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Title: Minumum PC requirements for ZINC 1.1
Post by: ahmer on March 25, 2005, 03:39:46 pm

I heard about Zinc at the forum and i am in hurry to get it works soon.
Do you know what exact or minimum Computer hardware require to run zinc.Require Procceesor,Ram as well as video card.

currentry i have a 933 pentium 3 with 256 RAM and a 16 mb VGA.

Title: Re: Minumum PC requirements for ZINC 1.1
Post by: grueinthebox on March 26, 2005, 08:51:07 am

I doubt it will run very well on that machine.  Before I upgraded my cab, I tried running it on a Duron 1.2 w/ 640mb PC133 SDRAM and an AVGA 9200 card and it ran pretty lousy - not really playable.  Upgraded to a Sempron 2400 with 512mb DDR (still with the AVGA 9200) and it runs smooth and looks pretty good at 800x600, though I get the feeling there's still a little room for improvement in framerate, and there are some graphics settings that aren't cranked up all the way.

Title: Re: Minumum PC requirements for ZINC 1.1
Post by: ahmer on March 26, 2005, 03:56:44 pm

hm,

But i am intrested to use it with my pc monitor,it means that no heavy
3D Graphics card needed for ZINC.

Title: Re: Minumum PC requirements for ZINC 1.1
Post by: Paul Olson on March 26, 2005, 05:33:08 pm

A PC monitor would normally be set at a higher resolution than an Arcade monitor.  It would require a more powerful video card to run at the higher resolution.  Unlike MAME, ZiNc can take advantage of a 3D card, which (I think) is one of the things that make it run these games faster than MAME.

Paul

Title: Re: Minumum PC requirements for ZINC 1.1
Post by: ahmer on March 27, 2005, 07:56:21 am

Does 1.7 ghz Intel Celeron processor works well as compared with INTEL MMX or AMD ATHLON of same speed.

BTW! for Video card I think any chipset will work fine.