SEV: What am I REALY getting for my money?

capnq · #1 August 15th, 2006, 02:55 PM

Everyone who's worried about whether SEV will be worth the money seems to be assuming that there won't be a demo available to check the game out before they buy it. I do not understand this mindset. People who are confident in the game can preorder it; people who aren't can wait for more info. Why waste time worrying over this before anything concrete is available to base the decision on?

Disclaimer: I don't expect to buy SEV immediately because I don't expect it will run on my current aging hardware; in fact, I want to see SEV's system requirements before I start shopping for a new machine.

Ed Kolis · #2 August 15th, 2006, 06:03 PM

From Malfador:
Pentium 500 MHz or better class machine
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
128MB RAM
1024x768 or better screen resolution
16bit color or better color depth
500 megs hard drive space
A video card with 3D acceleration
DirectX 8.1 or higher
A sound card capable of supporting MP3 and DirectSound playback. Sound card must be DirectX 8.1 (or better) compatible.

Assuming these specs are accurate, you really won't need much to play this game - perhaps you could even slap a video card in your old machine!

Kana · #3 August 15th, 2006, 06:11 PM

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Ed Kolis said:
From Malfador:
Pentium 500 MHz or better class machine
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
128MB RAM
1024x768 or better screen resolution
16bit color or better color depth
500 megs hard drive space
A video card with 3D acceleration
DirectX 8.1 or higher
A sound card capable of supporting MP3 and DirectSound playback. Sound card must be DirectX 8.1 (or better) compatible.

Assuming these specs are accurate, you really won't need much to play this game - perhaps you could even slap a video card in your old machine!

Are these the minimum, or recommended requirements? If we have a much more robust machine, will that allow us to run battles with higher poly models? Or is the poly count in relation to the game engine, not machine specs?

Raapys · #4 August 15th, 2006, 06:27 PM

I'm wondering if the Simultaneus Movement game type works the same way as it does in SEIV, i.e. all battles have to be auto-calculated?

Playing single-player I've found that I by far prefer the Simultaneus type of play, but it's a rather big sacrifice to have to cede control of all battles. A MoO3 type system would have been awesome in single-player.

capnq · #5 August 16th, 2006, 04:04 PM

Thanks for the info, Ed. I must have already seen that listing, because some of the items on my list are worded exactly the way they are there.

Can't just add a video card; I need to more than double my current CPU speed.

Phoenix-D · #6 August 16th, 2006, 04:58 PM

Double your CPU speed? Wow. You have a knack for keeping old computers running, apparently.

(seriously I have one sitting here I got for free that would play SE5..work was giving them away as too old).

rdouglass · #7 August 16th, 2006, 05:26 PM

I'll throw my $.02 in...

If I play SEV 1/100th as much as I played SEIV, it will still only cost me less than $.001 / hour so I think that's one of the best deals out there for my entertainment dollar. I have never played a game as many times as I have SEIV and with as many mods/options/game variations.

As someone mentioned earlier about renting Arron's brain...we'll $50 is a pretty good deal IMO.

TurinTurambar · #8 August 18th, 2006, 02:27 AM

I just read this whole thread front to back...

There's 10 minutes of my life I'll never get back.

narf poit chez BOOM · #9 August 18th, 2006, 02:39 AM

...That's why I didn't read (Most of) it.