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Quillan · 04-20-07, 08:52 AM

Assuming the original poster had the money to replace the system, my advice would be the same, don't upgrade the current one. However, with a spending limit of 200€, you aren't going to be able to build a new computer. You couldn't build a new computer for $400 in the US, much less in Europe where the prices on components tend to be quite a bit higher as I understand it.

The last two Silent Hunter games require pixel shaders, I assume to handle the wave effects of the sea (ever seen screenshots from someone who got the game running on an old Geforce 4 MX card? No water). However, aside from that, the big resource requirements of this game are the processor and memory. The OP has an Athlon 64 processor. Don't underestimate these; processor speed doesn't mean a lot here. I ran SH3 on an Athlon XP 2000+, so that's a massive increase in performance over what I had then. I've found recently that going to 2 gigs of ram really helped my games, much more than I thought. Obviously the big bottleneck in his system is the video card, but unless he want's to run 2048x1536 resolution with 8xAA and 16xAF he really doesn't need something crazy. If the game runs well for AVG, then it should run well for SBJ as well.

Most subsimmers (not all) aren't into a lot of different games that require crazy amounts of video power. For those people, state-of-the-art gaming systems aren't required, and a lot of people can't afford those anyway. I couldn't go out and build a system around a Conroe X6800 with 4 gigs of ram and two 8800GTX video cards in SLI.

04-20-07, 08:52 AM	#22
Quillan Samurai Navy Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 579 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Assuming the original poster had the money to replace the system, my advice would be the same, don't upgrade the current one. However, with a spending limit of 200€, you aren't going to be able to build a new computer. You couldn't build a new computer for $400 in the US, much less in Europe where the prices on components tend to be quite a bit higher as I understand it. The last two Silent Hunter games require pixel shaders, I assume to handle the wave effects of the sea (ever seen screenshots from someone who got the game running on an old Geforce 4 MX card? No water). However, aside from that, the big resource requirements of this game are the processor and memory. The OP has an Athlon 64 processor. Don't underestimate these; processor speed doesn't mean a lot here. I ran SH3 on an Athlon XP 2000+, so that's a massive increase in performance over what I had then. I've found recently that going to 2 gigs of ram really helped my games, much more than I thought. Obviously the big bottleneck in his system is the video card, but unless he want's to run 2048x1536 resolution with 8xAA and 16xAF he really doesn't need something crazy. If the game runs well for AVG, then it should run well for SBJ as well. Most subsimmers (not all) aren't into a lot of different games that require crazy amounts of video power. For those people, state-of-the-art gaming systems aren't required, and a lot of people can't afford those anyway. I couldn't go out and build a system around a Conroe X6800 with 4 gigs of ram and two 8800GTX video cards in SLI. __________________ We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.