DEMO and system requirements

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  1. Solid Snake

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    Hi, guys!

    Finally I HAVE downloaded Arcanum Demo. Well, I haven't played much yet, but the main question so far was - will the game run on my PC, which has ONLY 4 megs of video memory.

    The answer follows: IT RUNS. Quite slow sometimes, but still you can play using "Safe Mode" menu, which in theory makes the software rendering independent on the hardware specifics (video card acceleration - especially).

    So, in other words, if you have a laptop with a relatively low-tech hardware - go ahead, install the demo. :smile:
     
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    Cool beans, thanks for the update, Snake!
     
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    The "quite slow sometimes" bit.. is that in the area where everyone else gets the slowdown too (temple/blacksmith/witchlady/whatever), or is it more widespread for you?
     
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    Everywhere, where more than one object is moving at a time, you can notice it. The more objects - the worse. I would even say that if I wouldn't prefer playing Turn Based combat, I simply couldn't play Real Time, bacsue all the active images simultaneously.

    I have only two hopes now:

    1. When I'll enlarge the RAM of my laptop from 64 to 128 Megs it will be better ;

    2. Troika will be good enough to leave in the saviour "Safe Mode" and will lower the video RAM requirements a bit. It's spoiling everything...
     
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    The demo slows down on a 650 MHz 128 coreMem-laptop on W2K. if too much objects are moving.

    It would probably be best to not launch streetfights in tarrant without at least 1.3 GHz and 1 Gig Ram.
     
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    Far to old!!!

    Super grave digging at work!

    Tell me are any one of these people still around?

    DU this post is from 2001, you could free up some of you system if you cleaned it up to around 2003. I don’t think most people look this far back.
     
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  7. DarkUnderlord

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    1. It's stuff sitting in a database. Seriously, it doesn't take up that much room.

    2. We'd lose more than half the "Who needs a Laugh" thread.

    3. You should've raised this issue in Site Feedback.

    4. I'm more inclined to ban or delete the accounts of users who do excessive, annoying gravedigs. A couple of months I don't mind, or digging something up because you have something to add I don't mind, but digging something up just for the sake of digging it up is a no no.
     
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    Re: Far to old!!!

    Thus earning my perpetual scorn.

    How about you quit being such a lazy cunt and check for yourself? It's readily available from a members profile whenever they landed their last post.

    As DU said, we'd lose half of nobodie's brilliant "who needs a laugh thread", and I can't have that. Also, there are other memorable threads from that time that has sort of passed into legend and are thus too sacred to be removed. If we ever needed to clear up on disk space, your account would be our first priority though.
     
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    Ok, I was jus tired when I dug this thing up.

    But what I mean is threads that haven’t been posted in since 2001 like this one. And as for the grave digging a few days ago, I hadn’t been here for some time so it was all new to me. I just missed the dates on them.
    ___________________________________________________________________

    Well it was a small thread so let’s change the topic.


    Did any one of you here about the tsunami warning last night? (For those who don’t know it was for the west coast of the USA, in other words me.)
     
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    Did I hear about it? Of course. Not caring about people living on the coastline I paid it no mind and went back to watching House.

    You couldn't have made a new thread about this, leaving the rotting corpse of this one to lie? I know! In the interest of conservation, let's never start a new thread at all, but rather dig up ancient ones and hijack them.
     
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    i have the pure misfortune to live in Cali, so I felt the earthquake, but I'm nowhere near the coastline, so it would have been fine for a tsunami to hit...
     
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    Oh yes, "Cali" is such a horrible place to live. I can't think of one area in the whole world worse. Whine whine fucking whine.

    If you're talking about the state, by the way, it's called "California". :thumbup:
     
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