Specs for Darkplaces

[sb306]

Well I had been planning on buying a newer system to run Darkplaces and some of the newer games that wont run on my retro rig. I had bought a 512mb Sapphire HD3870 a few months back, but just bought a newer tower today. It has a AMD Athlon 64 4400+ 2.4ghz, 1gb ddr pc3200, and its running Windows XP. Its one of those generic HP Mini towers. I am planning on installing the 3870 in it.

So I wanted to ask how everyone will think it will run. I wanted to see what real-time lighting looked like at a reasonable resolution Thanks guys.

[foq]

Oh my, I hope you didn't pay much for that tower. You should be able to run anything DP can throw at you, but I think you are going to be limited by that 1GB ram.

[bFeared]

Oh my, I hope you didn't pay much for that tower. You should be able to run anything DP can throw at you, but I think you are going to be limited by that 1GB ram.

Yeah that's a real kick back.
I'd recommend adding more ram. 2-4gb's is a good amount.

I can max out DP just fine on my rig, the only time I slow down is when I have RT world shadows on.

Windows 7
Q8200 2.33ghz (2.8ghz overclocked)
2gb DDR3 Ram
nVidia 275 GTX BFG OC'ed (896mb)

[foq]

Not even RT world should slow that down...

[bFeared]

Not even RT world should slow that down...

You're right, it shouldn't but it does.
Crysis runs better on max than DP.

I mind you I'm on a 25.5" monitor. (1920x1200)

[foq]

Pfft, you should be able to run DP on an LED advertisment bilboard with that kind of hardware.

[Disco]

I have to agree with quake marine...

I have q9550 Quad core OCd to 3.0Ghgz, 8GB Ram, Dual video card with combined 2gb of Video memory.

I still cant run DP with everything maxxed out, without stuttering. Im also on a 26 inch monitor using 1920 resolution.

[sb306]

Thats what I wanted to know. Anything over 1280x1024 and Ill be happy. Ill go ahead and add 1gb of ram to make it 2gb also.

I didnt pay much for the tower. The problem I was having was finding a basic computer with a full height 16x pci-express slot. I finally found a mini tower with decent specs and a full size pci express slot.

[foq]

You can always build your own...

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It's not hard at all. It's like playing with legos.

[Senban]

I still think Darkplaces is a joke at the expense of computers. The guy couldn't figure out how to make a Space Invaders clone that would flatten all conceivable human computer technology, so he turned to Quake 1 instead. Apparently the Chinese built the Dawning Nebulae because they thought they could get a decent frame rate on it, but unfortunately it seems they are still trying to optimize their config.

[sb306]

You can always build your own...

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It's not hard at all. It's like playing with legos.

Thats what I did with the "retro rig". I pieced together the fastest computer I could while still be being able to run DOS and Glide games with a Voddoo 5500. It worked perfect for what I wanted it for, but then I came across Darkplaces, Qrack etc. It runs Joequake perfectly. But qrack wont run(win 98 ) , Darkplaces runs well but without the bells and whistles.

So this was more or less just for the newer Quake clients. But I have a few "newerish" games that I want to check out on a capable computer also.

[LordHavoc]

A 3870 ought to stay over 60fps pretty much all the time at 1280x1024 with realtime world lighting and romi's rtlights files (be sure to grab those romi pk3 files out of dpmod and put them in id1), and most definitely should not be "jerky" or "jittery", sounds more like a driver problem.



My main rigs are, respectively...

Linux box: ~$1800
Asus M4A89GTD motherboard (supports ECC server memory)
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 3.2ghz Black Edition
Kingston 8GB 4x2GB DDR3 1333 ECC unbuffered CL9 1.5v
Intel X25-V 40GB SSD hard drive
XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
Samsung 2233RZ 22" 1680x1050x120hz 3D Ready
ViewSonic FuHzion 22" 1680x1050x120hz 3D Ready
Cherry CyMotion Master Linux keyboard 133-key (mechanical)
Logitech G500 gaming mouse (5700 DPI)

Win7 box: ~$5500
Asus P6X58D Premium LGA 1366 motherboard
Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition quad-core 3.2ghz (no longer available, 975 and 980X now cost the same price as this one did - $999 USD)
G.SKILL 12GB 6x2GB DDR3 1600 CL9 1.5v
2x Samsung F3 7200rpm 1TB hard drives (RAID1 for redundancy)
XFX ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
Sparkle NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB
3x DoubleSight DS-305W 2560x1600x60hz
Razer Lycosa gaming keyboard 105-key (mechanical, backlit)
Razer Imperator gaming mouse (5600 DPI)

I have one of the 30" monitors on the GTX 460 and two on the 5870, I can switch active card by changing my primary monitor in the windows screen configuration, so I can do testing on both ATI and NVIDIA that way.

I regularly run realtime world lighting (with romi's rtlights files - you can grab these out of dpmod, major fps boost in realtime world lighting) on both rigs with no problems at full resolution, although framerate dips below 60 in some cases.

Although if I run Eyefinity (3 monitors) on the Radeon HD 5870 in the Win7 box it can drop below 60fps with rtworld regularly, 7680x1600 is pretty taxing on one card, or 8064x1600 with the bezel compensation turned on.

[R00k]

I still think Darkplaces is a joke at the expense of computers. The guy couldn't figure out how to make a Space Invaders clone that would flatten all conceivable human computer technology, so he turned to Quake 1 instead. Apparently the Chinese built the Dawning Nebulae because they thought they could get a decent frame rate on it, but unfortunately it seems they are still trying to optimize their config.

[sb306]

Im running a old school Diamond Pro 2060u crt. So 1280x1024 should be good. Ive just always liked how the crt monitors looked. One thing I wanted to know was the mouse and keyboard input. The monitor has two inputs, but is there a switch that will make it possible to use one set of peripherals? Thanks for the help guys.

[Disco]

Nice setup Lord Havoc. I will continue to try and tweak DP and see what options cause it to be unplayable.

I would like to be clear, I can turn most things all the way up and play with the Rygel ultra packs and other enhanced graphical mods. However, if i go crazy and set every slider bar all the way to the right, DP becomes unplayable. This might be do to the fact that some of the options give you such open end control that you dont want to max out that setting. For Example, Corona Size..

So i will re-check everything. Thanks for posting!