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| 3104.1 | | DREGS::BLICKSTEIN | The moment is a masterpiece | Fri Mar 21 1997 16:08 | 8 |
| Has anyone tried this on a 486?
The package says Pentium 75mhz or higher, but I only have a 486/100
(16 meg).
Would love to give it a spin, but not sure I"m ready to upgrade.
db
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| 3104.2 | give it a shot, it might run, a little slow though | SUBSYS::MSOUCY | MentalmETALMike | Fri Mar 21 1997 18:03 | 14 |
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db,
Give it a shot. I was able to run Quake on my DX4-100 w/16 and 24mb
mem. Now that I went to P133 w/4Mb GXE64Pro it is spiffier, just need
that 17" monitor one of these days....Blood plays nice and smooth on it
(and recommends min. 90Mhz Pent. w/16Mb). Quake originally was "an IBM
compatible", then switched to Pentium recommended as min. Check the
next local show, I didn't go to the Salem NH show since I had mine
already in place (just not put together, that's what I wuzz doin
saturday!).
Mike
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| 3104.3 | | PCBUOA::BAYJ | Jim, Portables | Fri Mar 21 1997 21:02 | 10 |
| Just don't increase your visibility. On a P166 extending the
visibility to max really slows things down. Of course, I might have
had Direct-X problems. But play was quite acceptable at lower
visibility settings. I think that would be true of a 486 as well.
However, there are some games that when they recommend a Pentium, WON'T
run if it can't find one. Don't know if that applies to Sim Copter.
jeb
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| 3104.4 | | DREGS::BLICKSTEIN | The moment is a masterpiece | Mon Mar 24 1997 17:44 | 10 |
| Yeah, usually the "minimum required" configuration is something well
BELOW what you and I would regard as minimum.
That is to say, if it says it needs a 75 MhZ Pentium, it probably needs
a 120Mhz Pentium to run "decently".
I may just try and download the demo version and see how that runs.
But I think it's a huge download (like 9megs or something).
db
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| 3104.5 | Demo is 17.5Mb! | BRAT::nqodhcp-135-56-91.nqo.dec.com::Smith | | Fri Apr 18 1997 17:42 | 1 |
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| 3104.6 | On the other hand, my VMS systems stay up for months at a time | GEMEVN::BLICKSTEIN | Dave Blickstein | Thu Jun 05 1997 20:02 | 22 |
| Well, I bought a new 200mhz MMX machine and found SimCopter for fairly
cheap ($23.99) and bought it.
I've had one problem after another....
First, cities won't load. Maxis support says "hold the CTL key down as
you load a city". Have no idea what that does (they didn't say) but
it worked.
Then... no sound (you really do need sound for this game). Turns out
trying a bunch of different things eventually caused the sound to come
on - like alt-tabbing to another ap, and changing the games volume
settings, etc.
Now... the damned thing craps out way too frequently (5 minutes to 3
minutes is MTBF) to be of much use. Still waiting to hear from Maxis
on that.
Sigh... I'm starting to really hate PCs. Basically, in my
experience, they just don't "just work".
db
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