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what kind of system do u need for BG??
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2001 1:53 pm
by TheDude
as in the topic?
Windos 95/98??
ram, how much ??
how many place does it take 100/200/or more MB?
Thnx
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2001 3:40 pm
by Laurelei
System Specs (from the box)
IBM Compatible PC Pentium 166 Mhz (200 MMX recommended)
Windows 95
16MB Ram (32 recommended)
300 MB hard drive space (600 recommended)
4X CD ROM Drive (8X recommended)
2MB SVGA Video Card (4 MB Recommended for 24 and 32 bit effectis)
Keyboard
Mouse
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2001 8:44 am
by PDF
I played it with my former PC, whose specs were :
Cyrix 166 MHz (was comparable to a P150)
16 Mo RAM (perhaps I did upgrade to 32..)
2Mo Video (Matrox Mystique)
HD 2.1 Go
CD ROM 10x
Loading times were loooong (3 minutes for reading an area from CD...), gameplay was really choppy when there was much people/spells/effects, moderately choppy else...
Really it was low-end specs, but I even played TotSC on it !
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2001 10:03 am
by TheDude
thnx very much.
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2001 10:11 am
by Denethorn
So basicly if ya' computer can't run BG1 it deserves to be in a museum.
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2001 7:35 am
by spottheshark
I played it on a pentium 133 but when there were a lot of monsters on the screen I had to keep pausing combat so the screen could update.
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2001 4:50 am
by Saruman
BG 1 can be run on a very low spec machine but it does have problems with a) loading new areas, b) lots of sprites on the screen.
To minimise loading times you should be thinking about a full install. Now BG + TOSC is six on a total of 6 CD's and takes up about 3GB of harddisk space when fully installed add to that the need to have a faily large HDD cashe (200MB or, so more if you have only a small amount of RAM) and you are nearing 3.5 GB of HDD space required.
Obviously not many pentium class systems were made with 4GB+ hard disk drives so you will want abit more modern machine than a P150.
The other main problem is that when you cast summon monstor/raise undead spells you get a fair number of critters to play with. You cast these spells 2 or 3 times and most machines (even brand spanking new P4 and athlon systems) will begin to slow down considerably. A VGA card with lots of good fast memory helps as does a good processor but the key to minimising problems caused by loads of sprites on screen is large amounts of RAM. personally I can't see much point playing the game without at least 64MB of the stuff.
To Conclude I would recommemend at least a PII with 64MB ram, a 16MB VGA card and at least 3.5GB of free disk space as a sensible spec of system to run BG.
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2001 3:52 pm
by Xyx
I played it on a P166 with 48MB RAM and a 4MB video card. Worked fine for me.