Macs and Doom

Post by **randi** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:07 pm

In other words, you want him to ignore the entirety of your post? Where did you get those "requirements" from anyway?

Post by **TheDarkArchon** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:17 pm

HotWax wrote:
TheDarkArchon wrote:...haven't you realised yet that <Insert Apple product> is an overpriced piece of ass?

You could at least have called them "Appl£"

Unknown_Assassin · Post by **Unknown_Assassin** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:19 pm

randy wrote:In other words, you want him to ignore the entirety of your post? Where did you get those "requirements" from anyway?

From id software. http://www.idsoftware.com/games/doom/do ... ion=sysreq.

The one I showed accidently was Ultimate Doom. I thought the Doom series (besides Doom 3) had the same requirements.

Post by **randi** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:48 pm

This may seem like an obvious statement, but ZDoom is not Doom. Therefore, the two are going to have different system requirements.

And you do realize the entire list you posted was Windows-directed, right? That's not going to help anybody trying to run it on a Mac.

Unknown_Assassin · Post by **Unknown_Assassin** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:07 pm

randy wrote:This may seem like an obvious statement, but ZDoom is not Doom. Therefore, the two are going to have different system requirements.

And you do realize the entire list you posted was Windows-directed, right? That's not going to help anybody trying to run it on a Mac.

Wouldn't Zdoom need higher system requirements, since it's more advanced than Doom?

And...
Yes, I do realize it was Windows directed (most of it) that is why I did say "ignore the Windows part". So, by ignoring the windows part, the system requirements that are left is:

-8 MB RAM
-20MB of uncompressed hard disk space
-386 processor operating at a minimum of 33MHz or any Pentium® /Athlon® processors

When I posted it, I was assuming this was for all computers.

Post by **TheDarkArchon** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:11 pm

Not really since most macs don't have x86 processors.

James007 · Post by **James007** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:24 pm

well if i can run quake 4 on my mac im pretty sure it should be able to handle zdoom

Neil · Post by **Neil** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:18 pm

Unknown_Assassin wrote:Wouldn't Zdoom need higher system requirements, since it's more advanced than Doom?

I wouldn't think so, not after the years of optimizations that the community has put into Doom since the source release, if you're just running Doom-compatible wads.

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:18 pm

Macs and PCs have very different architecture, therefore posting the specs for PC doesn't do any good for Mac users.

Sheesh!

Neil · Post by **Neil** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:19 pm

James007 wrote:well if i can run quake 4 on my mac im pretty sure it should be able to handle zdoom

Did you copy in a zdoom.ini or let ZDoom create a default one for you?

(Grasping at straws here. When it's been reported to work on an intel mac, and works on my PPC mac, I have no idea why these iwads won't be recognized...)

James007 · Post by **James007** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:58 pm

yes there is a zdoom.ini (app support)

Post by **esselfortium** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:01 pm

I had the same problem as you, James007. What I did to get it to work was manually add

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PATH=/~/Library/Application Support/ZDoom/

to [IWADSearch.Directories] in zdoom.ini, if I remember correctly. Try that.

Neil · Post by **Neil** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:19 pm

esselfortium wrote:I had the same problem as you, James007. What I did to get it to work was manually add
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PATH=/~/Library/Application Support/ZDoom/
to [IWADSearch.Directories] in zdoom.ini, if I remember correctly. Try that.

Thanks for that, I'll keep that in mind.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:35 am

Neil wrote:
Unknown_Assassin wrote:Wouldn't Zdoom need higher system requirements, since it's more advanced than Doom?
I wouldn't think so, not after the years of optimizations that the community has put into Doom since the source release, if you're just running Doom-compatible wads.

ZDoom requires more memory to run. When running Zdoom with Doom2 at 320x200 the task manager reports more than 10MB memory use on occasion. Taking into consideration what other applications and the system itself need I'd say you won't be able to do much with less than 32 MB of memory.

James007 · Post by **James007** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:43 am

esselfortium wrote:I had the same problem as you, James007. What I did to get it to work was manually add
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PATH=/~/Library/Application Support/ZDoom/
to [IWADSearch.Directories] in zdoom.ini, if I remember correctly. Try that.

well so far thats not working, i have to leave now so i'll expirement later.......