SS2 on 19/2/2013 at 13:56
Quote Posted by Valet2
I've been noticing many times that, for exaple, in 2002 the coolest videocard was GF4600, soundcard Audigy 2, a lot of memory were 2 Gb DDR. But all we had shit like GeForce MX440 with built-in ac97 (which was really crappy) and... I remember the moment when I've met a friend in another city and he had 64 megs of RAM, and I took my 256 with me just to play games with comfort.
But years later when we got GF9800, I could get old high-end stuff almost for free. And even if I build up an old computer with these cool components for win98-stuff and try playing games that required more memory and more powerful accelerator... you know, it doesn't seem like you have you dream PC of 2003. You just thought that this stuff is cool because marketing people said it's cool, because it cost a lot of money back then.
When I realized that, I stopped fapping on what is in fashion.
Haha, I played System Shock 2 for the first time on these specs: (Dell laptop, still have it and use it occasionally, which is why I know the specifications)
Windows XP
Pentium 3 1.0ghz
384MB Ram
Intel i810 Integrated graphics
1024x768 16bit color
Now I am playing it on:
Intel Core-i3 2100 3.10GHZ
XFX HD5670 GDDR5 512mb
6GB DDR3 Ram
Windows 7 64bit
I swear, all the Thief games and System Shock 2 (can't speak for the first one) seem to age well, or they don't bother me since I played them young. Alot of talent went into those games.
The GOG version at least works great for me though, not a hitch.
Renault on 19/2/2013 at 14:04
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
For the love of christ, stop saying "digital download". ALL downloads are digital.
I think if you just say "I downloaded the game" that implies piracy. Specifying a "digital download" kind of confirms that you bought the game from a legitimate place, even thought the word "digital" has nothing to do with that.
Can't read everything at face value (but you know that).
Bjossi on 19/2/2013 at 15:14
Quote Posted by Brethren
I think if you just say "I downloaded the game" that implies piracy.
I used to see that phrase as an implicit piracy admittance myself, but after years of Steam, GOG, etc. it has changed a lot how I mentally interpret it. Like Zylon the redundant "digital" word irritates me a bit (I'm not sure why though, it is just a word...).
Valet2 on 19/2/2013 at 15:28
Quote Posted by SS2
Haha, I played System Shock 2 for the first time on these specs: (Dell laptop, still have it and use it occasionally, which is why I know the specifications)
Windows XP
Pentium 3 1.0ghz
384MB Ram
Intel i810 Integrated graphics
1024x768 16bit color
Oh, that's a powerful machine.
When I bought SS2 disc in late 1999 it said that 32 megs RAM is enough. I had a Celeron 366, 32 Mb, ASUS V3400 (Riva TNT 1 with 16 Mb of videoram), and it was impossible to play because of endless caching. Months later I got more memory - and it worked flawlessly. Really, my specs were more than enough to run at full speed on 1024x768.
SS2 on 19/2/2013 at 15:38
Quote Posted by Valet2
Oh, that's a powerful machine.
When I bought SS2 disc in late 1999 it said that 32 megs RAM is enough. I had a Celeron 366, 32 Mb, ASUS V3400 (Riva TNT 1 with 16 Mb of videoram), and it was impossible to play because of endless caching. Months later I got more memory - and it worked flawlessly. Really, my specs were more than enough to run at full speed on 1024x768.
Wow, 32mb ram and a Celeron 366 (366mhz?)
Never had anything that old, our first PC was a Nvidia Riva TNT2, 384 ram and a intel Duron(? or something similar) we got around 2000-ish I think?
But yeah, loving this game all over again, would have thought it might not be fun anymore, especially since I am pretty much out of playing video games now, but it is, almost better actually. Same with all the Thief games, I swear they will never get old lol.
Bjossi on 19/2/2013 at 15:49
The machine that powered SS2 for the very first time on my end was my dad's, it had a 300 MHz processor and whooping 64 MBs of RAM. Loading the levels took 30+ seconds. Good times.
voodoo47 on 19/2/2013 at 16:01
amd k6-2 333Mhz, 64mb ram, voodoo2 12MB. still have the machine (although it runs a voodoo3 now).
epithumia on 19/2/2013 at 22:27
I bought an analog download (i.e. a boxed copy) of SS2 many years ago and... never played it. It's still in the closet somewhere. I only played the first one when a friend of mind mentioned she worked on it (and indeed, she is in the credits).
Blue Sky on 20/2/2013 at 10:17
Quote Posted by Adam Nuhfer
Programing takes lots of time which I don't have.
[...]
Great news after eight hours of game play
:)
Quote Posted by epithumia
I bought an analog download (i.e. a boxed copy) of SS2 many years ago and... never played it. It's still in the closet somewhere. I only played the first one when a friend of mind mentioned she worked on it (and indeed, she is in the credits).
Is her name SHODAN, by any chance?
Sneaksie on 26/2/2013 at 13:36
I bought SS2 after playing Thief extensively, I thought that a game made by folks who worked on Thief (some of them AFAIK) can't be bad and I was right. I had K6-233 with 32Mb RAM and some silly S3 Virge video card that was capable of hardware accelerating one or two old games maybe (Thief not included). I've played TDP many times in software mode, but SS2 required 3D acceleration. I bought the Ati Rage Pro video card with whopping 8Mb of video memory (Voodoo's were too expensive for me these times) and the game finally started. However load times were horrible with just 32Mb of system memory and sometimes the game crashed. I managed to beat it several times in spite of these technical difficulties and when I got hold of additional 32Mb RAM it worked like a dream (compared to earlier endless swapping) :cool:
