OT: Quake Requirements

[Nanite10]

The original Quake requirements are a Pentium processor. I was wondering if anyone knew if the original would run on a 486? (75 Mghz, DX4) Thank you for any responses.

[masterhassan]

dont know but you can try, ive always wondered about that too

[xit-vono]

I'm pretty sure the text says you can run it on a 486, but it recommends a pentium.

[Katarhyne]

Yes, I ran Quake on an AMD 133Mhz 486 (which I used for the longest time instead of moving to a P54C). It ran quite well.

[deadnail]

I first got Quake going on a P75 and it ran quite well. Just go pure DOS and you should be fine.

[deathz0r]

heh, i got quake working on a 486 66mhz, <1996>that had a bitchin 8mb of ram (woah), and a 1mb (yes, 1 MEGABYTE!) video card.</1996>

[LorD BaZTArD]

I got Quake running on an old Osbourne (dead company)486/66. 16MB Ram and a video card. S3VGA I think it was.
Anyone want 10FPS at low resolution? I don't. Ugh. Funny thing was, I tried Quake 2 on the same machine
(Yes I AM crazy)I turned everything (graphics wise)off. And got similar performance..... Tried HL too. Except it didn't run.

That PC was crap anyway. I'm glad I got rid of it. Of course it was good for the old games I had.

[Espi]

<1996>that had a bitchin 8mb of ram (woah), and a 1mb (yes, 1 MEGABYTE!) video card.</1996>

<brag> Bah, I got a P90 at that time... overclocked to 120Mhz </brag>

[Captain Red]

heh, i got quake working on a 486 66mhz, <1996>that had a bitchin 8mb of ram (woah), and a 1mb (yes, 1 MEGABYTE!) video card.</1996>

heh thats was mine (except it had a 2mb video card) I was Over the moon when it ran (sorta). Ahh that lovely 486/66 Wich I got off my fokes who paid $4000 for it.

And now, I've got my 120mhz, 16ram, and a 1mb video card(wich is an upgrade from the 486 form parts of 2 other pice of shite putas). ahh how times have changed.

/me wonders off into the background cursing and swaring

[Xenoman]

Argh, my dad got a Pentium 300 MHZ, 128 RAM and 4MB Videocard in July, 1998. It cost him about $1200, an offer from his job though...

[AngelOfDeath]

You Have To Have A Mathcoprocessor.
There are pentium class 486's i belive

[spank]

Quake runs OK in a 486DX4 at anything faster than 75MHz and with at least 16 megs of RAM. Try putting a Voodoo or a Verite and running GLQuake, it rocks.

Anyway, any Pentium is faster than whichever 486, even though an 100MHz DX4 comes very close to the P60.

[Sephiroth]

yes quake will, but slowly, also it HAS TO BE a 486DX. the 486DX has the math co-processor needed by quake. also u better have some good ram too. I would recomend trying it on a 486DX/80 or better. I once tried tombraider I on a 486DX/88 and it was slower that donkey shit