Gamezine interview PT-Boats developers

[Sonarman]

Gamezine.co.uk has an interview with the Akella team

[nikimcbee]

Interesting interview. So if you want all the eye candy, you need a $5000 computer.

[Sonarman]

Hmm, its min specs are not really much different from SH4...

PT-Boats min spec
Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Microsoft Windows 2000 SP2
1GB RAM System RAM
2.5 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
8x DVD-ROM Drive
1,5 GB free hard disk space
DirectX 9.0c (included in installer package)
64MB Direct3D Compatible Video card and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver
DirectX 8.1 Compatible Sound Card

SH4 min spec
Windows 2000 / XP / Vista
2.0 GHz Processor or better
512 MB RAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible Graphics Card with 128 MB RAM (Requires Vertex Shader 2.0 and Pixel Shader 2.0 support)
DirectX 9.0c compatible Sound Card

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Sonarman

Hmm, its min specs are not really much different from SH4...

PT-Boats min spec
Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Microsoft Windows 2000 SP2
1GB RAM System RAM
2.5 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
8x DVD-ROM Drive
1,5 GB free hard disk space
DirectX 9.0c (included in installer package)
64MB Direct3D Compatible Video card and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver
DirectX 8.1 Compatible Sound Card

SH4 min spec
Windows 2000 / XP / Vista
2.0 GHz Processor or better
512 MB RAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible Graphics Card with 128 MB RAM (Requires Vertex Shader 2.0 and Pixel Shader 2.0 support)
DirectX 9.0c compatible Sound Card

They recommended (vista) quad core 3.0 GHz. Recommended sys rec from the interview.

[Sonarman]

Yes, good idea let's stop the wheels of progress because NikiMcbee can't keep up. I actually think it's a good thing, with few DX10 games out there those that have capable computers will be hungry for new titles and may try a PT boats, a naval sim a genre that they may not have tried otherwise thus expanding the market and the potential of new games for us. Some, I suspect most, of us have never been able to afford the reccommended spec machine at the time of release but we buy and play anyway and in a year or two we have that machine and all is well and good, things must evolve and grow. But judging by your 5 negative posts in one day on an as yet unreleased naval sim I guess you are just a "glass half full kind of guy".

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Sonarman

Yes, good idea let's stop the wheels of progress because NikiMcbee can't keep up. I actually think it's a good thing, with few DX10 games out there those that have capable computers will be hungry for new titles and may try a PT boats, a naval sim a genre that they may not have tried otherwise thus expanding the market and the potential of new games for us. Some, I suspect most, of us have never been able to afford the reccommended spec machine at the time of release but we buy and play anyway and in a year or two we have that machine and all is well and good, things must evolve and grow. But judging by your 5 negative posts in one day on an as yet unreleased naval sim I guess you are just a "glass half full kind of guy".

:rotfl:
Thanks for keeping track for me.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Interesting interview. So if you want all the eye candy, you need a $5000 computer.

Yeah, I'm going to run down to Walmart and pick up my quad core. Good Lord, I have yet to get a dual core. The games and systems sure do keep ahead of everyones wallets. I do not think this one will be hitting my hard drive. By the time I can afford a quad core there will be gazillion core computers. It is just a bad cycle.

[goldorak]

I'll pass on this one, it just seems much more a benchmark than a game, like Crysis I might add.

[CaptHawkeye]

Originally Posted by goldorak

I'll pass on this one, it just seems much more a benchmark than a game, like Crysis I might add.

Shhhh. No one is allowed to criticize Crysis because its nerd fanboys might get angry that people don't like their 100% typical corridor shooter.

And whatever you do, don't point out that UT3 looks just as good as Crysis and runs much smoother under any circumstances. I guess the Cryengine 2 just sucks because it's built on really inefficient code design.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Yeah, I'm going to run down to Walmart and pick up my quad core. Good Lord, I have yet to get a dual core. The games and systems sure do keep ahead of everyones wallets. I do not think this one will be hitting my hard drive. By the time I can afford a quad core there will be gazillion core computers. It is just a bad cycle.

...but if you don't buy a $400 processor, how will the intel engineers have their lavish monthly parties?