RE: [GD-General] IncrediBuild

[Grills, J. <jg...@so...>]

Well, I think my argument still holds.  If you have programmers working on
high end machines, and recommended machine specs are lower, I don't think
the game usually ends up running well on the recommended machine.  Put
programmers (and all team members) on the machines that you want the game to
run well on, whether that's the minimum or recommended, or something in
between.

And I in general agree that, the high end at the start of a project can be a
good target machine when the game ships.

j

-----Original Message-----
From: Nicolas Romantzoff [mailto:nic...@fr...]
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:59 AM
To: gam...@li...
Subject: RE: [GD-General] IncrediBuild


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are by definition already outdated when coming out).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-----
> From: gam...@li... 
> [mailto:gam...@li...] On 
> Behalf Of Grills, Jeff
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 5:37 PM
> To: 'gam...@li...'
> Subject: RE: [GD-General] IncrediBuild
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
>