have had 433Mhz old crap and AGS games worked really smoothly in 640*480.

Now I have a completely new comp, two months old.

Raggit · Tue 12/02/2008 15:03:07

Oohh, a chance to show off!

Dell XPS 400 with dual core processors, ATI Radeon X1900, flat screen monitor, 5.1 Surround Sound and a pretty mouse pad. 8)

Khris · Tue 12/02/2008 15:59:49

I got 2.0GHz, 1GB Ram and an 1800GTO.

Oh, you meant specs: a wheel mouse with a ball, two Sony speakers, a tube monitor and a Logitech Gamepad Pro.

Tuomas · Tue 12/02/2008 16:19:13

1,8 GHz, 512MB Ram, and a 32Mb RIVA TNT2, a DVD-rom, a floppy drive, 60Gb of HD, A broken moterboard, a cheap keyboard and a Wacom for a mouse. 2 80s speakers through a stereo/vinyl player with no high or low voices available. A broken headset with a working microphone, an integrated soundcard and a new expensive good PSU of many watts, and a 17'' monitor I got for 1€

Buckethead · Tue 12/02/2008 16:23:08

2,4 GHz
256MB RAM
ge-force ti4200 128MB
80GB harddisk

But don't worry I'm saving for a new pc

VK Dan · Tue 12/02/2008 16:58:50

Here's mine.

Quote
Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13
Computer Name CHINOOK
User Name Dan
Logon Domain CHINOOK

Motherboard:
CPU Type Mobile AMD Athlon 64, 1600 MHz (8 x 200)
Motherboard Name Quanta 3093
Motherboard Chipset Unknown
System Memory 448 MB
BIOS Type Phoenix (10/19/05)

Display:
Video Adapter ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M (64 MB)
Video Adapter ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M (64 MB)
Monitor Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor Plug and Play Monitor [NoDB] (QGU065003076)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Conexant AC-Link Audio [NoDB]

Storage:
Disk Drive FUJITSU MHV2080AT PL
Optical Drive CD-ROM Drive
Optical Drive PIONEER DVDRW DVR-K15

Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 76269 MB (18646 MB free)

Nikolas · Tue 12/02/2008 17:07:57

Windows XP Home
P4 2.8 GHz, single core
2 GB RAM
2 hard disks, 150 GB and 300 GB
GForce 512 MB RAM
LynxONE sound card

and other more audio related stuff, which are of no interest

FSi++ · Tue 12/02/2008 19:14:57

Oldest that can run AGS games is:
P200MMX, 32MB RAM, some hard drive (most likely 1GB, but I forgot and too lazy to check), with S3 Virge DX for video and gigantic AWE32 for audio. Helluva beast!
Well, it would run AGS games if I upgrade its Win95 to Win98 (which I am yet again too lazy to do).

InCreator · Tue 12/02/2008 22:17:27

My machine is one of two things I'm never sorry to spend money on... second is my GF

Intel Core2 Duo (2 x 2,18 MHz)
2GB RAM
NVidia GeForce 7900GT/GTO (512MB) (with self-made custom cooler)
250GB HDD
Buggy, problematic, overheating, color-dot-infested, overly damned Samsung Syncmaster 740BF 17" LCD monitor. Never buy this.
5.1 Sigmatel Audio soundcard thingy
WinXP Home Edition

And loads of fancy junk, from TV&FM card to a tablet to a 5.1 surround headset to a MIDI keyboard to a...

Anyway, current specs indicate that last time I had money was more than year ago.
Damn you, poverty!

R4L · Tue 12/02/2008 23:34:01

I was going to post my computer specs, but I'm afraid that if I do, I'll get laughed at. :'(

twin-moon · Tue 12/02/2008 23:58:48

On my old computer Wintermute games were unplayable slow while AGS worked fine.
That's a pentium 120, 16mb RAM, 1,6 Gb harddisk. The monitor broke two months ago, so I can't tell you any more...

Phemar · Wed 13/02/2008 15:55:14

I have like a hard-drive and... stuff. It's got a mouse and goes on when I push the big button :/

SSH · Wed 13/02/2008 16:23:37

I have an 8-core Opteron system with 32G RAM and 10TB RAID10 disk array. OK, it's a work system, but its all mine!

Memory: 32901612k/34603008k available (2461k kernel code, 0k reserved, 1226k data, 204k init)
CPU0: Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8214 HE stepping 03
Booting processor 1/2 rip 6000 rsp 1083ff83f58
Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8214 HE stepping 03
Booting processor 2/4 rip 6000 rsp 1043ffa3f58
Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8214 HE stepping 03
Booting processor 3/6 rip 6000 rsp 104471fdf58
Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8214 HE stepping 03
Booting processor 4/1 rip 6000 rsp 1063ff1ff58
Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8214 HE stepping 03
Booting processor 5/3 rip 6000 rsp 1023ff65f58
Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8214 HE stepping 03
Booting processor 6/5 rip 6000 rsp 1043ff7ff58
Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8214 HE stepping 03
Booting processor 7/7 rip 6000 rsp 1043fe21f58
Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8214 HE stepping 03
Total of 8 processors activated (35078.14 BogoMIPS).

At home I just got a T7250 with 2G...

Radiant · Wed 13/02/2008 17:36:04

1.4 GHz Athlon with 128 Mb RAM. RAM turns out to be not all that important if you set up big enough swap space.

I tend to use 1024x768 resolution, although I can go higher if need be.

I used to do everything on a 350 MHz box, even. I've never found an AGS game that wouldn't run on that, although KQIX didn't.

Oliwerko · Wed 13/02/2008 20:41:55

Quote from: Radiant on Wed 13/02/2008 17:36:04
RAM turns out to be not all that important if you set up big enough swap space.

Uh..I do not totally agree with that. Unless you have a HDD with huge cache, RAM is a lot better than just swap space. But on the other hand, swap space can make a difference...

thebaddie · Wed 13/02/2008 20:58:15

Desktop:

AMD Athlon xp 2000+
1Gb DDR RAM
GeForce 6200 128Mb
3 HD 80GB+80GB+80GB (last one found near a rubbish skip :

)
LG DVD-Rom
Samsung DVD-Writer
Dolby 2.1
2 Playstation joypad
OS: Win Xp

Laptop:

Intel Centrino Duo 2 1.6Ghz Dual Core 64bit
2Gb RAM
Intel GM965 graphic chipset (

)
HD 160Gb
DVD-Writer
OS 1: Mandriva Linux 2008.0
OS 2: Win Vista Premium (

)

Theme · Wed 13/02/2008 21:18:57

QuoteComputer
Operating System   Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
OS Service Pack   -
Internet Explorer   7.0.6000.16575
Computer Name   QUADCORE
User Name   Davi
Logon Domain   QuadCore

Motherboard
CPU Type   QuadCore Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 2400 MHz (9 x 267)
Motherboard Name   Asus P5N-E SLI (2 PCI, 1 PCI-E x1, 2 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset   nVIDIA nForce 650i SLI
System Memory   8188 MB (DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM)
BIOS Type   Award (06/11/07)

Display
Video Adapter   NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS (512 MB)
Video Adapter   NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS (512 MB)
3D Accelerator   nVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
Monitor   Samsung SyncMaster 795DF/795MB/MagicSyncMaster CD175GP [17" CRT] (HXAY710649)

Multimedia
Audio Adapter   Realtek ALC883 @ nVIDIA nForce 430i (MCP51) - High Definition Audio Controller

Storage
Disk Drive   ST350084 1AS SCSI Disk Device (500 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
Optical Drive   TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182D ATA Device (DVD+R9:8x, DVD-R9:8x, DVD+RW:18x/8x, DVD-RW:18x/6x, DVD-RAM:12x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:48x/32x/48x DVD+RW/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM)

Partitions
C: (NTFS)   199999 MB (118560 MB free)
D: (NTFS)   249999 MB (71172 MB free)
Total Size   439.5 GB (185.3 GB free)

o/

Nikolas · Wed 13/02/2008 22:57:06

Quote from: Radiant on Wed 13/02/2008 17:36:04
RAM turns out to be not all that important if you set up big enough swap space.

I really hope you don't mean other types of jobs, apart from AGS and small applications. Cause there's no way in the world audio would go about with swap space, etc...

(or graphics, or animation...) $:-\$

Radiant · Wed 13/02/2008 23:46:25

Quote from: Oliwerko on Wed 13/02/2008 20:41:55
Uh..I do not totally agree with that. Unless you have a HDD with huge cache, RAM is a lot better than just swap space. But on the other hand, swap space can make a difference...

I'm aware that RAM is better, of course. But it turns out that many applications that list a minimum amount of RAM required can be run with significantly less than that, if you create generous amounts of swap on your hard drive.

Of course, this assumes you don't have too much junk in your system tray, and aren't multitasking overly much.