Hey guys, Just wanted to say that I am a huge fan of this project and I've been following it since the initial press release. The dev journal is a pleasure to read every time it comes out. Ok, adulation aside, I am curious about what the game's projected minimal requirements will be for final release and early access. The best PC have at the moment is a paltry 1.4 GHz AMD. Given your best guess, will the game ever run on such a machine? I was surprised to see the i5 listed as the current minimum, even though I know it is older architecture. As someone who semi-writes code for a semi-living, I appreciate the constraints you have to work in any given code base, so no hard feelings. You guys have made something really cool and I'm excited to try it even if it means waiting until I can afford a new processor. Cheers.
Unfortunately, I don't think the game will run on such an old machine, especially if the video card is from that time as well. We do have people running the game on dual-cores, though. At a lower FPS but it works.
Perhaps, it might run like a turn based strategy game... instead of a real time simulation. Couldn't help but reminded by your post of the one time many years ago I tried to run Warcraft II on a 386 DX40, I should add that in order to get enough ram for Windows 95 I had to add in 6 megs of RAM that was on an ISA expansion card... let's just say I never want to again see a frame rate so low that it was like stepping manually through a render loop.
I only just recalled that my Linux machine (which I never game on) has an old 2 GHz Core Duo, but it has always had driver issues even for games that support Linux. Much to my lament, I may just have to wait until I buy a decent PC. Stiff upper lip and all that.
The system requirements are *highly* conservative. I will probably lower them. That said... a 1.4 GHz Athlon is probably outside of our ability to optimize for. How old is that machine?
The machine itself is only a year or two I believe. It came with Windows 8. It was inexpensive home office desktop from a family member that I just ended up with, but it seems to be less powerful than my old Linux notebook.
Hey Gaslamp folks, i have a similar question ( if Abududef don't mind when i hijack his thread ). just bought CE yesterday, and the game don't really works well (almost a slideshow). My rig is very old, but i don't play many graphic intensive games (last was XCOM and it runs pretty good). Q6600 2.4 ghz 6gb RAM geforce 9800 nvidia gt So i guess, the weakspot is the graphic card, or? Maybe i can grab a graphic card from a friend of me, a geforce 570 gtx. But, yeah, i've my doubts, if it's enough.
Well, i think, it depends, if CE uses Hyperthreading, which the Q6600 can't support. But when CE is running, it uses only 40-50% of the CPU, (and just 1,5 gb RAM) so i should try out the graphic card next week. Thanks for response.
CE would only use hyper-threading certain specific things during game initialization, but during the course of normal gameplay (at the current time) no. And even during those times, it would only use it if it finds them.
Little update: With the gtx 570 the game runs smoothly, but yeah, now i have the "black terrain" Drivers up-to-date.
