Extinct_Reptilia Posted November 27, 2003 Report Posted November 27, 2003 OK, on the products page for UC, Mr.Smart has determined three types of system requirements: Minimum Requirements Recommended Requirements Ultimate Requirements Now being a gamer, I've always understood that having the Minimum requirements would mean one would lose some of the cool features of the game. The Recommended however, would be the suggest requirements to allow the game to run in full. Now what is this "Ultimate Requirements" all about for UC??? Will I have all the cool features of UC if I only have minimum of the recommended??? I'm just confused here? Someone help me here... [ 01-06-2004, 03:32 PM: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]
LostInSpace Posted November 27, 2003 Report Posted November 27, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Extinct_Reptilia: OK, on the products page for UC, Mr.Smart has determined three types of system requirements: Minimum Requirements Recommended Requirements Ultimate Requirements Now being a gamer, I've always understood that having the Minimum requirements would mean one would lose some of the cool features of the game. The Recommended however, would be the suggest requirements to allow the game to run in full. Now what is this "Ultimate Requirements" all about for UC??? Will I have all the cool features of UC if I only have minimum of the recommended??? I'm just confused here? Someone help me here... It would be nice if you had your system listed. Most likely the UR (Ultimate Requirements) is if you are going to run as dedicated server for Multiplayer. So recommended would be what the majority of us here would fall under.
Extinct_Reptilia Posted November 27, 2003 Author Report Posted November 27, 2003 quote:It would be nice if you had your system listed. Well, I guess it would help if I did have my system specs posted but unfortunately I donÔÇÖt have my OWN computer at the moment. I basically use my roommates PC and the campus computers at my university. In the next couple of weeks however, I'll be in the market for a new computer. I'm just trying to find out what sort of PC I should get so I can play UC. If the recommended requirements is able to run UC to its full potential, with ALL of the features and excellent framerate, then it'll be easier on my wallet when I go to my computer dealer. So if youÔÇÖre right, about the ultimate requirements, I should have nothing to worry about... Thanks for the reply LostInSpace!
Guest controllersean Posted November 28, 2003 Report Posted November 28, 2003 I suppose "Ultimate Requirements" means that with them, you will experience absolutely NO slowdowns, whatever the situation on the screen is. If 20 battlecruisers with over a hundred fighters would be in a firefight at which you're looking, and half of them instantly exploded, you would still run at at least 35-40 FPS. That's my impression.
Epsilon 5 Posted November 28, 2003 Report Posted November 28, 2003 recommended requirements are meant to tell you what kind of hardware you should need to have a decent speed in most (90%) situations. However to bear with large fleet battles, heavy planetary activity or whatnot (which are usually not common), you will need ultimate requirements to reach 20 or more fps. dedicated server specs are not the same! those are strickly client-side requirements!
Extinct_Reptilia Posted November 29, 2003 Author Report Posted November 29, 2003 quote:...However to bear with large fleet battles, heavy planetary activity or whatnot (which are usually not common), you will need ultimate requirements to reach 20 or more fps.Alright, then give me an example of what a large fleet battle would be. How many ships? 10? 20? 30? Also, how many ships could I handle if I only had the precise recommend requirements? Thanx for your replies so far people!!! Keep em comin!!
Bandus Posted November 29, 2003 Report Posted November 29, 2003 It's hard to say how any computer react with any given number of ships on the screen at one time. There are tons of variables that go way beyond your memory, processor, and video card. Ultimate requirements is a computer that most people only can dream of. My example of an ultimate requirement computer would be an Alienware computer that costs around $5,000. That system would cause the lights in your house to dim when you turned it on and you'd probably have to get a nuclear reactor installed under your house. If you only spend $3,000 on your computer, your probably in the recommend requirements bracket. If you spent $3,000 on your computer, 2 years ago, your probably in the minimum requirements bracket. Anything other than that and your on your own...
Guest Hellbinder[CE] Posted December 1, 2003 Report Posted December 1, 2003 There is likely no system on planet Earth that would encounter *no slowdowns* in even BCM or BCG let alone UC. Even with much of the graphics load being shifted to the GPU the Raw number of Objects being rendered, Tracked, and Controled are going to Crush any system. I would wager that ultimate simply means the best possible experience with the full feature set at a high resolution. Recomended means you can play the game the way it was designed at a decent clip. Minimum would mean it will play but likely be a slide show at times even playing at low resolutions and lowest in game feature set. Take me for example I just bought a brand new computer. P4 3.2 800mhz FSB HT Abit IC7-G Maxx II 1 Gig Corsair DDR 400 Radeon 9800XT 256 40GB Raptor SATA drive (for OS) 120GB SATA Drive (for games) Thats what Ill be playing UC on
Guest Fox__Trot Posted January 1, 2004 Report Posted January 1, 2004 RAM! UC seems to only require (for ultimate req's) to require 512mb's of ram... Why is this? is there very little AI scripting or does the game not load all the sound effects into ram? Will UC make use of more ram if there's more avilable to it? Or did I just get used to the resource hog that is planetside?
Bandus Posted January 2, 2004 Report Posted January 2, 2004 For the record, Planetside is still a resource hog. But to answer your question, my guess, is that the SC has optimized the code of the game to allow it to require less memory. He will be able to better answer this question better than I though of course...
Supreme Cmdr Posted January 2, 2004 Report Posted January 2, 2004 quote:Originally posted by Fox__Trot: RAM! UC seems to only require (for ultimate req's) to require 512mb's of ram... Why is this? is there very little AI scripting or does the game not load all the sound effects into ram? Will UC make use of more ram if there's more avilable to it? Or did I just get used to the resource hog that is planetside? I use demand loading so the game has a very small memory footprint. But the more system RAM you have, the better. A fast HDD also helps.
Guest Hellbinder[CE] Posted January 2, 2004 Report Posted January 2, 2004 Guess ill be running UC on my Raptor 10,000RPM SATA Drive..
Guest Fox__Trot Posted January 2, 2004 Report Posted January 2, 2004 Yeah my new MB has sata conectors and I've been looking at those drives (Thank you whoever decided to get rid of massive IDE lines) Thanks for the reply
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