Requirements

Beaver_FetishBeaver_Fetish Join Date: 2002-04-09 Member: 395Members
in NS General Discussion
Lo all! I haven't been in here for ages. Hope everyone's keeping well.

Errmm... Was just wondering if we've seen any sign of some rough system requirements now that the release is getting closer? I just thought that being as it's taken a while to create this wonderous piece of Half-life adapted programming that it's not gonna have the original HL system requirements anymore.

Just and idea for something to put on the site. Oh, and I want to know if I'll need to buy a new computer for this release.

Beaver Fetish
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  • f3rretf3rret Join Date: 2002-05-29 Member: 686Members
    I would assume that the requirements are only a bit more than halflife.

    What system do you have now?
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  • Imperial_FistImperial_Fist Join Date: 2002-05-19 Member: 633Members
    theye said if u can run hlife then u can run this. maby they found a way to get great models and not take up much room <!--emo&:0--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'><!--endemo--> . but if u look at the hlife know and all the information it takes *sarcastic* i think ns will run on most comps even though its amasingly good looking and has such good gameplay and... lets jsut see ur system  <!--emo&:bob:--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/bob.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':bob:'><!--endemo--> vrs <!--emo&:tiny:--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tiny.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':tiny:'><!--endemo-->
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  • Beaver_FetishBeaver_Fetish Join Date: 2002-04-09 Member: 395Members
    K, I've got a PIII 450, Riva TNT, Ensoniq Soundscape and 128mb RAM.

    I can run HL easily in the higest res but with all the stuff that goes on in multiplayer I find that some mods start to slow it down for example Firearms and FLF.

    I just wanted to know if my pc's going to start dying during a heated battle.

    Beaver Fetish
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  • f3rretf3rret Join Date: 2002-05-29 Member: 686Members
    Meh, wait and see. That's the only way to tell for sure. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    You should be good to go, BF. Maybe a slight slowdown during ultra high model count situations. But your hardware is actually better than a test system I use from time to time, which I can play on with no real issues.

    My alternate (read: slow as hizell) test box:

    P2 350
    128MB RAM
    5400RPM 8GB Drive
    TNT Riva 2
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  • FlayraFlayra Game Director, Unknown Worlds Entertainment San Francisco Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 3Super Administrators, NS2 Developer, Subnautica Developer
    I was planning for a the minimum system to be a P2-400 with 128 megs RAM and a TNT.  I'm not sure how well NS runs on a system like that these days, but it sounds like Monsieur has it under control.

    The main idea here is that if you can play CS, you should be able to play NS.  Successive releases will likely get more optimized as well (we'll probably release the "debug" build for v1.0, and we'll work on the optimized version after that).
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  • coilcoil Amateur pirate. Professional monkey. All pance. Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 424Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    As I said in the *other* thread on this subject, I have a

    PII 266 / Win98
    320MB RAM
    Voodoo Banshee / running NS at 640x480

    I get intermittent performance in playtests... sometimes fine, sometimes pretty choppy.  I wouldn't try NS on anything worse than my system... but then, I doubt you could *find* anything worse than my system these days.  I hope to upgrade within a month.
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  • SonoSono Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 105Members
    /me feels good to be on the safe side.

    I must congrat the team to go with those small requirements. If you compare it to the actual availible systems it's amazing to bring in such beauty on such small pcs.
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