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jfkberdan

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8mb videocard?...
« on: November 16, 2010, 07:21:25 am »
Will Dwarf Fortress run on a 8mb videocard?... I still haven't bought a videocard but my computer is good...
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« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2010, 07:41:07 am »
Video cards aren't so important as far as I know.
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« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2010, 07:45:13 am »
Video card does matter with the OpenGL (SDL) DF.
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Re: 8mb videocard?...
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2010, 07:46:33 am »
So it will work?...
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« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2010, 08:32:06 am »
Try and find out. Try both the SDL and Legacy versions.
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Re: 8mb videocard?...
« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2010, 02:21:20 pm »
I'd question how good your computer is if it has 8MB graphics...

That hasn't even been low-end for a fair few years.
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« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2010, 03:09:23 pm »
Even my old Win98 machine had a 64MB video card. How old is your computer?
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Re: 8mb videocard?...
« Reply #7 on: November 16, 2010, 03:25:14 pm »
Unless you stuck that ancient vidcard in a modern machine just for the lulz, your computer is going to shrivel up and die before the massive RAM and CPU requirements of DF.
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« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2010, 04:48:10 pm »
Quote from: G-Flex on November 16, 2010, 03:09:23 pm
Even my old Win98 machine had a 64MB video card. How old is your computer?
I've seen an old XP machine with a SiS integrated graphics chip that was at most 8MB. I gave it a pci graphics card (no agp slot, just solder marks).

Wouldn't have described the computer as good enough to run DF...
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Quote from: Sphalerite on September 23, 2010, 08:56:03 pm
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Re: 8mb videocard?...
« Reply #9 on: November 16, 2010, 06:04:16 pm »
Huh, that's funny... I just built a quad-quad-opteron system for work that had a 16MB videocard...

Must be old and crappy, huh?
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« Reply #10 on: November 16, 2010, 06:40:34 pm »
Quote from: janglur on November 16, 2010, 06:04:16 pm
Huh, that's funny... I just built a quad-quad-opteron system for work that had a 16MB videocard...

Must be old and crappy, huh?
Old? Yes. Crappy? Yes.
Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_card#Video_memory
The memory capacity of most modern video cards ranges from 128 MB to 4 GB.
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Re: 8mb videocard?...
« Reply #11 on: November 16, 2010, 06:52:39 pm »
Quote from: Tarran on November 16, 2010, 06:40:34 pm
Quote from: janglur on November 16, 2010, 06:04:16 pm
Huh, that's funny... I just built a quad-quad-opteron system for work that had a 16MB videocard...

Must be old and crappy, huh?
Old? Yes. Crappy? Yes.
Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_card#Video_memory
The memory capacity of most modern video cards ranges from 128 MB to 4 GB.
spoilers: quad-quad-opteron actually refers to a AMD's line of modern server 'computer' :P

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The most-recently released Opteron CPUs are the 8- and 12-core Socket G34 Opterons, code-named "Magny-Cours.".

In his case, he built a server system with two quadcores, so it's by no means old and weak, just no graphics capabilities like an actual server.
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« Reply #12 on: November 16, 2010, 06:53:24 pm »
A 16-core system with a 16 meg card/onboard is a server setup, not likely to be anyone's desktop. Anyone asking the question "is an 8 mb vidcard enough to run DF" almost certainly doesn't have one of those.

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« Reply #13 on: November 17, 2010, 08:36:19 am »
Quote from: janglur on November 16, 2010, 06:04:16 pm
Huh, that's funny... I just built a quad-quad-opteron system for work that had a 16MB videocard...

Must be old and crappy, huh?
Something like this I'd guess: http://www.tyan.com/product_SKU_spec.aspx?ProductType=MB&pid=638&SKU=600000075
Looks nice.

Still, I bet you haven't tried to run DF on it :P
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Quote from: Count Dorku on November 25, 2009, 04:00:47 am
Dwarven blood types are not A, B, AB, O but Ale, Wine, Beer, Rum, Whisky and so forth.
Quote from: Sphalerite on September 23, 2010, 08:56:03 pm
It's not an embark so much as seven dwarves having a simultaneous strange mood and going off to build an artifact fortress that menaces with spikes of awesome and hanging rings of death.

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Re: 8mb videocard?...
« Reply #14 on: November 17, 2010, 02:54:27 pm »
Quote from: Thief^ on November 17, 2010, 08:36:19 am
Quote from: janglur on November 16, 2010, 06:04:16 pm
Huh, that's funny... I just built a quad-quad-opteron system for work that had a 16MB videocard...

Must be old and crappy, huh?
Something like this I'd guess: http://www.tyan.com/product_SKU_spec.aspx?ProductType=MB&pid=638&SKU=600000075
Looks nice.

Still, I bet you haven't tried to run DF on it :P


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