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Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: Easyscor on October 16, 2003, 10:35:50 AM: Who has managed to get AH2 working with the lowest hardware platform and how?

I’m running it with a P3 over clocked at 825 m on an ASUS motherboard with a 32 meg Gforce2 vid card.

It’s flyable (but not really playable) with wildly varying frame rates from near 0 up to 50 fps but normally frame rates are ranging from 19 to 29 unless near high density graphics.

I managed this by adjusting the Video Setup both in the AH2 startup screen and in the game. When the clipboard first comes up I Confirm 1024 x 768, 32-bit color, "Unlimited frame rates" and check the "Disable Palletized Textures" box. Click OK to dismiss the dialog box. As soon as you get to the tower, work your way to the Video Setup again and adjust the “Displayed Object Size” slider to “More performance” all the way to the right. Set the “More detail” slider just left of the center. If you move it too far to the right all the cockpit instruments disappear. Un-check all the check boxes except “Mip Mapping” and “Disable Palletized Textures.”

Anybody able to do better or get it running with less hardware?
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: Rutilant on October 16, 2003, 10:41:44 AM: P3 500, 224 megs SD ram, geforce FX.. i can get it started, FPS average around 5 without being zoomed in, 15 or so zoomed
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: bigjava on October 16, 2003, 11:15:59 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Rutilant
P3 500, 224 megs SD ram, geforce FX.. i can get it started, FPS average around 5 without being zoomed in, 15 or so zoomed

p3-500MHz 256 ram an old ATI Rage 128, and of course i see only the tower, but i know yhat .....
i need to ugrade if i wanna fly in AH2 :p
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: loser on October 16, 2003, 11:33:44 AM: Quote
Originally posted by bigjava
p3-500MHz 256 ram an old ATI Rage 128, and of course i see only the tower, but i know yhat .....
i need to ugrade if i wanna fly in AH2 :p

Right on! that is my exact old system!
Title: Re: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: sonofagun on October 16, 2003, 11:37:37 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Easyscor
Who has managed to get AH2 working with the lowest hardware platform and how?

I’m running ..., 32-bit color,
Anybody able to do better or get it running with less hardware?

I think your frame rate will increase substantially by switching to 16 bit color. Mine did in AH. I don't know what the effect will be in AH2.
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: BZip on October 16, 2003, 01:24:47 PM: I have you all beat...

466 Celeron with 384 MB Ram
64 MB Gforce2

Framerates from 5 - 20

Ouch!
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: bigjava on October 16, 2003, 06:34:32 PM: Quote
Originally posted by loser
Right on! that is my exact old system!

hehehe the word is smaller that what we can see
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: MaddogJoe on October 16, 2003, 08:33:41 PM: ya got to remember that this is a beta!!! nothing is optimized yet!! It just enough code to run the basic functions so everyone can test it on a wide range of systems for CTD or and major graphic glitches.

When the cleaned up ver of AH2 comes out.... when ever.... Im sure some of you will see and increase in your FRs. This is not even close to a finished product yet!!

Remember:

"this is a TEST, this is ONLY a test!"
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: 6389 on October 16, 2003, 08:48:51 PM: well its a pretty crappy test for the people without good comps like me my amd 2000 1.6 gb sucks
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: B17Skull12 on October 16, 2003, 08:58:16 PM: the intel intergraded graphics card on my moms new windows XP got it to work with average of 0 fps.

I win:D
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: Easyscor on October 16, 2003, 10:22:30 PM: Hey MaddogJoe,

If we can get it to run on these "low powered" platforms then the guys with the 1.x P4s SHOULD be able to make it run.;) That's why I posted how I was making it work.

Kind of hard to even look let alone do any "testing" if it won't run. Or wouldn't you agree? :D We all want to take a look and you won't find any whines from me about the beta on these boards.:p I figure about 1/3 of the cycles are unproductive debugging code and data which will be removed before the final release.
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: Bullethead on October 16, 2003, 11:22:36 PM: P4-1.7, 256MB RAM, GeForce3 64MB

The CPU's OK but the RAM and vidcard are pretty pathetic these days. Yet the game runs more or less OK. Naturally, FPS at 1600x1200x32 with full details (which is what I use in AH1) totally blows, but I get about 30FPS at 1024x768x32 with full details. I can live with that.
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: Roscoroo on October 17, 2003, 02:36:26 AM: Well I gave it a shot on my old asus 486 oced with a 450 mhz cpu
1mb onboard vc with the old add on 2mb monster card and 128mb simm ram ..... Well .... it just didnt have enough umph... lol

then i moved up to the pent 2 500mhz celeron 810 intel onboard 32mb video 256 ram.... well it loaded but 0 frame rates...

Ive got a 950 tbird cpu with a gf2 32mb card i have to try next ...
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: save on October 17, 2003, 02:38:44 AM: when AH2 go gold and you are on a low end system you can still play WB 2..77

Im looking forward to AH2 and hope it meets my expectations, something AH1 did not,

~~save~~
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: Ike 2K# on October 17, 2003, 03:00:37 AM: i hope they (HTC) would release AH2 lite version (like they did with AH1 with less eyecandy graphics) so people with low end systems can still have little more breathing space.

my specs:

- Celeron 700
- 384 meg/ram PC-133
- ATi Radeon 7500 PCI

i get 4 fps/sec in tower at 1024x768 32 bit
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: Nilsen on October 17, 2003, 03:47:08 AM: Anyone with the amd 2500+/ati 9600pro combo...and 512mb ram?
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: MaddogJoe on October 17, 2003, 06:28:56 AM: I run with a FR of 18-35 on a P4 1.4 512 Ram, Gf2 64 meg card. I rthink my lowest FR are in the "Furball" over the base :)

Speaking of furballs.... ya I would like to try WB.... I hear there are NO furballs over there !!!:rofl
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: SLO on October 17, 2003, 07:21:51 AM: P2 400 Intel
512 RAM
G-force4 MX440 64meg
Win2K
DX9.b

1024x768

very bad at 32 bits video.....but i still see the graphics....can't move too fast

better at 16 bits.....
graphics look cool.....un-playable

haven't tried at 800x600....but thats pretty useless...imho

waiting for 2gig processer:aok

do i win :eek:
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: Monty405 on October 17, 2003, 12:04:37 PM: "Anyone with the amd 2500+/ati 9600pro combo...and 512mb ram?"

i'm close to it.

asus a7v8x
amd 2500 at stock speed
1024mb ddr 333 ram
ati 9500pro
win xp
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average about 30-40fps
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: crabofix on October 17, 2003, 02:13:09 PM: Quote
Originally posted by save
when AH2 go gold and you are on a low end system you can still play WB 2..77

Im looking forward to AH2 and hope it meets my expectations, something AH1 did not,

~~save~~

Still stuck in that ol´hole, Save?

Come over to the light, so you can see the colours.
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: Roscoroo on October 17, 2003, 02:44:58 PM: My lowest pc platform so far has been a

950 tbird amd , standard clocking
msi K7T turbo v3.0 mainboard
128 sdram 100
GF 2 mx 200 32mb DX8.1
ac97 sound
win 98se

5-15 fps average
28 fps from tower
75 fps looking up

It did stutter somewhat , but it wasnt unplayable
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: hitech on October 17, 2003, 03:39:55 PM: LOL:

"well its a pretty crappy test for the people without good comps like me my amd 2000 1.6 gb sucks"

How can a test be crapy. A test is to find out info, only if the test would not find out anything could it be called crapy. I belive this is a great test, it's found out a lot of things. Some things about AHII some about other issues.

HiTech
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: AKIron on October 17, 2003, 03:49:33 PM: Quote
Originally posted by hitech
LOL:

"well its a pretty crappy test for the people without good comps like me my amd 2000 1.6 gb sucks"

How can a test be crapy. A test is to find out info, only if the test would not find out anything could it be called crapy. I belive this is a great test, it's found out a lot of things. Some things about AHII some about other issues.

HiTech

So, guess that means you'll have all the bugs ironed out and ready to go gold in what, two weeks? ;)
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: Skuzzy on October 17, 2003, 03:52:15 PM: Alright Iron, between the posts about "online not working", "no rear view in my second monitor", and now this. We are going to have to hurt you. :)
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: Athena3 on October 17, 2003, 03:55:45 PM: "...some about other issues."

Umm...HiTech? You're not earning a little extra money on the side by running psychiatric tests on the community at large? Not that I'd blame you, we're an easy target. :D

And WTG everyone at HTC, I'm enjoying the new artwork on the beta. (sorry, had to get my cheer in there somehow). I figure since Iron's giving you a hard time, I should be nice. :)
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: Nilsen on October 17, 2003, 04:02:10 PM: Less whining and more info to the developers gives us the finished product sooner.
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: AKIron on October 17, 2003, 04:04:54 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Skuzzy
We are going to have to hurt you. :)

Why do you wanna tease me like that. :D
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: airbumba on October 17, 2003, 04:09:00 PM: I'd like to try it on my old 486, but then I'd have to find something else to hold up that end of the coffee table. Maybe some empty beer cases?....ya that's it, gotta go buy some beer now.

Jeeeezuz, this Beta stuff is hard, it's drivin me to drink.

Baron von Bumba
Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: bigjava on October 18, 2003, 10:30:34 AM: Quote
Originally posted by airbumba
I'd like to try it on my old 486, but then I'd have to find something else to hold up that end of the coffee table. Maybe some empty beer cases?....ya that's it, gotta go buy some beer now.

Jeeeezuz, this Beta stuff is hard, it's drivin me to drink.

Baron von Bumba

:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
ROLFAMAO!!!
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Title: Who has AH2 running on the Lowest Hardware platform?
Post by: Frogm4n on October 18, 2003, 11:16:00 AM: hey hitech what does beta mean again. For some reason I thought it ment "B3st VErsion of new game 3var OMG! FRE GAME YAAAY"
It couldnt ever be a test version of a game that will be changed and optimized after beta testers inform the devs of bugs could it?