What were you guys playing SiN on back in the day? [Archive]

Milhouse PEZ

07-08-2005, 01:40 AM

Moore's law in effect! What were your original SiN system specs?

K6-233
64MB PC-100 RAM
8GB UW-SCSI
Aureal Vortex1
2x12MB Voodoo2 (SLi)

...and I had a dual-channel ISDN that was costing me around $175 a month.

I was also 23-24ish. I'll be 30 this year. Christ. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

TheDarthJedi

07-08-2005, 01:46 AM

i know i started on my p166 with a 3dfx voodoo 3 2000 card in it /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

eventually worked my way up to a slot A Athalon 700 i think?

i believe i hit the 1.2 ghz range before i finally stopped....

yea, i was all of 19 back then..

ahh! lol

CixrTyx

07-08-2005, 02:03 AM

P-II 300/450
2x Voodoo2 12meg (SLi)
Diamond Monster Sound MX80 (Aureal3D chipset)
Diamond Stealth III w/ Intel 740 graphics chipset
128meg of PC100(100MHz) ram.

I was 18 at the time, working at a computer store as a junoir tech, all my pay checks went to my boss. That's why I was spoiled back in the day.

Now I'm running:
P-4 3.2GHz w/ Hyperthreading
ATI Radeon X800 256M AGP8x
1GB PC3200(400MHz) RAM
SB Audigy2 ZS

TheDarthJedi

07-08-2005, 02:06 AM

Diamond Monster Sound MX80 (Aureal3D chipset)

heck, i think i still HAVE that card around here somewhere!!

DrWoo McM

07-08-2005, 02:08 AM

PII - 400MHZ
128MB RAM
14GB HD
8MB - Riva 128 Vid card
Turtle Beach Sound Card

CixrTyx

07-08-2005, 02:09 AM

Originally posted by TheDarthJedi:
Diamond Monster Sound MX80 (Aureal3D chipset)

heck, i think i still HAVE that card around here somewhere!!

Awesome, it was my favourite card. I think they still have more processing power then my Audigy2ZS. Personally speaking I dont think the SB cards have had a real jump in technology since the live, it's the exact same cards repackaged and delievered.

Damn capatalizism!

DI_MeisterM

07-08-2005, 05:23 AM

P2 450
128 MB RAM
Creative Voodoo² 8MB
Soundblaster AWE 32
Windows 98 of course /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Radox

07-08-2005, 05:41 AM

Haha - I got to play sin in 2001 !!!

My specs were
PII 500
128 RAM
S3 Savage 4 16MB
14 GB HDD
i think /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

JezzyBall

07-08-2005, 08:15 AM

For God sakes MAN! That was waaayyyyy too long ago to remember....and too many jars of Red Bull & Vodka ago....

Mee thinks

About a P400
128MB RAM
Voodoo Card
...

Gibanator

07-08-2005, 09:56 AM

P2 400 12mb voodoo 2 (SLI)
128mb pc100
12gb hd
SB AWE32
(Cable Modem)
17" monitor

Back then, I was 27, an equipment operator, started college to go into IT. Played an insane numbers hours of Sin.

Now, I've been in IT too long , and don't do near the amount of online gaming.

Current technology owned:
Dell Demension 8400 3Ghz
ATI X800Se
140GB SATA
1GB PC4200
Dual 19" LCD's
========
Dell Axim X50V
28MB 2x 1GB SD Card
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Sony PSP
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XBOX

badman

07-08-2005, 12:46 PM

Pentium II 400
128 MB RAM
16 MB Riva TNT

Got that rig right before the game was released...

Grandpapa

07-08-2005, 02:29 PM

If i remember it right, i had:

PII 233
Diamond MX-300
Voodoo2
And ISDN connection
15" monitor
1* 4gb hd and 1* 8gb hd

/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

ninken

07-08-2005, 05:37 PM

AMD k6 266
Creative Labs Voodoo2 12meg
Creative Soundblaster 512 (not sure) ya i was pleaged with the sound bug during launch.
128meg of PC100(100MHz) ram.
10gb HD

I'm running Now:
P-4 3.2GHz w/ Hyperthreading
Asus ATI 9800XT 256M AGP8x
1GB PC3200(400MHz) RAM
SB 24bit Live
220gb Raid 5
3 more HDs not running
Total Space 680gb! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Riddled

07-08-2005, 05:55 PM

I played SiN at the age of 10, which would explain my current self at the age of 16.

I think I had...

64MB RAM
400Mhz Processor
Voodoo 2
Soundblaster

moe3D

07-08-2005, 06:17 PM

I was 14, and I pretty much gave up on a sin sequal quickly, that was 6 years ago. Now, I just stumbled on this and am shocked to see my acocunt still works. BTW sin mp is great, but I lost my CD a long time ago,yet now I have a serious urge to go download it and just spend the rest of the day playing. If anyones interested this is the computer I ran it on when I first got it

Emachine something or other
cyrix 266
32mb of sd PC100 ram
ATI 4mb rage 2C
1.5gb HD(Sin was all I had insralled)

needless to say today I'm running on something a bit faster, I remember the day I upgraded that computer, picked up a k-6 500mhz, 128mb ram stick, and a voodoo2, that was pleasure incarnated :P.

Macabros

07-08-2005, 07:37 PM

Ah, the good old times /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
If I'm right I had following components:

P 233
40 MB
Voodoo 1 (4 MB?)
4 GB Hard Disc
14" CRT Display

The only thing i remember was that SiN ran like shit on that mashine /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

TrapperKeeper

07-08-2005, 08:05 PM

Good old times /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Pentium 200 MMX
3DFx Diamond Monster 3D
Matrox Mystique for 2 D
64 MB Ram
2GB HD
12 X Speed CD Rom
Sound Blaster 32 AWE
Ugly unsharp 15 CRT, so glad CRT times are over /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
I think i was playing Sin a few months after HL...

RATBURN360

07-08-2005, 11:34 PM

Pentium II 300Mhz MMX pro
6 GB 4200RPM HDD
somewhere between 32 MB and 128 MB of RAM
3DFX Voodoo2 Diamond Monster, 12 MB
8x speed CD-ROM
56K Dialup network connection
Sound Blaster Awe 64 card

This is what I used before about the end of 2001, then we got newer hardware/motherboard/cpu.

TheDarthJedi

07-09-2005, 01:15 PM

wow. this thread is scary! lol

whats worse, is remember that old 3dfx voodoo 3 2000?
I gave it to a friend of mine way back when.. after I upgraded (dammed if i can remmeber to what.. a rage pro 128 I THINK) and last i heard, he finally upgraded form it
LAST WEEK.

sucker was still running strong.
.
3dfx knew what they were doing.

ahh, those were the days eh?
when a p2 400 was considered a "good" computer /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Solistice

07-09-2005, 02:01 PM

First I ran it on this beast...

P166 @ 233Mhz with MMX!
128Mb Ram
Voodoo2 8mb? gfx card.
SB16 soundcard.

Then...

AMD Athlon 800
512Mb Ram
Voodoo3 5000? 32MB card (3dfxs last one)
Sonicfury soundcard (turtle beach over there I think)

Then on my newest one a couple of times, which is...

P4 2.6
1GB Ram
Soundblaster Audigy ZS
Radeon 9800

Need a serious upgrade soon though.

daFojtek

07-09-2005, 11:41 PM

It was

Pentium 2 333
nVidia Riva 128ZX 8MB
128MB PC100
Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA

and no internet connection /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

JimmyC

07-10-2005, 12:30 AM

Hard to remember all the specs, it's been so long and I've upgraded so many times. I think it was a Pentium II 400MHz system with 128MB RAM and a Diamond Monster Voodoo 2 card with 8MB RAM. I think I just had a Sound Blaster Vibra 16 at the time, or maybe it was the Diamond Monster Sound PCI card (or whatever that was called) - the one with the Aureal chipset. Had that around that time.

I might have had more RAM. For a long time I make a habit of adding more than than I think I need just because you can never have enough.

warrior

07-10-2005, 02:31 AM

By January of 99, or was it 00.. I don't know, one of those, I plunk down 1500 dollars for a Gateway AMD 600, with a TNT 2 card with 16MB RAM and a 13 Gig 5400 RPM Harddrive.

THat was the last PC I bought out-right. Have been building them since.

Bass2496

07-10-2005, 05:37 AM

P2 233
64 MB RAM
Voodoo2 12MB

God that was shitty. I even ran Quake 3 on that thing.

I don't really play games anymore. I have a laptop that I couldn't tell you the specs on offhand (even though I remembered the above specs without even really thinking about it.) I think I tried Doom 3 on this laptop for a few hours and it was barely playable. I'll have to come up with a lot of money to get a computer that will run Sin episodes, or make a really nice friend.

Lanik

07-12-2005, 02:48 AM

Celeron 266 o'ced old skrool to 466.
128 MB
12 MB Voodoo 2 (later replaced with TNT when it *literally* caught on fire)

Milhouse PEZ

07-12-2005, 04:40 AM

Lanik and TDJ... how is Austin treating you these days? I really miss that town...

TheDarthJedi

07-12-2005, 05:08 AM

Originally posted by Milhouse PEZ:
Lanik and TDJ... how is Austin treating you these days? I really miss that town...

better than it was for a while there man..

lost the gig at 3M, ended up doin' the overnight at 7-11 for a number of months..

currently driving a desk at APPLE though.. nice job, decent pay, good benifits..

all in all, austin is treating me much better than it has in the past few years.

DAMN FOOKING HOT THOUGH! /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

STATIC3D

07-12-2005, 11:16 AM

CPU: PII 350
RAM: 128 or 256 (can't remember which)
2D Video: Some 4 meg Tsung labs chipset card
3D Video: Two 3DFX Voodoo 2 12 Meg cards in SLI (Man, I loved those 3DFX cards, so smooth).

Austin is hot as H3LL right now. Summer has definitely hit. Probably the worst thing going on right now in Austin is all the contruction for the toll road junk (what a waste). They are trying to connect several outlying areas with toll roads so they can get people off MoPac/etc. and get them into downtown quicker.

There are only two problems. First, most of the surrounding areas these roads are going to are populated by people that couldn't afford to live closer in to town. So, I'm sure they are just gonna have lots of money to throw into using a toll road every day.

The second problem is that people are still going to be hitting downtown (the big bottleneck) at the same time. I mean, if I have to be at work by 7am and going MoPac takes me an hour, then I'm gonna leave at 6am. If going the toll road only takes 30 mins, then I'm gonna leave at 6:30am. But, I'm still gonna hit downtown at the SAME time either way. Big help for congestion, not...(/Napoleon Dynamite voice on) idiots (/Napoleon Dynamite voice off). 707

DarkStar

07-12-2005, 12:41 PM

P200
32 MB RAM
Banshee 16MB Video Card

AznDailow

07-13-2005, 01:56 AM

Holy cow... I must've been 15/16 at the time when SiN was released. Now I'm 22 and work for an ISP... go figure.

P233 (socket 7)
128 MB RAM
Voodoo 2 8MB
Diamond MX-300
Rocking 26.4k dial-up!

I definitely concur with the lack of innovation by Creative. Aureal was taking some real initiative with their sound technology, before Creative drove them to the ground with lawsuits. I remember loading up Half-Life for the first time on the Vortex 2 and it was really convincing - nothing from Creative today seems to have created a similar impression.

Error_Macro

07-13-2005, 03:31 AM

I'm pretty sure that I had just put this together before SiN came out:

PII 400
128 MB RAM
Voodoo2 12 MB
ATI All-In-Wonder
Aureal Vortex 1
Maxtor 6.4 GB HD
33.6 modem (always connected at 31,200)
Logitech MouseMan Wheel

MadMax

07-13-2005, 11:39 AM

I was 14 when I played Sin as one of the first games on my first own computer, which was:

- PII 300 MHz (and that made a huge difference over P1 MMX!)
- 32 MB RAM (!!), later upgraded to 64 just for Sin
- S3 Trio3D 2D/3D video card with 4 MB SGRAM
- 4 GB Seagate hard drive
- SoundBlaster 16
- 17" CRT screen
- Windows 98

I had to run Sin in software mode because the video card was incapable of OpenGL (and most other 3D stuff). I played to the Biomech Factory in 512x384 at very acceptable speed, but very ugly graphics. Then I upgraded to a Voodoo 1 with 4 MB, and the graphics were SO much better! I needed 64 MB RAM though since the game stuttered like hell ("Blade? Blade! Talk to me to me to me to me to me to me to me...") which I got later from another family computer, for free. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

One year later I upgraded to a used RivaTNT video card with 16 MB RAM, and Sin looked A LOT better than with 3Dfx. So many colours... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif It started stuttering again, though. I needed 128 MB RAM, which took a while to get.

I never removed Sin from my computer, and if I formatted my system, I reinstalled Sin. I don't play it most of the time, but I want to have it fill up these 600 MB!

Error_Macro

07-13-2005, 10:46 PM

Originally posted by Error_Macro:
I'm pretty sure that I had just put this together before SiN came out:

PII 400
128 MB RAM
Voodoo2 12 MB
ATI All-In-Wonder
Aureal Vortex 1
Maxtor 6.4 GB HD
33.6 modem (always connected at 31,200)
Logitech MouseMan Wheel

Whoops! I just remembered that I didn't get the PII 400 until the following year, 1999. I had a Pentium 233 at the time. 64 MB of RAM, a Yamaha sound card, and a serial mouse. All the rest of the components were the same as above.

HaMMeRDowN

07-14-2005, 08:07 PM

Pll 400Mhz
128mb ram pc 133
voodoo2

Blizac

07-15-2005, 07:42 PM

I think I started out with an old IBM p2 233 with a 2mb vid card and 64mb ram. Soon after that I got an 8mb ATI All in Wonder Pro and was blown away by the OpenGL rendering! THen I bumped up to a whopping 96mb of ram, then a amd 450!!

Im anxious to find my CD and see if the shit will even load on my current 64bit system. My how the times have changed!!

Hard Spider

07-15-2005, 07:51 PM

Damn I can't remember.
I know it was a P433, I know it had a shit ATI card in it, I eventually bought myself a new card that was so tempermental that I never bothered using it in the end! Had a terrible connection too.
Lag times were way too high. Wasn't worth me playing at times but I did!

Sinstigator

07-15-2005, 09:31 PM

p166
32 ram
Monster 3d Fusion Banshee
15" monitor
win 98
beer (helped endure the 5 min load times)

TooNice

11-26-2006, 05:40 AM

PII 400
128MB RAM (256MB later)
Matrox G200 (GeForce 2 MX much later)
19" CRT Sony G400
Sound Blaster 64 Value (ISA lol)
9.1GB Cheetah (for over a year, I had the fastest load speed compared to almost any other players - I can only think of one person with a faster SCSI drive early on).
MS Intellimouse

... and one of the worst dial up connection ever: '56kps' modem (well, probably rated higher with compression but in practice it was well lower) but giving me an average of 350 on a very very good day (average is most likely higher). Eventually, I got ISDN and that enabled me to drop my ping to ~200-250.

Oh yea. Matrox didn't have an OpenGL driver for the G200 when I got the PC. So I was playing in Software Mode for a few months until they released a wrapper =O

Sorry for the bump.. Memories. ;)

Grandpapa

11-26-2006, 06:06 AM

Xenogenetic

11-26-2006, 11:01 AM

I could have sworn I had a 600mhz P2 processor back then, but I might be mistaken,
http://uk.shopping.com/xPF-Guillemot-Maxi-Gamer-Cougar-20885229
That was my graphics card, it might have been PCI though
20gb hard drive
1 hour a month of AOL dial up, woohoo
And a sweet 17inch viewsonic,
This was a good bump.

CommanderZx2

11-26-2006, 11:10 AM

Pentium 266Mhz
32MB of ram (SIMMS)
ATI something... it had very little memory.
Tiny hard drive, maybe 3GB at most.
Windows 95

Curly

11-26-2006, 01:41 PM

P2 200 mhz, Diamond Viper 550,
2.4 gb HD, 33.6 external "tower"
modem.

Raveness

11-26-2006, 01:43 PM

I didn't play the Original SIN until this year when it came with Episode 1, but if I had got it back in Fall of '98, my system then was:

Pentium 233 mhz.
64 MB RAM
2 GB harddrive
One of the early Voodoo 8 MB vidcards

I don't even know if that would have been enough to run the game. I bet it would have at least had poor performance.

MadMax

11-26-2006, 09:28 PM

Nope, it would have been pretty to run Sin on! Except the CPU could be a bit faster.

NodroG

11-27-2006, 03:33 PM

I got it slightly after release. I think I had the following:

P3/450
SoundBlaster Live
ATI AllInWOnder

elwing

11-27-2006, 03:56 PM

i'm not sure of the specs exactly, but from what i remember, k6-2-450Mhz, 128Mb pc100, voodoo 1, and no internet connection, i was moving my pc the week-end by a friend for some heavy lan games...

Stilgar

11-27-2006, 10:04 PM

and I played SiN on
Athlon 64 3200+
with 1GB RAM
and GF6800 256MB

just because I got it with Emergence:)
then I upgraded to 7900GT and played Emergence with it

I remember I didn't have the machine to play SiN at the time it was released (that were hard times in Bulgaria and I must have been like 16-17 so I couldn't afford good enough computer). At that time one could not even buy a copy of the game even if he wanted to (and no one wanted to) so everyone went for pirated copies. I played the first 2 missions in an Internet Cafe and later had like 5 hours of multiplayer but everything was Quake 2 back then so that was all.

nataku

11-28-2006, 12:20 AM

i'm not sure of the specs exactly, but from what i remember, k6-2-450Mhz, 128Mb pc100, voodoo 1, and no internet connection, i was moving my pc the week-end by a friend for some heavy lan games...

I did the same with some neighbors and it was very funny.

My specs were

P233
64 MB RAM
4 MB video card
Yamaha soundcard
28 kbps modem

ertertwert

11-28-2006, 07:21 PM

I had a P166 and I forget how much ram. Maybe 64. I know we eventually upgraded to a Voodoo 3, but I'm not sure what we had before that (I don't think we even had a video card). I never played SiN back then, but this is what I played HL1 on.

ran93r

12-08-2006, 08:19 PM

Who dusted off this old thread?

For my sins (cough) I think I was running a P2 @300 with about 6k of RAM and an ATI all-in-wonder something or other. Man did that demo ever run like crap, the chopper flyby sequence before the action started brought me to a grinding halt. It's what prompted me to grab a voodoo2 and a couple of memory gerbils.