Alex wrote:Hi commanders,
Was just wondering if it's worth me downloading the shipyards. I have a 1.2GHz cpu 1 Gig Ram and a radeon graphics card with 512 meg on board. It doesn't handle shaders to well, but then I'm happy enough to play with them turned off.
I guess the point that could give you trouble is the amount of RAM. I had oolite use over 1gb of ram and finally end up "out of memory" (though vista had over a gig free, some vista bug, it seems).
You will see many more ships, unless you download and install the oxp's from which it has been made up.
As you might guess, an oxp that big can come with some bugs, including bugs from the oxp's it is using. I was having fun with it, though. The creator of the shipyards package is currently overworking the whole thing, but it might take a while until that version is released.
That oxp is so big that the game crashes "out of memory" when you leave the beginning animation showing all ships running long enough - and it will crash before you have been able to see all ships. That both happens on my 2gb and 3gb machines!
On the other hand, if you do not have to pay for the line to download it, you might want to install it to see how many ships there are, and if it proves to be too demanding for your machine, you then could try to download the oxps containing the models you do like the most.
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