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Danmatsuma
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Posted: 2nd May 2003 07:55
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I'm interested to know what the lowest spec laptop any of you folks has managed to get db1.13 running on reasonably smoothly. Also Milkshape.

Of particular interest:

*Graphics chipset/memory
*Processor type/mhz
*system ram
*directx version
*o/s

Thanks
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indi
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Posted: 2nd May 2003 09:10
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i could run dbc 113 on a compaq 133mhz 80meg ram 2 meg vid card.
ITs 3d was so too slow but it could tolerate text and minor graphics.

milkshape is opengl based so it should tolerate a slower machine fairly well provided your uptodate with OGL libs and dont try and open a 15k poly model an expect it to open swiftly or rotate swiftly perhaps.

http://www.lunarpixel.com

http://www.lunarpixel.com/dt/
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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 2nd May 2003 10:15
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if you opened a 15k model in it indi it'd most likely crash on you anyways - the limit is 16k but it seems to not like going over 14k.
and due to the pipeline you run anyother version than 1.6.5 and more than 4,000 polygons causes major slowdowns unless you had a beefy CPU (because until 1.6.5 the smoothing calculation was set to use standard 32bit processor calls and rather than similtanieously doing all of the smoothgroups and then putting it on the vertex normals it was being calculated per vertex per face in a runtime.

slowest computer fullstop i'd recommend for both would be a
233Mhz w/mmx or better
32Mbyte Ram
8Mbyte Graphics chip (anything except an SiS model!)
DirectX 7.0a
Windows 95b or better

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Van B
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Posted: 2nd May 2003 12:32
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A 400mhz P2 Compaq presario, with 3.5mb shared video memory. Ran pretty nicely with a DB screensaver, although it only had a few objects and some particles, worked a lot better than I'd thought. My game 'Stoked' would'nt work though - video memory is the biggest problem I think.


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Danmatsuma
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Posted: 2nd May 2003 15:50
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Yeah 'tis a shame that most of the secondhand laptops I see have the sis chipset but thanks for the info

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indi
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Posted: 3rd May 2003 06:39
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95 is pushing it.

Id prefer to be on 98se or higher.

http://www.lunarpixel.com

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