System Requirements?

[MarkFroio]

The stated system requirements for KP are:

Win 98, Win ME, Win 2000, Win XP
PII 450 Mhz CPU
128 Mb RAM
DX 8.1 or later
8Mb Video RAM/ 16 bit color
DX 8.0 compatible sound card
8 x CD-ROM
400 Mb Free Hard Drive Space


My question is, is this the mininum or recommended system requirements? I have a P II 450 with 256 mb ram. Will it run slowly on this or at speed that allows me to enjoy this game?

Thanks.

[Belisarius]

Generally speaking about games, the system requirements are for minimum performance. It's what you need to get the game running in a playable condition at all.

Then again, from the screenshots I can't see anything that your system can't handle....I guess PV has more info on in-game animations, movies and stuff that may take more brawn... ?

[Adam Parker]

Going on another thread here it looks like DX9a comes with KP. If this is correct, is this version of DX recommended to load?

[e_barkmann]

can't comment directly on the CPU issue as I am running an amd xp 1700 - I would *expect* KP to run fine on lower end systems but I suspect the ability to run other applications concurrently would be greatly reduced or at least, impinge on game performance.

As for Direct X, I had the game running in Dx8, Dx9 and now Dx9x (or whatever flavour of Dx9 is currently available from MS).

The only ever issue I had was when i was using an old nvidia reference driver - I upgraded to the latest driver and no further issues.

Cheers Chris

[Matthew Urch]

I ran KP on a number of PCs that came through my office whilst beta testing to see how it worked on various OSs and hardware specs. The lowest spec machine I used was a celeron 400 with 128 mb and KP worked fine.

Yeah - i did wipe the machines once i'd finished testing so there aren't lots of PCs with KP betas at my office!

[MarkFroio]

Thanks guys. I thought it would run okay on my machine, but I just wanted to double check. I've got no problem turning off the background applications to play a game. Looks like I'll be ordering it today.