2MB of onboard video memory, should be enough for anyone!

hehe Packard Bell PC back in 1993 , 2 MB Video Memory! And it Played Myst just fine!

Valve has released its 2007 hardware survey and the data is very interesting. All those people that argued that multicore systems where barely noticeable and not likely to be a dominate platform even by next year will have some crow to eat. The data shows that nearly 22% of valve gamers have multicore systems. There is much more but I'll let you enterprising people discover it for yourselves.

The direct link:
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Still, I'm surprised how some of those people run source games.

Exactly, first and foremost I play FPS, but I also play RTS and 4x strategy. So that poll can also be applied to not just FPS gamers.

I believe that the final in game graphics/effects will be a bit more polished. Those of us with the hardware will still be able to turn things up to a satisfactory level.

Also keep in mind that Ironclad is talking about a DirectX 10 content download for us at a later date. Unlike most companies, I actually believe Ironclad will deliver on this.

It should all be good.

Yes Direct x10, while my cards are dx10 compatible I haven't had the chance to play one of the few games that uses, and barely uses it at that.

Hearing Ironclad will most likely release a patch for that makes me happy, and will keep me from bothering them on this thread any longer.

In general laptops are not designed for high end gaming. As of real time strategy game >sins< will have big battles with great numbers of fleet in one view, thus making it impossible even to think that they could make the game compatible to old computers or laptops.

At the moment the most common computer in europe should be around
7600GT
1gb ram
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ or Intel Pentium D 935, 3.2Ghz LGA775
Windows XP home

Early next year the majority is using about 50% more powerful parts like mentioned above. As of you can double the computer specs in every 2 years, when developing a game.

My rig atm is :
GeForce 8800GTS 320MB GDDR3 PCI-E
800MHz DDR2 1gb+1gb
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 2.40 GHz, Socket 775, FSB 1066, 4MB Cache
Western Digital Caviar SE 250GB SATA II 8.9ms 7200rpm
Vista ultimate 32bit

and for eyecandy/pleasure

Samsung SyncMaster 226BW 22'' 1000:1/2MS/1680X1050

Thus a warning that samsung had some 226BW screens released with "bad" lcd screens/"firmware" , the native resolution was locked to 1600x1200, and it should be 1680x1050. but a good LCD screen tbh, i have two

Updating the computer early next year to quad core and better graphics card and to 4gb of memory.

when i buy games i intend to enjoy them, and hardware should not be an obstacle.

/BL

I've got a computer with 1,7 GHZ and it must run on that...otherwise   

That's because you paid so much for it that your brain is in denial. It WANTS everything to look cool or it would have to face the needless loss of cash.

The group with too much money who should donate some new hardware to me.   

Surely Santa Brad keeps you guys cherry with all the latest and greatest written off as a business expense.

Anyway believe me if i thought it would be worth the shipping I would send you my "inventory" because I have lots of SCSI external drives, 20" monitors, printers and other items and parts just sitting collecting dust. I have often considered donating the lot to the local high school but I dont speak the local language and my wife always forgets to call.

To answer your question, I'm an American who decided move to Japan to work on research for a PhD and also wanted to leave the US out of protest due to Mr Bush's takeover of the government but I digress..

Anyway the old stuff are things like dual Xeon 3.2 Ghz CPUs with Quadro 4k cards, fiber and cable routers as well as switchers and large monitors -etc... by far way better then what the school would have if my step sons institution is indicative of the average school here.

I got him a top of the line Dell media laptop three months ago for getting into a tech high school and he took it with him one day and is now treated as some sort of God as it blows away everything in his school lab even on the faculty side of the house. Then again I would not expect the schools to blow nearly $5K on a laptop for high school kids.

Shoot I have advanced engineering clients who work for Canon, Sony, Toshiba, NEC and other such companies (This is so because I live in the Silicon Valley of Japan) and they all tell me they wish they had stuff half as good as I do for my personal systems to work on. Believe it or not some are still developing on W2K, WM and use P4 systems!!! I even do private beta testing for some of them which is way cool because I have had an influence on several major projects for a few companies but sadly I get no public credit for my work. But hey I'll be happy with money only.