Minimum hardware requirements (actual, not on paper)

[Redwolf]

I had another Windows installation commit suicide and I finally had it. Since I own TOAW3 and want to play it, I am now willing to make a dedicated computer for it.

I have an old notebook:
- P3-600
- 384 MB
- 1024x768
- ATI 4 MB card

If I slap Windoze 95 or somesuch on it, will that do for TOAW?

Anybody using something like this?

[JAMiAM]

I had another Windows installation commit suicide and I finally had it. Since I own TOAW3 and want to play it, I am now willing to make a dedicated computer for it.

I have an old notebook:
- P3-600
- 384 MB
- 1024x768
- ATI 4 MB card

If I slap Windoze 95 or somesuch on it, will that do for TOAW?

Anybody using something like this?
You might want to use Win98SE, since Win95 isn't an officially supported OS for TOAW III.

If you stick to smaller to mid-range scenarios, you should be fine. I tested it with an old K6-2/400 box, with 256 MB RAM, and it played okay. Slow, but okay.

At 1024x768, if you want to see the turn used feature of the circlet of stars, then you'll need to autohide your taskbar, or have it on one of the verticals.

[Telumar]

I had another Windows installation commit suicide and I finally had it. Since I own TOAW3 and want to play it, I am now willing to make a dedicated computer for it.

I have an old notebook:
- P3-600
- 384 MB
- 1024x768
- ATI 4 MB card

If I slap Windoze 95 or somesuch on it, will that do for TOAW?

Anybody using something like this?

It will run on your notebook. i have an old desktop pc running win98 se, the computer has an AMD K7 600 MHz (pentium II comparable), 192 MB RAM, 32 MB ATI card.
Don't worry about your graphic card - the system will take the needed memory from your onboard RAM.
Though one thing, don't install Win95. You can savely install Win XP on it, it will run and won't be slow. Certainly you could also use win98, but i think it will not recognize all hardware components, or better: you will have to install some drivers manually. Win2000 should be okay also and won't suffer from non-existent drivers like win98.

EDIT: Damn, James beat me!

[Telumar]

If you stick to smaller to mid-range scenarios, you should be fine. I tested it with an old K6-2/400 box, with 256 MB RAM, and it played okay. Slow, but okay.


No. No problems with 'Fire in the East' on my obsolete computer (see above). It also doesn't take that long to calculate supply and reinforcements.

Except one thing: When playing huge (FitE, DnO, CFNA etc.) scenarios, turn off the movies option in the game options from the start screen. With a scenario in the size of FitE my computer freezes when it tries to save the map as a bitmap at the end of the turn.
The windows 98 standard paint programm can't show the toaw3 generated bmp files, you will need an other graphic programm. The gimp i.e., which is freeware, or irfan view, but that is viewing only and it runs on win98. But i would install win 2000 or XP on your notebook.
i have also an old notebook comparable with yours and it runs fine under winXP, certainly toaw3 and cow installed as on each of my computers..

[JAMiAM]

No. No problems with 'Fire in the East' on my obsolete computer (see above). It also doesn't take that long to calculate supply and reinforcements...
I was referring primarily to the map scrolling speed. The supply and reinforcements calculations were greatly improved with the patch.

Good point on the movies option. That'll lockup a marginal PC in a hurry.

[Telumar]

I was referring primarily to the map scrolling speed. The supply and reinforcements calculations were greatly improved with the patch.


No. It works fine, no slow scrolling. Of course an up to date PC will be faster.

Edit: It slows down if you have supply visible.

[Okimaw]

I probably had the crappiest machine in the whole TOAW community running TOAW 3. HP Pavillion 4440, 333 mhz, 64 mb ram, 400 mb free space, no graphic card just 3d now integrated. It ran pretty good although I didn't run FitE until I got a newer machine and that was before the .17 patch fixed up book keeping speeds. I run my monitor at 1024 x 768 and can see the stars, it's just not the full version something like 6 or 7 instead of the 12 or so at max.