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Posted November 27, 2011
Look at the screen shots for these two games and let me know if you think the listed requirements seem accurate.

http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-HGA/hamiltons-great-adventure


http://store.steampowered.com/app/104200/?snr=1_4_4__13


If I had a fresh and fully loaded paycheck right now 5 isn't a bad gamble to try and get two games to work.
Post edited November 27, 2011 by carnival73
Posted November 27, 2011
Since I saw Trine, how good it runs on my very old PC, nothing more will surprise me.
And if these specs are listed by developer so they should be ok, right?
Posted November 27, 2011
Dev specs are usually above what's needed by a bit and it's a basic adventure game(albeit 3d) so you should be fine. Also as an aside on Steam now the Geneforge 5 game set is now only 20 BUCKS!!! o.0
Posted November 27, 2011
I think Hamilton may be more intensive on a PC than BEEP.
Posted November 27, 2011
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GameRager: Also as an aside on Steam now the Geneforge 5 game set is now only 20 BUCKS!!! o.0
Geneforge 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are packaged together for $10 on Steam right now. Go buy them. NOW!
Post edited November 27, 2011 by lightnica
Posted November 27, 2011
Unless Beep is also making me breakfast and giving me a massage while running, those requirements seem a bit on the unlikely high side.
Posted November 27, 2011
system requirements are not what the game needs to run, they are the limit to what the developer's support staff wont tell you to fuck off (so long as you exceed it).

if you system meets or exceeds those specifications then the company's support reps are kinda required to make the game work on your system, but that is by no means any kind of guarantee that the game will run well on those specs ... it just means that the game wont crash when you start it.

it also isn't necessarily a declaration of what is the minimum to play the game, those companies probably have shit for a support budget and set the bar extra high so that if anything complicated come through they can just tell 'em to go to hell.
Post edited November 27, 2011 by Sogi-Ya
Posted November 27, 2011
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GameRager: Dev specs are usually above what's needed by a bit and it's a basic adventure game(albeit 3d) so you should be fine. Also as an aside on Steam now the Geneforge 5 game set is now only 20 BUCKS!!! o.0
Yup, got it a couple weeks back when it fist popped up on Steam.
Now I'm waiting for them to do the same thing with Avernum.
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Sogi-Ya: system requirements are not what the game needs to run, they are the limit to what the developer's support staff wont tell you to fuck off (so long as you exceed it).

if you system meets or exceeds those specifications then the company's support reps are kinda required to make the game work on your system, but that is by no means any kind of guarantee that the game will run well on those specs ... it just means that the game wont crash when you start it.

it also isn't necessarily a declaration of what is the minimum to play the game, those companies probably have shit for a support budget and set the bar extra high so that if anything complicated come through they can just tell 'em to go to hell.
This is kinda what I figured - minimum specs is not solid evidence that the game will not work, it's just saying that if you have anything less they're not obligated to provide support.

As well, they probably didn't have equipment any older than that to try it on.
Post edited November 27, 2011 by carnival73
Posted November 27, 2011
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Crassmaster: Unless Beep is also making me breakfast and giving me a massage while running, those requirements seem a bit on the unlikely high side.
this.
Posted November 27, 2011
I don't know about BEEP, but Hamilton mysteriously runs quite slow on my laptop, while the same laptop can run Mass Effect easily on the highest setting.
Posted November 27, 2011
The specs for Hamilton's Great Adventure and BEEP aren't excessive at all. I would say they are hard minimums, because the only thing they exclude is obsolete architectures.

The minimum requirement is for nVidia 8xxx or AMD/ATI 2xxx. Cards older than that aren't even unified shader architecture.

Also, Hamilton's is stated to be a DirectX 11 game. If it's actually DX11 only, those requirements aren't even enough: it needs to be nVidia 4xx or AMD 5xxx. And nothing less than Vista/W7 could possibly run it.

I don't know who got the idea that those requirements are unreasonable or excessive, or why anybody is whining about them here.
Post edited November 27, 2011 by cjrgreen
Posted November 27, 2011
Hamilton runs like unplayable crap on my laptop, or the demo did at least. And my laptop can run the majority of modern games fairly well.

For reference, I have a nvidia 9600GT card, 4 gb of Ram and a 3ghz dual core processor. Yeah, those minimum requirements look suspect.

No idea about the other game though.
Posted November 28, 2011
I noticed that a lot of "simple" looking games are a lot more hardware demanding than they should be (I blame lazy programming). So the requirements could be true. Best get a demo, but even those can be inaccurate. Back in the '90s demos were often running worse than the main game due to beeing released before the game was optimized.
Posted November 28, 2011
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GameRager: Dev specs are usually above what's needed by a bit and it's a basic adventure game(albeit 3d) so you should be fine. Also as an aside on Steam now the Geneforge 5 game set is now only 20 BUCKS!!! o.0
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carnival73: Yup, got it a couple weeks back when it fist popped up on Steam.
Now I'm waiting for them to do the same thing with Avernum.
Oops I meant TEN bucks(at the time I wrote that).......and yeah, avernum is good too, except maybe all the simplification they made between Avernum(Exile) 3 and 4(no arrow inventory making arrows infinite, etc).

I wish we could get the exile games on Steam even. I never finished more than half of 1 and 2 but finished number 3(with all towns saved in good condition even on the surface and a good tower of Magi ending), but I still want em. Also Blades of Exile. Blade of Avernum is ok but I like the older one more.
Posted November 28, 2011
I hate when this happens.
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