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Title: Minimum System Requirements
Post by: PitBrat on 2012-08-04 22:11:48

Checking out new releases on Steam, I saw Dungeons of Dredmor: Conquest of the Wizardlands was just released.
Then I noticed the minimum system requirements:
Minimum:

OS:MS-DOS 5.5
Processor:IBM 386 Personal Computer
Memory:1 MB RAM
Graphics:Hercules Graphics Adaptor
DirectX®:5.2
Hard Drive:20 MB HD space
Sound:Adlib compatible sound card; Roland MT-32; Gravis Ultrasound
Additional:640kb should be enough for everybody. Are you brave enough for 640kb?

Now those were the days!
Though I would recommend DirectX 6.  It offered a huge speed increase over 5.

Title: Re: Minimum System Requirements
Post by: Bosola on 2012-08-04 22:37:24

I remember Half Life 1's requirements. A 100Mhz processor, 32mb of RAM and 600Mb of hard drive space. Good times.

These days I don't think a machine like that could even execute a simple flash file.

Title: Re: Minimum System Requirements
Post by: Covarr on 2012-08-04 23:48:15

Quote from: Bosola on 2012-08-04 22:37:24

a simple flash file.

Haha, Flash is so bloated and slow that a many modern games are more likely to perform at full speed than a relatively simple Flash game. Case in point: The Binding of Isaac is far more likely to struggle than ANY Source-engine powered game.

Title: Re: Minimum System Requirements
Post by: Tekkie.X on 2012-08-05 00:39:44

Flash has had a huge memory leak for a while now, crashes after a while if left running, regardless of if it's in focus or not, makes watching streams a pain in the ass, infact the only Flash thing running right now is an small ad on another tab, it's using nearly 800MB of ram...

Title: Re: Minimum System Requirements
Post by: Zackwell on 2012-08-05 00:39:58

I remember the days when my computer could run a decent game.

Oh wait, it still can.


FF7

Title: Re: Minimum System Requirements
Post by: BloodShot on 2012-08-11 05:36:08

Fucking flash, been temp freezing my computer and causing all types of hiccups when other things run fine, crashing all the time lately.

Title: Re: Minimum System Requirements
Post by: syntax error on 2012-08-11 10:20:30

You can try Gnash 0.8.10, the open source replacement project.

Title: Re: Minimum System Requirements
Post by: PitBrat on 2012-08-11 13:12:18

Flash is either crashing or updating so often that I barely have time to play games on my computer!