Question about Computers

[Unseelie]

Just wondering, I know its an old game, which means it has some restrictions, but I also know that a lot of the newer ships use lots more poly's than the older ships, and its been quite a while since it came out.
So, the question is, what do you use to play disco?

Min requirements the game shipped with are:
32mb Video Card
256 mb DDR RAM
1.5 ghz processor

I run with either
256mb Video (8 times as much)
2gig DDR2 RAM (8 times as much again)
2.4 ghz processor (I think, know nothing about processors)

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[DBoy1612]

Windows XP Home Edition
256 MB Video card
768 MB RAM
2.66 GHz Processor

Never really had problems with that, though I tend to turn my Graphics down anyway.

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What Dustin now spends his free time doing... Don't hurt me... Though EVEMail me if you play. ^_^

[trekster]

This is my load out for game system:

Computer:
Computer Type ACPI Uniprocessor PC
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 4
Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106 (IE 6.0 SP1)
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)

Motherboard:
CPU Type AMD Athlon XP, 2000 MHz (15 x 133) 2400+
Motherboard Name Biostar M7VIZ (3 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 CNR, 2 DDR DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN)
Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8378 UniChrome KM400
System Memory 1216 MB (DDR SDRAM)

Display:
Video Adapter VIA/S3G UniChrome IGP (64 MB) (onboard)
3D Accelerator VIA/S3G UniChrome
Monitor ViewSonic A75f [17" CRT] (AX04207603)

Good for me to play Freelancer!
:yahoo:

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[Dab]

Windows XP Pro Edition
64MB Ati Mobility Video Card (I think, not on my comp atm)
1GB RAM
1.7 GHz Processor
80GB Hard Drive (95% full..)

This is also a laptop. Oddly enough though, I can play EVE, Freelancer, host a Skype conference, have Xfire, MSN messengers on, Photoshop, and Firefox running. Even do all that with Freelancer Explorer on for my system modding sometimes.


All on an old, crappy, Dell Insperon 600m.

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[Othman]

GA-MF3 Motherboard
NVIDIA nForce 3, ATA 133 RAID
ACPI Multiprocessor PC
AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core Processor 3600+, 2.01 GHz
2 GB of RAM
Ati 9250, 256 MB Tv-out, DVI

the graphic card is a bit old, and i need to fix the mic socket

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[Monk]

Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.40GHz
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Hard Drive: 202 GB Total
Video Card: RADEON X850 Series 256MB
Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor (19" Flat-Panel) Also 30" CRT HDTV connected via HDMI (useful for running other programs while running FL)
Sound Card: SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio [CCC0]
Speakers/Headphones: Yamaha HTR-5960 w/ 5.1 Klipsch Suround Speakers
Keyboard: Microsoft Keyboard Elite for Bluetooth
Mouse: Microsoft Mouse Elite for Bluetooth
Mouse Surface: Codie List and Trade Routes for FL
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254)

[McNeo]

I play FL on two different computers, one rubbish, one a year old.

This, I use when I am at home, and it gives me problems whenever there are three or more people in a fight. It cannot keep up, and as a result, I get a frame rate of around 10, like in the Outcast vs Corsair fights.

Rubbish PC:

some silly mini ATX motherboard
Geforce FX 5500 (BIG mistake to buy that)
Irrelevant IDE hard drives (40 GB and 100GB I think)
Pentium IV, stock cooler with spare 80mm fan (broke the first fan with a screwdriver!)
Generic PSU
Generic case with a hidieus facia

I even take my keyboard and mouse home to use on this computer, because the spare ones I have just dont work the way they should anymore...

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This I use at school (Boarding school) and it never gives me any problems with any games, except Supreme commander with 1600+ units and buildings on the battlefield and Crysis, when the koreans/aliens make pretty explosions around me, shortly before I die.
New(er) PC:

Asus P5N32-E SLI (680i nvidia chipset), Full ATX.
Asus 8800 GTX (overclocked slightly last time I checked, stream processors untouched.)
C2D E6600 (overclocked from 2.4 GHz to 3.3 GHz)
Arctic cooling Freezer 7 pro cooler. (cheap as chips, and good too.)
Hitachi 320 GB Hard Drive
Enermax Galaxy 850 Watt (barely fits inside the case)
P180 midi-tower case.
Sound blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer (dont hit me, thats what it says on the box...)

I recently made two purchases (well, one was during christmas break I seem to remember, and the other was two days ago). The first, was a speaker system, which the sub alone weighs about the same as my computer (which is bloody heavy). Its a 5.1 system.

The second purchase was purely because I broke my good mouse by slamming it against the desk after dieing one too many times on CoD 4. The Razer Lachesis, which was hideously expensive for a mouse. but, thats what you have to pay when you buy a mouse with a 4000dpi sensor in it... and various other things...

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Sorry, that was a bit of a rant. But I can't resist telling people/boasting when they start talking about computers. But I am also proud of the timing I bought my good computer, in a year technology still hasn't moved forward that much. Compared to when people (I am sure there were a few caught up) were buying AMD CPUs and ATi GPUs just before Intel released the C2D and Nvidia released the 8800.

[Tic]

Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS 300 MB
Core 2 Duo 2 x 2.13 Ghz
2 GB RAM
320 GB drive
Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit
MB ASUS(i think its P5B)
Mouse Logitech MX Revolution(precision lead to perfection, i recomend this to everyone)
Keyboard Logitech G15 gaming keyboard(i even have little monitor on it)
Monitor plug n play widescreen 20 inch

[kindred]

Windows XP Professional & Xandros Linux - Dual boot
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz
Intel BOXD975XBX2KR LGA 775 Motherboard
CORSAIR XMS2 DDR2 800 - 4 x 1GB
XFX GeForce 8800GT 512MB
Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000 RPM 16MB - Boot drive
Western Digital Caviar 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB - Storage
Creative 7.1 Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty
ASUS SATA DVD Burner with LightScribe

ASUS VENTO 3600 Black Computer Case
CORSAIR Nautilus 500 External Liquid Cooling
Corsair Dominator Airflow memory cooler
Acer 22" Widescreen LCD
Microsoft Natural 4000 USB Ergonomic keyboard
RAZER Copperhead Blue 7 Button mouse

System specs as shown in SiSoftware Sandra information & diagnostic utility.

This system better last another two years because it nearly killed me
putting it together.

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[looqas]

Asus P5KC
E6750@3.2GHz
8800GTS 640MB@625MHz core, 2GHz mem and 1420Mhz shaders.
2GB RAM 800MHz@4-3-3-10
G7 Logitech mouse
19" TFT
Vista 32bit premium

Overkill for this game but good for recent games.

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