what kind of a system set up do u need to run this bad boy

TinCool

Unfortunately like some of the more affluent q2ers out there i dont own a p2-500 with 256mb or ram, just a lowly 200mmx/32mb/voodoo1, is this enuf or will i have to buy that god damn celeron 333a in which case i would actually have to extend my bank loan ???

gandalf

Yeah that should be fine....

Gandalf.

YuM

That'll do, a wee bit more memory would be a help...

But I've got it running fine on that spec

ButcherOfNog

i'm running it on a p233mmx with 40M Ram & a voodoo2. runs class as long as there's no more than 25 or so players in the game. had some slowdown in a 32 player game i was in on saturday nite <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)">

Dr_Teeth

I'm running an AMD K6-2 300 with a V2, and in big games my framerate starts to drop to around 20, which ain't nice at all. That said, if they'd bothered doing a 3D-Now version I'd be grand. Go for the celeron, and OC the **** out of it. <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)">

Hmm... must upgrade.. a K6-3? A K7? A Celery? A P2/3? Hmmm....

Currently my specs for a new machine are:

Processor:

Dunno. Either a K7, an overclocked celeron, or a high-end P2/3.

Memory:

128MB of uber low-latency SDRAM. (Nice Mushkin stuff, you never know when you might want to run a 133Mhz bus)

Disks:

Twin 13GB 10Krpm IBM Deskstars, running stiped ultra fast/wide SCSI 2. <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)">) I'll need driver coolers and an extra power supply though. Haven't decided on a SCSI adapter. Adaptec are always a good bet I suppose.

Removable Media:

Interal Zip Drive, SCSI CD RW, SCSI CD, Floppy (duh).

Video:

A Voodoo3 please guv, the 4000.

Sound:

Sound Blaster Live, full version (mmmm digital out).

Network:

A good sturdy 3Com, nothing better for over-clocking.

Modem:

My current Zoom 56Kflex is grand I reckon.

Case:

I've no idea. Something really nice looking, with at least 5 full-height bays, 4 half-height bays, 2 power supplies, 8 slots, and 3 fans at least. And Black. Oh yes. <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)">

Monitor:

A nice 19inch Trinitron, .24dp, an Iiyama 450 Pro perhaps. Something with a USB hub anyays.

Speakers:

Not sure, I quite like the Boston Acoustics that come with high-end Gateways. Something with a good sub-woofer and 4 speakers for good A3D vibes.

Mouse/Keyboard:

Retail MS Intellimouse Pro, USB with a nice mousemat (those 3M ones are good?). Dunno about the keyboard though. A nice USB one anyways.

Hmm.. I'll stop drooling now. <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)">

Teeth.

TinCool

rite cheers lads for the info, memory would be the cheaper option for a quick speed boost me thinks, anyone out there do me a good deal on 2x64mb dimms or how about one of those 128mb dimm bad boys ???

Square_Pusher

Hey just one note about usb it sucks <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)"> Hehe no seriously though its a cpu hog. It might sound really cool on paper but research the usb stuff you are going to buy as it could slow down the system

Just my thoughts on the subject

ChR Cat Deeley.... yummy oMe

Dr_Teeth

You're running DIMMs in a p200? Hmm, didn't know they bothered using anything but SIMMs in those. Buy a single 128MB PC100 DIMM from www.scan.co.uk or another one of the UK mail-order places. Use it in your current machine, and then use it in your next machine. <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)">

Teeth.

Dr_Teeth

You're right there, about USB. But hey, I'm a Mac user of yore, I long for the simplicity of ADB <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)">. I may end up going USB, for good support for my Linux/BeOS installs if nothing else.

Teeth.

Dr_Teeth

"may end up NOT going USB..", even.

Sigh.
Teeth.

TinCool

My cat's breath smells of cat food <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)">

ps whats usb ?

WhiteWashMan

universal serial bus i tik
and i beat yis all
i run fne on a 166mmx with voodoo1

hay, what do i care. im gettin a pII 400 next week <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)">

tHE vAGGABOND

My Melinda would kick the living **** out of "i've got a" Cat "up my ****" Deeley

So there and i cold prove it too

L31mr0d

lol... just having a look over some of the old threads in the gaming forum, this one made me laugh out loud

TinCool wrote: »

Unfortunately like some of the more affluent q2ers out there i dont own a p2-500 with 256mb or ram

TinCool wrote: »

how about one of those 128mb dimm bad boys ???

Dr_Teeth wrote: »

I'm a Mac user of yore, I long for the simplicity of ADB.

TinCool wrote: »

ps whats usb ?

Genghiz Cohen

Mega bump of the century, Our school did a time capsule thng, I put my PC specs of the time in there, 10-20 years from now I will admitted to future hospital with split sides....

conzy

An 8800gt will run Quake 2 in ULTRA BROWN mode, at about 20fps if you're lucky... I would splash out for 2 8800 ultras if I were you.....

Nice Bump!

Makaveli

Things really have changed over the past 9 years.

jhegarty

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Mega bump of the century

Don't you mean bump from the last century :eek:

KdjaCL

Heh a DS could probably run it now.



kdjac

Darwin

Good to see the original posters are all still active on boards!

tuxy

L31mr0d wrote: »

lol... just having a look over some of the old threads in the gaming forum, this one made me laugh out loud

Moore's Law isn't that funny, is it?
I used to play quake 2 on a amd k6 300mhz 32mb ram and a 16mb voodoo banshee.

L31mr0d

tuxy wrote: »

Moore's Law isn't that funny, is it?
I used to play quake 2 on a amd k6 300mhz 32mb ram and a 16mb voodoo banshee.

it is actually... I find it funny because I know, 8 years from now, i'm going to be looking back at the uber specced out machine I had and laughing at the now threads about games like crysis and what kind of power was needed to play them. How fast technology gets old, I have a box of 128MB RAM sticks in work just gathering dust, and a 800Mhz P4 Gateway machine running as a glorified DSL modem.

Although Moores law really isn't relevant anymore, the moment Intel decided to go multicore was the moment they admitted defeat to moores law.

conzy

In 1990 computers had what? 2mb of RAM? 17 years later we have an average of 2048mb ram, a 1024 fold increase......

So in 2024 we will all be sporting 2097152mb or 2 terabytes or ram?

dazftw

I was actually reading this at 1st thinking its a bunch of console lads or something that didnt have a clue about pc's and was like this cant be right..

Then I noticed this thread is 8 years old

Retr0gamer

I had to play Quake 2 and Half-life in 320x240 on my lowly p100 in software mode God the framerates were terrible.

hamster

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I had to play Quake 2 and Half-life in 320x240 on my lowly p100 in software mode God the framerates were terrible.

Oh Retr0gamer - ha! I remember this exactly!

T'was summer 1996. My 1 Yr old IR£3,000 Dell P120 16Mb, 1Gb Harddrive, 4Mb Trio32 video was sh*t hot (so I thought) and I installed Quake 1.06. Next, 320x200 - hmm ok 24-30fps. Right now for 640x480.... 11 fps! Lovely graphics. Might as well put up with it I thought. Played most of the 4 worlds using that. Opened the lid, put a fan on top of that hot heatsink, change the motherboard jumper from 60 to 66 to get 133Mhz and got 2-3 fps extra. Oh what joy - closer to 15fps now. So I thought til Settlers 2 crashed midway through a 15 hour campaign... Oh dear god.
But my... how things have changed eh? And there is me playing Aradwolf Mud tonight. Though that would have been slower back then on that crap 28.8K Rockwell modem I had.

grimm2005

I lol'ed when i saw this. thought it was a p!ss take until i noticed the date

seraphimvc

lol i was reading till about 5/6posts ,than the 1999 nearly made me faint lol
was thinking some old retrogame maniacs..and people replied seriously!:p

good old days really...feel wasted of paying that much money on that time though...;)

0ubliette

jayzis i remember i only had a DEMO of quake 2, running it on my P2 32mb ram 4gb hdd PC
only had an onboard gfx card, i was delighted Q2 worked but i remember seeing Q3 in a magazine and being devatated something that good looking would never run on my pc...i ended up playing it on the dreamcast!!

K.O.Kiki

0ubliette wrote: »

jayzis i remember i only had a DEMO of quake 2, running it on my P2 32mb ram 4gb hdd PC
only had an onboard gfx card, i was delighted Q2 worked but i remember seeing Q3 in a magazine and being devatated something that good looking would never run on my pc...i ended up playing it on the dreamcast!!

I bet half the kids here have already forgotten about the Dreamcast

BlitzKrieg

thats why we have the Sega forum



NEVER FORGET!

ShiverinEskimo

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

thats why we have the Sega forum



NEVER FORGET!

Haha its like you are sitting on a throne monitoring all threads waiting for someone to mention Sega like the NSA's keywords system so you can sweep in and remind people to NEVER FORGET.

Dont be at yourself

Those were the days. I remember saving up over 100 pounds to buy a 1Gb hard drive back in the day. And breaking the piggy-bank for 16mb ram and a Voodoo so I could play Resident Evil!

0ubliette

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

thats why we have the Sega forum



NEVER FORGET!

that reminds me of a joke...

knock knock

who's there?

9/11

9/11 who?

YOU SAID YOUD NEVER FORGET

chamlis

lol.
I remember playing Half-Life 320x240 with the screen minimised to as small as possible like you would with Doom on my 14' CRT monitor. Right upto the screen squinting, very proud I got it to run at all on 7 fps

BlitzKrieg

0ubliette wrote: »

that reminds me of a joke...

knock knock

who's there?

9/11

9/11 who?

YOU SAID YOUD NEVER FORGET

fantastic

MOH

Lol, didn't see the date, was reading the first couple of posts thinking wtf?
Though I'd fallen back through a hole in time. Again.

On topic, I actually have a 333 if anyone's looking for one ...

hamster

Gutted a P120 pc back together over the weekend - now with 96Mb onboard - From a Linux point of view. The swap file is going to be 200Mb of the 500Mb drive. DamnSmallLinux or what?

Blowfish

TinCool wrote: »

Unfortunately like some of the more affluent q2ers out there i dont own a p2-500 with 256mb or ram, just a lowly 200mmx/32mb/voodoo1, is this enuf or will i have to buy that god damn celeron 333a in which case i would actually have to extend my bank loan ???

The best part of this is that I actually have a p2 and 64mb RAM on my keyring

I actually remember back in the day when Eye Of The Beholder was struggling to on my machine.

Maximilian

*ahem*

Zombrex

Doom on a 4MB 386 laptop with a black and white screen (my dad's first PC) circa 1996

320x200 but still had to block the screen down a few levels

Ah, the days