ZDoom's minimum system requirements?

[xzotikk]

Hey, so I just got back into Dooming and I was thinking about downloading ZDoom. But my PC is very weak, (It only has 64mb of vram.) so I before I download ZDoom I want to know the minimum system requirements. (For ZDoom not GZDoom or QZDoom.)

btw. Sorry for my bad English.

Best regards. Adam

[Graf Zahl]

With 64 MB of VRAM you may be able to play with ZDoom 2.8.1. There's no chance to run current GZDoom on that at all, you may get lucky if you try an older version from the 1.8.x series.

[xzotikk]

Well, as I said, I was thinking about downloading ZDoom, so I guees I'm fine.

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[wildweasel]

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[xzotikk]

But your signature is showing up.

[Rachael]

No, it's not.

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[xzotikk]

So does anyone know the minimum system requirements for ZDoom?

[drfrag]

I think you'd better get ZDoom LE, it's based on ZDoom 2.8.1 and has many later bugfixes and even an old GL renderer from GZDoom.
About the minimum requirements for ZDoom AFAIR there were never official requirements but it ran on win98 and even on a pentium machine (pentium II and 64 mb to be safe?). You'd even be able to run LE in OpenGL on yours.
https://github.com/drfrag666/gzdoom/rel ... _2.8.3.zip

[wildweasel]

So does anyone know the minimum system requirements for ZDoom?

Nobody's done the intensive testing and note-taking necessary to give you an exact spec. The best we can give you is that GZDoom needs a video card made within the last decade (the last five years, if you're wanting the Modern renderer instead of the Legacy one), and that ZDoom will probably handle better if you have a CPU from within the last decade, and Windows XP at the bare minimum.

[Graf Zahl]

(the last five years, if you're wanting the Modern renderer instead of the Legacy one),

Any discrete card from the last 10 years will be good enough to run the modern renderer. And even for integrated graphics it's 6 or 7 years.
My CPU from 2012 has a HD 4000 integrated chipset and that can run the modern renderer. It's not great but it works.

[xzotikk]

Yo, but what if I do not want ZDoom LE, can I run normal ZDoom with my 64mb of vram?

[xzotikk]

And by ZDoom I mean ZDoom, not GZDoom or QZDoom.

[Graf Zahl]

Why don't you just try?
Plain ZDoom doesn't even need an accelerated graphics card to work.

[xzotikk]

Well, I guess I'll give it a go. Btw what is an "accelerated" GPU? (Silly question, I know, but I'm still learning.)