Whats the least powerful thing you have ever run C&C on?

Atari2600

In all of the years that the lot of you have played a C&C game on, what was was the least powerful computer that you ever ran a C&C game on? It can be any C&C game, but its gotta be the least powerful computer you successfully ran it on.

Myself? I ran RA1 & RA2 on a Compaq from 1999, with Windows 98.

Right now Im attempting to revive an old 1994 laptop, with the intent of running DOS C&C on it, for the hell of it. If that doesn't work, I will try to run DOS C&C in DOSBox on my old handheld computer... Why? I really dont know...

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Bos187 · Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 8:55 am Post subject:

Some very old PC, i remember it having windows 95 and a Pentium 1 processor. Once in a while I used to refer to it as a time bomb Very Happy

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I played Red Alert on it, but Tiberian sun was too much for that thing.

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inzane krazy · General **Joined**: 07 Nov 2006 **Location**: Sketchpad

A pentium 4, thats weakest computer I had, and It's still in service today, with an upgraded video card(AGP 3650) and windows 7, it lacks ram so it lags, it'll soon be put out of it's misery sadly.

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MT · Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 1:42 pm Post subject:

I remember running TS on an old pentium 4 with Win 95, it took up quite a bit of the harddrive space Laughing

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It was awesome really with TSTW, could spend hours of basic modding with it, sadly when I tried ra2 on it the computer ran it too slowly.

Dubzac · Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 2:25 pm Post subject:

Bos187 wrote:

Some very old PC, i remember it having windows 95 and a Pentium 1 processor. Once in a while I used to refer to it as a time bomb Very Happy

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I played Red Alert on it, but Tiberian sun was too much for that thing.

i had lower

lol i had a Pentium1 MMX 200mhz is the lowest pc i had running C&C of any gen, i could of tried it on my 66mhz comadore64 but i was too chicken to try using anyprogram that was not DOS. both Worked well, but my first PC didn't like large maps Laughing

Dutchygamer · Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 2:26 pm Post subject:

A bloody old wreck that had problems running even RA1. But that is about 10-15 years ago I guess #Tongue

Dubzac · Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 2:30 pm Post subject:

thank goodness thoughs days are like so over Laughing

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EVA-251 · Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 8:47 pm Post subject:

Back about 6, maybe 7 years ago, I first started playing CnC games.

Relatively incomplete stats were:
Compaq Presario
Windows 98
Pentium II 266Mhz
64MB Ram
Voodoo I (or was it II?) GFX card
CD-ROM/RW drive. Not sure bout the numbers, but it was the fastest and most modern component on the computer, upgraded several times.

Handled RA1, etc like a champ. But the load times on YR were horrible. Just absolutely god-awful.

I could literally start up Star Strike, take a shower, come back and soon after, finally be greeted with the main menu. Map loading literally took 3 to 5 minutes. Compiling the mod's XCC Mod Launcher file took several minutes as well.

Most of Star Strike's early balance issues were related to ROF because that computer played YR so slowly. I was literally blown away by how fast some units fired when I finally started modding YR on a faster computer. xD

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High Templar X · Cyborg Firebomber **Joined**: 26 Apr 2010

I ran RA95 on a 512 with 96MB RAM and W95. This was not a Pentium either, this was before then.

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Reaperrr · Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 12:15 am Post subject:

You guys consider Pentiums with 200+ MHz low-tech?
I played C&C95 and later RA95 on an AMD K5 @100 MHz (roughly Pentium 75 MHz performance, I guess) with 16 MB EDO RAM Laughing

There were noticable performance problems sometimes #Tongue

Next was a Celeron 333 MHz with 32 MB SD RAM Shocked

I had to upgrade it when RA2 came out though, because one of the allied missions needed more than 32 MB RAM and therefore ran at ~1 FPS Laughing

I only finished that mission by rules-cheating (gave Harriers nuke missiles to end that mission fast #Tongue

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I upgraded to a Celeron 400 and 96 MB after that.
GFX card was some ATi Rage Pro or something. I had to replace it with a TNT2 M64 when MechCommander 2 refused to start, giving an error message that 4MB video RAM weren't enough Laughing

Good old times... today I have
1) a retro gaming/modding/music/video rig (which I actually use 90% of the time) with a Pentium E5200, 2GB DDR2-667 and an overclocked 8800 GT, running WinXP
2) a 'future-rig' with an unlockable Phenom II X2 550 BE (all 4 cores working fine), 4GB DDR3-1333, Vista 64bit and currently an 8600 GTS as placeholder until I start to use it as my main gaming rig (which. the way things look right now, might not happen all that soon), when I'll replace it with a card that delivers at least 5850-like performance @ low noise, low temps and <200 bucks
3) a laptop (Vista 32bit, Core2Duo something [2 GHz], 4[?]GB DDR2, Radeon 4330)

CCHyper · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Apr 2005

Oh wow, RA95 on a system that was before Pentium, something like Cyrtix or so, man i loved them days...

Orac · Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 2:06 am Post subject:

ztype.. EVA, you just listed my computer's specs :O

Deformat · Defense Minister **Joined**: 17 Sep 2007

Can't remember...Win 98,probably with less than a quarter GB of RAM...with RA2...

Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

PlayStation 1, the original #Tongue

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