Basic Computer Specs

[harleyman]

Lets see what computer components you all are using and what your experience is with X3 Terran installed.

Like just

CPU and speed
Memory and speed
Video Card



And...Is anyone using SLI / CrossfireX ?

Or a X2 Video card?

Thanks

 

[Chacha]

Mine is just a simple one, nothing fancy:

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac8,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 1 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz


And X3 runs good in it...

 

[harleyman]

WOW

A Mac with one gig ram ...

They seem to be very good machines... I doubt that a PC with the same specs would do as well for some reason.....LOL


Do you have to use BootCamp to run the game on the Mac?

 

[Chacha]

WOW

A Mac with one gig ram ...

They seem to be very good machines... I doubt that a PC with the same specs would do as well for some reason.....LOL


Do you have to use BootCamp to run the game on the Mac?

I have a Mac version of the game, and yes I have an XP on bootcamp .... I will DL it on my daughter's computer a Dell, I will see how it delivers on the PC.... :ernae:

 

[harleyman]

Cool..
Would love to know how your results turn out....


Speaking of daughters....How is the munchin doing ? She excited about Christmas?


Mine are 21 and 20...Both have birthdays at Christmas.One before and one after.

They are both ALWAYS excited about Christmas still.....

 

[Chacha]

Cool..
Would love to know how your results turn out....


Speaking of daughters....How is the munchin doing ? She excited about Christmas?


Mine are 21 and 20...Both have birthdays at Christmas.One before and one after.

They are both ALWAYS excited about Christmas still.....

I would love to know how the two differs....

Well her Dell is about 5 years old, nothing fancy as well... I have been cleaning the computer since the laptop was infected with trojans.... The geeks said, since all my computers have only one connection (?), I have to clean all 3 to be safe....

Hannah is 8 going 32...

Very excited about Christmas...

She has a three page Christmas list... (you would not want to know her requests, some are impossible, I have to find the end of the rainbow to give her )

21 and 20, wow... you will have a busy Christmas.. you need to prepare two gifts for each, one for Christmas, one for birthdays.. aren't daughters the sweetest thing...

 

[gigabyte]

HM, I am running an HP Meda Centre, 2.1 Ghz Dual core, Windows 7 (64) 8 gb of Ram and a Nvidia 9600 GT Video card (1 GB on board) performance is fine with all settings maxed. I have the occational stutter where everything freezes, but I suspect that is more related to disk fregmentation than anything else, I have 3 1 TB drives and it takes forever to defrag them so I don't do them as often as I would like. I am going to do a defrag on the gameing drive today while I do other things around the house.

Oh BTW I do have 2 monitors connected to the 9600, the game does not make use of the second Ingame, however I have found I like to keep a Sector map handy so I open it up and drag it to the second screen before I start X3, works very well for my purposes.

 

[harleyman]

@ Chacha....

Please explain... I would love to know how the two differs....



@ Gigabyte.... Thanks for that..Nice to know that a map (app) can be drug to a second monitor as I use two also...

 

[luckydog]

HP Media Center
AMD Dual 2.6 Ghz
3 gigs RAM
EVGA 7200GS 128 mb
(512 supporting...whatever that means)

with sliders at about 50% she's not real smooth, but it's acceptable.
I need to move up to a 512 graphics card.

 

[Lionheart]

iMac 27" Unibody (last years model)
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT (Mac GC)
Intel Core Duo 2.80 Ghrz
4 Gigs DDR Ram (3 used by WinXP)
New dimensional interfusion apple juice reaction cooling system, -33,500 Kelvin,
744 Ghiga-watt PS


ChaCha,

You should go get some Ram and install it. Just takes a min. Costs about $50.00. Its installed on the bottom of the computer. Really makes a difference. I didnt know you were running on only 1 Gig of Ram.




<--- edit.. ok.. the last two computer specs might (might) be stretched a tad.. :d

Bill

 

[Marlin]

I have a pretty old computer and run it with all the settings at max.
It only stutters when there are tons of 'bullets' flying from lots of ships.

AMD 64x2 Dual core 4200
NVIDIA 8500 GT
4 STICKS OF 1024MB Ram
XP Home

 

[Lionheart]

Now that I turned Shaders down a notch, the stutters rarely happen.

With full Shaders, the textures were amazing, reflective on shiney metals, but sometimes after going through 10 gates, some planets would go gray and then stuttering became pretty powerful. Reloading the game would fix it. Just dock at a station, save, exit, restart, continue..

Ceo's Buckzoid and Argon Prime were the worst for frame rates. I think it was my ships though that were doing it. I keep my fleet in Ceo's Buckzoid and Argon Prime, so that seemed to make sense that it was my 'galactic fleet' causing the issue. No other sectors caused it.

And...................... Dogfights, lol.. Goodness.. Same with Rise of Flight. Very very awesome, fast, slide show. :d



Bill

 

[GT182]

Intel P4 3.2E cpu
Asus P4P800-E Deluxe mobo with Hyperthreading
2Gb DDR2 Matched Corsair 1066 Ram
6800 Xtreme 512bit 512Gb DDR2 memory

X3 runs great, even with this 5 year old computer.

I think what helps is it's running on the 2nd 200Gb SATA HDD.... F Drive, not C Drive.

 

[Chacha]

ChaCha,

You should go get some Ram and install it. Just takes a min. Costs about $50.00. Its installed on the bottom of the computer. Really makes a difference. I didnt know you were running on only 1 Gig of Ram.





I have an external hard drive on the Mac...

Not 1TB though, I need space for my stuff.... 1Gig is just not enough, I figured that out the first week when I got my Mac!

 

[harleyman]

Dang man....

I need to get one of them apples....LOL



New dimensional interfusion apple juice reaction cooling system, -33,500 Kelvin,
744 Ghiga-watt PS

 

[Lionheart]

ChaCha,

You should go get some Ram and install it. Just takes a min. Costs about $50.00. Its installed on the bottom of the computer. Really makes a difference. I didnt know you were running on only 1 Gig of Ram.





I have an external hard drive on the Mac...

Not 1TB though, I need space for my stuff.... 1Gig is just not enough, I figured that out the first week when I got my Mac!

Hey ChaCha,

Remember, RAM is totally different from your Hard Drive. And RAM and Memory is the same thing. Memory or Ram is what your computer uses for 'holding things (thoughts, photos, graphics, programs) in the air, almost literally, holding them on or running. Your HD is simply where all the bulk of programs and files are held. (Non memory related basically).

So 1 Gig of Ram or Memory is totally different from your HD or Hard Drive.

Usually, with Windows, everyone now runs with 4 Gigs of Ram. If you have WinXP, you can only use 3 of those, so no matter what, XP will only have 3 Gigs to run with as it cant see any more. Win64, vista 64 (cough cough) and Win7 64 can run higher amounts of Ram (like an Apple, heh heh), but WinXP regular cannot.



Back to HD's. I had a 1TB installed in my Mac almost immediately. I then emailed Apple and told them that they should up their Macs to 1TB's as a standard and a short time later, they did, making 1TB's a standard you can get in your iMacs. (It didnt make sense that Apple have the most powerful iPod in the world, with 60 Gigs of HD space and their iMacs were only 360 Gigs.. So I told them that.. THey need to continue being the leaders in all fields, not just iPods.. ).

 

[Chacha]

Hey ChaCha,

Remember, RAM is totally different from your Hard Drive. And RAM and Memory is the same thing. Memory or Ram is what your computer uses for 'holding things (thoughts, photos, graphics, programs) in the air, almost literally, holding them on or running. Your HD is simply where all the bulk of programs and files are held. (Non memory related basically).

So 1 Gig of Ram or Memory is totally different from your HD or Hard Drive.

Usually, with Windows, everyone now runs with 4 Gigs of Ram. If you have WinXP, you can only use 3 of those, so no matter what, XP will only have 3 Gigs to run with as it cant see any more. Win64, vista 64 (cough cough) and Win7 64 can run higher amounts of Ram (like an Apple, heh heh), but WinXP regular cannot.



Back to HD's. I had a 1TB installed in my Mac almost immediately. I then emailed Apple and told them that they should up their Macs to 1TB's as a standard and a short time later, they did, making 1TB's a standard you can get in your iMacs. (It didnt make sense that Apple have the most powerful iPod in the world, with 60 Gigs of HD space and their iMacs were only 360 Gigs.. So I told them that.. THey need to continue being the leaders in all fields, not just iPods.. ).

I think I am confused.....

My specs says 1GB 800MHZ DDR2 SDRAM on Memory... I have HD for the whatever you connect onto the USB ...

Where will I get the RAM?

I don't know how to shoot.... I can't hunt for a Ram....

So those HDs that I bought are not the RAMs... Apologies people .... One little old woman here trying to figure out what are rams and hds... goodness, (all I know is to turn on my computer, play with it, dust it ever once in a while and turn it off) .... why is computer so complicated :isadizzy:

Now, I have to order a Ram and butcher it for Christmas!

 

[Craig Taylor]

Dell Dimension 4600 3.0 GHz HT
3 GB RAM
256 MB AGP Graphics card
XP SP3

I'm running medium graphics settings to keep the slideshows to a minimum during combat.

Probably the oldest PC on the block, and still cookin'...

 

[Marlin]

.... why is computer so complicated :isadizzy:

Now, I have to order a Ram and butcher it for Christmas!

:ernae::ernae:

Very very good one, thank you.

 

[Lionheart]

Now, I have to order a Ram and butcher it for Christmas!

EEEKS! lol.. no..

Not for computer memory. That is the old law. Now we are in the law of grace and do not have to sacrifice Rams for RAM.

:d

Here are some pics. A pic is worth a thousand words. The 'chip' (green wafer thing) is RAM. The two blocks, one is shiny, one is like a nice plastic box, are hard drives.. The shiny one is considered an 'internal drive', one that is mounted within a computer. The black plastic one is an 'external drive', one that is used outside of a computer, as like you have. People (really wierd ones) like me, use internal drives (shiny one) for external drives, using available boxes and plug in docks to link them into the main computer (or iMac). Reason why is that internal drives are much more inexpensive and you can get docks for cheap also, so you could buy several internal drives and have a couple of docks instead of having a giant dock for 4 or 8 HD's in it.

So..................


No need to slaughter a Ram. Call the butcher, cancel the appointment. Call the zoo keeper, cancel the Ram delivery. Call NewEgg.com and ask 'them' for some Ram, lol..

:d

I hope that explains things more better...

Wierd how a hard drive is like a record player enclosed within a metal (or plastic) box, but memory is like a chip, and yet both do similar things....

Its how the computer handles it though. One is like 'conciousness' and one is like 'memories'... In this case, conciousness is like RAM, and memories is like your HD, the bulk of a humans brain, for instance.



Bill