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bananaking21 on 29 January 2013
cuberandgamer said:
PC's have a million tasks running in the back round. consoles don't.


that just aids his arguement even more, console ram is different from pc ram



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Scisca on 29 January 2013

BS!

There is no way in hell that Hexen requires 256 MB RAM. 16 MB would probably make the animation very fast and it would be crazy with 32 MB. Hexen II required a Pentium 90 MHz and 16 MB RAM. Same with Destruction Derby, that was a DOS game, dude! 256 MB under DOS? You nuts!? I'm sure RE2 also had lower requirements as well, since pretty much every PSX port required a Pentium 60-90 with 16-32 MB RAM.
So while the point stands, these games required nowhere near 256 MB RAM.



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Player2 on 29 January 2013
Barozi said:

Eh where did you get that from ?

Only checked RE2 so far but that needed a minimum of 24MB and the recommended amount was 128MB.
Also it's obvious that the PC also has Windows and several other things running in the background. Furthermore RAM from the past is much slower than today's.

Maybe Resident Evil 2 + Destruction Derby + Hexen = 256 MB RAM recommended.

Yeah, I'm trying really hard to find some logic here.



Cougarman on 29 January 2013

after googling for resident evil i found the system requirments, it requires a paltry 2MB Vram and 4MB Vram recommended, PS3 has 100 times more Vram than that, very bad comparison.

Resident evil 2

Minimum Specification
Windows 95/98
Pentium 166 MHz
4X CD ROM
24 Mb RAM
2 Mb DirectX 6 compatible graphics card
DirectX 6 compatible sound card

Recommended Specification
Windows 95/98
Pentium 200 MHz, 133 MHz or higher with 3D accelerator card
8X CD ROM
32 Mb RAM
4 Mb DirectX 6 compatible 3D accelerator card *(see below)
DirectX 6 compatible sound card
450 Mb free harddisk space for game data plus 100Mb for swap file
DirectInput 6 compatible joypad highly recommended



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thranx on 29 January 2013

here are games and screenshots of pc games that require 256 mb of video ram. Is that whats being compared?

http://www.gamerslove.com/free/games-256mb-video-graphic-card/



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crissindahouse on 29 January 2013

not sure how you can think your comparison makes sense but even if the requirements would be like you say (i highly doubt that), you forgot that those games run on machines with much worse graphical capabilities. it's not as if those pcs had the same tech the ps3 has.

don't you believe the rest of the ps3 tech also helped to let the games look as good as they do and not only console optimization? or vice versa, if the pcs would have had ps3 tech back then, don't you think the games would look better?



Gilgamesh on 29 January 2013

Well my source was complete bs...

Thanks for the link Thranx



NiKKoM on 29 January 2013

I played those pc games on my pentium 2 333 mhz with 32mb of ram... the secret was the voodoo 2 3dfx card.. But i was the only one with the 12mb version in the neigbourhood.. We all owned voodoo 2 cards back then.. Thank you for taking me back in time..

*high five for other voodoo 2 owners*

 

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JoeTheBro on 29 January 2013

Nice thread. I can see you purposely exaggerated to make your point ;)



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ultima on 29 January 2013

Well... I'll say first that I've seen all those games in action, and they look top notch. As good as it gets on consoles.
But I'm seriously sick of these... Even VRAM is different now? Really people? Jesus Christ...