MoroseTroll on 28/12/2009 at 08:27
Thief 1&2 (2000): Intel Celeron 400 MHz, 64 MB RAM, ATI Rage 128 with 16 MB VRAM, 800*600: There was no problem at all.
Thief DS (2004): AMD Duron 1.2 GHz, 1 GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9700 with 128 MB VRAM, 1024*768: There was no problem as well.
intruder on 28/12/2009 at 08:36
The first time I played Thief was the Thief 2 Demo with this PC:
AMD K6-2 @350 MHz
64 MB RAM
with a 2MB SIS 6??? GPU
I took more than 5 minutes to load the level or a savegame :bored:
Goldmoon Dawn on 28/12/2009 at 14:12
heh, same as intruder with the exception of a Trident 4mb agp 1x. lol Built the machine to play Might and Magic VI, then went on to TDP.
Chade on 28/12/2009 at 22:34
I played T1 on a Pentium 133. Iirc, it had 32 mg ram, and the game used software rendering.
I knew the game was below the official minimum specs when I bought it, but I liked the demo so much I didn't care. And in fact, even though the game ran terribly (<10 fps and crappy colours), the poor performance didn't affect me much. Not just because thief is such a slow paced game (I finished half life on that machine too), but also because I had no experience with anything better.
DromEd build times were hell.
I revisited that machine earier this decade, and tried playing thief. After experiencing faster machines, I found it completely unplayable.
Funnily enough, I didn't know T1 apparitions where meant to be transparant until years after the game was released, long after I got to the point where I thought I knew practically everything there was to know about the game ... completely blew me away when I first realised ... such a basic fact which I was utterly unaware of ...
EDIT: spelling
Albert on 29/12/2009 at 07:01
Heh, I only discovered thief like, 3 years ago or so. The oldest system I played it on was a dell pentium 4 with integrated graphics, played Thief 2 on it. No fog, but it runs smooth anyway (it was the first "high-end" computer I owned :rolleyes:).
Think I'll try a voodoo card and sound blaster and see how it runs, then.
Anyways, off-topic, I unsuccessfully tried installing XP on my good-for-nothing laptop. Turns out I'm stuck with Ubuntu until then :(.
JC_Denton on 30/12/2009 at 15:22
i ran Thief on my very first pc in 1999: pentium 200Mhz MMX with 32MB RAM, Matrox PCI VGA with 4MB memory and a Voodoo 2 12MB accelerator. it ran ok, but i could feel that 32MB RAM wasn't quite enough.
R Soul on 30/12/2009 at 15:24
I can't remember the details but I couldn't see any of the textures - everything was grey. Avoiding the metal panels in the training mission was a matter of luck.
Henri The Hammer on 2/1/2010 at 14:16
Thief 1 runs kinda decent-ish on my retro gaming PC - 166 MHz Pentium (no MMX), 64 MB RAM and Voodoo 2 12 MB. Mostly because of the Voodoo. With the Ati Rage graphics card, it's only about 5 FPS at minimum settings.
I did play and complete TDS on a 1.0 GHz Athlon, 256 MB RAM, Radeon 9600 Pro and Win 98. It ran, uh, nicely. 10-15 FPS most of the time, at minimum settings of course.
ataricom on 4/1/2010 at 06:35
100mHz AMD processor
8MB RAM (might have been 12)
2MB onboard Cirrus Logic video RAM
I remember I had a broken pin on my monitor's cable, so the red channel didn't show up. It looked TERRIBLE regardless, around 1fps in the default 16x16 cube in DromEd.
That wasn't my good PC at the time. I think the only time I tried playing it on that machine was New Year's Eve 1999 and I was honestly afraid I'd never be able to play it again after Y2K.
ravoll on 4/1/2010 at 08:53
MY very first run was TDP on a;
WIN 95
P133
64MB RAM
S3 Trio 16mb grafic card
:eww:
By the time I got TMA I had a new system.
Will there be a prize for the worst system?:joke:(I think ataricom's in the lead).
