Technical question

TalonHunter · Post by **TalonHunter** » 31 Jan 2009, 04:51

i am unfortunatley completeley clueless as to technical info, so just to clarify, will i be able to Run Residiul Decay on an older computer (intel 82150 intergrated graphics chip+512 ram)?

TheIronKnuckle · Post by **TheIronKnuckle** » 31 Jan 2009, 09:53

You will definately be able to run it. It still uses the first unreal engine, so if you can run that, you can run this. Although performance might be an issue because i think proph and the team have made various enhancments and tweaks to the engine. Videos of these new engine features can be found on teamrednemesis's youtube channel.

These new effects might hinder performance somewhat.

Kaka · Post by **Kaka** » 31 Jan 2009, 09:55

They won't affect the performance ( the features from the video) , they will be unavailable on such graphic card.

Raven · Post by **Raven** » 31 Jan 2009, 12:22

besides graphic extensions can be disabled.

Jethro · Post by **Jethro** » 31 Jan 2009, 12:44

From RedNemesis official website:

System Requirements: (speculated minimum)
Unreal Tournament v436
UT Bonus Packs 1, 4
Old Skool Amp'd 1.6 (included)
1.2GHz Pentium class processor
512MB RAM
Direct X 5 compatable GPU 32MB
So your computer meets the minimal requirements, although, as already said, don't expect the new visual effects to be aviable as they require shaders v2.

Also, it might be "still first unreal engine", but I remember trying to play Xidia on my old P III 650 MHz...

Mister_Prophet · Post by **Mister_Prophet** » 31 Jan 2009, 22:14

That assessment is out of date, but likely accurate still.

We won't know the exact minimum requirements until Beta, but I can't imagine it being much different. Our original call was "If you can play Seven Bullets, you can play RD", but that was quite a while ago.

But there's no getting around the fact that whatever minimum, or maximum, we reach...we're comparing to standards set in 1999-2003. I don't think it's too much to ask for gamers to have something good enough by now to handle the task. We're doing our best to cater to the performance needs of any user able to purchase and play Unreal Tournament. But gamers have to meet us halfway. If the most advanced game you have on your PC is Unreal Tournament...well there's only so much we can do for you.

TalonHunter · Post by **TalonHunter** » 01 Feb 2009, 03:00

so sounds like i need to buy a graphics card then, so ATI or NVidia->which would be better?

Mister_Prophet · Post by **Mister_Prophet** » 01 Feb 2009, 03:06

Up to you.

RD is being developed and tested primarily for Open Gl (a Geforce 6XXX series at the highest, which should be cheap nowadays), although we will support D3D as well.

So really it is up to you. If you don't think you can handle it.

How well did Seven Bullets run for you?

TheIronKnuckle · Post by **TheIronKnuckle** » 01 Feb 2009, 08:47

if you include whatever renderer you think is best in the download i'll be happy to take whatever you give me. Right now i run on d3d. but if opengl is better i'll take that. Just please include it in the download. (Which is who knows how many months away.)

Darkon · Post by **Darkon** » 02 Feb 2009, 15:48

... it also depends on what your pc can run. A lot of vid cards nowadays only run on PCI-Express while your pc most likely only accepts PCI cards.. that's a big difference. Make sure you look for that when you look for a card.

TalonHunter · Post by **TalonHunter** » 02 Feb 2009, 20:26

mine is actualy a AGP slot, which i can add in a 128 video card, the ATI is 10 bucks cheaper, but i have no clue which one will handle the opengl better(been doing a lot of reading since last post)[(also on my current config{it has no card yet} i cant run openGL, the screen goes grey])

Raven · Post by **Raven** » 02 Feb 2009, 20:59

I have Palit GeForce 7300GT with DDR3 and I think it's enough for older PC-s (runs perfectly D3D and OGL). You can buy something better but IMHO don't buy too expensive stuff. If it's old PC then there's no sense in investing too much in old hardware.

kea · Post by **kea** » 03 Feb 2009, 08:50

GeForce 6800GT is even enough to run UT3 at sane level of detail, and there are AGP versions of such videocards. I'm not sure about AGP 7xxx series.

Raven · Post by **Raven** » 03 Feb 2009, 11:49

Yes, there are. I have only AGP and 7300GT works just fine.

Darkon · Post by **Darkon** » 03 Feb 2009, 15:37

I got ATI 850x? I believe.. runs fine. Winxp crashes every now and then (hardly anymore).. so it must have been a software setting that made it go bad. And yes, AGP.. got it thru Ebay.