Natural selection problem

Master-Dorn

yippie i got the money for the athlon xp 1733 mhz, the 256 ddr ram and the main board with the nvidia nforce chipset!!

woohaa only for 377 euro, this is 377 dollars.

yam yam yam, hmmm i will play gta 3 the whole time until ns

i saved my money long. my birthday and christmas money. i saved sooooo long now i can buy my equipment... <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->

mmmmhh i will like it to play gta3 smoothly... and sof2... there are alot of those cool games...


hheehhehe and then ns will run smooth mmmmhh mhhh mhhh.

Sgt_Bilko1

the nforce chipset is overpriced, I'd buy a board from ECS the k7s5a with a SiS735 chipset, that's the board I use with my Athlon XP 1800+ and ddr ram

DruBo

I think he's buying the nforce board exclusively because of the onboard video. Didn't he say he had a voodoo3 or somesuch?

also, the nforce has excellent on-board sound, just a tiny bit below the SB Audigy Platinum.

So the only reason you could call it overpriced is if you were going to eschew both the onboard video and sound. otherwise, it's a great value.

Battousaix

my comp specs =) i expended all my money to upgrade it.....
(i had been earning money since 1 year ago <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->)
AMD Duron processor 1000 mhz
383 MB RAM
Teppro Impact pro Detonator Tnt 2 Riva or somthin like that <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->
anyways im goin to buy a geforce2 in 2 or 3 months.....
(i have to earn more money <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->)
edit: ive been earning money such a long time coz in argentina 1 dollar = 3 pesos <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo--> that sucks.......

HaZy

just to continue the flow of talk about crappy pc's here mine:

P3 600Mhz
128 MB RAM
Voodoo 3 8Mb
30 GB HDD

i suggest to all those voodoo owners to download along with the official drivers (if u havent aready) the wicked gl drivers at www.wicked3d.com. they helped boost my performance in DoD (which was running ok before but now runs MUCH smoother.) CS and all the other mods run perfectly as always...now to wait and see how NS copes...

Bill

Pentium Celeron 500 mhz
192 megs of ram
Geforce 4 64 mb
16 gig hard drive(with like 6 gigs left :( )

eXceptional

<!--QuoteBegin--Monkey_830+Aug. 08 2002,17:12--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Monkey_830 @ Aug. 08 2002,17:12)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->Ahem. The one I use has a 450Mhz P3 with 128mb of RAM and a Riva TNT2 (plus a cable modem). Which runs Half-Life (and most mods) fine.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's almost as same as mine <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
Only I got a 512 Kbit DSL modem and my Riva TNT 2 is 32 MB (dunno about yours)

ben0413

HL really doesn't take <i>that</i> much to run REALLY good.. i have 450mhz P3, 384 megs of RAM, and a GeForce3.. (and I only have a 1x AGP) and I can run HL at 1280x1024 OpenGL and I get between 45-95 fps..

Thankfully I won't have to put up with it much longer.. soon I'll get a 2.0ghz, 1 gig of ram, and a GeForce4 Ti 4600..

Counts days until arrival...

<!--emo&:asrifle:--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/asrifle.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':asrifle:'><!--endemo-->      [O] <-my old comp..

DruBo

<!--QuoteBegin--ben0413+Aug. 08 2002,18:30--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (ben0413 @ Aug. 08 2002,18:30)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->i have 450mhz P3, 384 megs of RAM, and a GeForce3..<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
What are you going to do with the Geforce 3?

More importantly, can I have it?

CommandoCarl

i have a p2 350mhz with 256 mb of RAM. and an Nvida stb velocity 128 and it works fine with HL. i am  planning to but a geforce 4 in the near future, so...   YAY!

Windelkron

My computer is:
AMD K2 533 mhz
312 MB ram
Voodoo3 3000 16mb (I run WickedGL 640x480 in HL)
Win XP

It seems better than some of my fellow "bad computer" types.  However I pull very low FPS in Half-Life, even though I have WickedGL installed which is rumored to double FPS.

Counter-strike runs terribly for me.  However, front line force, a much more graphics intensive mod, runs GREAT (except for some maps).  The reason being that in FLF you can turn off graphical details like sparks, tracers, high quality models, etc.

I hope in NS that you can turn off graphical effects, that would be a godsend.

Longtooth

I amazes me how how resilient this post is....it just will not die.....

Maveric

i think its not the comp that causes the speed problem, i think its the game...
i mean, if you have a really ###### (please, excuse me. getting point across) computer like my old one (120mhz, 128mb ram, 4gig HD) and run Duke Nukem 3D on it, it'll run fine as long as there arn't 20+ enemies on the screen... and the textures are low detail.
but when i run a mod of Duke Nukem 3D that has alot of detail, it all gets REALLY lagged up, i mean, sometimes i cant even acess the menu! <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo-->  ctrl, alt, and delete later, im on my desktop.

the mod for Duke 3D i was running was a StarShip Troopers mod. it looks REALLY nice, compared to the original Duke 3D i play. this leads me to speculate that too much eye candy can damage the computer's virutal stomach and make it "Throw up" (basically, freeze or screw up in some other way.)

PS:  <!--emo&:asrifle:--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/asrifle.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':asrifle:'><!--endemo-->  <!--emo&:pudgy:--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/pudgy.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':pudgy:'><!--endemo-->
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DIE YOU DAMN BUG!!! DIE!!!

coil

Flayra is coding as much as he can to keep machine requirements low; NS requirements will only be slightly higher than the *original* HL requirements.  For instance, he imposes r_speed limits on mappers, which keeps your computer from having to render too much map detail at once.

Longtooth

So there are no huge hive chambers that stretch out for as far as the eye can see?