Has anyone figured out what the min specs are for Spring?

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 13 Oct 2005, 23:24

Question as above. I'm trying to figure out if Spring will work on my laptop or not, so that I can continue working on Epic (and CZ) TA while the main (read: only comp known to run Spring at the moment) computer is in use (this is regular as my brother has to do his - paid - work on that machine)

Say "just install it and see" or any variation of said sentence and I will smash your face in with a wrench.

Danke

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 13 Oct 2005, 23:27

<clunk!>

owwww...

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 13 Oct 2005, 23:44

well, you need Windows XP at the moment *I think* (although that may change soon enough). I've played someone with a cpu .7 GHz, but I think you should aim for at least 1 GHz. You'll also need RAM, some sort of Graphics Card, and I think some other things too =P. By the way, you can play online over a modem (I've done 4v4 over my 56k), although I suppose it depends on stuff. I hope that was of at least a little help, but you know, there's no real way of being sure unless you tr- err... well, I'm sure you can think of something.

clericvash · Post by **clericvash** » 13 Oct 2005, 23:58

I would suggest at least 700mhz and 256 ram with a 64mb graphics at at least 56kb/s modem...offline play is somewhat lacking at the moment

Post by **Fnordia** » 14 Oct 2005, 00:18

There has been reports of people successfully running spring with geforce1 cards, but it doesn't look very good.

Kuroneko · Post by **Kuroneko** » 14 Oct 2005, 00:22

I've been half-tempted to try it on my server which has 4megs of video memory :)

Gnomre · Post by **Gnomre** » 14 Oct 2005, 00:57

I've ran it on a 667 mhz P3, 320 MB SDRAM, 32 MB PCI geforce2. There was no lighting though:

http://wormhole.tauniverse.com/images/s ... ppypc1.jpg
http://wormhole.tauniverse.com/images/s ... ppypc2.jpg

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 14 Oct 2005, 01:07

Gnome wrote:I've ran it on a 667 mhz P3, 320 MB SDRAM, 32 MB PCI geforce2. There was no lighting though:

http://wormhole.tauniverse.com/images/s ... ppypc1.jpg
http://wormhole.tauniverse.com/images/s ... ppypc2.jpg

All things considered that really doesn't look that much worse

Warlord Zsinj · Post by **Warlord Zsinj** » 14 Oct 2005, 01:51

You can't play Spring with a 56k modem, can you? Surely you need atleast a low level ADSL to have a decent game...

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 14 Oct 2005, 02:08

Warlord Zsinj wrote:You can't play Spring with a 56k modem, can you? Surely you need atleast a low level ADSL to have a decent game...

Sarcasm detector going off...

Kuroneko · Post by **Kuroneko** » 14 Oct 2005, 02:34

Warlord Zsinj wrote:You can't play Spring with a 56k modem, can you? Surely you need atleast a low level ADSL to have a decent game...

56k isn't that bad for playing, it's just bad for hosting.

Gnomre · Post by **Gnomre** » 14 Oct 2005, 02:40

SwiftSpear wrote:
Warlord Zsinj wrote:You can't play Spring with a 56k modem, can you? Surely you need atleast a low level ADSL to have a decent game...
Sarcasm detector going off...

Zsinj is a 56ker

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 14 Oct 2005, 04:28

bah! I've hosted 2v2 games where the latency reading (packet loss or whatever...) were consistently under 30 for the whole game! I'm not dumb enough to try 3v3 though =P

IMSabbel · Post by **IMSabbel** » 14 Oct 2005, 09:11

i just have one good piece of advice:

If you have 256MB ram or less, or 800MHz CPU or less, STAY THE FUCK OUT of 3v3 or 4v4 games, or games on large (>20x20) maps.
Just yesterday i had a game running at 0.5 at wideopencombat after 8 minuts. One player had 62% cpu load, the worst of the rest 18%.

Anothertime one player started swapping (because he only had 256MB ram, which is NOT enough, suddendly kicking spring down to speeds down to 0.15 (!) for a minute, then going faster again,then stopping again.

Lindir The Green · Post by **Lindir The Green** » 14 Oct 2005, 15:53

Um...

Well, I have 256 MBs of ram with a decent graphics card and I have been able to play 3v3s without lag. I do have a 3.6 GHz [edit]I checked, and it is actually 2.8 GHz[/edit] processor though, and a fast internet connection.

The problem is when you have bad internet AND bad ram AND bad/no graphics card AND a bad processor.

Then it lags in a 1v1 on smalldivide with the lowest settings possible.

IMSabbel · Post by **IMSabbel** » 14 Oct 2005, 16:37

you have a 3.6 GHz CPU with 256 Mbyte RAM?
Then i give you the honour badge of "moron of the month"

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 14 Oct 2005, 18:08

Honestly... Don't Try World Domination with a crappy video card... like 20 units and I started killing the game... I was getting like 30 and everyone else was like 10... I ended up dieing pretty quick and giving the leftovers to my allies so I don't think it hurt anyone much... but it was just chunky... ATI Radeo 9200... also have a celleron, not sure which one should be my priority for fixing first...

Kuroneko · Post by **Kuroneko** » 14 Oct 2005, 18:17

SinbadEV wrote:Honestly... Don't Try World Domination with a crappy video card... like 20 units and I started killing the game... I was getting like 30 and everyone else was like 10... I ended up dieing pretty quick and giving the leftovers to my allies so I don't think it hurt anyone much... but it was just chunky... ATI Radeo 9200... also have a celleron, not sure which one should be my priority for fixing first...

I never had any issues on WD with my 9200 :S

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 14 Oct 2005, 18:25

not even missing textures? it was a 3x3 game so that could be it... I'll have to try it again

Masse · Post by **Masse** » 14 Oct 2005, 18:37

Lindir The Green wrote:Um...

Well, I have 256 MBs of ram with a decent graphics card and I have been able to play 3v3s without lag. I do have a 3.6 GB processor though, and a fast internet connection.

The problem is when you have bad internet AND bad ram AND bad/no graphics card AND a bad processor.

Then it lags in a 1v1 on smalldivide with the lowest settings possible.

maybe u have 256 MB in ur graphics card

Spring RTS Engine

Has anyone figured out what the min specs are for Spring?

Has anyone figured out what the min specs are for Spring?