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Torque 2D Engine - questions about performance

by suddysud aka mrclean · in Torque Game Engine · 06/06/2006 (8:22 am) · 2 replies

HI

I was hoping that Torque 2D would be able to run on your basic older computers (PIIs and up) which don't have a special video card.

I believe, I have a PII or PIII, which has 1Ghz CPU speed and 512MB of Ram.

I don't know what the video memory is but when I run Torque 2D demos on it everything is real slow. And the shooter game eventually slows down to a crawl after a decent amount of game play.

So I'm trying to figure out the real minimum hardware requirement to run the game.

Questions:
How can i determine the on board video specs if I didn't buy the Mother board? Is there a way to see it from Dos for example.

And why would the shooter demo come to a halt after a few minutes of game play?
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Torque 3D Owner Nick "Dig" Koirala
LittleMonkey Ltd.
#1
06/06/2006 (10:06 am)
Check the console.log file (I think Torque 2D creates this, if not you should post this in the appropriate forum so people like me can't reply!) At the top of that (in TGE anyways) it'll tell you what processor, and which video card you're using and some idea of what is capable of.

I'd be very surprised if you have a 1Ghz PII. You do need an accelerated video card which some old built in ones are unlikely to be. If it does get up and running it could be that its using OpenGL in software mode which is always very slow.

If you want to know all about you system you can use something like PC Wizard: http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php

which gives you more details about your video capabilities...

The demos run fine on my 800MHz Duron, back when I had a 32mb ATI Rage Pro video card. I think its the acelleration and possibly the video RAM thats the issue. (Built in card are shard ram and often set at 8MB in my experience)

Hope that makes sense.

Just filling in time at work...

Nick

Torque Owner Iain Craig
#2
06/07/2006 (7:01 am)
Probably not a fashionable suggestion in light of T2D, but I've had good success with HGE for 2d games for older machines.