Re: Modern day minimum PC spec to run CS

Just wondering: what were the issues you ran into on i386? I honestly don't know of anything in CS that'd require an i586 as opposed to i386 (possibly besides third party libs not shipping i386 binaries, anymore).

For actual recommended specs I'd say something along the lines of AMD or Nvidia dedicated graphics card with OpenGL 2.0 support and an amd64 capable CPU with 2GB+ RAM running on a little endian windows (XP or later) or linux (preferably a debian or redhat derivative).

Besides that support is usually untested for rather long times I think - I tend to test FreeBSD about once a year, but mostly the non-graphics part as I've only got AMD cards which don't have drivers on FreeBSD amd64 and OS X is to some small degree tested via PS, but that's about it. There's actually still the big game stopper of clang/llvm not properly implementing friend relations for templates which breaks csHash and related functionality (read: most of CS) on those platforms. Also for ARM there's various vfs issues iirc and I guess support for ARM (and somewhat related big endian platforms) is mostly experimental imo. Maybe some sort of tier system would be a good idea for the support part? Like Tier 1 - regularly tested and should be working, Tier 2 - related tested, but should be mo
 stly working, Tier 3 - experimental, expect serious issues.


-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Wyett [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2014 20:33
To: CS Dev
Subject: [Crystal-develop] Modern day minimum PC spec to run CS

Hi all,

Doing some docs work I ran into the old minimum spec for a PC to run CS.
I have done an initial update, but we really need to be a little more specific.

With the various elements of CS as they are today and what in total that is needed to run it at a minimum/comfortably. What would people say is a good minimum system spec we should recommend?

Regards

Phil

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