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Coders: what hardware are you using?

category: general [glöplog]
shifter: I haven't decided on a title yet, "The cost of democoding" is to be considered as WIP, especially since I made a point of saying:
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specifically; what kind of hardware is required to run todays demos.
I don't think that definition is very ambiguous. :)

What I _should_ have done was to specify that I'm really only interested in hearing about _PC machine specs_, not Ataris and Amigas. :)
added on the 2007-09-26 15:39:27 by gloom gloom
..and, realtime, apparently, to weed out the trolls.
added on the 2007-09-26 15:40:11 by gloom gloom
Dell Laptop, 2.8ghz, 4gig ram geforce 6800 mobile.
added on the 2007-09-26 15:42:39 by pantaloon pantaloon
Core duo 6600, 7600GT, 2 GB ram
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What I _should_ have done was to specify that I'm really only interested in hearing about _PC machine specs_, not Ataris and Amigas. :)


How discriminatory. :P Anyway, when I am not watching Desert Dream on my A500 :D I'm using an AMD XP2800+ with a good old Radeon 9800 and 1.5GB ram which still runs most of the demos fine. :)
added on the 2007-09-26 15:46:11 by StingRay StingRay
StingRay: Atari/Amiga-hardware doesn't have that many variables, and besides; this was always ment to be a PC-related article. :)
added on the 2007-09-26 15:48:50 by gloom gloom
Core 2 duo 3300, radeon x1950 pro, 1GB (should double this soon)
added on the 2007-09-26 15:55:30 by blueflame blueflame
Gloom: I know ;)
added on the 2007-09-26 16:01:53 by StingRay StingRay
ok, seriously then.
Currently sitting in front of a 1,5GHz Centrino, 1GB RAM, Mob. Radeon X600 - 64MB RAM thingie
added on the 2007-09-26 16:06:00 by d0DgE d0DgE
as for the laptop:

Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz, geforce 7600Go, 1GB, 160 GB HDD
added on the 2007-09-26 16:15:04 by earx earx
My overall impression is that a lot of demos already make use of SM2.0 while few actually use SM3.0. I'm quite happy with that (got no SM3.0), but SM3.0 or DX10 shaders (geometry shaders) will really be pretty standard stuff in ~a year or so even in integrated chipsets and will be more heavily used in the future... ...meaning that a decent 2-3GHz, 1GB PC with a SM2.0 capable card (128MB+) will suffice. for now.

And today you need a fast CPU to be able to run all those old Demos in DOSBox ;)
added on the 2007-09-26 16:15:07 by raer raer
GMA950!
added on the 2007-09-26 16:39:50 by jmagic jmagic
uuuaäähh! *shiver*
added on the 2007-09-26 17:02:36 by raer raer
my shared-with-a-roommate comp's specs are :
- Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad Core QX6800 2.93 Ghz.
- XFX GeForce 8800 GTX XXX edition 768mb
- 2gb ddr2 ram

and we had to work in a damn laundry shop for 1,5 months and never and never spent that money on anything else, this babe costed us a small fortune but damn the only thing it can't run at full speed currently is just Plastic demos...
added on the 2007-09-26 17:06:58 by decipher decipher
deciper: who gets the machine if you get divorced?
added on the 2007-09-26 17:10:35 by smash smash
GeForce 6600 GT
Athlon64 2GHz
1 Gb RAM
added on the 2007-09-26 17:11:16 by keops keops
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deciper: who gets the machine if you get divorced?

smash... what "divorce" are you talking about? :) HE is my room and school mate :D. btw, it's likely that i'll get the machine, since i payed 100 euros more than him ha!
added on the 2007-09-26 17:14:37 by decipher decipher
As long as you have enough memory in the machine, a programmer is satisfied. Sure it is nice to draw more polygons or do somthing a bit faster but it's not essential, lack of memory however can make me aggressive.
added on the 2007-09-26 17:18:44 by Shrimp Shrimp
shrimp: Actually I believe that the "polygon-race" was over years ago, and pixelshader-strength is now the dominant factor.
added on the 2007-09-26 17:32:43 by gloom gloom
gloom : true indeed :)
added on the 2007-09-26 17:34:07 by decipher decipher
decipher: nah, im kidding. :) (you should have signed a prenup though! ;) )
added on the 2007-09-26 17:39:21 by smash smash
Amiga:

1.3 A500, 2.04 A500+, 3.0 A1200, 3.1 A1200+Blizzard 030@50Mhz

PC:

Athlon XP 3200+, 1Gig Ram, ATI Radeon 9800XT 256Mb, XP SP2
This runs 99.9% of Demo's at a speed i'm happy with. Only thing i can't view really is the ps3.0 demos.
added on the 2007-09-26 19:28:02 by Intrinsic Intrinsic
Athlon 3200, Radeon 9800 (yes, ps2.0 only), 1 GB. But I plan to inmeditelly change to dual core amd + nv8800 so that I can watch my own productions.
added on the 2007-09-26 19:50:53 by iq iq
A64 3200+ 7900GTO + 1 go ram + XP SP2 (willbe soon updated)

like other said i think there is nothing worse than having no more memory and computer swapping :( (the more funny part is when ur demo running is changing scene , swapping a long time and you miss da kick ass effect)

before of this i was having only 512 ddr ram , (2go pack from a stupid website never arrived ) and just after (july 2006) ddr2 and core 2 duo came , i was disgusted and dont want to invest into 2go of ddr1 since it was already "outdated"

i can explain how painfull it is to run debris on a such config, now i finnaly go to 1go
added on the 2007-09-26 21:19:48 by Tigrou Tigrou
Pentium 4, 512Mb RAM, Ati Radeon 9600Pro
Dell Inspiron 1505, Athlon, 512 Mb, Ati Xpress


note: Windows XP + Ubuntu on both
added on the 2007-09-26 21:52:53 by JaK JaK

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