I’m rather interested to hear what computer systems people are developing games for BGE on. So post some information about the system.
I’ll start:
My main computer is a 2013 Lenovo Yoga S1. It is a laptop with:
i5-4200 processor
4gb of ram
integrated (intel HD) GPU
I run Arch Linux. I do have windows installed, but haven’t booted to it in a very long time.
I have it connected to an external display.
Another major component of my development pipeline is a pad of paper, which sits to the left, ready for drawing diagrams at a moments notice. Interesting ideas go on post-it-notes on the wall.
As you can probably tell, my laptop is pretty old. Also the battery died a while ago and is now on life support (has to be plugged in constantly)
You also may have noticed dead-center of the screen, a whole bunch of dead pixels. Makes using Blender hell, imagine trying to select a vertex when you can’t see anything. It’s TERRIBLE!
And of course, the ‘breathtaking’ specs
Maybe one day I’ll drop the cash on a more modern machine… but until that day comes, I’ll just have to deal with the migraines that come with using this one!
I showed this during the competition.
Also I recently replaced the hard drive and it changed the year from mid 2011 to mid 2010.
Truly I do not know what most of this means, but my computer usually gets the job done, so I am happy with it.
My graphics card melted last summer and they sent me a better one for some reason as a replacement.
Apparently I have slow hard disk access which brings down all the other scores from 7-9 to about a 6.
I could do with some more RAM one of these days too but I’ll probably just wait until the computer dies and get a better one.
Processor : Intel® Core™ i3-4170T Processor Dual-Core (8MB Cache, up to 3.2 GHz)
Operating System: Windows 8.1 (64Bit) English
Memoryi: 4GB DDR3L 1600MHz Memory
Video Cardi: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX GPU 2GB GDDR5
Hard Drive : 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s
Wireless: Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 3160 1x1 + Bluetooth 4.0
Keyboard: No Keyboard
Mouse: No Mouse
Dimensions: Height: 3" (76.2mm) x Width: 8" (203.2mm) x Depth: 8" (203.2mm)
Weight: 4.4lbs. (2kg)i
Ports:
External Chassis Connections
2x USB 2.0 (Front)
2x USB 3.0 (Back)
1x RJ45 GbE
1x HDMI-Out 1.4a
1x HDMI-In
1x optical audio out (Toslink)
1x DC in
Internal Chassis Connections
1x USB 2.0 – Tool-less access via bottom door
Slots: 2x DDR3 SoDIMM Sockets
Chassis: AlienFX Lighting Zones
2 Zones (Triangle and Alienhead)
When I had windows 7 without a SSD I also got a rating of 5.9 just because of the speed of a HDD… That totally doesn’t make any sense because a slow HDD won’t slow down your gpu or whatever itself…
But why not buy more RAM and when your computer dies, build a new one, and use the good parts of your current computer.