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[Bill Bisco]

Hi all,

 

I'm thinking of getting a laptop to supplement my main computer when guests arrive so that we can play a BG2 MegaMod game.

 

BG2 is an old game with old specs, but a MegaInstall game presumably taxes the system more.

 

Any thoughts on the minimum specs for a playable multiplayer BG2 MegaMod game?  My thought is to get as cheap a laptop as possible without suffering lag.

 

 

[Lollorian]

Atleast 4GB RAM, 100GB disk space and a CPU with the highest clock speed possible - number of cores don't matter for BG2

[Bill Bisco]

Correct. Fast 1 core speed, but how little is good enough.

[The Imp]

Correct. Fast 1 core speed, but how little is good enough.

Well, really, anything made within the last 5 years should do... even your phone might be enough(if it was done in the last year).
And the 100 GB is way over... unless the Operation System consumes ~50% of that space.

[Lollorian]

I guess 2GHz is good enough for a game that was made for 500MHz systems

 

@Jarno: My BWP workspace clocks at a cool 35GB so yeah... 100GB might be overkill but come the fuck on, can you even buy disks smaller than that these days?

[The Imp]

for a game that was made for 500MHz systems

There's like 2 times too many hertzes there, cause if you look at the BGConfig,exe's settings, you'll notice the low limit being 200 MHz's, not 500... yeah, I am totally screwing with you, but still, I am telling the actual truth.
@Lollorian... not with a SATA port no, but a USB port, yeah.   

Edited by The Imp, 03 September 2015 - 08:05 AM.

[Lollorian]

I think EricP wants minimum specs, not below min specs

 

Spoiler

 

Edited by Lollorian, 03 September 2015 - 08:03 AM.

[Tash]

BG2 is an old game with old specs, but a MegaInstall game presumably taxes the system more. (...)

 

That's true. All these system requirements assume that you play the game as conceived by the designers.

 

I still use a single-core CPU on my legacy rig (it's a 2.2Ghz Athlon) and I can't play Stratagems. Great mod but those bloat-scripts are simply too much for my system.

[The Imp]

I still use a single-core CPU on my legacy rig (it's a 2.2Ghz Athlon) and I can't play Stratagems. Great mod but those bloat-scripts are simply too much for my system.

Did you Gen Biff the game ? Or how large was your Override folder ?
The script being ran 15 time per second, and being ~1 to 2 MB's total, becomes quite fast a rather large amount of loaded data, especially when there's more than one monster running those 5 files at the same time....

Edited by The Imp, 03 September 2015 - 11:45 AM.