Lowest specs that you have gotten transcendence to run

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So what are the specs of the lowest computer you have run transcendence on?
IIRC, I had done .98d on a 450Mhz Celeron with 256MB of ram using some ancient intel GMA, and a 9GB HDD >.>
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heh thats pretty nice specs there. nice specs for a server. but how did you mange to play tbat effectivly?
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My old laptop (still works, but the hard drive died): Compaq Presario 1690. 400MHz AMD K6-2, 192MB ram (max), 6-GB hard drive, ATI Rage Pro graphics with 8MB video ram. Ahh, they don't make'em like they used to (sniff).
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Ttech wrote:heh thats pretty nice specs there. nice specs for a server. but how did you mange to play tbat effectivly?
Oh, it lagged if you had a good number of projectiles on the screen, were getting swarmed by anarchists, and it hated dwarg, but hey, it was doing about as good as my 2ghz turion 4GB ram 756MB shared VRAM (was some mobile nivdea gpu, the cheapest latest gen that one could get at the time) 350GB HDD vista laptop :P )
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Lowest specs, hmmm...

Custom built computer:

AOPen Ax63 Pro Motherboard /w/ Intel Pentium III - 600Mhz processor
10 GB HDD
128 MB Ram - (upgraded to 256 Mb later)
Trident SVGA graphics card (1995-ish)
Windows 98 SE
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Darth Saber wrote:Lowest specs, hmmm...

Custom built computer:

AOPen Ax63 Pro Motherboard /w/ Intel Pentium III - 600Mhz processor
10 GB HDD
128 MB Ram - (upgraded to 256 Mb later)
Trident SVGA graphics card (1995-ish)
Windows 98 SE

That is quite an amazing specs there, actually aside from the proc and mobo and os, that is the same specs as my server till I upgraded it. :D
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