Thread: [Pipmak-Users] minimum requirements?

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Hi people. 
I would like to know what are the hardware requirements needed to run Pipmak.
thanks

Mix

MixMondo wrote:
> I would like to know what are the hardware requirements needed to run Pipmak.

Hard to tell. Why don't you just try it?

It should run on just about any PC or Mac hardware in use today (it does 
on Mac OS X on my 266 MHz Powerbook from 1998 and on Windows 98 in 
Qemu), but to achieve usable frame rates, you need hardware OpenGL 
rendering (i.e. a 3D graphics card) and at least 16 MB of video memory 
(rough estimate).

What OS (and what kind of hardware) do you have in mind, anyway?

  -Christian

Christian:
Thank you for your kind (and rapid) answer.
My conditions are a little extreme :oP.
I run a P 200mhz mmx, enhanced with a voodoo2 and only 32mb of RAM.
I will try to run it and report the catast... eerr... the results.

i know, i know... it's all under my responsability.

Thanks again and keep it up.

Mix.

MixMondo wrote:
> I run a P 200mhz mmx,

That's probably not far from what I get in Qemu on my 867 MHz PPC G4...

> enhanced with a voodoo2

Do you know if you have hardware OpenGL rendering with that card?

> and only 32mb of RAM.

That's a bit on the low side. Pipmak currently reserves 20 MB for 
caching images (you could change that value, though, if you compile from 
source), and that isn't of much use if it ends up being done on the hard 
drive. However, I just tried it with 32 MB in Qemu (on Windows 98), and 
it went remarkably well - everything in the demo worked. Node loading 
took around 20 seconds, and with interpolation disabled (which also 
seems to disable perspective correction - looks freaky), I got about 1-2 
FPS in 640x480 - and that's with software rendering.

> I will try to run it and report the catast... eerr... the results.

Yes, please do - I'm interested!

  -Christian

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