What would the average PC specs of 2013 be?
Is it more powerful than a PS2?
I’m creating a game and wondering if I am adding too much polygons/particles.
See the webplayer stats. Decide for yourself what you want to target based on how much of the market you want to cater to.
Thanks for the link. This is what I decided.
Best Minimum Specs
OS: Windows XP
CPU: 2 Cores @ ~2GHZ
RAM: 2GB
GPU: Supporting DX9 With Shaders 2.0(For Windows)
I’m actually surprised RAM is that low. Since Vista came out, most Windows computers were being built with at least 4 (most had 6 or 8). Cuz they had to… cuz Vista was a hog. Of course… that coincides with WinXP being the dominant OS.
Win 7 is a hog too. 2 GB of RAM is too slow. 4 has to be the new standard. Monsterjamp, you should get a good GPU, at least with DX11 stats. I have an old laptop running g105m, and am still getting good gameplay on low to med settings, so a 2011 or 2012 card should suit you fine.
I find this surprising as in the last 2 years you can hardly find a computer running these specs. 
actually a bit higher than I thought. Interesting.
Average is Sandy Bridge Pentium or i3, 4gb ram and built in gpu. AMD is a little different. PS2 is slow as hell dude.
Oh absolutely, but that’s because Vista set the example, and then, all of a sudden, common computers could handle it. I’m not complaining, mind you.
P.S. You double space after your periods. That’s hilarious. My college professor had to break me of that habit. Why? Because only people who learned to type on a typewriter actually do that. (computers do the spacing for you)
Plus it’s not like RAM is that expensive these days, barely £10 different between a 2gb stick and a 4gb stick, or in the case of laptop memory there’s only a few quid difference.
In one of the very pointless computer classes I took as a little kid (I think during a summer-school or something like that?) the tutor insisted that double space after a period was an absolute necessity when using Word and spent hours trying to drill it into us, which I thought was a tad silly.
At least it’s not as bad as this annoying habit some people have: Have you ever seen people do this ? Every single piece of punctuation has , for some reason , a space before it . Apparently it helps it be more legible !
I think I’d agree with your best minimum specs, although that’s the low end… you might consider targetting a little higher than that e.g. 3 or 4gb ram, XP/Vista, 2-4 cpu cores, a better graphics card etc… and then have some basic fallback for the low-end crowd.
I think that is a perfect cutoff point.
You’ll hear a lot of people tell you more, but people who care about that sort of thing usually have an expensive rig and don’t care that there is a huge amount of people out there with those kind of specs,
Does anyone still actually use Shader Model 2.0 cards? They’re getting on a decade old now, Shader Model 3.0 cards were around in 2004. Even dirt cheap budget cards completely outclass any SM2.0 card.
You can see the recent Unity article about the hardware stats, but you can also see Steam’s hardware and software stats:
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
Here’s a quote from them:
Hope that helps.
Well you should have various levels of quality for your game, so you can max out the detail the Unity engine provides, but at the same time give users with slower computers the option to turn off certain features.