System Requirements

[Arralen]

Originally posted by Larry Holt:
Can anyone advise me of PC system requirements to play SPWAW really well on?
I had a P133MHz with 128MB RAM and a 4MB PCI Diamond video card. I found that when I moved a unit, it moved forward one hex then the red hex ring moved to catch up, then this repeated until the end of the move. I upgraded to a P233 MHz but its still the same.

I must admit - I never read your post carefully enough - this "unit first, ring follows" - issue is true even with the fastest machines, but with all delays set to XXX the units should move so fast that they almost "hop" to their target destination.

Hope this helps

Arralen

[Ed Cogburn]

Originally posted by kao16:
So, how does the AMD Thunderbird 700 compare with Athlon and PIII? (Thundderbird just becoming available locally)

The Thunderboard is the 2nd version of the Athlon, so its referred to as the "Thunderbird Athlon". The Thunderbird moves the 2nd level cache onto the CPU die, for a significant boost in speed. Originaly designed for a motherboard with a "Slot A" interface for the CPU package, there is now a "Socket A" version of the Thunderbird Athlon. The Socket A motherboards and the CPU package itself are cheaper to make than the older "Slot A" versions. The price difference is major. That's the baby you want: a Socket A, "Thunderbird" Athlon, as fast as your wallet can afford. It is superior to PIII at the same clock speed, it will be competitive with the newer Pentium coming up (as of about a month ago, when I stopped checking the hardware news regularly), and more affordable than Intel CPUs at this point. Highly recommended.