mvBarracuda
Vault Dweller
Hopefully this is the right place for such a survey; I'm sorry if it turns out to be the wrong forums. Please move it if you think that this shouldn't belong into "General discussion".
As you might know the "FIFE"-team (http://www.fifengine.de) is working on an alternative Fallout-like engine with better mod support and features. ATM we're working on a prototype of the engine and want to know what kind of hardware components the target audience uses.
We've created two renderers and it turns out that the OpenGL renderer is quite fast and can support advanced features like alphablending (see here: http://screens.fifengine.de/prototype1_006.jpg) without losing many fps. The software renderer is quite slow and support for alphablending would probably totally kill the performance.
So we think about concentrating at the OpenGL version and just use the software renderer as a fallback solution. But we need to know if the "common Fallout fan" has a modern graphics card that supports OpenGL or if a fair amount does still work with older hardware. As were supporting Linux, Windows, Mac now its important if the gfx card drivers for you OS does support OpenGL as there are some proprietary linux drivers that do support it but other free ones don't do so.
This survey is just for the people who want to give an alternative Fallout-like engine a try. If you think you won't use FIFE, please do not reply here as it would distort the result of our real target audience. We've created a small template; the more people reply, the better we can estimate the hardware configuration of the common Fallout fan and can take the right decisions for our project.
[TEMPLATE]
OS -> WinXP SP1
CPU -> AMD Athlon 64 3000+ @ 2000 mHz
RAM -> 1024MB DDR1
GFX Card -> Nvidia GeForce FX 5900
Does your gfx card support OpenGL -> YES
Does your gfx card driver support OpenGL -> YES (mostly relevant to linux users)
[/TEMPLATE]
As you might know the "FIFE"-team (http://www.fifengine.de) is working on an alternative Fallout-like engine with better mod support and features. ATM we're working on a prototype of the engine and want to know what kind of hardware components the target audience uses.
We've created two renderers and it turns out that the OpenGL renderer is quite fast and can support advanced features like alphablending (see here: http://screens.fifengine.de/prototype1_006.jpg) without losing many fps. The software renderer is quite slow and support for alphablending would probably totally kill the performance.
So we think about concentrating at the OpenGL version and just use the software renderer as a fallback solution. But we need to know if the "common Fallout fan" has a modern graphics card that supports OpenGL or if a fair amount does still work with older hardware. As were supporting Linux, Windows, Mac now its important if the gfx card drivers for you OS does support OpenGL as there are some proprietary linux drivers that do support it but other free ones don't do so.
This survey is just for the people who want to give an alternative Fallout-like engine a try. If you think you won't use FIFE, please do not reply here as it would distort the result of our real target audience. We've created a small template; the more people reply, the better we can estimate the hardware configuration of the common Fallout fan and can take the right decisions for our project.
[TEMPLATE]
OS -> WinXP SP1
CPU -> AMD Athlon 64 3000+ @ 2000 mHz
RAM -> 1024MB DDR1
GFX Card -> Nvidia GeForce FX 5900
Does your gfx card support OpenGL -> YES
Does your gfx card driver support OpenGL -> YES (mostly relevant to linux users)
[/TEMPLATE]
