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Posted November 28, 2009
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michaelleung: Oh come on, Dosbox isn't THAT demanding.

I found that DOSbox required well over 1GB RAM to adequately run Syndicate. The original barely needed any RAM at all. Probably close to a 500th of what it requires when emulated.
Posted November 28, 2009
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michaelleung: Oh come on, Dosbox isn't THAT demanding.
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Navagon: I found that DOSbox required well over 1GB RAM to adequately run Syndicate. The original barely needed any RAM at all. Probably close to a 500th of what it requires when emulated.

I find that to be a fault of your computer. I have not had any problems running Dosbox games on my somewhat crappy 1.5 Ghz laptop with 512 MB RAM. That much.
Posted November 28, 2009
Dosbox needs a good processor a lot more than it needs loads of RAM.
Post edited November 28, 2009 by stonebro
Posted November 28, 2009
Eh? I've never known that as an issue. Sure they do need more than the original game and whatever is needed to run the OS but I've not really felt the need for much overhead
Posted November 28, 2009
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michaelleung: I find that to be a fault of your computer. I have not had any problems running Dosbox games on my somewhat crappy 1.5 Ghz laptop with 512 MB RAM. That much.

Not every game. But that one was certainly a sign that some games need over a hundred times their original requirements.
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stonebro: Dosbox needs a good processor a lot more than it needs loads of RAM.

True, in a way. But DOSbox isn't optimised for multiple core processors, so no CPU upgrade in the past few years would have a noticeable affect on it. So while RAM might be a secondary requirement, it's going to offer the most noticeable speed increases.
Post edited November 28, 2009 by Navagon
Posted November 28, 2009
Emulation usually means that you get a fair bit of overhead, Dosbox doesn't seem to be too bad in that regard though.
Fun fact: I can run Windows 95 inside Dosbox on my cell phone (ARM 11 369 MHz CPU, 8 MB RAM allocated to the virtual machine).
Post edited November 28, 2009 by tor
Posted November 28, 2009
What hardware does it detect? Do you have to use the generic vga device?
Posted November 28, 2009
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tor: Fun fact: I can run Windows 95 inside Dosbox on my cell phone (ARM 11 369 MHz CPU, 8 MB RAM allocated to the virtual machine).

Can you play Civ2 on it? :-D
Posted November 28, 2009
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tor: Emulation usually means that you get a fair bit of overhead, Dosbox doesn't seem to be too bad in that regard though.
Fun fact: I can run Windows 95 inside Dosbox on my cell phone (ARM 11 369 MHz CPU, 8 MB RAM allocated to the virtual machine).

But can it run Crysis?
Posted November 28, 2009
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Aliasalpha: yeah but I have a vague feeling that duke3d doesn't really need a 1.8GHz CPU or 2GB of HDD space. 18MHz & 2MB maybe...
Actually it looks more like the minimums for vista, as if to say "if you can run vista then you can run this"

It DID overheat a friend of mine's laptop though...
Posted November 28, 2009
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michaelleung: But can it run Crysis?

Of course it can't! Crysis isn't Win95 compatible ;-)
Posted November 28, 2009
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michaelleung: I'm not your brother.
Quit bitching here. If you want to write your opinions on things that don't really matter, get a blog.

Evidently you're so stupid that you don't realize that your advice applies to YOUR
comment as well. If you don't care for my opinions, don't read them you moron.
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Ralackk: The system requirements are on the game page under the information about the game right next to the large age rating picture.

Thank you for that concise and relevant answer.
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Miaghstir: You can find demos in this linked thread.
The reasons that GOG does not provide demos is that they have not been updated to work on modern systems, and the team has decided that it's not financially viable to do so. As such the demos may give the customer the view that the game does not work on their system, even if it really does work.
Also, they DO list system requirements, it just takes a slightly better eyesight than to read the rest of the text, since the contrast is a tad too low. Attached are screenshots of the game cards for Advent Rising and Duke Nukem 3D to prove my point.

I seem to recall seeing a link here on Gog that led to a Youtube "movie" demonstrating
a series of games....not exactly what I think of as a demo, but this really is essential.
I've made some poor choices here and elsewhere buying games based on reviews or screenshots, only to discover, too late, that the games are so flawed as to be unplayable.
Playable Demos are a must, in my opinion.
Post edited November 28, 2009 by bearcat33
Posted November 28, 2009
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michaelleung: I'm not your brother.
Quit bitching here. If you want to write your opinions on things that don't really matter, get a blog.
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bearcat33: Evidently you're so stupid that you don't realize that your advice applies to YOUR
comment as well. If you don't care for my opinions, don't read them you moron.

Evidently so. But I'm not the one with a prior history of being a dickbag on the forums.
Posted November 28, 2009
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Wishbone: If you're worried that your PC won't have the power to run a 10 year old game, you should have thrown it away long ago.

When you're ready to buy me a new computer, let me know.
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bearcat33: Evidently you're so stupid that you don't realize that your advice applies to YOUR
comment as well. If you don't care for my opinions, don't read them you moron.
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michaelleung: Evidently so. But I'm not the one with a prior history of being a dickbag on the forums.

Once again, you're incapable of seeing the ironic and nauseating self-referential nature of your comments. Go kill yourself, preferably in an excruciatingly painful way.
Post edited November 28, 2009 by bearcat33
Posted November 28, 2009
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Wishbone: If you're worried that your PC won't have the power to run a 10 year old game, you should have thrown it away long ago.
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bearcat33: When you're ready to buy me a new computer, let me know.
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bearcat33: Evidently you're so stupid that you don't realize that your advice applies to YOUR
comment as well. If you don't care for my opinions, don't read them you moron.
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michaelleung: Evidently so. But I'm not the one with a prior history of being a dickbag on the forums.
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michaelleung: Once again, you're incapable of seeing the ironic and nauseating self-referential nature of your comments. Go kill yourself, preferably in an excruciatingly painful way.

Awesome. Good thing I've got these bottles of bourbon and a lot of cyanide here.
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