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UT2004

April 12th 2004, 06:28 PM
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merlin
Peasant He/Him
 
I was gonna get this, but the question is should I go CD or DVD? And I don't really care if it's SE or not (I have all the tutorials and such on 7 CD's in the cupboard already, and a headset - whoopdedoo). Yes, I know it really isn't an issue, but it has been proven that I'm the most left-brained person in my school. Details matter.

EDIT: That sounded like I contradicted myself, but I really didn't. Heh.
April 12th 2004, 09:49 PM
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Ric
Peasant They/Them Canada
 
Dunno. I havn't played that. What are the system requirements? If high, may as well DVD it.
*edit*
Na, better yet, put it on about 600-800 3-1/2" discettes
I don't know about UT, but Baldurs' Gate 2 would fit on about 3200 of them. (They used to be "high-tech")
April 12th 2004, 11:25 PM
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merlin
Peasant He/Him
 
It would take about 4,000 floppies to fit UT2004.

Here are the recommended requirements:

Pentium III or AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz processor (Pentium® or AMD 1.2GHz or greater recommended)
128MB RAM (256MB RAM or greater recommended)
5.5GB HDD space REQUIRED
8X CD-ROM or DVD
Windows® compatible sound card
32 MB video card required (64 MB NVIDIA or ATI hardware T&L card recommended)
DirectX® version 9.0b (included on game disc)
Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported. Internet play requires a 33.6 kbps or faster modem (broadband recommended)

Here's what I have:
P4 2.8 GHz
512 MB RAM @ 533 MHz
140 GB ATA133 HD
16x DVD
5.1 channel optical/digital surround sound (integrated), EAX2&3
128 MB ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (OpenGL 2.0)
DirectX 9.0b
Cable (4 Mbit)

And I bought that a year ago. Almost time to go shopping.
April 13th 2004, 12:03 AM
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my specs are:

1.9 ghz p4
256 mb pc800 rdram
80 gb hd
16x dvd
h/k 90 satellite/swf speakers
64 mb nvidia geforce3 ti500
and all that other good stuff. yeah. it sucks. i need another computer more than you do. :\
April 13th 2004, 12:07 AM
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merlin
Peasant He/Him
 
Mine'll probably last another two and a half years (Or at least I'll try to make it last that long). All you need is more RAM. And uninstall all that crap from your hard drive.
April 13th 2004, 05:18 AM
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Ric
Peasant They/Them Canada
 
I still have a P3 running at 700mhz! And so far the only thing that has actually limited me is this Intel Stupido Vid card.;(
April 13th 2004, 05:29 AM
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Simeon
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Any fool can use a computer. Many do. 
Well, I'd personally say the DVD version. I have the DVD version (SE), and it seems to me handier to have 1 DVD instead of 6 CDs. It runs just fine (to install and to play) and you have it all on one disk.

Edit: as for your computer, it somewhat matches my system here, so it should run
April 13th 2004, 02:18 PM
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Drake
Peasant He/Him
 
2.2 ghz athalon
gForce 4 64(?)Mb RAM
512 ddr RAM
160 Gig
DVD-RW
Sony FlatScreen monitor

and i'm savin up for a Radion 9800 xt
April 13th 2004, 02:21 PM
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redink1
King He/Him United States bloop
A mother ducking wizard 
Athlon 64 3200+
GeForce 5200 (the 'dog' of this system)
1 GB PC3200 RAM
240 GB combined disk storage
DVD-RW, CD-RW drives
Two CRT Monitors (dual-monitors rock, yo)

UT2004 runs pretty well, I can turn up a few settings past Normal and it runs at about the same frame rate.

I need to get a new video card, though I haven't been paying attention and I don't know what to get. I'll probably buy something when the next generation comes out the the current generation prices are slashed.
April 14th 2004, 07:39 PM
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2.2 ghz
Radeon 9800 pro ((Overclocked +20)
512 RAM ((forgot what model but pretty high))
FSB 500 something.

Did you hear about nvidias new project? NV40 or the 6800.It looks like bs to me.
April 14th 2004, 07:58 PM
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merlin
Peasant He/Him
 
nVidia can go screw themselves (as they really need to do). I want one of these babies.
April 16th 2004, 09:26 AM
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Striker
Noble She/Her United States
Daniel, there are clowns. 
900mhz AMD Athlon
384 MB RAM
128Mb GeForce 4 Ti4200
180G GB combined disk storage
CD-RW, CD-ROM drives
SoundBlaster Audigy
Windows 98 SE

The game runs awesome on this comp at 800x600 with the rest of the video settings at normal. However, my 2.4Ghz laptop can't run the game well at all.