Will this game run on this configuration?

[GameAddict]

Hi Gamerz,

Started this thread so that, there won't be any need to create different threads for the latest/old games and thier playability.

One can ask the question whether the xyz game will run on abc configuration or not? And if yes, how nicely? If the game runs with the use of Software T&L or other such tools, mention that too.

The whole point is to find out whether the game can run on the mentioned configuration with acceptable playability.

Let me start with Max Payne 2. My friend has:

Pentium 1.6 GHz
256 RAM
Intel 845GL Onboard Graphics

Will Max Payne 2 run on it and how nicely?

Bye!

GA

[bharathbala2003]

yes it will run but not too fine.. there will be sum hitches.. better to get a gfx card..

[ctrl_alt_del]

Actually it would run quite fine only without the AA options etc. Still the game would look good, no problems in that.

I think this thread should be made a sticky.

[DKant]

So it should.

And BTW MP2 will run without any problems whatsoever. Of course u can't turn everything on, but it wldn't matter much.

Heck it works on a PIII 866 with 128MB RAM and a 32MB SiS PCI gfx card! Smoothly at that! Even Painkiller, NFS:U2 and PoP:WW work on this rig for that matter. Of these only Painkiller is unplayably slow cuz of Havok.

So never trust the so-called "min. requirements" blindly. Check out the demo and u'll get the real picture.

Of course needless to say this is true only for the non-shader-based graphically un-intensive (relatively) games.

[ctrl_alt_del]

Quite true.. the minimum specs are always misleading. Either get the demo and see it for yourself or talk with some one who has played the same game on a config similar or lesser to yours.

[GameAddict]

@DKant: PoP:WW will run on my friend's PC, is a surprise. Will surely try it out! And that means SoT *should* run too! Thanks for the info.!

Yes, one can try out the demo and then go for the whole game.

Has anybody tried MGS2:Substance on the above config. Pls. let me know, so that I can convince him to buy the copy

And keep posting your experiences!

Bye!

GA

[ctrl_alt_del]

PoP:WW will run doesnt means that the same config will be able to run PoP:SOT...atleast thats what has happened with me and many of my pals. WW runs fine but SoT wont go beyond the splash screen.

[icecoolz]

POP:WW does not need H/W T&L where in POP SOT needs it. So POP:WW runs does not gurantee POP SOT running.

[tarey_g]

to bypass the hw t&l use 3danalyze

[ctrl_alt_del]

SoT gives all sort of corrupted textures with 3DAnalyse. Bottom half of the screen looks all garbled up. Not worth playing like that. Tried all sorts of combinations in 3DAnalyse, yet it threw up graphics artifacts in-game.

[icecoolz]

yup true. I tried to play PoP on my FX 440 with 3D analyser and it was a mess. No matter what settings I tried it was just horrible. Ah it looks so beautiful on my 6800

[DKant]

6800? Yaar jaley pe namak mat chidko.

@DKant: PoP:WW will run on my friend's PC, is a surprise. Will surely try it out! And that means SoT *should* run too! Thanks for the info.!

Lemme warn u it's a borderline scenario. It needn't work on a similar config. It's just that I was lucky. Of coz u might be luckier. So don't buy the game b4 u've actually tried it urself.

BTW how about making this a "Will this game run on that configuration" cum "If not, how can I make it work with 3dAnalyse/other emul8r" thread? Most - including myself - just can't get it right and get it working.

For starters, how do I get CoD working with my card? The console starts up and then gives an error : s3tc compression not found. I guess that means texture compression isn't available. Any known work-around in 3dA? Thanks.

[GameAddict]

@DKant: Thanks for your input, the purpose of the thread has became much more clearer.

Thanks to others for pointing out the issue with PoP:SoT...saved my time from a fruitless excercise.

You can check the starting post, and let me know!

Bye!

GA

[Sourabh]

Originally Posted by icecoolz

yup true. I tried to play PoP on my FX 440 with 3D analyser and it was a mess. No matter what settings I tried it was just horrible. Ah it looks so beautiful on my 6800

FX440 kahan se aa gaya

hope u meant MX 440!!

[gamefreak14]

Ok...everyone, POP:SOT can be played on a non-HW T&L card. I've seen my friend do that a year back. I don't remember the setting, but check out (and post your query @ the 3dA forum) and you'll be playing it in no time...

[icecoolz]

oops...yea i meant the MX 440

[vamsi104]

I have a geforce fx 5700le 128mb card,
When I tried to run farcry,it was just horrible.
can any one suggest the required settings for smooth running of it .

can any one please give me some info about how anti-aliasing works in a 3d game?

[Ethan_Hunt]

AFAIK 5700LE Sucks badly at gaming.The Most your could do is lower every detail and Resolution of the game and even try Closing all unwanted Tasks in your system Tray.What FPS Do you normally acquire for the game and Post ur overall config as well as something else could form the bottle Neck too.

and here's how an Anti-Aliasing works During a Game
http://www.futuretech.blinkenlights.nl/aa.html

[GameAddict]

Hi,

Anybody tried Constantine on 845GL? Please let me know!

GA

[icecoolz]

Constantine min system requirements :

OS: Windows 98/98SE/2000/XP
CPU: 1.5GHz or equivalent processor
Memory: 128MB RAM
Video: 64MB Direct3D compatible video card (card must support Pixel Shading)
Sound: DirectX 9c compatible sound card
HDD: 2.5GB free space
Peripherals: Keyboard Mouse
DVD-ROM: 4x DVD-ROM or faster

I seriously doubt that it will work.

[kunwar]

Originally Posted by tarey_g

to bypass the hw t&l use 3danalyze

nothing happens
how can a software make a game work??????????????
i used it on about 8 games.
u DUDES r making us FOOLS

Originally Posted by GameAddict

Hi,

Anybody tried Constantine on 845GL? Please let me know!

GA

WHAT IS "CONSTANTINE??????????????????????????????????

I CHECKED on intel website.
MP2 will work Smoothlyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
ya, hl2 and d3 will work but NOT smoothly.
i own 845.
Who ELSE can know BETTER than me?

Originally Posted by ctrl_alt_del

PoP:WW will run doesnt means that the same config will be able to run PoP:SOT...atleast thats what has happened with me and many of my pals. WW runs fine but SoT wont go beyond the splash screen.

I think that it was abnormal due 2 NO support of PS 2.0.
MGS2 WILL not work

[ctrl_alt_del]

u DUDES r making us FOOLS

Think before you post....if you don't the advice of the people here, better not to ask for any.

WHAT IS "CONSTANTINE??????????????????????????????????

It's a movie starring Keanu Reeves and has a game by the same name.

[enoonmai]

First of all, use the Edit button to edit your post if yours happens to be the last post instead of posting 6 posts in a row. I have merged all of your posts into a single one for sake of clarity.

First of all, no one is attempting to "fool" you. Please refrain from such comments especially when someone is trying to help the others. As for 3DA, you have to understand that its not a one-stop solution for running games that require TnL support. While some games are flexibly coded, others explicitly require you to posess H/W TnL for them to work. I have personally seen PoP:SoT running on a GeForce 4 MX 440-SE at a friend's place. You have to learn to fiddle with the settings and tweak a lot before you can get it to run. Of course, it will throw up a thousand warnings and glitches before it runs, but it will eventually, if you know what you are doing. The best place to get your query answered is at the 3DA forums themselves.

As for "Constantine", its the game based on the Keanu Reeves/Rachel Weisz movie based on the DC Comic. Use GameSpot for more information on the game.

Max Payne 2 will indeed run on the 845GL as the others have pointed out, and the Intel Game Compatibility Support lists all games supported on a particular chipset, so that should be one of the things to check out before you buy the game, considering how costly the game is. The generally accepted notion is that the minimum system requirements are to be taken with a pinch of salt, while the game may run, it would be an awful experience actually trying to play it. While an older SiS chipset may run Max Payne 1, actually playing it is a nightmare.

[LordZeus]

i had played pop sot on my old 845GL chipset n it worked perfectly fine.. All i did was tick the emulate pixel shader caps and HW Tnl caps options. pop sot worked fine... Its funny that pop sot require hw tnl AND pixel shader support to work whereas POP WW doesnt need either of these.

[GameAddict]

@LordZeus: Thanks for pointing out what to do in 3DA to make PoP:SoT run. Saved my time!

Can anybody point me to the 3 DA Forums? Googling is not helping! Would like to see if Constantine can be made to run.

Bye!

GA

[enoonmai]

You can discuss your games with 3DA here.

[vysakh]

config
P4 2.0GHz
845 GL mobo
onboard grafix
384 MB RAM


which games will work ?
driver 3
UT 2004
SIMS 2
Splinter cell (all)

[icecoolz]

Driver 3

Minimum
Operating System: Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
Processor: Pentium PIII 800 MHz Processor or AMD Athlon
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce™ or ATI Radeon™ 7000 or higher
CD-ROM: 4X or Faster
RAM: 256 MB RAM

I dont see a problem it might work. So give it a go.

UT2004 will work in Software mode I think.

SIM2

If you have a T&L (info about what T&L is below) capable video card with at least 32 MB of video RAM (such as nvidia GeForce 2 or better or ATI Radeon 7000 or better) then you need at least:

* 800 MHz processor
* 256 MB RAM if Windows XP
* 128 MB RAM if Windows 98, Windows ME, or Windows 2000
* At least 3.5 gigs of free hard drive space

If you have a non-T&L capable video card (such as TNT2, Intel, or Rage for example) then you need at least:

* 2.0 GHz processor
* 256 MB RAM if Windows XP
* 128 MB RAM if Windows 98, Windows ME, or Windows 2000
* At least 3.5 gigs of free hard drive space

Recommened video cards (and the more video memory the better):

* ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
* Nvidia Geforce 4

Splinter Cell wont work..needs Pixel Shaders.

[ctrl_alt_del]

Splinter Cell worked on my SiS 650 on-board. Just needed to update the drivers to make it work.

However Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow didn't go beyond the loading screen. Curiously, Chaos Theory did work, but it was terrible to look at.

[kishan]

config
P4 2.0GHz
845 GL mobo
onboard grafix
384 MB RAM


which games will work ?
driver 3
UT 2004
SIMS 2
Splinter cell (all)

I have got almost the similar config except i have only 256mb ram.
Sims 2 will work
UT 2004 will work at lowest settings on small maps