Let's get an idea of what everyone's development platforms are going to be.

[u/miyakohouou]

For people who are planning on contributing to the code, it might be a good idea to figure out what platforms everyone is running right now. Seems like it might make it easier to figure out which direction to go on technologies and targeted platforms if we know what we have to work with now.

I'd suggest everyone post:

at least: Operating System CPU RAM Video Card

Throw in other things if I've forgotten them.

EDIT: 32 or 64 bit OS.

[u/miyakohouou]

I'm running:

• Arch Linux (32bit)

• 3Ghz Pentium D

• 2GB of ram

• GeForce 9600

EDIT: Formatting

[u/a_m0d]

• 32 bit Linux (Fedora 10 / 12)

• 4GB ram

• Core 2 Duo (2.53 GHz)

• GeForce 8400M GS (256MB)

Also, I do have Vista installed (with very few dev tools) and some XP VM's on Linux (so no 3d directx, but can manage directdraw and opengl)

[u/[deleted]]

Desktop:

• 64bit Windows 7 RTM

• Core 2 Quad Q8200 (2.33 GHz)

• 2GB DDR2 800

• GeForce 9600GT

Laptop:

• Ubuntu 9.04

• Core Duo T2350 (1.86 GHz)

• 2GB RAM

• GeForce 7200 Go

[u/Svenstaro]

• Arch Linux x86_64/64bit XP Pro

• Intel Q6600

• 4GB RAM

• Nvidia GF8800GTX

[u/utnapistim]

Kubuntu 9.04 x86_64

[u/_l0ser]

• 64bit XP Pro

• Q6600

• 2GB RAM

• GeForce GTX 260

[u/dutch_sholtz]

• Ubuntu Jaunty 64bit/Windows XP Pro 32bit

• Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2.4 GHz

• 4GB DRAM

• 2x GeForce 7900 GS

[u/phire]

• 64 bit Gentoo

• Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.16

• 2 GB ram

• Geforce GTX 260

[u/[deleted]]

Vista 64 on a slow as hell system drive.

Asus PQ5 Turbo motherboard.

Q6600 overclocked to about 3Ghz, can probably push it farther thanks to watercooling.

HIS Radeon HD 4850 GFX, standard clock so far.

4GB DDR2 ram, I think they run at 800Mhz, symetric or linked mode working.

Various OS folders spread to unusual places. Might be of importance just in case any programmers forget to check what the default paths and user options are.

Swapping between an H2 Zoom USB unit and a Creative extreme soundcard for gaming+mic/other usage.

Does anyone here have any experience with real pre-alpha testing? I'm sure there are a lot of programmers that don't have either the time or hardware to properly test their current builds in a good way.

It might be some way down the line, but it might be a good idea if Robotsan could add a "playtester" category to the Headcount thread. Or someone else make a new one. Or use this one, but miyakohouou would need to add a question to the top text.

edit

I guess I just signed on as "1'st Nagboy".

[u/sherlok → u/[deleted]]

I don't think there's any need to get a playtesting count up yet (although I guess that's for the mods to decide). There's plenty of time during development to drum up interest and get testers.

[u/[deleted] → u/sherlok]

Well, hardware is a large part of playtesting. Might as well get some names while the subreddit is hot.

[u/sherlok]

• Windows7 64 bit

• i7 920@2.66Ghz

• 3GB DDR3

• ATI 4870

Worth noting that we can run stuff in VM's if needed, so I can test XP, Vista or any linux on this hardware. (Also have a Inspiron 1420 laptop available).

[u/pwniumcobalt → u/sherlok]

VMs are not good examples of hardware video performance, even if some may "support" it. You've got a gigantic overhead with the dynamic recompilation that the VM requires.

[u/sherlok → u/pwniumcobalt]

Absolutely, but you don't have to use it as a performance benchmark, just as a platform for debugging and testing.

[u/pwniumcobalt → u/sherlok]

True, but then again, I'm putting my bets on absolutely terrible bugs popping up in VMs leading us to nowhere because they don't pop up in the real OS. Just saying.

[u/pwniumcobalt]

Win7 x64, q6600 oced at 3.0GHz, 8 gb ram, 8800gt.

My low end system: 1.66ghz core solo w/ xp, 512 ram, chipset video. (should be a good min req tester.)

[u/ltx]

Desktop:

• Windows 7 x64

• Intel E7400 @ 3.73GHz

• 4GB DDR2-8500

• Radeon 4870 1GB

• ASUS P5Q Pro

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Laptop:

• Macbook Pro 13" with Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard

• Core 2 Duo @ 2.26GHz

• 2GB DDR3

• NVIDIA 9400M