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Legend of Grimrock seriesofficial minimum requirements versus reality(10 posts)(10 posts)
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Posted May 12, 2012
Minimum system requirements: OS: Windows XP Service Pack 3 Processor: Dual Core 2GHz Intel or 2.8GHz AMD Memory: 2GB Graphics: ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or better (512MB graphics memory or more. Shader Model 3.0 needs to be supported). Minimum supported resolutions 1280x720 and 1024x768. DirectX 9.0c Disk Space: 1GB
My PC has "only" single core Intel Pentium 4C HT and older ATI card X1300XT with SM3.0 but "only" 256MB of memory. So far I've played first 5 levels of dungeon with no problems. I've heard that some system could have difficulties with timed puzzles - I've already done quite a lot of them.
Post edited May 12, 2012 by Lexor
Posted May 12, 2012
When I reached one particular puzzle it was literally impossible to complete because even on the lowest possible seconds, the slight drop in framerate foiled everything, and I've got a reasonably decent system. Well, at least on paper. I occasionally see slowdown when walking around but that's usually only when my CPU is getting hot.
Posted May 12, 2012
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Musashi1596: When I reached one particular puzzle it was literally impossible to complete because even on the lowest possible seconds, the slight drop in framerate foiled everything, and I've got a reasonably decent system. Well, at least on paper. I occasionally see slowdown when walking around but that's usually only when my CPU is getting hot.
At what level that puzzle was?

I know in many cases slowdowns of PC are caused by their users by installing a lot of "useful" software. That way really modern PCs are not able to play even less demanding games.
Posted May 12, 2012
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Musashi1596: When I reached one particular puzzle it was literally impossible to complete because even on the lowest possible seconds, the slight drop in framerate foiled everything, and I've got a reasonably decent system. Well, at least on paper. I occasionally see slowdown when walking around but that's usually only when my CPU is getting hot.
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Lexor: At what level that puzzle was?

I know in many cases slowdowns of PC are caused by their users by installing a lot of "useful" software. That way really modern PCs are not able to play even less demanding games.
It was the iron door puzzle on Level 7. Not difficult when it's running properly but any lag will really screw you up.

I run Grimrock on a laptop. I have good RAM (4gb) but I think my processor and graphics card are probably average at best, and it's cooling isn't great so prolonged use tends to affect performance. Can play havoc with some games. Annoyingly inconsistent though, sometimes I can run Grimrock on high settings without a blip, others it lags horribly even on low.
Post edited May 12, 2012 by Musashi1596
Posted May 12, 2012
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Musashi1596: It was the iron door puzzle on Level 7. Not difficult when it's running properly but any lag will really screw you up.
So it is still before me. I will try to test it when it happens. :)
Posted May 14, 2012
I've found the way to check actual number of FPS in game. If you want to see it you need to change an option in grimrock.cfg from debugInfo = false to debugInfo = true. On my PC I have ~30fps in "normal" corridor and ~18fps in Maze of Madness (bigger area with lots of teleports)
Posted June 22, 2012
will it work with a Nivida geforce 6150SE nforce 430?
Posted July 05, 2012
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Lexor: At what level that puzzle was?

I know in many cases slowdowns of PC are caused by their users by installing a lot of "useful" software. That way really modern PCs are not able to play even less demanding games.
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Musashi1596: It was the iron door puzzle on Level 7. Not difficult when it's running properly but any lag will really screw you up.

I run Grimrock on a laptop. I have good RAM (4gb) but I think my processor and graphics card are probably average at best, and it's cooling isn't great so prolonged use tends to affect performance. Can play havoc with some games. Annoyingly inconsistent though, sometimes I can run Grimrock on high settings without a blip, others it lags horribly even on low.
click on the battery icon in bottom right of desktop and set your laptop to high performance; try to keep it cool also

when playing with laptops if they overheat they can lower performance to try save themselves from blowing up; make sure proper ventilation etc
Posted July 06, 2012
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Musashi1596: It was the iron door puzzle on Level 7. Not difficult when it's running properly but any lag will really screw you up.

I run Grimrock on a laptop. I have good RAM (4gb) but I think my processor and graphics card are probably average at best, and it's cooling isn't great so prolonged use tends to affect performance. Can play havoc with some games. Annoyingly inconsistent though, sometimes I can run Grimrock on high settings without a blip, others it lags horribly even on low.
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SweatyGremlins: click on the battery icon in bottom right of desktop and set your laptop to high performance; try to keep it cool also

when playing with laptops if they overheat they can lower performance to try save themselves from blowing up; make sure proper ventilation etc
Alas, I both set it to high performance and keep the laptop elevated so that the fan is completely unobstructed but a minor CPU meltdown still occurs after protracted use. Should really invest in a USB cooler.
Posted July 06, 2012
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SweatyGremlins: click on the battery icon in bottom right of desktop and set your laptop to high performance; try to keep it cool also

when playing with laptops if they overheat they can lower performance to try save themselves from blowing up; make sure proper ventilation etc
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Musashi1596: Alas, I both set it to high performance and keep the laptop elevated so that the fan is completely unobstructed but a minor CPU meltdown still occurs after protracted use. Should really invest in a USB cooler.
hmm yeah it's hard to keep laptops cool, a trick that can work is to set the CPU to 80%; when watching movies this prevents the laptop from heating up too much for me, dunno if it helps with gaming though

the biggest drag on GPU will be Ambient Occlusion I think, you can turn that off and not lose any picture detail, it gives your card a big breather
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