{"id":114,"date":"2009-11-05T21:11:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T08:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2009-11-05T21:13:58","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T08:13:58","slug":"minimum-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/minimum-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s a reasonable minimum spec to aim for these days?<\/p>\n<p>With Icefall, I&#8217;ve already taken the decision to target Direct3D9 &#8211; I get a lot of extra capabilities compared to DirectX8, and it still works with Windows XP unlike 10 or 11&#8230; a pretty simple decision.<\/p>\n<p>But what about in terms of video memory? And system RAM? What&#8217;s a realistic minimum these days? Icefall is a freeware, turn-based RPG, so by rights it shouldn&#8217;t require a leading edge PC, but I need a specific target to prevent limiting myself unnescessarily. <\/p>\n<p>Howzabout 32mb video, and 512mb RAM? I think that fits most every PC you could buy in the last few years&#8230; and should be enough for some reasonable effects. Anyone got any thoughts on this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s a reasonable minimum spec to aim for these days? With Icefall, I&#8217;ve already taken the decision to target Direct3D9 &#8211; I get a lot of extra capabilities compared to DirectX8, and it still works with Windows XP unlike 10 or 11&#8230; a pretty simple decision. But what about in terms of video memory? And<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2722,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,13,76,11],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icefall","tag-decision","tag-directx","tag-icefall","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paradicesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}