RE: [GD-General] IncrediBuild

[Nicolas R. <nic...@fr...>]

Depends on how you working...
We, here, don't care about min. specs at all (which are usually
considered as the worst case), we only care about recommended ones..
I do think that recommended specs should be (when the game actually goes
on the shelfs) the average machine specs.

For a one year dev, it means that recommended specs are one year "ahead"
which are usually the current top specs.
For a two years dev (like ours currently) this is more tricky, like
targetting 40fps on a GeFX + Opteron, or 20fps on a
Radeon9700+Athlon2800

But that's for PCs...

Consoles are different story (I do personnaly hate consoles since they
are by definition already outdated when coming out).

Nicolas Romantzoff


> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Grills, Jeff
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 5:37 PM
> To: 'gam...@li...'
> Subject: RE: [GD-General] IncrediBuild
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> 
> Too expensive?  That's insane.  The amount of programmer time 
> it saves is immense -- it pays for itself very rapidly.  
> Besides, you don't need to upgrade programmer machines nearly 
> so often, because compile times are much faster.  In fact, on 
> the next project I lead, I'm going to push to leave all the 
> programmers on the minimum spec CPU machine, and use 
> Incredibuild to keep them working efficiently.
>