Can I play allegiance?

Kokordilos · Post by **Kokordilos** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:23 pm

AMD Semppron 2800+
768MB Ram
32MB ONBOARD video

Its the onboard video I'm worried about.

Terralthra · Post by **Terralthra** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:28 pm

That'll do fine.

Post by **BlackViper** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:10 pm

Once you are in game, go to "ESC, game settings"

Turn off alot of the background graphics. You don't need most of them.

Rakinite · Post by **Rakinite** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:43 pm

How can you not? If your onboard card has 3D acceleration, it should do fine.
Seriously though, I would suggest getting an Nvidia GeForce 6600 or something of similar quality, wouldn't make too much of a dent in your funds(I suppose)...

Make sure to go to www.alleg-academy.org and read the crash course, and join the next session of CDT.

guitarism · Post by **guitarism** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:04 pm

once again rakinite has no clue....

This game is what, 6 years old now? I think my old pentium1 could play this....

mcwarren4 · Post by **mcwarren4** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:45 pm

I've played with a computer I bought back in 1995. I have no idea what the specs on it was but it was just your basic desktop that a student could afford. It ran Allegiance flawlessly if you lowered the sound quality a bit and turned off the non-essential graphics.

Post by **Tigereye** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:46 pm

Guitarism - rakinite has lots of clue. Every piece of advice he gave was sound - including the suggestion of purchasing a dedicated video card.

Get off your arrogant high horse and offer the new player some tips on how to beat the steep learning curve like Rakinite does.
Stop berrating people who try to help others. It's people like you who stifle this community.

--TE

guitarism · Post by **guitarism** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:09 pm

I stifle the community by telling the new guy that he doesn't need to go out and but a new pieve of hardware. Tiger, maybe you need to look at everything you say sometimes...

Patman3 · Post by **Patman3** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:21 pm

Geetawr just needs a hug! I loved my flying guitars yesterday, we all love flying guitars!

Flower · Post by **Flower** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:22 pm

I agree with Tigereye regarding the Guitarism Rakinite Situation.

I have a System which would have been almost overkill for original Allegiance yet in the current build I do experience heavy (CPU-related) slowdown if the sector contains many on-screen objects.

Celeron Coppermine 128@800MHz
512mb Ram
Radeon 9250 (DX 8.1 support)
Creative SBLive! (Emu10k1 based soundcard)
WinXP Professional SP2
120Gb HD, UDMA5, 25% free, defragemented once every two weeks

For original Allegiance these specs were more than enough. I assume though that building against a new compiler (and mayhap usage of WinXP and ASGS using C#/.net) raised the system requirements quite drastically.

Before using the Radeon 9250 I used a Radeon 7000 (DX 6 support).
I was advised that an GPU upgrade would most likely increase performance.
Well it did not. My slow Allegiance performance seems to be solely CPU dependent.

Judging from my current min. framerate, processor architecture and clockspeed I would conclude that you would need a P4 based Celeron (or equivalent Sempron) clocked at 1.5 GHz to play Allegiance competetively.

Seeing that you have a Sempron2800 (clocked at about 2Ghz I guess) you should have no problems at all.

Be sure to pay heed to possible Sound-related stuttering though. As you use integrated graphics it is most likely that you use some Realtek on-mobo codec to produce sound. These are known to cause trouble with Alleg :-)