Need for minimum and recomended system requirements

[Psychcf]

We need a page with minimum system requirements, and then a page that links to some random computer testing site. I'm kind of getting tired of people posting in the support/bugs section or in the performance section wondering why it won't work with a geforce 3 card and 128 MB of ram, with a Pentium 3. I am willing to "donate" my computer for benchmarking. (system specs can be found on my xfire profile: http://www.xfire.com/profile/psychiccyberfreak/ )

[Shoe]

http://alientrap.org/nexuiz/index.php?module=info

[C.Brutail]

I was just brought my good old pc back to life, and installed nexuiz on it. I will make a big article about it soon, I just need to do all the testings.

[Psychcf]

http://alientrap.org/nexuiz/index.php?module=info

1. I doubt that those were actually found using a benchmarking program. They seem very inacurate, probably since the game changed so much.
2. There is prettymuch NO info there. So I need an ATI card to play with bloom? damn.
3. It needs it's own deditcated page, because I'd never think that it would be on the info page on the very bottom.

[leileilol]

Back in the 1.0 days, Nexuiz required pretty much the following:

AMD Thunderbird 800MHz or equivalent
Geforce2 GTS 64mb or better
256mb of RAM

Since the team skin texture splitting in 2.0, the ram requirement is bumped up to 512mb it seems.

[Urmel]

May sound a bit harsh, but the people dont seem to be willing to read the system requirements anyway, and most of the people know that you cant run a current game on a Pentium 2. So why even think about doing it?

Much more useful than readable stuff would be some presets in the user menue. The requirements ain't that high, as long as you just know how to lower all the settings that need to be lowered. And IMO that's the uneasy thing...

[Ed]

I would be happy to run a number of benchmarks. What it really needs is a matric of hardware configurations all benchmarked. I can clock my Athlon XP anywhere from 1GHz upwards, can run with either 512Mb or 1Gb RAM and can run with a number of graphics cards to give benchmarks.

I have recently tried running an old Geforce256 (yes, THE Geforce) in mine for some overclocking and driver tests and did get it running Nexuiz. Running at 1024x768 with fairly high settings gave around 4.5fps average. That's not bad for a card that's over 7 years old. I'm pretty sure I could get some playable settings out of it. I'll give it a go now.

[Ed]

Just done some tests with the Geforce256 under Windows 2000 Pro. Turned off all of the effects in the effects menu, medium texture quality, 800x600 (the menu gets a bit ugly below this). I know there are many low level hacks but you can't expect a new player to be able to find them on the console.

CPU at 2029MHz: timedemo demos/demo1 average 24.86fps
CPU at 994MHz: timedemo demos/demo1 average 20.46fps

What this shows is that a Geforce256 is barely playable for Nexuiz using settings that aren't too ugly. The original minimum requirement of a Geforce 2 GTS is sensible. That's getting on for twice as powerful and you could get some very playable framerates on these settings.

The different CPU speeds don't influence the result that much, showing that this benchmark was graphics limited with this card.

[esteel]

And please remember that demo1 is very harsh as most of the bots are visible all at the same time. With lowered settings i think the recommendations on the main page are ok..

[BusterDBK]

256 MB of RAM still won't do. I know from experience that, even with Linux and WindowMaker (and that means much less memory being used than with KDE or Gnome) deathmatch games are very sluggish at start (especially when you pick up weapons) and CTF is unplayable most of the times.

So I think at least 384MB would be required, though I tend to believe that 512 would be more precise.

P.S.: Yeah, I'm usually as redline-low-end anyone can get and still play .

[later edit]: I also ended up upgrading for more ram .