the OMFG COMP SPECS thread

[scar3crow]

Now if I remember correctly... DarkPlaces does have a Mac build these days.

I know knghtbrd who worked with LordHavoc on Twilight is a Mac user and helped him with some stuff.

[5AB0TAG3]

If I recall, Napoleon was on a Mac, but I haven't seen him in a while...

Most Mac Quakers already have Mac Quake installed, and since there are no updates, I guess it explains the low downloads...

Now what would be friggin awesome: JoeQuake for Mac OS X !!

[Baker]

Not too many Mac Quakers left

As far as I can tell, it's you, Ronin -- who dropped in a couple of weeks ago and JohnXMas. The Mac Quake downloads here have only been used 11 times grand total so far.

I had hoped it would be more than that, even most of the QuakeC source codes have been downloaded with greater frequency.

I might get a Mac Mini later this year or early next year and see if I can make more things for Mac users (I have some ideas for some slight modifications to the Intel/Power PC OS/X GL Quake).

[5AB0TAG3]

Mac Quaker in the house !!!

At home I work and play on a Apple Powerbook 15" running Tiger



G4 processor at 867mhz
1 GB RAM
40GB HD (shucks!) + 80GB external + 120GB external
DVD 8x RW/CD 48x RW
ATI whatever 32MB (vomit bag, please)

It's a nice machine but it's getting old...

At work I use a Apple Powermac G5 running Tiger (OS X 10.4)



Dual G5 2.3Ghz
2 GB RAM
250GB Serial ATA; 7200 rpm
DVD 16x RW/CD 52x RW
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 with 256MB of GDDR SDRAM

That feels much better.

[foq]

Advise for people who killed antivirus/firewall:
1. Windows Firewall
2. Router Firewall
3. Spybot S&D
4. Ad-aware
5. Weekly scans
6. Bit defender.
xD

[foq]

Yeah, I hope it's just a memory leak issue. My system tray is KLEEN bish. Just sound and the time!!
(does time take up memory? *disables that*)

[Solecord]

You got 1.5 gigs of ram though. I'd like to see you run Photoshop CS, Bryce 5 and some high end game on 512 megs of ram. It takes a good minute and a half for America's Army to load for me when I have Homesite+ and Winamp open at the same time.... AA is a memory hog...

[Phenom]

Ya I can still do that no problem

[foq]

We aret talking about running Quake with things in the system tray. We are talking about running new games with stuff in the ststem tray.

[Phenom]

The typical background software that runs while I play quake is usually

FireFox Bwoser (with a few open tabs)x2
Adobe CS2 9.0 (With few pics open)
Search & Destroy
Deamon Tools
PeerGuardian
MSN Messenger
Azeures torrent manager
WMP 10 (Just idling because I can.)
Telnet session to my Bomber server
WST_FTP connected to Bomber server, Killingpixels.com, SNS site & Bomber site
Conquer Online (Sometimes)
Couple RAR files
Fruityloops (Sometimes)
Bryce 5.5 (Simetimes)

I also run GLQuake in a window at 1280x1024 32BBP

My PC has no problem having this open and playing Quake multiplayer.
Maybe I just have a good setup, I do read reviews on hardware so I know what works and what doesn't

[tical]

my background apps when running quake

bit torrent/winamp/irc/ventrilo/aim/yahoo

pq_maxfps 350 works good for me

ohyeah my specs

amd xp+ 2400(2ghz) 1gig pc2700, nvidia fx 5600

my pc is old but it still runs quake to own all of u

[Monster]

Quake doesn't take much to run. It won't matter if there is other stuff in the background.

[Canadian*Sniper]

lol I usually have WMP or iTunes playing and have Gaim running while on Quake.

[Baker]

Blows my mind when ppl show up with IM open, torrents downloading/upload, large file download taking place or otherwise having obvious performance killers in the background.

Makes no sense to me.

Especially, if it is something like CA or Rocket Arena -- where you are gonna get owned if that is happening.

[Solecord]

Why would you want to run a high end game and other apps in the background? If you're playing a game, you shouldn't be defragging your system or playing full-screen porn or editing digital audio files... you should be playing your game and that's it. WTF is wrong with you?