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Article #8700Re: Lightwave Minimum Requirements
From: Wooly Mittens
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 08:36
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 08:36
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dukat@suba.com (Lawrence Wilson) wrote: > > Kjell Gudim (kjgudim) wrote: > : Wooly Mittens wrote this in comp.sys.amiga.graphics: > > : >> > : >> What's the absolute minimum amount of RAM Lightwave 4.0 needs to run? > : >> > : >I've run LW 4.0 on an Amiga with 2 meg chip and 4 meg fast comfortably > : >with the camera-framebuffer set to 1MB. Even then there's generaly > : >0.5 megs leftover. > > : :) Try doing that on the PC. I have tried it on a Pentium 60 with 24 Mb RAM > : and the harddisk still spins at 10000 rpm :) > Don't remind me, A friend bought a p133 and 16megs and other pc stuff standard included in the amiga (like sound). LW refuses to store or 16 color bitmaps in anything less than a 24 bit framebuffer. We honestly tought LW was formatting the harddrive when we pressed render. Wooly Mittens.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!tudelft.nl!news From: Wooly Mittens <4g9a42$fq0@mo6.rc.tudelft.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: Lightwave Minimum Requirements Date: 18 Mar 1996 08:36:06 GMT Organization: Delft University of Technology Message-ID: <4ij79m$mpe@mo6.rc.tudelft.nl> References: <4i0mj3$ek6@suba01.suba.com> <4i0qes$d8m@mo6.rc.tudelft.nl> <735.6646T653T2866@Th0r.foo.bar> <4ido7s$54e@suba01.suba.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dutsp211.stm.tudelft.nl