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suspended · January 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">what specs</div> hello iam new to natural-selection ive read all the fag's new natural-selection players forum's and everything i dont have the game but will have very soon but my real questions are : what computer specs u need to run natural-selection AND how long the game been out!

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='pudgy.gif'> <-love them <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

love the ns hats to!

Damien / suspended

IonShadow · January 2003

<b>You would of properbly got a better respounce in tech support.</b>

Anyway, you must be able to run cs retail, or hl. If you run these games ok, you will be fine, a very old computer can run ns. ( i don't think Xp can run hl without a patch)

A good connection is helpful too, & addtional space.

I found this mod last week, from pcgamer uk (the orginal pcgamer) but it seems like it's been running a while.

Infinity · January 2003

a very old computer would have very bad fps online

in a 24 player server, i would suggest a 500mhz with a geforce/radeon based graphic card for smooth performance

Injury · January 2003

I would recommend at least P3 500 with a Geforce 2 Ti to play NS at a decent pace.

Natural Selection was released to the public, on 2nd November of 2002 if memory serves. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Gnatsum · January 2003

October 31'st

halloween

was when NS was released

hoju2 · January 2003

I have a :

850mhz PIII
160 mb ram
and *sigh* a
64 mb Voodoo5500 PCI

please don't laugh about the Voodoo <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'>

In online games I usually get 40-80 FPS which varies greatly with the amount of action on screen. Also I think that this game takes a little bit more processing power than CS and HL because of the higher poly count models and robust particle engine.

eaglec · January 2003

Just to confirm I have 4 Windows XP pro PC's all running NS fine, two of which have been tested to run the dedicated server without problem. they are 2x2ghz with GF3 and tnt2u and 2x2.4ghz one with GF4ti4400 and the other with matrox G200. they all ran fine at any resolution.
I also have tested a K6-2 450mhz based pc with a tnt2u ( and one with a Hercules kyro2 graphics card) running windows ME, in lower resoloutions (800x600 or below) these also run fine and I have run a 12 player lan server from one of these too (although it suffered memory leaks).

So if you've bought your PC in the last 5 years you should be ok. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

hoju2 · January 2003

Kind of off topic, but I was wondering if XP doesn't run a lot of games well? My friend loves The Sims but can't play it on her new XP computer. Also is it still possible to but NEW computer with Win98 because I've heard about Win200's massive RAM use.

Unknown · January 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (hoju2 @ Jan 15 2003, 12:51 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Kind of off topic, but I was wondering if XP doesn't run a lot of games well? My friend loves The Sims but can't play it on her new XP computer. Also is it still possible to but NEW computer with Win98 because I've heard about Win200's massive RAM use.</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
I have The Sims and it works fine on my XP machine. It kinda stops playing the sound from time to time but then it catches up to itself.

suspended · January 2003

well right now iam useing a k6-450mhz, tnt2, 128ram , XP, 5 gig hhd ... if it cant run ns well ill have to upgrade so thats y ive gone out and found a P3 850 mhz , same old tnt2 , 256 ram , same old 5 gig hdd..

just have to wait a week mum going to buy it haha

grrr first she wont my family **** menginoccol neddle....

so yeah!

thx to u all tho , Big thumbs up!

( <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='pudgy.gif'> O and still loves these haha) <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

eaglec · January 2003

You should be ok on the hardware you have, but you'll only get 640x480 if you want to keep the frame rate up.

Of course don't me discourage you from buying a better system and a P3-850 is definately a step up, but that means a new motherboard as well. How much is this setting you back? Because if you dont mind amd chips I am sure you can get an athlon1800XP/motherboard for under $150 maybe even a P4 near for that too. Shop around, and be bloody careful of second hand bargains.

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