System requirements
- Thread starter Hodger
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Hodger,
Welcome to Chronocrash! There aren't any official requirements for running OpenBOR on PC. OpenBOR started its life on DOS and it's an extremely lightweight application. Any discount PC made in the last 10 years will run pretty much anything other than the highest res modules (and probably those too). Just for numbers sake, the biggest module I know of clocks in at just under 300 megabytes of RAM. If a module runs slow, it's due to other issues (too many objects, mismanagement of scripts, etc.) and it's going to run just as slow on my top end Alienware.
Now that said, if you want to develop for consoles or mobile you will want to watch your resources more carefully. Numbers are misleading. The newest Galaxy S-Whatever might have impressive specs, but in terms of real world power any outdated PC still blows it out of the water. That goes double for PC vs. consoles.
Outside of those things, the requirements would really just come down to your choice of dev tools. I like Visual Studio for text and scripts, but if you don't have that Codeblocks or even Notepad will work in a pinch. We also have editor tools made just for OpenBOR. They aren't finished yet but can still save you lots of time. That leaves image editing. If you don't have access to Photoshop, get Gimp. Do NOT use Paint. It won't work and you'll be right back here asking us why.
HTH,
DC
Welcome to Chronocrash! There aren't any official requirements for running OpenBOR on PC. OpenBOR started its life on DOS and it's an extremely lightweight application. Any discount PC made in the last 10 years will run pretty much anything other than the highest res modules (and probably those too). Just for numbers sake, the biggest module I know of clocks in at just under 300 megabytes of RAM. If a module runs slow, it's due to other issues (too many objects, mismanagement of scripts, etc.) and it's going to run just as slow on my top end Alienware.
Now that said, if you want to develop for consoles or mobile you will want to watch your resources more carefully. Numbers are misleading. The newest Galaxy S-Whatever might have impressive specs, but in terms of real world power any outdated PC still blows it out of the water. That goes double for PC vs. consoles.
Outside of those things, the requirements would really just come down to your choice of dev tools. I like Visual Studio for text and scripts, but if you don't have that Codeblocks or even Notepad will work in a pinch. We also have editor tools made just for OpenBOR. They aren't finished yet but can still save you lots of time. That leaves image editing. If you don't have access to Photoshop, get Gimp. Do NOT use Paint. It won't work and you'll be right back here asking us why.
HTH,
DC