Ryzom you say, eh ? wh..

[crusix]

...it was "dxdiag.exe"

Gives a full system overview.

[killgore]

I played Ryzom on an older box P3 1.1 gig processor for a while with no issues. I am currently playing with 768 megs of RAM fine(wish I had more). It is playable on less then spec hardware.-Kil

[acridiel]

Well, for me it seems you should give it a try,although not with highest settings, and so I´ll simply redirect you to my siganture, where you will find a Link called "Dear Newbes, please read ".
There some of your questions will be hopefully answered.

For those that are not found there:

Leves: 250 in each skill, skills branching of into different specialisations wich have a significant amount of levels also, someone estimated about 64k leves all in all.

Yes, there are mounts. Called Mektoubs.
Yes there is a "speed" power, but is has a significant "cooldown", wich increases with its potential.

Just have a try, you´ve got nothing to loose except a little time

Acridiel

[elp5775e]

...it was "dxdiag.exe"

Gives a full system overview.

Thanks, ^_^.

well, here it is ( danish language. any problems ask @me ) : http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=4118526

[olepi]

I will echo this. With Zerlin's help, I was able to get my older rig to stop crashing several times a night. Even with his help, Ryzom would crash at least once a session. For those with long memories, I was about to quit Ryzom, and listed all the other games (probably over 20 in all), that run fine on the older hardware. My older hardware was:

3400+ Athlon
1 gb memory
Radeon 9800

I had many lockups, resets, and hard crashes (requiring a power cycle) with this hardware. The machine was totally stable with all other games. Instead of quitting, I went and bought a new machine :

4200+ Athlon 64 dual core
2 gb memory
Radeon X1800 PCI Express with 512 mb mem

Now I can run Ryzom with ALL settings maxed, and the game runs perfectly, and is beautiful!

Moral of the story: Ryzom is about the most demanding game out there. Get a machine that can handle it, and it is also one of the most beautiful games!

Olepi

[elp5775e]

I will echo this. With Zerlin's help, I was able to get my older rig to stop crashing several times a night. Even with his help, Ryzom would crash at least once a session. For those with long memories, I was about to quit Ryzom, and listed all the other games (probably over 20 in all), that run fine on the older hardware. My older hardware was:

3400+ Athlon
1 gb memory
Radeon 9800

I had many lockups, resets, and hard crashes (requiring a power cycle) with this hardware. The machine was totally stable with all other games. Instead of quitting, I went and bought a new machine :

4200+ Athlon 64 dual core
2 gb memory
Radeon X1800 PCI Express with 512 mb mem

Now I can run Ryzom with ALL settings maxed, and the game runs perfectly, and is beautiful!

Moral of the story: Ryzom is about the most demanding game out there. Get a machine that can handle it, and it is also one of the most beautiful games!

Olepi

Oh yeah, sure, like a 15 year old boy could buy a new one -_-.
i gave 1940 $ for this one.

the only hope i got left is chrismass..woooooooooo YAAAAAAY. >_<

[nephy13]

I will echo this. With Zerlin's help, I was able to get my older rig to stop crashing several times a night. Even with his help, Ryzom would crash at least once a session. For those with long memories, I was about to quit Ryzom, and listed all the other games (probably over 20 in all), that run fine on the older hardware. My older hardware was:

3400+ Athlon
1 gb memory
Radeon 9800

I had many lockups, resets, and hard crashes (requiring a power cycle) with this hardware. The machine was totally stable with all other games. Instead of quitting, I went and bought a new machine :

4200+ Athlon 64 dual core
2 gb memory
Radeon X1800 PCI Express with 512 mb mem

Now I can run Ryzom with ALL settings maxed, and the game runs perfectly, and is beautiful!

Moral of the story: Ryzom is about the most demanding game out there. Get a machine that can handle it, and it is also one of the most beautiful games!

Olepi

Erm, I think you must have had a hardware problem that was incompatible with Ryzom. You replaced a "medium/recommended spec" computer with a "bleeding edge spec" one and corrected your problems. This, however, doesn't prove that you need uber-resources to run the game or there would only be 10 people playing the game (And no-one could have played it two years ago before your ultra-spec machine was available). You may well have had similar success if you'd replaced the computer/motherboard/memory/whatever with a different one with a similar spec.

[Athlon 64-3700+/1GB/Geforce FX6600GT/XP Pro (32-bit) with full graphics settings, 1280x960, 4xAA, 16xAnsitrophic filtering at around 30FPS - which, to my mind, implies that your machine should have been quite capable of running, if not maxing out the game]

[olepi]

Erm, I think you must have had a hardware problem that was incompatible with Ryzom. You replaced a "medium/recommended spec" computer with a "bleeding edge spec" one and corrected your problems. This, however, doesn't prove that you need uber-resources to run the game or there would only be 10 people playing the game (And no-one could have played it two years ago before your ultra-spec machine was available). You may well have had similar success if you'd replaced the computer/motherboard/memory/whatever with a different one with a similar spec.

[Athlon 64-3700+/1GB/Geforce FX6600GT/XP Pro (32-bit) with full graphics settings, 1280x960, 4xAA, 16xAnsitrophic filtering at around 30FPS - which, to my mind, implies that your machine should have been quite capable of running, if not maxing out the game]

Well, as my earlier post about quitting mentioned, with the old machine, I was able to play every other game I tried, for years. With no problems. Including WoW, Eve, DAOC, GW, etc. (Not gonna list all 20+ games that ran fine.)

I agree that buying a new machine was a drastic fix, but I used that as my excuse Perhaps I could have replaced the mem/graphics/MB/etc and gotten Ryzom to be stable. But the fact remains that the older machine ran everything else with no problems. It was Ryzom, and only Ryzom, that caused two crashes a day. All the other applications (VPN, VNC, games, etc) never caused a crash. So I will have to say that Ryzom is the most demanding, or fragile, game I have ever tried.

Olepi

[magick1]

While SoR is a bit more demanding than most other online games, it is also prone to a particular RAM operation (block move, test 5 in memtest86) which will crash the system. It can either be due to faulty RAM or wrong timeings/FSB/(unstable) voltage.
This feature is not used often, and have to hit the affected area on the RAM before it fails. Since SoR uses (nearly) all RAM on a system with less than 1G, the chance of a crash increases even more.
My guess is that your old system had faulty RAM, and underclocking, changing timeings or replacement would have fixed it, not that it will help you much now.

[elp5775e]

While SoR is a bit more demanding than most other online games, it is also prone to a particular RAM operation (block move, test 5 in memtest86) which will crash the system. It can either be due to faulty RAM or wrong timeings/FSB/(unstable) voltage.
This feature is not used often, and have to hit the affected area on the RAM before it fails. Since SoR uses (nearly) all RAM on a system with less than 1G, the chance of a crash increases even more.
My guess is that your old system had faulty RAM, and underclocking, changing timeings or replacement would have fixed it, not that it will help you much now.

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