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Jericho Fraction
The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2009.01.13 23:50:00 -
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One of the appeals of EVE has always been that it runs on relatively modest hardware, compared to most modern PC games (and still looks good).
When I started playing in 2006, I used my girlfriend's P3/600 with an Geforce DDR card and a whopping 256MB RAM - didn't work well, but it was possible.
(Somehow I couldn't get it to start up in the PC/XT emulator with DOS 3.3 on the Atari ST though...)
That said, I'd assume that notebooks with GMA 9xx graphics are still quite common right now - probably even more than half a year ago, as it's part of the standard Netbook platform. So phasing out SM2.0 support too soon might not be a good idea.
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Jericho Fraction
The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2009.01.16 09:37:00 -
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On a side note, just because something supports SM3.0, that doesn't say anything about how good it is at that.
If you take Space Giraffe as an example for a game that relies heavily on shader programs - well, it runs on a notebook with ATI X1300 graphics, just at maybe 2/3rds of the normal speed.
EVE currently is not very GPU-bound, but that will change through the addition of more shader stuff, and lower end graphics hardware will fall off much more quickly than it did until now.
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Jericho Fraction
The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2009.01.17 11:51:00 -
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 Originally by: Haral Reimo
You don't *NEED* a laptop. You can build/buy a desktop for far cheaper.
That's not the point though. EVE promotes an always-available / always-on lifestyle (the 0.0 sov-holding game is probably the most prominent example for that - and on the low end, there's timely skill changes). Players who participate in that kind of madness want to be able to log in at any time.
Easiest to do if have your notebook with you.
Also I guess there's a certain amount of users who play EVE just because of the modest hardware/GPU requirements in comparison to other games, and those are hit the most by any changes in that department. From my limited experience, EVE players are often not high-end PC gamers.
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