Minimum hardware requirements for Soldier of Fortune?

[CougTek]

I have a box sitting aside of me and his owner wants to play SoF on it, but can't. The computer is an Athlon 500MHz/FIC SD11/384MB PC100/ATI Rage128. I don't know this game at all. I think it's based on the aging Half-Life 3D engine, but I'm not sure.

CPU + motherboard + RAM + graphic card and PSU is too expensive. I would hate to change the graphic card without upgrading the CPU/motherboard since by the time he would upgrade the board + processor, a current low-end graphic card will be obsolete anyway.

 

[CityK]

Coug, what OS is the customer running? SOF was bundled with my aging GF2MX card and, IIRC, it didn't support W2K/XP. Could be wrong though.

CK

 

[Fushigi]

If a GF2MX is sufficient, go for an nForce or nForce2 mobo combo & just use the built-in graphics. They can always add a better graphics card later.

- Fushigi

 

[Prof.Wizard]

SOF 1 or 2?

 

[blakerwry]

The original Soldier of fortune requires a pentium 200 with 40MB RAM and an OpenGL or Glide video card....


Here's what I've found for SoF II:

3D Accelerator Card (with 16 MB VRAM) with full OpenGL support; English version of Windows 98/Me/2000/XP Operating System; Pentium III 450 MHz or Athlon processor or faster; 128 MB or RAM; 1.3 GB of uncompressed free hard drive space (plus 300 MB for the Windows swap file); 100% DirectX 8.1compatible true 16 bit sound card and drivers; 8X-speed or higher CD-ROM drive; 100% DirectX 8.1 compatible mouse/keyboard and drivers; DirectX 8.1(included)

 

[blakerwry]

I'm thinking it's simply the vid card.. my ATi rage 2c got 4FPS in quake 1 openGL(a voodoo2 on the same comp gets ~100fps)... it was always a poor openGL performer.. but could easily put down 30fps in direct3D apps like shogun and mechwarrior....

your solution probably lies in a geforce2 MX or similar graphics card.

 

[Mercutio]

Rage Fury Pros are roughly equivalent to Voodoo3s (good enough for Quake3). Just saying "rage 128" isn't all that helpful. ATI did make about a billion different versions of that card.

 

[CougTek]

IIRC, there were ATI cards based on the first Rage 128 chipset (Magnum, Xpert2000 and cie - this is the kind I have here) and the higher clocked Rage 128 Pro, based on a thinner wiring process. There's no way the first gen Rage 128 can match a Voodoo3, but the Rage 128 Pro could.

Thank you all for the feedback, I'll see what I can do with this.