Farbourne
Rear Admiral
Does the Standoff team (or anyone else for that matter) have a list of "hardware requirements and recommendations" for running Standoff, like actual store-bought games generally do?
The background is this: I've been playing Standoff Eps 1-4 (and doing all my other computing for the last five years, for that matter) on a 7+ year old laptop. Standoff usually ran just fine, even with everything I could turn on turned on, but the old girl (my laptop) just had her CD drive break, half of her 1GB of RAM die on me, and I don't trust the hard drive to live much longer. Plus, I don't imagine that all the beautiful new bells and whistles that the Standoff folks packed into Ep 5 (and back) will work on my tired old laptop with it's outdated laptop video card (I can't even get updated drivers for it anymore!), or look very nice even if I can get them to work. So I'm going to invest in a new computer very soon.
But it's been about 8 years since I last bought a computer or payed attention to computer capabilites or statistics, and I'm sure a lot has changed since 2002. This new home computer is probably going to be a relatively bare bones system (used primarily for family web browsing, e-mail, ripping CD's, etc), and of course playing old DOS and Win95/98 games I've grown up loving. It will NOT be a high performance gaming platform. But if I can invest a few extra dollars here or there to make Standoff Ep 5 look good, I'm willing to do so (knowing I'm buying a new system soon, I've actually been waiting to play Ep 5 until I get my new system).
Anyone have any suggestions? For Standoff specifically (i.e. "avoid such and such a graphics card", or "this chipset works really good with Standoff") or for just computer buying in general (I know there are a ton of knowledgable folks here who love to give advice).
Thanks in advance!
The background is this: I've been playing Standoff Eps 1-4 (and doing all my other computing for the last five years, for that matter) on a 7+ year old laptop. Standoff usually ran just fine, even with everything I could turn on turned on, but the old girl (my laptop) just had her CD drive break, half of her 1GB of RAM die on me, and I don't trust the hard drive to live much longer. Plus, I don't imagine that all the beautiful new bells and whistles that the Standoff folks packed into Ep 5 (and back) will work on my tired old laptop with it's outdated laptop video card (I can't even get updated drivers for it anymore!), or look very nice even if I can get them to work. So I'm going to invest in a new computer very soon.
But it's been about 8 years since I last bought a computer or payed attention to computer capabilites or statistics, and I'm sure a lot has changed since 2002. This new home computer is probably going to be a relatively bare bones system (used primarily for family web browsing, e-mail, ripping CD's, etc), and of course playing old DOS and Win95/98 games I've grown up loving. It will NOT be a high performance gaming platform. But if I can invest a few extra dollars here or there to make Standoff Ep 5 look good, I'm willing to do so (knowing I'm buying a new system soon, I've actually been waiting to play Ep 5 until I get my new system).
Anyone have any suggestions? For Standoff specifically (i.e. "avoid such and such a graphics card", or "this chipset works really good with Standoff") or for just computer buying in general (I know there are a ton of knowledgable folks here who love to give advice).
Thanks in advance!