What is the norm now for computer games

[beyondsociety]

Im looking into maybe writing a few computer games and was wondering what would be a minimum requirement of hardware for playing games? The norm that you'd figure everybody would of at least have.

Most games now all require you to have a good video card, a fast cpu and lots of memory. I'd like for my games that I write to work on my old computer, but also work really well on another persons computer without having to add special code for specific video cards.

Is this possible, what do you guys think?

[srg_13]

for compatibility between different cards and stuff, i would recommend using openGL or DirectX

-Stephen

[srg_13]

[edit] Sorry for the accidential double post [/edit]

[Solar]

OpenGL is cross-platform, DirectX is proprietary Windows. Depending on what your game will do (and what you find the most fun doing, e.g. engine design / world design / gameplay design), you might want to look into pre-made and available engines instead of rolling your own.

[beyondsociety]

OpenGL is cross-platform, DirectX is proprietary Windows. Depending on what your game will do (and what you find the most fun doing, e.g. engine design / world design / gameplay design), you might want to look into pre-made and available engines instead of rolling your own.

I would like it to be cross-platform, so I probably will go with OpenGl even though most games are written for Windows which uses DirectX. At the moment I messing around with SDL as well as Allegro.

Not to flame or anything, but what do people on this board use?

[Tora OS]

I use (as OS): Windows XP and Linux (Fedora Core 3).


When ive attempted to devlop my own games i simply tried modding a star wars game called Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and used GTK Radiant to edit maps. and stuff.

[Solar]

I don't do games or fancy graphics at all. Call it lack of talent and mathematical knowledge.