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Has anyone figured out what the min specs are for Spring?
Posted: 13 Oct 2005, 23:24
by Guessmyname
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
Posted: 13 Oct 2005, 23:27
by Zoombie
<clunk!>
owwww...
Posted: 13 Oct 2005, 23:44
by FizWizz
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.
Posted: 13 Oct 2005, 23:58
by clericvash
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
Posted: 14 Oct 2005, 00:18
by Fnordia
There has been reports of people successfully running spring with geforce1 cards, but it doesn't look very good.
Posted: 14 Oct 2005, 00:22
by Kuroneko
I've been half-tempted to try it on my server which has 4megs of video memory :)
Posted: 14 Oct 2005, 00:57
by Gnomre
Posted: 14 Oct 2005, 01:07
by SwiftSpear
All things considered that really doesn't look that much worse
Posted: 14 Oct 2005, 01:51
by Warlord Zsinj
You can't play Spring with a 56k modem, can you? Surely you need atleast a low level ADSL to have a decent game...
Posted: 14 Oct 2005, 02:08
by SwiftSpear
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...
Posted: 14 Oct 2005, 02:34
by Kuroneko
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.
Posted: 14 Oct 2005, 02:40
by Gnomre
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
Posted: 14 Oct 2005, 04:28
by FizWizz
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
Posted: 14 Oct 2005, 09:11
by IMSabbel
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.
Posted: 14 Oct 2005, 15:53
by Lindir The Green
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.
Posted: 14 Oct 2005, 16:37
by IMSabbel
you have a 3.6 GHz CPU with 256 Mbyte RAM?
Then i give you the honour badge of "moron of the month"
Posted: 14 Oct 2005, 18:08
by SinbadEV
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...
Posted: 14 Oct 2005, 18:17
by Kuroneko
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
Posted: 14 Oct 2005, 18:25
by SinbadEV
not even missing textures? it was a 3x3 game so that could be it... I'll have to try it again
Posted: 14 Oct 2005, 18:37
by Masse
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
