Topic: How sweet will SS08 run on this? (Read 7893 times)

[RWP]DJM · « **Reply #25 on:** September 25, 2007, 19:25:48 »

Those speakers do make a real difference to your gaming experience, but I got them for the quality of the sound, not the power

Using a high-end power setup gives you greater sound quality at lower volumes too

Gertjan · « **Reply #26 on:** September 27, 2007, 15:19:03 »

The supplier allmost has all the parts, there still waiting for the GeForce card and casing.

I hope next week he will fininsh and assemble it and send it to me

[RWP]DJM · « **Reply #27 on:** September 29, 2007, 15:35:11 »

I've just decided on my NEW graphics card:

GeForce 8600GT (http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=4MS7&CategorySelectedId=11137&InMerch=1) (512mb)

Can't wait

JHB · « **Reply #28 on:** September 29, 2007, 15:37:45 »

Quote from: [RWP]DJM on September 29, 2007, 15:35:11

I've just decided on my NEW graphics card:

GeForce 8600GT (http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=4MS7&CategorySelectedId=11137&InMerch=1) (512mb)

Can't wait

Looking good. Are you running SLI with more than one graphic card?

[RWP]DJM · « **Reply #29 on:** September 29, 2007, 15:39:29 »

Quote from: JHB on September 29, 2007, 15:37:45

Looking good. Are you running SLI with more than one graphic card?

Not at the moment, I would like to, but would have to upgrade my Motherboard too

I will go for a socket 940 mobo though as I'm running a 939 at the moment

Edit: I may even go for AM2 yet, haven't decided

Gertjan · « **Reply #30 on:** September 30, 2007, 11:21:52 »

I ordered a SLI motherboard for my EN8800 GTS 640MB next year when the price drops on that card perhaps i will buy another one, currently its around â‚¬ 360,=

[RWP]DJM · « **Reply #31 on:** September 30, 2007, 11:25:59 »

The joy of owning a PC eh..............buy it, the following day it's out-of-date.......upgrade, out-of-date......etc etc.

I think the PC market and the technology needs to settle, and give us all a break

Gertjan · « **Reply #32 on:** September 30, 2007, 22:14:47 »

The PC Market wil settle as soon as uncle Bill from Micro$oft does.

Each OS launched needs at least twice as much CPU power, RAM and HDD storage as the previous one.

MS-Dos needed something like 4 MB of HDD space
Windows 3.11 needed 15 to 20 MB
Windows 95 could be installed under 200 MB
Windows 98 was a bigger then that the same for Windows ME.
Windows XP not under 1 GB
And for Vista you need 8 GB minimum

You want to settle buy a Mac but then you cant play Ship Sim

[RWP]DJM · « **Reply #33 on:** September 30, 2007, 22:20:25 »

Quote from: Gertjan on September 30, 2007, 22:14:47

You want to settle buy a Mac but then you cant play Ship Sim

I'll definitely PASS on that one, couldn't do without my Ship Sim now

I was gonna try Linux, but can't be bothered setting up 'Wine' and all the other headache-inducing programs to be honest

[RWP]DJM · « **Reply #34 on:** September 30, 2007, 22:51:41 »

I've taken the plunge LOL, downloading Ubuntu Linux as I type

Gonna run a dual-boot, just to test it

Gertjan · « **Reply #35 on:** October 01, 2007, 21:38:22 »

All my parts have arrived at the store, they will assemble it tomorrow so by the end of the week i will get my new machine, i hope SS08 will run on Vista Ultimate 64bit

[RWP]DJM · « **Reply #36 on:** October 01, 2007, 21:41:19 »

Quote from: Gertjan on October 01, 2007, 21:38:22

All my parts have arrived at the store, they will assemble it tomorrow so by the end of the week i will get my new machine, i hope SS08 will run on Vista Ultimate 64bit

Nice one

Have fun when your new shiny PC arrives

micha · « **Reply #37 on:** October 05, 2007, 20:33:38 »

I have a pretty simple pc

running a dual core E6600 overclocked on 2 X 2.7 Mhz on a p5l 1394 motherboard
2 Gb ddr2-667 memory
250Gb western digital 7200rpm harddrive
and a ATI radeon X1950pro ultimate

runs ss 2008 just fine

greetz Micha

[RWP]DJM · « **Reply #38 on:** October 05, 2007, 20:35:42 »

Pretty simple

It's a great deal better than mine

For the time being anyway

micha · « **Reply #39 on:** October 05, 2007, 20:44:10 »

When I bought it last year it was all brand new, now it is allmost outdated, there's no way keeping up with computer development

, ah were are those glorious dos days when it was impossible to crash your pc and when defragging your 30 mb harddrive took most of the morning, wait a minute, that wasn't so glorious was it? Besides shipsimulator then would have been 2 D probably

with pixels the size of office-blocks

[RWP]DJM · « **Reply #40 on:** October 05, 2007, 20:50:17 »

I still remember my Amiga days, no upgrade needed for about 10 years......if only it was like that now eh

I also remember my first flight sim, it was on the Commodore 16 and all you had were dials. You had to get your 'o' to meet up with the 'x'......spent hours on that one LOL

micha · « **Reply #41 on:** October 05, 2007, 20:57:36 »

Quote from: [RWP]DJM on October 05, 2007, 20:50:17

I still remember my Amiga days, no upgrade needed for about 10 years......if only it was like that now eh

I also remember my first flight sim, it was on the Commodore 16 and all you had were dials. You had to get your 'o' to meet up with the 'x'......spent hours on that one LOL

I bet you also had great engine sound from the onboard speaker. I remember my brother who had a "realistic"

formula one game on his XT

, I drove the neighbours mad with the electronic drone coming from the onboard speaker, which, by the way, had no volume knob on it

[RWP]DJM · « **Reply #42 on:** October 05, 2007, 21:08:24 »

Onboard speakers, now that takes me back.....scary

I also remember having to press the 'tape' reset button to be able to rewind it back to that position.....just so you could load in level 1 again

Those were the days eh

micha · « **Reply #43 on:** October 05, 2007, 21:28:37 »

I was lucky enough to be able to follow the most important part of pc and game development in the past. To be honest, back in the "old" days, my friends and I were often fantasizing about the future of pc and game development, and were in awe of games we think of as "unplayable", and boring now. I spend weeks playing a space sim called elite wich was only available in black and white and vector grafics. It was , for me, the first true 3 D game, and I thoughed it was awesome....

I bet if we would have been taken to this day and era we would be amazed about what is possible now, and think we were looking at a movie instead of a game

, and still we are not satisfied now

. We want more of it all !!! And most importantly, we want it now !!!

[RWP]DJM · « **Reply #44 on:** October 05, 2007, 21:34:45 »

Elite eh, great game in it's day

I still love the old games........who didn't love games like Pacman, Space Invaders, Outrun, Space Harrier.....the list could go on forever

marcstrat · « **Reply #45 on:** October 06, 2007, 06:43:06 »

To Gertjan,
This is my computer
I run also vista,her are my specifications:
Vista home premium
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X 2 Dual
core processor 4400+,clockspeed 2.31 GHz,2.00GB
ASUS EN8500GT Silent/HTD/256Mb
Whats the difference between your Vista and mine,because my computer mecanik,told me that this home premium was better for my purpose.
To Carl,
howmuch did you speakers costs,i like them.
Regards
Marc

[RWP]DJM · « **Reply #46 on:** October 06, 2007, 09:24:53 »

Quote from: marcstrat on October 06, 2007, 06:43:06

To Carl,
howmuch did you speakers costs,i like them.

They were Â£25 (GBP), a real bargain

Got them from a local computer supplier, but newer and more powerful ones are available now

Gertjan · « **Reply #47 on:** October 16, 2007, 14:07:24 »

I got my PC last friday, have been at it to get Vista up and running will soon be sailing around but got to tackle some memory issues first

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