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Marquesa posted 04-09-99 12:53 AM ET
I have a P133 32MRAM S3 2M video card which does not support DirectX.
The demo runs just fine.
I just wasted 79A$ on CTP, I do not want to repeat it.
Roland posted 04-09-99 04:08 AM ET
You got the demo to run without directX ? Are you sure ? I think the demo worked with directX 5 on my PC, but I'm not sure about that...
The full game needs support for the videos, so I can't imagine it would run without directX 6. Also, I had to set "directdraw=0" in alphacentauri.ini for the videos. No idea why, and they hid that information in some txt-file... very annoying.
Another thing:
I've the full game running on a P400, 128MB PC, and on my P233, 32MB laptop.
On the laptop, it is a lot slower and "stuttering" sometimes. I think with 32MB RAM _AND_ a slower processor, it would run, but you might not really enjoy the game...
axe posted 04-09-99 12:02 PM ET
I got the game working fine on my Cyrix 133+ with 16megs of ram, but my audio and video supported dX. The game was horribly slow and I swapped more then I played..But damnit, it was fun.. =]
trippin daily posted 04-10-99 12:20 PM ET
u may have to use a smaller map size, with less land.. cause i find that can drag out the time between turns a whole lot.. i play on a p200.. and i find huge r even large maps with lots of land start to take far to much time after 50-75 turns... Then again that maybe due to direct x drivers eating up my memory -good ole microsoft, don't ya love em' so u should be able to run it.. just keep the maps scaled down a bit
ChairmanLee posted 04-15-99 03:15 PM ET
What's $79A? Is that dollars?
zengaian posted 04-15-99 07:17 PM ET
Australian dollars ChairmanLee - funny technicolour stuff made out of plastic instead of paper.
ChairmanLee posted 04-15-99 09:56 PM ET
At least it's not like our US dollars. They're just multi shades of green.
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Author	Topic: Will the game run on my computer?
Marquesa	posted 04-09-99 12:53 AM ET I have a P133 32MRAM S3 2M video card which does not support DirectX. The demo runs just fine. I just wasted 79A$ on CTP, I do not want to repeat it.
Roland	posted 04-09-99 04:08 AM ET You got the demo to run without directX ? Are you sure ? I think the demo worked with directX 5 on my PC, but I'm not sure about that... The full game needs support for the videos, so I can't imagine it would run without directX 6. Also, I had to set "directdraw=0" in alphacentauri.ini for the videos. No idea why, and they hid that information in some txt-file... very annoying. Another thing: I've the full game running on a P400, 128MB PC, and on my P233, 32MB laptop. On the laptop, it is a lot slower and "stuttering" sometimes. I think with 32MB RAM _AND_ a slower processor, it would run, but you might not really enjoy the game...
axe	posted 04-09-99 12:02 PM ET I got the game working fine on my Cyrix 133+ with 16megs of ram, but my audio and video supported dX. The game was horribly slow and I swapped more then I played..But damnit, it was fun.. =]
trippin daily	posted 04-10-99 12:20 PM ET u may have to use a smaller map size, with less land.. cause i find that can drag out the time between turns a whole lot.. i play on a p200.. and i find huge r even large maps with lots of land start to take far to much time after 50-75 turns... Then again that maybe due to direct x drivers eating up my memory -good ole microsoft, don't ya love em' so u should be able to run it.. just keep the maps scaled down a bit
ChairmanLee	posted 04-15-99 03:15 PM ET What's $79A? Is that dollars?
zengaian	posted 04-15-99 07:17 PM ET Australian dollars ChairmanLee - funny technicolour stuff made out of plastic instead of paper.
ChairmanLee	posted 04-15-99 09:56 PM ET At least it's not like our US dollars. They're just multi shades of green.