** Contest **
 

No prizes being offered, but we'd like to know what lowest-end systems people are running the Aquarium on.

Pentium 150? Pentium 133? 120?

K6-200?

What about video cards? The intel i840 and Rage Pro seem to be the lowest.

Your replies would be very helpful.

** Contestant One **
 

Not trying to spoil the idea or anything, but wouldn't it be interesting with a compilation of video card - fps - resolution - (CPU). I feel that it can be a little tough to tell if a card is "weaker" than one already listed. Also, people with low-end card sometimes tend to be less interested in their hardware (Myself running a 8MB Matrox G200 card not being the perfect example ;-) )

Anyway, A list would also serve as a pretty good guideline for those "Does my card perform up to par?"-people.

K6-2 333MHz / Matrox G200 Millennium (8MB) / 1156x864@24 fps

/Tiny

Re: ** Contestant One **
 

This is for a specific purpose, namely finding out the slowest system that still runs the Aquarium acceptably.

This is in contrast with the hundreds of posts about people's GeForce 2 and 3 "only" getting 200fps (tongue planted firmly in cheek).

Processor Information
 

Pentium Pro 200, Voodoo 3 3000, 800x600 (16-bit color), DX8a, .99L of Screen Saver, average 38-40fps.

Screen Saver works great, no problems at all.

Pentium Pro 200 Processor
 

Looks like I may have won this contest!

It must be time to retire my old trusty and loyal computer and turn it into a doorstop :(

Re: ** Contest **
 

I have two computers...main one has Althlon 650, Voodoo 3 3000 the smaller one has K62 400, Trident 3D 4 mb video card, runs fine on both...both have Win98SE

Re: ** Contest **
 

Celeron 366
64 mg RAM
RagePro w/4mg

SS runs 28 fps with all fish on, 36 fps with only 2 fish. Even at these "slow" speeds it looks great to me! Can't wait to see it on my next faster machine!

Re: ** Contest **
 

It works fine here k6 450 mhz 8 mb s3 savage...installed the demo on 2 friends computers (read boat anchors..more so than mine)
one had a pissy 2 mb video...no go there !!!!
the other had a 650 mhz 4 mb video..freeze frame...yeah haa!
showed them it working on mine , and have convinced them
its time to upgrade
keep up the good work jim...whens the insect saver coming ??
p.s. put in a praying mantis (scaring the other bugs,or capturing them...heh heh )

Re: ** Contest **
 

My second computer (AMD K6 3D Processor 350MHz) has a 4MB S3 Trio3D card in it. With all fish on, it gets ~15 fps at 640x480 resolution. It runs fine, except that it freezes if you try to put it in wireframe mode, and there’s a spot on the top of the Purple Tang (looks like the skin of other fish).

Re: ** Contest **
 

PII-400 with 128mb RAM
Matrox G200
Runs 1152x864 @ 25 fps with all fish

** Contest **
 

I'm running a Pentium 233 with a Voodoo3 2000PCI
with 80 megs of ram!

I get around 35-40FPS at 800X600 and the screensaver runs great!

Hrmm..not sure I want to really win this contest.

Time to upgrade you think!?

SubZ

** Contest WINNER?**
 

you may need to define running...
one or my machines is a pentium 200MMX 128ram directX 8 ATImach64 RagePROturbo 8M
running version 99l beta 4 fish,no bubbles, @1024x768 i get 16-17 fps
it may sound slow, but the effect is quite good.

(fyi, all fish, bubbles and sound on i get 10-12 fps, this is jerky)

my pIII 750M runs the fish too quick?
but then i've never seen real marine fish.
regards,
GaRy:o)

you best friend!

Re: ** Contest WINNER?**
 

An ATI Rage Pro will run Direct3D at 1024x768? wow

How does it do at 800x600?

Re: ** Contest WINNER?**
 

14-16fps @800x600x16 direct3d hal
just in case i gave you some duff info, here is the directx diag output

regards again,

GaRy )

------------------
System Information
------------------
Time of this report: 9/15/2001, 19:41:33
Machine name: Erikthecat
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 98 (4.10, Build 2222) A
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer:
System Model:
BIOS:
Processor: Intel Pentium, MMX, ~200MHz
Memory: 128MB RAM
Page File: 109MB used, 349MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 8.0 (4.08.00.0400)
DX Setup Parameters: /PackageInstall
DxDiag Version: 4.08.00.0400---------------
Display Devices
---------------
Card name: Pivot Enabled (TM) RAGE PRO TURBO PCI (English)
Manufacturer: ATI Tech. - Enhanced
Chip type: Mach64: RagePro Rev
DAC type: Internal
Device ID: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4750&SUBSYS_47501002&REV_5C\BUS_00&DEV_09&FUNC_00
Display Memory: 8.0 MB
Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (16 bit)(85Hz)
Monitor: SNICB0B
Monitor Max Res: 1912,1072
Driver Name: wpplug.drv
Driver Version: ()
DDI Version: 6
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: , 0 bytes
Driver Certified: No
WHQL Date Stamp: None
VDD: *vdd,*vflatd
Mini VDD: macxw4.vxd
Mini VDD Date: , 0 bytes
Device Identifier: {D7B71EE2-0410-11CF-1B60-5167F8C2C935}
Vendor ID: 0x1002
Device ID: 0x4750
SubSys ID: 0x47501002
Revision ID: 0x005C
Registry: OK
DDraw Status: Enabled
D3D Status: Enabled
AGP Status: Not Available
DDraw Test Result:
D3D Test Result:
AGP Test Result:

------------------------------------
Inactive Display Entries in Registry
------------------------------------
Card name: RAGE PRO TURBO PCI (English)
Driver: macxw4.drv
Card name: ATI 3D Rage Pro (atir3)
Driver: atir3.drv

Re: ** Contest WINNER?**
 

better info....
i stopped everything to see if it changed any of the results.
firewall-zone alarm, virus guard,internet connection, zipmagic, etc)

these 'unrealistic' result were...

800x600 14-15fps
1024x708 13-14fps

all fish, bubbles and sound on

end of chat!

GaRy )

ps do i still win?

Re: ** Contest WINNER?**
 

I will recant....actually would rather loose this one anyway!!

re: systems
 

I have an 1 GHZ PIII,DDR 32mb Radeon,384 SDram OS is Win XP......I have no problems running the fish tank...

Re: re: systems
 

How about my second work computer.

Pentium MMX 200
S3 ViRGE/DX/GX PCI with 2MB RAM
9.5 FPS at 640x480 (won't go any higher res.)
12 FPS with 3 fish and no bubbles

I also have another system at home with:

AMD K6-266
S3 ViRGE/DX/GX PCI with 4MB RAM
7 FPS at 800x600

Re: Systems
 

I only have ....

AMD K6/II - 350
ATI Rage 128 - 8MB
Windows 98SE with DirectX8

.... but I have 448MB RAM

When I press 'S' I get - (with 7 fish + bubbles) ...

39/43 fps [1024 x 768 x 16] Direct3D HAL v.99L

... and the SS is fantastic! Jim Sachs is a genius.

Keep up the good work.

I would recommend anyone to take advantage of the very
low cost of memory at this time - Fit as much as your
system can use.

(This is my first post EVER - I hope I have done it right.)

cjmaddy (UK)

Re: Systems
 

Definately agree with you on the RAM.

My dad paid $107 for 1MB of RAM for a Macintosh Plus in 1987.

Now it's a quarter a meg or so.

Anyone can get 256MB of RAM for ~$50. And considering how much RAM Windows XP and 2000 want, I suggest getting as much as you can.